The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-04-20
rHr WEATHER AND TRADE,
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The Influence One has on the 0ther-A
Rushing Hotel BusIness.
The hotel business In this city for the
past two weeks has been dectdedlyliyely.
Previous to Easter It Vas dlsttessingly
dull, and at the most thelist Of ia day'sar-
walls barely filled q pageof the registers;
but no soonerhad the forty days sppposed.
abstinence'from things worldly passed by,
and the alleged arrival Of Spring been
ushered in by Easter, than the festive
drummer took to the road, and since
that time he has been very numerous
and the hotel business has been sim.
ply great. Page after page Of the hotel
registers have been filed daily with
names, sample rooms have been engaged
for days ahead and the potters have had to
struggle with mountains OF trunks, while
the clerks have been at their wits end
welcoming the coming, speeding the going
and figuring where the next victim was TO
be put. In talking with one OF the clever
head clerks in the city a few days since
about the rush, he said 1t was one OF the
largest he had ever had to do with in his
long experience. "Usually,n he said,
"the trade comes along moderately--ls
rood all tho time you understand, from
the middle OF March TO the
first OF May, but this year 1t apparently
all came at once. What reason DO / as.
scribe for this? Well, principally the
weather; We have had some beastly days
OF late, you know, and on those days biz
was very dull. That first pleasant spell
we had made things boom, ! tell you.
The season has been late one and the
boys were delayed by the bad weather;
but when IL became pleasant they Just
whooped along to make up for lost time.p
The drummer is regular barometer as
indicated by the clerk in his remarks.
When the weather is suited to his line he
is on deck in large numbers, but when
"old Probs" turns the crank the other
way, he is conspicuously absent. A cold,
wet, damp, dr,zzliDg day in Spring h IL no
charms for the drummer withlightS Spring
and Summer goods unless 1t bO to afford
him chance to rest or tlirt. Ills useless
for him to endeavor to sell to the
merchant. A number Of this est
liar genus homo have been inter
viewed oflate by the writer. II was sup.
posed that they would harp on "hard
times" but such has not been the case.
Their curses nave been mainly directed
against the weather. majority OF them
say that here in Wheeling as well as
elsewhere throughout the country
they have found trade good pro-
vided, the day was Il good ono. A pleas
ant and balmy day like yesterday or Satur-
day would bring them good trade, be-
cause forsooth, the lSdies would BIZ out in
force and on the lookout for novelties, and
the merchant seeing this would be en-
couragsd to 10y in supply. Acold raw
day would bring about results just the OPP
posite.
q Last Saturday afternoon the streets were
well filled and in the evening Market
street was thronged with larger crowd
than has been seen on that thoroughiare
any time since the holidays. It was a
lovely spring day and yesterday was even
more 80. It was quite warm yesterday
afternoon and an oyercoat was a burden.
Strange to relate, it did not rainyesterday,
and this dispels another tradition. 10 the
effect that il it rains on Easter Sunday
it is bound TO rain on the seven
succeeding Sundays. This may be taken,
perhaps, as IN indication thai the back
bone Of winter il really broken, aud that
spring, with her bursting buds and other
poetical adiuncts, has arrived in dead
earnest. The number Of people that were
out walking yesterday was very noticea.
bic. Many were out driving, and the
Elm Grove motor line did a good business.