Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-17
THE RECEPTION.
The Visitors net at Wheeling Junction.
aud Escorted to the CITY.

The Visitors net at Wheeling Junction,
and Escorted to the City.
About one o'clock yesterday afternoon
the subcommittee on Reception, appoint
ed BY the General Committee Of the Cham
Der of Commerce to give the visitors q fit
ting welcome 10 the city, boarded the
north bound train on the "Pewiky" rail-
road for Wheeling junction, where it was
proposed to meet the Eastern gentlemen.
The committee was made no Of President
Hulhhen Quarter, of the Chamber Of Com
merce, and Messrs. Randolph S.alnaker,
W. 2. Hubbard. John Koch, H. P Nc
Gregor and Q. b. Hart They were &c
companisd by President K. H. Cochran. Of
the Railroad Company, and General Agent
J. NJ. Bslleyille, Of the p, G. y St. L.
road. The party left the train at the
junction, and there awaited the arrival
of the train from the East, to which
the special car occupied by the
visiting delegation WIS attached. About
{ three o'clock the train put IN an appear
ance, and the special Car was detached and
hooked on to the train bound for Wheel
INK, while the gentlemen Of the Reception
Committee invaded the car, and at once
made themselves known to the occupants
thereof. There was a general shaking Of
hands, the committee being received with
the utmost Cordiality by the strangers, and
soon the WheeliDgites and their newly
made acquaintances were upon the most
intimate terms The visitors were as
sured. in an uumistakeable manner, tina.
they we're welcome 20 Wheeling and they
reciproCated the warmth Of their greeting
with "a right good will
The time occupied IN making the trip
down to the city was given up to general
conversation, and at four o'clock the
train pulled in 20 the P, O. Il st. L. sta
ton al the foot OF Eleventh street, and the
members Of the Reception Committee and
their guests alighted. They we're at onca
welcomed by a large number of pTOmi-
nent gentlemen, conspicuous among whom
we're President Anton Reymann and the
membership of the Board Of Directors OF
the Wheeling Park Association, whose
guests the visitors were to be during the
remainder Of the afternoon. A short time
was spent upon the platform in general
introductiOus, and then the Reception
COMMITTEES turned their charges over to
the Park Directors for a trip out to that
beautiful suburban resort Carriages had
been provided, and the guests, accom-
panied by an equal number Of citizens,
were assigned places in the vehicles.
The visiting party vas made mp OF the
following gentlemen:
Job Abbott, J. W. McCullOch, G. P.
Hall II. +. Russell, Gouverneur W.
Morris. + $. Mason, J y Bradley, Gen
eral f. h. LaidlOw, Msjor James Moirrier,
Col. @. w Leverick and ?. II. Rochester,
Of New York City; A. @. Ripley and Geo.
A. Minor. OF Boston; Ira Abbott, of Mon
trsal; Harry Barton and Walter Wellman,
of Washington, D. c.; William Sellers and
/ II G Morse, Of Wilmington, Dsl and
jacob Rogers, OF Lowell, Mass They were
accompanied by Col. George Bissell, OF
Hartford, Conn, and D. K. Paige, of New
York, and w-re met az the depot by Col.
Carey. Of the firm Of contractors. OF these
Messrr. Barton and Wellmsp were news
paper men.
Accompanying these gentlemen to the
carriages. and II them 10 the Park, were
President l. II. Cochran, OF the railroad
company. and Messrs. W. P. Hubbard, c
d. Hubbard, Frank Gruse, \. B. Scott,
George NJ Baird, John Koch, w. F. Pc
tersor. J. A. Hes, J. F. Adams and DE-
Curry. representing the business men and
manufacturers OF the city, snd President
Anton Reyuann, snd Directors Fred
Happy. /. F. Siiel, GsOrge Hook, A, c.
Egerter and Henry Bieberson, CT tie PARK
Association. Representatives Of four Of
The city papers also accompanied the party,
the entire number Of excurSioniStS being
foT,y-three.