Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-06
OUR OWN CITY,
AsTT APPEARS TO THE EYEoRAP ENNsfL-
FANIAN.
The Hum of Industry Heard Upon AL
Sides and the People Prosperous
And Happy.

A staff correspondent of the Washing
ton Daily Reporter, who lately spent ss.
eral DAVIS in the Nail City, writes to MS
nsper a most entertaining and readaole
account of what he saw while here. we
below reproduce n portion OF MS iet.ei.
''If you were to lmdioia tne 81
man and lead him into WheehhS, an n
then of a sudden remove the covering nun IN
his ewes, and ask him where he was, nc
would most probably reply, In Pennsyl,
ynnia. of course" His unlmpeded eyes
would see leaping high into the ar many
n tall chimney; a speck OF pure Dituhiih-
ous SCOT would rest lovingly on his nose,
and into his ears would rush the CHATTER
of noisy machines and the active
hum so characteristic OF mahuiac.ui-
ING cities. II seems natural to associaIe
conditions like these with PennsSl-
yani. n and in the case of Wheeling, IL nc,
ouires quite an effort to diyest ones hihu
of the fact that you are not ACTUALLY WIN
in the bounds of Il W state. Inc 81
cred and poetic soil of Virginia, rs eAisl'
in ones fancy, seems not 10 have been III,
tended for such a grim labOr-stamed ana
| telling city as this. A bit Of rugged
Wales or a section of the Gramplan HIS,
lifted bodily into fair Italy, would not APP
near to be more out of place, and adrlft
from its element, than does biackened
Wheeling i'm classic, historic and pastoral
VIRGINIA, which we all know is rustic rath-
er than rugged, fair and smiling, rather
han smoke-envelOped and furnace-hghted.
"A purely manufacturing site, IN Il pnre-
w agricultural State, Is the anomaly
which strikes one here with surprise, anu
makes one wonder why the boundary
makers, who located the line between Nlr-
cinia and Pennsylvania, did not exceed II
westward until it swept across the ran
Handle, and gave us this splendid city.
Vulcan was the father of the Pan-Handie
~ well rs of Western Pennsylvania, aud
why his family was separated In tins crucl
fashion is a cOnundrum-caSy to ASK, Dut
hard 10 answer.
1T would delight the soul of a genuine
Pennsylvania tax assessor to get Il chahce
at sizing up the rolling mills, the blast
furnaces. the nail mills. the glass factories,
the pottcricS, the machine shops, the To-
bacco manufactures, the steel plants, thc
tannericS, the lumber mills ana Doilcr
works, which, with numerous other c5tab-
lishmcnts too tedious to mention, con-
prise Wheeling. That popular gentleman
would return many additional millions To
, the assessed wealth of his State, and
would thereby make glad the heart OF
his genial and ever welcome brother,
the "collect0r.n The West Virginia
genus has laid his hand hut lightly
on Wheeling, inasmuch as his assessment
for State, county, city and school purposes
is but 81. 60 per 500, while ii Is S3.32 in
Pittsburg. Light rs this is, it is amply
sufficient. among other results, TO MAINTAIN
, a finely equipped fire, water and police de
partment, to keep the streets well paved
and clean, and to support a splendid edu-
c~ational system which employs III teach
ers and furnishes instruction 10 over 1000
pupils. This result could never have been
. ACCOMPLISHED had the 3D. 600 people OF the
city been under the domination 0I those
corrupt politicians and infamous rings
which have done sd much to cmbarraSS
and disgrace other places.
"Whcclin@ coal, il is claimed. Is Of such
subtle power that il produces greater re-
turns to the ton, when used in iron mills,
than any other. This coal almost over
hangs the furnaces consuming il, while
the products of these same furnaces are af-
tordcd clsy access 10 the markets OF the
world. Not only by one of natures high
ways, namely the Ohio river, bnt also by
the great Trunk Line systems of the Penn
sylvania, the Baltimore q Ohio and the
Vanderbilt railroads. which are all active
competitors here, and which have doubt
lcSsly done much to establish the perma-
ncnt supremacy of the city, in a manufac-
turing way, by aitording cheap Transports
ton and livinGrates, thecity's products are
I taken to market