Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-12
The Steel Output.
Cold Short in Age Of SteH.
MThe steel nntnnt & increa.

Goa SloTT IN Age o S'FL.
1.-THE steel output 4 increasing wonder
fully; Pittsburg plants have increased their
product about 1000 tons daily. The
Wheeling output is ! 200 tons daily, which
will be increased 800 tons shortly. The
position of this Upper Ohio Valley, as the
great iron and steel producing center, in re-
sources, in material, in facilities, in enter
prise, in ability, in short in all essentials
mental, physical, financial, material,
natural, artificial and p~rovidential; Is i'm
~prcgnable, unasSailable and Us fixed as the
immutable laws of nature. PittSburg Is
realizing these facts, demonstrating and
formulating them, and Wheeling will join
her in two months, or providence has offer
ed an unprecedented opportunity to an ur-
deserving people, which | do not believe"
The Eighth Ward school Building.
To TIE Editor Of the Register:
AS a citizen and taxpayer for many
years of the lower end Of the Eighth ward,
| desire, in common with the rest of our
people, to enquire of the Board of Educa-
ton why the delay in the erection of the
new school building designated on the lots
purchased near Forty-fourth street, sever
al weeks since. To my own personal
knowledge, our present school house has
long been over-crowded, and our children
have either been stored in Easements
which are dark, damp and poorly rentila-
ted, and altogether unfit for school purpO-
ses, or be kept at home until they are old
enough and sufficiently s~elf-taught to
enter q higher grade. For this
reason a number chose the latter and
are debarred school privileges. We
have always paid our proportion of the
taxes in the past, while we have received
but little in the way of Improvements.
With but n few exceptions, and these
confined to n class who are unfriendly to
free schools" we pay our money cheer
fully for the cause of education, and the
diffusion of knowledge among the poor a
well as the rich.
Now, / claim the School Board has not
furnished us the proper and just school
facilities, and protest against further delay.
The building intended and the much
needed room should have been well under
way and completed by the commencement
of the ensuing year. In this connec-
ton / desire to call the attention
of our own Commissioners to our urgent
needs, and request them to present them
to the Board in proper form for immediate
action, otherwise we will hold them to &C
count for the wants and actual necessities
denied Us,
Our population in the extreme south
end of the city is increasing, and with this
increase are our necessities the more ur-
gent.
Many of the children are too young to
walk to and fro from the present school
building, which is les the north end of
school district. This. is particularly !
true during the winter months.
Let a suitable building in this end of the
ward be put in erection at Once and our
wants and needs supplied. BY so doing,
honorable gentlemen of the School Board,
you will be exonerated from what | con-
ceive to have been an injustice or oversight
the past towards us, wherein all other
of the city have been amply pro-
vided for, Respectfully yours,
c. VIEwEG, SR.