The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-14

lyluR Nv neF uoOIti Win Unusual laCllltlee
for business and enjoyment for city OIL
her sizs, she yet has numerous unoCcu'
pied desirable sites for manufactures and
room for an increase In all that makes a
city great to thrice her present size, Her
equipments for the safety and comfort oi
her people are likewise sufficient for a
much greater population, Her water
works Is modern and adequate to supply
community Of 100000 souls. Her fire
department is efficient and its record un-
surpassed in any city Of the country, Her
schools compare in results aud in methods
and equipments with those Of older and
larger cities, and her churches are live and
active, performing with tho numerous be-
nevolent, religious and educational socie-
ties, a great work in ths interests Of pub
illC morality, charity and temperance, Her
public library can only be improved by
enlargiug the number OF volumes on its
shelves, and this improvement is Continu-
ally made, while the patronage 1t receives
at the hands Of the public speaks torCibly
Of the intelligence Of the people,
Its courts are modelled after the most ap-
proved judicial system modern Civiiza.
ton has devised, and nowhere 10 the
peace and safety Of the citizen or the
rights Of property more carefully guarded
or more secure.
Her commercial Importance Is shown
by her long rows Of warehouses and
wholesale stores, and her metropolitan
character Is mirrorsd in retail establish
msntsunsurpassed in style or extent out.
side Of much larger cities.
HER MANUFACTURES.
As q manufacturing centre Wheeling is
well known. AS a nail making point she
long ago assumed uuch pre.eminence as to
win for her the soubrlquet OF "the Nail
City" For years the superiority Of her
coal for fuel in nail making placed her
safely above competition. and in this time
her artisans acquired such special skill
and hOr manufacturers achieved such a
mastery Of tho markets that her place as
the Nail City Is still secure. Here steel
was substituted for iron in nail maklng-a
change to which all other localities have
been compelled to follow this clty's lead.
Sheet iron, bar iron and almost all the
forms and kinds OF iron and steel, are also
made in Wheeling to be sent with hel
nails all over the world.
In glass the community has an interest
only second to that in nails, Here waret
arc turned out from more than half 9
dozsn furnaces, exclusive Of the score OIL
80 In the neighbothood owned and oper
ated by Wheeling capital, enterprise ant
skill, which challenges comparison, tol
rare beauty, artistic style and excellent
quality, with the wares Of Bohemia itself
yhoae glarsworkers won their anClen
fame with work not half so creditable al
that with which Wheeling is delightinl
tue world. Hundreds Of men, adopts In
the mcas advanced modern processes, find
mlloyment in her glass houses. lIel
lanterns, her calico, her furniture, are
known and used far and wide. Her iron
and steel ia fashioned into thousands o.
shapes thousands OF miles away. TIE
Queenswnre from ner pottery has won fol
the city new laurels IS q manufacturing
centre. The skill, The experience, the
tact, the geniu, Of Europe and America
are united in Its managers, its artists and
It's workmen.
IIar leather, like her calico, her iron
aud glass and chinGwaro, has an cnvlablC
namo in all the groat marts Of tho country,
and wherever 1t is sold advertises TO the
world continually the skill and industry
Of Wheeling tolers and the enterprise and
honesty Of Wheeling manufacturers.
the LuxURIEs OF LIFE.
The beer from her breweries Is quaGTed
by the votaries OF Gambrnus far and near
aud Bacchus himself might smack his lips
to taste the wines here pressed from the
fruit Of the vines which crown these sunny
hills. Her cigars and tobacco soothe the
tired brain Of tho western worker and
stimulate the fancy Of the eastern dreamer
From her workshops and her schools
have gone thousands OF artisans and sChol-
ars to compete with tho sons Of the busy
West and the learned East, and in mill OF
shop or forum, they win their way in spite
Of competition.
She sonds 10 tho North aud South and
East and West long trains burdeaed with
tho products Of her shops and forgeS; the
fruits OF the industry and skill Of her
workers float on many a mighty craft. No
station on all tho vast systom Of the Balti.
moro & Ohio Railroad Company east OF
west-not oven Locust Point itself, the
great importing staLlon-iurnishOs more
freight to that company from year to year
than Wheeling; and this is but one Of the
half dozen roads bringing and taking
freight, whilo the Ohio river, not navi'
sablo above Wheeling through half the
year, floats almost half as much as Is car
rlcd by all the railroads centerins OF
touching here.
HER ADVANTAGES.
It's on this foundation, then, that the
supsrstructuto Of new and greater
Wheeling Is to be built. All the advsu'
tsgos which make location eligible for
new industries are possessed by tho city
In an eminent dsEteo. The established
business brings oil the bcnsatS OF com.
petition, Of advertising abroad, Of attrac'
tions to buyers. The shipping iacilitieG
arc unsurpassed, and tho rates arc as rea'
sonablo as competition and heavy traffic
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