Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-29
NATURAL GAS BLOWOUT.
Big Preparations Being Made to Paint the
CITY Real Red.

Big Preparations Being Mad to Paint the
City Real Red.
Monday will be another gala day in
Wheeling, and people who have their flags
and bunting out in honor of yesterdays
grand labor demonstration would do well
to allow the decorations to remain in honor
of the introduction of natural gas into the
city. That day will usher in Wheeling's
big boom, and the gas stay with us will
continue to increase that boom until it is of
pOrtentOus size and effect. 1t il highly
probable that Wheeling will never again
see the dark days she has passed through
so yaliantly for the past two years. And
to fttingly celebrate the shedding of the
old robe of dullness and the donning of the
new mantle of prosperity everybody
should join together and awaken the
echoes among the old hills that
surround the city, and paint the place a
glorious red. Unnatural gus was portable, we
might have q torchlight procession, using
gas rs an illumination, but as that is i'm
possible, We can have lots of music, stirring
speeches and a bowling good time, that
will prove to the country that Wheeling,
West Virginia, still lives and intends to
get there with the rest of 'em.
The Fourteenth street stand pipe, which
will be erected on Monday, will be one
hundred and twenty feet high, and at its
base the speakers stand will be erected.
Mr.. Brockunier will touch off the gas.
The one at Martins Ferry will be on Han
over street, and Miss Flora Williams, one
of Wheeling and Martins Ferry's favorite
vOcalists, will light the gas. At Etna-
vile, the handsOmest young lady in the
burg will touch off the gas at the stand
pipe, which will be erected in front of the
.Etna mill. The pipe in the c., L. & w.
depot at Bridgeport will be lighted by
Miss Minnie Alexander, daughter of Hon.
RoSsJ. Alexander. In Bellaire, on Cen
trail avenue, the pipe will be lighted by
Miss Fleta, the little daughter Of Col, j.
]. Mercer, and Miss Ross, daughter OF
superintendent Ross, will light the one at
the Crescent mill, while Mrs. Chas. Hobbs
will fire the one at the South Wheeling
Glass House. A pipe which will be
placed at the corner of Main and Eighth
streets, will be lighted by a North End
young lady.
The Manufacturers Company are doing
everything to make the affair q SUCCESS,
grand and glorious, and they win not fail.
At a meeting Of the Board Of Trade held
in Martins Ferry last night, the following
committees were appointed and assigned
their shares of the work of preparing for
the natural gas illumination in that city
tomorrow night: Committee on Vocal
Music, Misses Flora Williams, May McKim,
May Robinson. Maggie Kerr, Efoise Gay,
and Ida Hoyle; on Rand, Captain G. ".
Smith, Hiram Frazier, Jr, on Arrange
ments, John F. Miller, James Kerr, E. ".
Mitchell, j. 3. Cochran, and James A.
Dickson; on Decoration and Fireworks,
DR.. 4. X. Ong, William B. Lewis, Thomas
Mears, DR.. B. o. Williams and E. c. Boyd,
on publication, o. r. Wood, G. c. Sedg-
wick and J. w. Phoebus. Committee on
Vocal Music will meet at James Kerrs
residence. Committee on Arrangements al
Cochran and Shreyes' Office and Commit
tee on Hecoration and Fire Works, at
0ng's drug store, all at 9 o'clock a. n. to-
Arrangements have been made
for speeches by Q number of prominent
Martins FsEFJaas, and with the assistance
of the Citizens GoFnet Rand, which has
rendered its services, and which have been
accented, and the help which the delibera-
ton of the various committees will bring
q grand demonstration