Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-30

Oils arc NOT JUG PVhNy
times Of cid King Cosl, while his neighoor
tells you that the first party don't know
what he is talking about and
th4 there is q decided
saving in the way of helpers, etc The
first party Gays something quite unintelIi-
gible about monopoly" and now that
the Philadelphia Company have the ex,
elusive right 10 lay pipes in the streets, and
that their object is TO shut of competition
and get things in shape for big squeeze
~ and By. The other man says. this Is
nonsense, and names dozen different
COMPANIES now in the city, and points out
CHER circumstances which seem con-
elusive, but which the first psrty-who has
sray hsirs-terms, blinds decoys and
shsns. We will leave these two manutae-
lscturers 10 fight out their differences in
their own wAy, only saying that the Wheel
Jog Council will make mighty error II
they do not for once and forever, make the
city free to all gas aud fuel companies,
Hbensoever aud wheresoever they come
IA to accidents, explosives and fires result
inc from the use Of gas 1t IL
now positively known, that these
episodes, which were unusually common
and disastrous last winter, are to be traced
10 the detective and careless work OF the
plumber and gas filter. Natural gssls the
safest fuel ever discovered; but it requires
| the most constant aud intelligent care IN
handling and transportation, for when
+ once ia contact with tie air it becomes a
/ Gesdly explosive of grest force and des,
t,uctive quality. As long as it is confined
it il harmless, but when once released,
unless instantly consumed, it ia as mensc'
/ iug AZ dynamite, and as easily set of as
nitro glycsrine. gas is supplied through
out the two cities of Pittsburg and Ale
ghsny at a minimum pressure in the mains
aud 10 Allegheny not single accident has
i. resulted from its use.
So much for natural gas, in which al
( Wheeling is deeply interested, and nov
something as to Pittsburg and Allegheny
, As we said before, the much heralded
boom Of Pittsburg has nosctual existence
The Gas City is ike all other manu-
featuring places at present, in thai
that it has been matted, delayed and SCI
back BY the labor troubles Money ]:
scarce, and the great building rush which
vas so confidently looked for last winter
! made q little effort to get under way in sht
spring and than suddenly came to halt
Every architect We called on complained
of dullness, as did every house furnishing
merchant aud wholesale house without
exception. 1t WAS astonishing in the face
IF What we had heard and expected, END
The fact set down here, not in malice, bu
IN perfect confidence, that our informantt
on Liberty, Wood and Fourth street knew
whereof they were speaking. The bust
mesa thoroughfsres, however, are just a!
crowded and as busting as in the gooc
times gone by. Fifth avenue, any fine at
.eruoou is Just as impossible as in the day
Ut the early seventies, and the we'll dressed
,hrong that shop and promenade on tina
popular thoroughfsre, as dense as ever
Pittsburg always did pride itself on Fifth
avenue, and for good reasons as it is Ger
tsinly one of the finest built, snC
busiest streets in the entire country
IL is over in the parks in the sister city o
Allegheny, however, that the plesssntest
features of the life Of the two places arr
ssen. The parks ere a wide, well kept
handsomely equipped, succession Of mead
oRs and fields in the very heart of gres
city. They extend along the four sides o.
q square, having part of the city in the
center, and are ihus contiguous to and sp
proaehsble from all parts of Allegheny
Here and there are fountains and lakes
and summer houses, and bits of garden
ing. with growing trees, and splendid
walks winding in every direction. Or
bright DAYS the poor and rich alike flock IL
these breathing spots, and laughing chill
dren chase one another, and play merrily
along the walks, and sometimes upon the
growing grass to tie utter discontinue o.
the ornamental policeman, who watches
them with lynx eye and heroic self Gem
posure, Now and then q bant
discourses sweet music, close TO 6
little lake on which swsns swiu
gracefully. A certain rich Mr.. Phipp''
has given to the city large sum OF money
10 build a conservatory Ia this part OF tht
park, which is to be opened to the public
on Sunday. When it is finished the ALE
gheny parks will be among the finest IL
he land in point Of natural and srifcia
beauty and complete equipment. The parks
are at present not only the breathing aut
resting spots oil the poor, and for The
invalid; but also the trysiiug place, where
lovers meet" and OF bright Sunday even
ing It seems ss though the whole male ''un
married portion'of the populsce, was walk
hand in hand, with their sweethesrtt
around and around and around the endless
garden spot.
! A very pleasant place therefore is Ale
gheny, with its parks and splendid resi-
dsuces, nov that the heavy cloud Of smoke
has been lifted from it. and light and cheer
fitness have been vouchssfed to it. The
same can be said of Pittsburg also but not
quite so positively, for the former is the
resident while the latter is the business
quarter of the 100000 souls, which make
up the population of the two cities. Pitts
burg has come foe cheerful localities as the
rural portions of Fifth and Penn Avenues
attest, but they seem so far away from the
center OF the city,'that strangers rarely
visit them, and hence they are not known
ss they should be. A drive out these fine,
smoothly paved, and neatly kept avenues,
on fine afternoon is a rare treat, and one
TO be long remembered. If the excursion
can be extended to the top Of Brilliant
Hill, or any other eminence, q panorama
of rare beauty will be presented to the eye.
AZ night Psrton's famous description Of
the Smoky City, as HI with the lid of"
is sptly recalled. By the flaming jets of the
thousand and one rolling mills and fur
nsess, along the Allegheny and Monongs.
hels rivers. The numerous gas escapes,
in crest pipes hundreds Of feet high, from
which bright flames leap and tuist-have
added their 6ttul energies to the picture
aud it is now altogether unique, fsnciful
and unrivsled in the way Of wierdness and
grandeur.
Much space could ss devoted to q de-
scription Of the great iron and steel plants,
the furnaces and shops. the great mighty
banners, and the tireless engines which
have made Pittsburg what it isr but IN
letter ike this that could not be expected.
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