The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-15
A FoRsIER wHEELINGITE


COTreGtH some disbursements about 81
Paul and Minneapolis,
To he Editor Of he IRis|ligNesr.
SIR; A friend in Wheeling sends me a
copy Of the IHFRLLIagScER in which hs
has marked the account Of an interview
with young man who has returned 10
Wheeling after few months residence in
Minneapolis, Tho article referred 10 con-
tslns some surprising statements which
possibly were intended to be taken in
PickwiCkian sense, and were perhaps
made in the freedom Of private dialogue
without their author knowing that they
were to be published, At any rate they
are erroneous, and as many Wheeling
people have interests in st, Paul and
Minneapolis and some In the latter places
have interests in Wheeling and many
mere are good customers for her manu-
iacturee, 1t Is right that some answer
should be made, which ! have no doubt
you will Cheeriully publish.
1t seems from this young gentleman's
account that he dropped at once into 9
restaurant business, in which he led 400
people every day. That doesn't look very
bad for Minneapolis. He didn't make
money 1t seems. Perhaps that was not
his own fault, | know very few in that
business who have not done well here,
and the failure among the retailers geneE'
ally have been very few. know many
who have grown rich, and there Ia a
Idon't care whether you buy or not air
about tho shopkeepeIa which l have al
ways found to be good symptom o. pros
pefity, Some living expenees are higher
here, such as fuel and rent; some lower,
"a flour, butter and most provisions,
For people who live IN their own
hCuaes, the difference In the total cost Of
living IL not material. say this, Judging
from ten years housekeeping in Wheeling
and over three years here: Rents are
higher. II could not well DO otherwise
with st. Paul ard Minneapolis each
adding TO Its population every year at
. many people as arc In all Wheeling.
The article tells us that not one hOus(
In a bundled in the two cities Ia moi
norlvaaed. Now this matter comes with
in the range OF my special knowledge
+ and I-assure the young restaurateur tha
he Ia mistaken. An examination Of TIT
record IN st, Paul shows about as many
' buildings mortgRSsd at present as w
: build in one year, ak thousand. me
building associations hold about one'thiri
, Of these mortgages, and home capitalist
hold over thTBe.fourths OF the remainder
He tells US that Eastern capital Is bein'
withdrawn. see no evidence Of such
. fact, ON the contrary, and others havl
always had Eastern money Comingto us Z
F, loan and interest faster than, We Coul'
! And places for it, and the stream has no
0 diminished, Another indication is, tina
|. Exchan, Q here Is now, and usually is, Of
discount OF one dollar per thousand. ina
fact shows which way the money Is NOV
! ING, Tho sworn statements Of our !oca
I banks show an abundance Of ready none
a on hand, and there has been no ooltrac
ton in their discounts;
We Wheelingites here like the new
i home and We like the old home. A MAJ
9 doesn't love his mother less because b
I has wife, and now that the old hen ha
I laid big egg and 10 disposed 70 Clucl
over IT, these ROSTERS here arc Just 3
, ready to crow about her success as an!
3 chick she's got.
| Wheeling has great merits, some natur
, al, come acquired by the enterprise Of he
citizens, and sho has splendid future be
. fore her, to secure which the, unjust dis
3 paragement Of other progreselTe cities i
] not neediul. Yours respectfully,
HAIRY caldwell.
st. Paul, MINI, October II.