The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-01
ORIENT AND OCCIDENT
TIE FAR EAST AND NEAR WEST
viewed By Two Distinguished GSntIsnSn.
Prof. Log, Of CpHStantipOPls, on Bull
EAria's War With sSrJiA and Nssds Of
the East-O. H. Long on Railroads.

Hon, o. S. Long, formerly Of this city,
now Of ChallestoEl, was In town yester-
dav ea louts home from Pittsburgh, and
was accompanied to this point by his
brother, Prof. A, Long, who is resident
Of Oonstantinople, and who has been in
the Orient at that and other points for the
last fifteen years, He went out originally
as missionary Of the N. E. Church, and
fora time was in Bulgaria, the principally
lately at war with ssrYiR, and Is familiar
not only with the topography OF that coun.
try, but with the general condition OF lie,
army and people In all Its aspects, He
attributes the late outbreak between Bul.
gariA and servia entirely to Russian and
Austrian intrigues, and thinks that the
fasGo that enSued on the part oil ServtR
has simply tended 10 make war inevitable
in the near future between those two pow
ers. In fact, they arc both preparing for
war at this time, and war may formally be
declared early in this new year.
Mr.. Long holds at present q professor
ship in an English and American college
at Oonstantinople, devoted to tina educa'
ton OF natives Of the Orient in the En-
glish collegiate branches, and that has
about $50 students, mostly natives OF Bul.
garia, servia, Greece and the contiguous
country. He says the crying need Of the
Orient Is the overthrow OF Turkey as q
political power and the consequent dis.
ablemsnt OF MohRmedanism. Until this
comes no true progress Impossible,
Speaking OF progress, and turning from
the fur East in the old world to this imme.
liRte region, the reporter was pleased to
near from Mr.. o, s. Long that the Ohio
River Railroad Company had, by its rep.
reSentatiyes Reld . meeting in the last
day or two In New York and agreed to go
on with tho exten4iOn Of the line from
PGrkersburs to Pt, Pleasant just a. sool
ss the right Of way should be secured
through jackson and Mason counties,
This has, practically, been done already,
and 1t is therefore likely that at an early
day work will commence along the line,
Mr.. Long thinks this extension Of say
saventy.fye miles will prove TO be Of more
Importance to the general interests Of
West Virginia than any similar length Of
rail yet laid Within her boundaries. II
will connect all parts Of the State as they
have never been connected before, aud III
going 10 the Capital 1t will not be longer
necessary TO 90 around either by WASH
ington City and Virginia or through Qnio
to some point on the Chesapeake \ Ohio
road. Even the eastern Panhandle coun'
lies OF the state Will then prefer to 20 to
Charleston by Petersburg and Pt. Pleas
ant as the most direct route.
The local benefits Of the road will also
be OF great Importance. There will DO O
rewaking OF ideas aud interests in Jack.
son aud Mason counties. The people will
Set out OF the old rBt In which they have
trudgsd along, they and thelf ancestors
for q hundred years past.
Referring tO railroad progress In West
Virginia, Alr. Long observes that while 1t
was slow yet she was working some per
Ceptible progress la that direction all the
time, There is for instanCethe Clarkpburg,
Weston 4 BuCkhRnnon line, that will Ill
timately be pushed down the Elk to the
Chesapeake & Ohio. This Is q big thing
for q very important lection Of the State,
Then there ID Senator Davis's line on the
eastern slope, hOslsd also for the Ohesa'
peake 4 0hioI and the embryo line be-
tween Grafton aud Philippi theliEe up
the Kanawha from Point Pleasant Ia
Charleston and in addition, a number oil
| little coal roads, Of ten 10 fifteen miles
each, that reach buck into the country
bordering on the Kanawha, and that oil
count for something in this general
development OF the State.
These Improvements have been long
time coming, but thpy have come at last
and with their advent will arise gen.
Grafton that will move much faster than
their p'edeCeSEorp, and do more In the
next ten Yeas 10 get West Virginia out oil
the wilderness than the old timers ever
dreamed oil,