Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-09
a COMING EVENT
In which Our German Friends are
Greatly Interested.
A Grand Saengefsst to Be Held IN this
City in July Next - Othsr
CITY Gossip.

The 10Th, 2lst and 22d of next July viii
BE gala days With oar German citizens. Tor
On those dates viii occur District Saenger'
lest preparations for which are nov actively
under way. The Germans have the reputa-
ton Of never doing anything BY halves. and
Is they have entered heart and soul into the
project, a most enjoyable time may be looked
forward TO with confidence. Yesterday
AFTERNOON committees Of Eve each from the
Beethoven. Mozart and Maennerehor Singing
I Societies met at Beethoven Hall and dis
/ cpssed the proposed Saengerfest. The meet
/ ipg was presided over by Mr.. GreSe- Alter
/ fixing upon Monday. Tuesday and W ednesdsy,
! July 2Oih. 2lst and I'D, as the dates, letters
were read from singing societies IN Pitts
burg. Allegheny City, HOneKOOd, Pa,
/ Steubenville, Bellzire, Benwood, Marietta,
/ Parksrsburg anfother places. Announcing
\ q willingness 70 take part IN the anAlr, ana
/ promising that their members would come
70 the Nail City en- masse. The out oftoEn
societies which have promised to participate
are twelve IN number, and these, added TO
our local organizations, viii ensures chorus
of over four hundred cultivated voices Ihe
proeramme. 50 far as it has been definitely
arranged, is as follows Monday,
Reception and Grand Concert;
Tuesday. matinee and evening
concert; Wednesday morning, street parade
by al the societies afternoon, picnic ana
dancing At the Fair Grounds Ii Is pro-
posed that the daylight parade Of Wednes-
day shall be gigantic affair. fully as large
a. thatof two years ago, IN which not only the
visiting and local societies, but German
citizens from near and far viii join. The
musical programme has been nearly or
quite completed, and some Of the songs are
already in the hands Of the elt-oftown so
eieties for practice. The city Is 70 be hand
someIy decorated, and nothing LETT undone
10 add to the enjoyment of the occasion A
guarantee fund is being gotten up and our
merchants and business men are TO be cali
ed on 10 signit. This they should do with
out hesitation, for the affair viii attract
thousands of visitors during the three days
Of lis continuance Almost every proul-
rent German resid, mt Of the city Is taking
I, n active part in The matter, and, az We re-
marked al the outset, il will be second to no
similar occasion in the past history Of our
si:y. There will be another meeting OF the
Ceneral Committee on the I'D inst
Mozart Hall, where the plans will be more
fully perfected, reports OF committees con
sidered, and additional attractions got IN
der Wsy.
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there Is q great demand, and one which
re ms TO be growing daily, for three and
fur room tenement houses within easy
r-nge OF the business portion of the city.
Tn, re seems TO be no lack Of larger houses,
renting. saw, for from sixteen to twenty-five
dollars per month, but times are too hard
for such houses to readily ind tenants.
People who have been paying twenty-five
dollars per month for years past are this
spring on the hunt Of twenty dollar houses,
while the tenants Of this last named class
declare that seventeen or eighteen dollars Is
all they can stand. AT least one hundred
cottages, renting at from eight to ten dol
lars per month, could be rented to sdvan'
tase between now aud April As q con
tractor said yesterday, "We-hsye enough
large houses to supply the demand for a
year or two, AMI builders should devote
themselves 10 erecting small, neat cottages
Sbich would not rent for over ten dollars a.
The outside
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The trouble at the Riverside mill was the
general subject of comment among iron
workers Yesterday. There is q wild differ
enee Of opinion as to the sdvisabilitE Of the
proposed reduction in the price Of pudding
talked of with a view to killing of the steel
nail business, but the plah has quite mum
Der Of advocates who advance the argument
that the puddlers had better work for little
less,money for a time and thus enable the iron
rail manufacturers to undersell the stee
product than to hold ont for the present
rate of wages and see one mill after an
other discharge their boilers aud go into
the steel nail trade.
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Cock-6ghting still continues to be the
chief Saturday night amusement Of car
tain tough element of our population. Tee
Fulton pit is weekly the scene Of from hs"
adozen to q dozen and s-hAf bloody mis-
understandings between "birds" from thu
city and neighboring towns. 1t would b
well for our State Law makers 10 take THU
opportunity to overhaul the statute made
and provided for such offences (if there b.
one), and see why it is not enforced BY the
officers.
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Last evening q large number Of peopi;
gathered at Maennechor Hall TO listen T.
ne usual Sunday rehearsal By the Opera
House orchestra. The programme, which
are printed in yesterdays issue, was gone
brough 9th a manner which proved to tue
'aiisfas ton Of those present. that the mem
beTs Of the orchestra had lost none OF their
Old time ability. recent reflections upon
them to the contrary notwithstanding.
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A somewhat sensational covhiding affair
is being quietly talked over by the gossip:
in certain section Of the city. The Gov
hider' is said to be a well known bushes:
nan, while the "eowhidee" is also vel
known. The wherefore Of the roE is the
Objectionable attentions Of the 'coxhidse'
Aforesaid to the daughter Of the "coEhider
bereInbeiore mentioned.
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Asironomically this present month o!
February presents an anomaly in that there
all be bat one hour Of full moon in the
month. The February moon fulls at ii
O'Clock on. the evening Of the 18th. and As
the month runs out at midnight the same
evening there is but an hour in the month
in which "the iull orb'd moon" is visible to
US.
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This morning at nine o'clock quite a
number Of our citizens viii leave in Q spec.
ial car over the Panhandle road for New
Orleans to visit: the Cotton Exposition The
party viii be transferred at Cincinnati to
the Louisville and Nashville road, and will