Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-01

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Abou, two seeks ago Hen NJ a, SeSei.
N. very ~efieies. State SsPerlntessest .
schools o Marysnd. visited shis city ns US
suppose oe at,esdisg . msetisg OF our 'ocs'
teachers. While hsrs he visseda nuaeoet
os az, manufactor;es and made SONS nsses
Of vs., he saw, whish he has since embed
led in the following readable latter
BahiHoye News:
wheeling is q smoky city. Esetyooey
nov. that. So is Pittsburg. So is Gin
ciupsti. So is London, tor that ni:ste''
But | think Wheeling 10 the smoky Guy
smoky mar excellence. From hve nuncteo
factories and from FIVE thousand dwellings,
there rise every day in the year every
bour of the day Eve thousand i've hundred
n;lIars Of cloud, like unto that which guided
The children of Israel through the wilder
ness, In clear days-that is. on days tnat
would be clear anywhere else-these hve'
thousand FIVE hundred spirals of vaportzef
soot rise in cloudy majesty into the upper
regions of the atmosphere, and, there con
densing, taH in fakes OF
cOAI-BLACx Snow
upon the streets and the people beneath.
But On a day like this on which yoa. cor
RESPONDENT writes the smoke does not rise.
II simply diffases itself. 1t does not tall IN
fakes; Il is omnipresent. You see it you
feel IL. YOU breathe il, yoa eat 1t, you drink
II, YOU talk It. But it does not disturb the
Wheelingites. They rather like 1t. When
they leave town in summer TOR q few days
So;ourn in the mountains or BY the seaside
thew would carry il with them il they could.
Some considerable samples they do manage
TO carry with them-in their linen
Blu, the smoke is not unwholesoue, nor
is Il destructive of beauty. Wheeling hdies
are known far and wide by their plump
figures and their fresh complexions. and
TO the men it is the very breath OF thcar
~nostrils. Here we have
THE LARGEST NAH FACTORY THE WORLD
have been told, but | do not care to tell
again, not being perfect in figures, the
number Of tons Of iron and steel that are
annually converted into nails; the quantity
is startling. -.
The glass industry is also Of surprising
dimensions. Noticing a great number OF
crates of glassware on the sidewalk. had
the curiosity to inquire where they were
consigned TO. ITO Africa" was the reply:
Goals 10 New Castle, glass to Phenicia.'
But your correspondents business was
with the schools. AK fumo dare lucun.'
And a grand light out Of smoke the Wheel.
ing schools do make. l wish your Balti-
more school-house makers could be
induced to come here and see
how a schoolhouse ought to be
built. General Eaton pronounced the
FIFTH WARD school. HOUSE A MODEL.
And it is a model, except in one feature.
It is three stories high. No classroom
should be higher up than the second story
in nv Judgment. There are twelve rooms,
all furnished with single desks, and all so
much alike that when you have seen n
you have sampled the whole building. The
rooms are nearly square, the windows on
two adjacent sides, the blackboards on the
other two sides, a ~cloak-room, in two divi-
sions-boys and girls-sttached to each
room, heat, ventilation and light nearly per
feet. The heat is from steam, partly by d.
rect and partly by indirect radiation. There
is not a glass partition in the building.
Every room is complete in itself, and every
teacher is supposed to be capable Of taking
the entire control of her own room without
surveillance. Even the street commissioner
lis there such an officially
NIGHT GET A HINT.
Wheeling has two miles of street paved
with fire brick laid edgewise, on q founda-
ton of tarred boards. There is q good deal
of heavy hauling, but the bricks, as yet,
show no signs of wear or displacement.
The public school system is rounded OIL
by a free public library. 1t has been es-
tablished only two years, but it has already
become q permanent institution. II costs
the city So, 900 a year, and is worth double
what it costs. Being under the control Of
the school commissioners Of the city, the
running expenses are reduced 10 q mini
mum, and the greater part OF the appropri.
alton goes TO the purchase Of new books,
THE LEGISLATURE
got to talking yesterday on the blair bill"
for the aid Of education in the Southern
States. II turned out, as usual in school
matters, that the takers did not know what
they were talking about, 50 the matter was
laid over informally to await enlightenment
from State Superintendent Butcher, who
knows all about il. Yesterday was munich
pal election day. The Democrats got all
the fat and the Republicans all the lean,
"and 50 between them both they licked the
platter clean" and both parties are we'll
content And now | must go and wash my