Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-09

years ago by pooe msn On the co-opesative
plan. Take the big pottery ovsf there,
for example Eight OF ten pottery work
ers Of Pittsburg, tired Of working fos
wages, loaded their household goods into
. freight cal. bought . few tools, cana
to this city and found IN old shed In
which to 60 to work. Their combined
capital did not exceed thousand dollasA
But every man In the arm was . worker
and Q skilled mechanic. They found
ready sale for their wares, ana pros
pered. Their pottery, - you now 60 Il,
covers an acre or more Of ground, and
gives employment to several hundred
persona To this day Il Il owned BY the
original proprietors, OF their children OF
grandchildren. Il has made several men
rich, and all interested are well to do.
These potters have kept Close together,
not only In business, but In church and
society. They have intermarried, and
thus we have . coterie Of potten In our
community. and no better citizens have
we. This Is the history Of several Of our
large enterprises. The men VINO started
these shops worked In them, and taught
their children to work In them, Just a.
ex-senator Davis is teaching his sono-in-
law his business. There, In my opinion,
is the keynote Of prosperity, thing
which we know too little about In this
country"
At Wheeling I also met David R.
Paige, Of New York, man whose career
points moral and adorns tale. Paige
was q successful business man in Ohio,
and, being extraordinarily and deserved
ly popular, was induced to enter politics.
Here also he was successful, winning
seat in congress. But one term in WASH
ington satisfied him that the national
legislature was not the place for . man
Of energy, for man who wants to COM
mand success instead Of waiting for It.
So he left politics and went to New
York city as q contractor. There he 10
rapidly growing rich. The years which
he devoted to politics were lost years.
Just now Mr.. Paige is engaged in an
enterprise Of general interest and i'm
portance. He is bridging the Ohio
river at Wheeling, tunneling through
the mountain on the West Virginia side,
and constructing several miles Of track.
Odd that city 90 important as Wheel.
ing should have gone all these years
without a railroad bridge over the Ohio
Now that town, by the expenditure Of
two or three millions Of dollars in bridge
and tunnel, is in a fair way to realize
the hopes Of its citizens by becoming
gateway between the east and the west.
In these days Of millionaires was as
tonished to hear that the city Of Wheel
ing, manufacturing town. full Of nail
mills, steel mills, blast furnaces, glass
works and potteries, contains not one
millionaire. How many cities are there
in this country, of 90, 900 industrial pop
ulation, that can boast of the absence Of
millionaires from their midst? I say
boast, because no millionaires means diff
fusion of wealth and general prosperity.
A friend came into the car there and
handed me a small pasteboard box.
"Take that home with you," he said
facetiously, "but be careful how you use
its contents. 1t may make trouble in
your family" 1t was box Of Wheel
ing stogas. "Statisticians have calcu-
lated" added my friend, "that one di-
vorce in ten in this country is caused by
the smoking of Wheeling stogas by hus-
bands. So our town has good deal to
answer for. What is called the Ken
lucky stoga, made here of the strongest
Kentucky tobacco, gives the smoker a
breath that will stain furniture. But
the regular Wheeling stoga is not so
bad. Try one. We make millions Of
these every year. Machinery is en-
ployed in the rolling of them, and the
labor is pretty cheap, else we could not
make them and pay the same internal
revenue tax that is paid on high priced
cigars, and sell at 30 o thousand. whole
SALE"
Everybody in Wheeling smokes stogas.
There must be some peculiar fascination
in the long, thin, twists of tobacco, for
they say that after man has smoked
them for time the most delicately per-
fumed cigar has no temptation for him.
He is thoroughly welded to the stoga.
General Manager Odell, of the B. and
o., buys four or five thousand of these
stogas every month, smokes some Of
them himself, and gives the others away
to the railroad men whom he meets out
ON the line. Whenever he meets an en-
gineer, brakeman, fireman or section
boss, he hands out stoga. One Of the
division superintendent on the Pennsyl.
vania does the same thing. and says the
cheap cigar materially helps him in
making the acquaintance and gaining
the friendship of his men. So the stoga
10 not such bad thing after all.
WALTER WELI.MAN.