The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-04
THE FOREST CITY.
TLYNe TRrp NO TnE LAKE.
A Busy Manufacturing commanity-Ba.l.
ness and Beauty Hand in Handsome
ThsuEhts Along the way+rhs Dead
Hamlet of 1roadaIe-rhsI Corpse.
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Rroa lk Etsor Of t!e LaiettE0aes.
CLEyE1Axp, o., June San early break
fast in Wheeling. delightful ride over
the Cleveland { Pittsburgh railroad and
We are in Cleveland at l0:45 o'clock, pre-
eiselyon schedule time -ahundredandf fifty.
eight miles from the Ohio river to Lake
Erie. We have skirted the rich counties
of Belmont and Jefferson, dashed along
the southwestern border Of rolling Co
lumblana, taken slice OF the northeast
ern corner Of Stark, gone to the heart Of
the great cheese.maEing county Of Port
age, passed Though the northeastern
corner of Summit and bisected the beauti-
full lake county Of Cuyahoga.
LINKED BEAUTY LoSG DRAWN OUT.
For cultivated picturesqueness, natural
beauty and varied interest, and for general
comfort Of travel, doubt whether this
run from the Ohio river to Lake Erie Is
anywhere excelled. / do not, of course,
overlook the wild grandeur ot our own
mountain scenery along the Baltimore &
Ohio road or the still wilder Chesapeake &
Ohio road, where rugged nature Is an en-
during charm. All along this route the
industryof man has been employed to de-
yelope the resources Of nature. From
Wheeling 70 Cleveland there are manu-
faetures Of some kind, busy settlements
strung all along and in the intervals al
farming country in high state OF cultiya-
tion, Soon after We get over tho Ohio
hills and upon what our Biographies call
Q gently undulating surface, we see that
the farmer pays little more attention 70
his outbuildings than to his home. The
house may be small and built OF logs, rehc
Of the early days OF pioneering, but there
Is substantial and spacious barn and two
o'one It ia painted red. We see few sucn
barns in West Virginia, common enough
in Ohio and our other neighbor, Penn
sylyania, As we near Cleveland, 1t is evi-
dent that we are approaching consider.
able cfty, for now the farm gives place to
the mafket garden. Here land, otcourse,
Is higher, the agricultural laborer better
paid and the farmers returns per acre
larger and more certain.
Cleveland has advantages as a general
trading point, but the life Of Cleveland Is
in her manufactures lam not goingtoI
write a screed upon Cleveland as q beau
tiful and busy city, nor yet on the won,
dsrful extant OF her manufactures. As /
Iook abroad. however, over this bustling
s;ty of sonething more than 200, 900 in.
habitants, not even her matchleas Euclid
avenue impresSas me so much as the va
riety OF her industries, and say TO my
companion. ~ would that all Wheeling,
might he brought here 70 see what varied
industry ms done and e doing for this
people, Cleveland has not confined her
self 10 iron manufactures or even one
branch OF iron manufacture. l see iron
bridge works, bolt works, wire works,
shovel works, mills Tor turning out a!
kinds of iron and steel toEma. Indeed
Cleveland seems 10 be determined 10 maks
everything that can be produced from
iron and steel. There are rubber works,
shoe fsctoties, clothing factories, machine
making OF many kinds; In short without
going in detail through the whole LIST,
Cleveland has determined 70 be Q ulsnu-
featuring city and she mas embarked In .
very great variety Of manufactures.
AHRr TO Tug goLEs AT HOME.
II we take hint from the ptesept sus-
pension Of iron and steel industries, We
can appreciate. the great advantage which
this variety Of resource gives to Cleveland
over Wheeling and its related neighboks,
and, indeed, over any community which
contents itself With, one or two branches
Of manufacture. Cleveland has the great
facility oilake navigation, but she must
bring her ore from distance as Wheel.
ing does. She has no coal aDd no coke,
Of course. Great train loads OF coke hound
for Cleveland pass very near our own
mills, and coal is carried to Cleveland
almost from the mouth OF Wheeling
furnaces. Except in the matter Of trans
portaion in all directions, Wheeling has
much the advantage over cleveland IS
manufacturing point, and yet cleveland
has over 200, 900 population and Wheeling
int littls over $1,000. Cleveland has
wide avenues well paved, large and mag,
nihcent business blocks, miles o. elegant
residences and q rapidly growing popuia,
ton. Wheeling has no beauty TO speak
OF. has not done much in the way OF buSt-
uesS houses and Is not growing as We
would all like 70 see her grow. Wheel
ing runs in an industrial rut, makes q few
things well and Is content With thai.
Here endeth the tirst lesson.
IcHABoD-A SHORT LESSON,