Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-21
PERTINENT FACTS.H
GOLD SHORT" ATTEMPTS TO STIR UP THE
CITY'S VITALITY
To More Progressive Acton-His Remarks About the
Decisive Promises Of the Z. & 0. Rail
road and Other Things.

"Cold Short" Mr.. Philip Henry Moore
certainly says a great many things regard
ing Wheeling and her citizens, in his let
ter to the Age of Steel, that are worthy OF
the most serious consideration. In the
last issue ofthat volume appears a very
interesting letter from his pen, the follow
ing extract from which should be read
and digested with careful elaboration.
"Sinee writing my last letter the second
pipe line, which by the way, is the most
important and serviceable to the city has
been completed, and she is now in the ring
ready to dispense favors to all applicants.
I have written in such a Mandatory strain
of the advantages of this city that it might
be suspected that l was n graduate OF
Chicago or the Future Great, but l am a
untutred scribe simply relating facts with
out my word painting. Wheeling
has been slothful in making known
her great advantages as a manu-
featuring point, and she needs a stimulus
in the shape of new blood. She is not
near so over-righteous in her modesty as
she is ungodly in the want of virtuous en-
terprise. It would make a Carnegie shud-
der to see such inducements going a beg
ging. A slight dose of Pittsburg's shove
and nerve would make Wheeling bound
with enthusiastic vitality, and her arteries
throb with the rich blood of progressive
enterprise. The field is here, only await
ing the stimulating hand of energy to re-
spond with bounteous results. Wheeling
people believe in the future OF their
city, but the very certainty OF
their advantages and their very
ponderosity seems to deprive them
of knowledge of the fact that the outside
world will remain ignorant of their exist
ence until they take upon themselves the
trouble of publishing them in an intelli-
gent and systematic form. If dared to
take the liberty with them l would term
this ultra-conseryatism of sufficient den
sity to stimulate stupidity.
There is one matter which the Wheeling
people should recognize and manifest
enough of energy II care for self-protec-
ton to correct and provide against, that is,
that it neither brings them any measure
of estimation from abroad nor contributes
ANYTHING to their commercial reputation or
prosperity, to remain forever puppets in
the hands of the Baltimore q Ohio
Railroad. From 1850 to the present
time the Baltimore & Ohio have been de-
luding them with specious promises, only
made to be broken Mt convenience, into
granting the railroad company certain val
liable privileges. At this time their main
track occupies, to the virtual exclusion of
ordinary business traffic, one Of the princl-
pal th%oroughfares, not only rendering an
entire section of the city unavailable for
business purposes, but griming and defil-
ing it, and making it insecure and I'M
bearably noisy from the constant passage
of trains. The company are deluding
them by the pretense that they are prepar-
ing to build another route along the creek,
and when it is finished that they will va
cate the present one. The Baltimore q
Ohio have meyer fulfilled a promise to the
city yet, and it is scarcely in the range of
possibility that they even dream of carry
ing this one into accomplishment"