Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-01
OUR PHONOGRAPH
What Leading Citizens Have to Say to Re
pOrtss
WALKS AND TALKS ABOUT TOWN.
Everybody More or Less Interested IN the
Topics Mentioned

Everybody More or Less Interested IN me
Topics Mentioned.
BRIEF CHATS ALONG The CURB.
'How's the Directory coming on, Mr.
Callin9"
"First rate"
''Be out soon?n
"In two weeks, at farthest, and proba-
bly in a week. 1t shows Wheeling IS quite
lively town yet"
oWhat do YOU know, W. H. Haller?
"The real estate market is looking up"
"Prices increasing"
eyes, sir; and the demand is good. do
YOU know, I've had more inquiry for prop
erty within the last three weeks than III
the six previous months. think the out
look for the future is bright"
whats new up at Mingo, Secretary
Chew?"
Nothing much"
Factory running"
''No; they're taking stock to-day, but
the night turn will go on again Monday.
don't know whether will go back again
or not. I've got something else here IN
Wheeling. / may 90 into 1t. ;"
"Wel, what do you know, Henry Shall
cross?"
Nothing"
Cant you scrape up an temp
ooh. yes. was over at GAINESVILLE the
other day, and met Mr.. w. G. Terry, one
of the original owners of the Wheeling
Omnibus Company. He told me he would
be here in September, as the guest OF the
State Fair Association. Mr.. Terry left
here in so for the West, but has drifted
back to GAINESVILLE. A good many of our
citizens will remember him with pleas
ure"
81 think ten or a dozen years will see
the end of your brick pavements," SAID
President William Finn, of the Wheeling
Natural Gas Company, a day or two ago,
"How so?" i
by that time it will have been found
that the bricks won't last. They make
very cheap and pretty pavement, but lack
the element of durability. In looking
about the city since came here, find that
rs soon rs the glaze on the surface is broken
the brick begins to wear away quite rap |
idly"
"a good many people have the erroneous
idea in their heads that we are iayOring one
or the other of the natural gas companies"
said Mr.. A. c. Egerter.
'Then the Board treats both alike"
Certainly. We are doing our best TO
make them live up to the rules, and think |
no reasonable cause of complaint exists.
Occasionally, however, some one chances |
upon something wrong, and then jumps to
the conclusion that we are iavorlng the
particular company upon whose line the
fault exists"
"No one can have any proper idea OF the
bother the office of Mayor entails, " said
Mayor Grub, as q delegation of three filed
out after a vain request to obtain the re-
lease of prisoner from the work house.
''Have lots of visits, / suppose"
"Well, should say so. If | acceded to
all the requests | receive from friends OF
prisoners the work-hOuse would always be
empty. Often those who come here in the |
interests of offenders cease to take any in
terest when they can be affected in any
way. The delegation which just left
wanted me to release man who drew
pistol on a policeman. | fatty refused,
but offered to contribute an equal amount
with the prisoners three friends to pay |
his fine They left in disgust"
81 don't 20 very much on the paternal
government idea" said George b. Cad-
we'll.
"The best government is that which gov
erns least, eh?'
Exactly So"
'Ive Just returned from a Western |
trip" said w. F. Peterson.
Like the way they do things out
there?"
Like it? Why, tour Of one or two |
cities like Omaha or Kansas City puts new
life into Wheeling man. tell you, believe
it would be money well spent if the City |
Council of this city would send a commit |
30, nT 30, ntu m af
ness men on trip of observation through |
the wide awake cities of the West. That |
committee would come 'chOck full OF new |
ideas, and would start to boom things in |
earnest. There is not city on earth with |
better natural facilities than Wheeling. |
The only trouble is our people don't know
how to appreciate them"
This has been big month in police
circles, said Capt. Porter Smith.
Number of arrests away up?"
II should say so. The last process is
No 16l That is larger number of ar
rests than was ever piled up before in
month, so far as know"
How about the new fire alarm wire, Mr.. |
Tracy?'
"All right"
"Will the change be made at once?"
"You can say it will be up in three
weeks, and that twill be first-class and
cheap job Thetwelve miles will cost about
$500 Why, do you know they have been
running 100 cells of battery on sixteen
miles Of wire? Fifty, yes, twenty-five cells
ought to do the work with good wire. The
depar tment will save something by the
change"
''How's base ball, Mr.. W. b. Howeli?"
''All right, but the attendance is fright
fully small"
"Not much is il in finacial way"
'No, sir; it's shame, too. There's no