The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-03

which TO go to work. Their combined
\ CAPITAL did not exceed thousand dollars
But every man in the firm was worke
and a skilled mechanic. They foun'
ready sale for their wares, and pros
pered. Their pottery, as you now see 1t
covers an acre or more Of ground, an'
gives employment to several hundred
persons. TO this day it is owned by th'
original proprietors, or their children OF
grandchildren. 1t has made several mel
rich. and all interested are well to do
These potters have kept close together
not only i'm business, but in church ahc
society. They have intermarried, ano
thus we have coterie of potters III ou'
community, and no better citizens nave
We. This is the history of several oil oul
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 sons-in
law his business. There, in my opinion
is the keynote of prosperity, a thing
which we know too little about in thi;
country"
At Wheeling | also met David r.
Paige, Of New York, man whose career
points moral and adorns tale. Paige
was a successful business man in Ohio,
and, being extraordinarily and deserved
ly popular, was induced to enter politics.
Here also he was successful, winning a
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 1t.
So he left politics and went to New
York city as contractor. There he il
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 a city so 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 realiz,
the hopes of its citizens by becoming a
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 10000 industrial pop
uation, that can boast of the absence OF
millionaires from their midst: | say
boast, because no millionaires means diff
fusion of wealth and general prosperity.
A friend came into the car there and
handed me n small pastebOard box
Take that home with you" lie said
facetiously, "but be careful how yOu use
its contents. 1t may make trouble in
-FOUR family" 1t was box Of Wheel
ing stogas. "Statisticians have calcu
iated," added my friend, chat 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 stronge.
Kentucky tobacco, gives the smoker 81
breath that will stain furniture. Blu
the regular Wheeling stoga is not SC
bad. Try one. We make millions OF
these every year. Machinery is en-
ployed in the rolling Of them, and IN,
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 So thousand, whole |
sale"
Everybody in Wheeling smokes stogas
There must be some peculiar fascination
IN the long, thin, twists of tobacco. foi
they say that after man has smoked
hem for time the most delicately per
'umed cigar has no temptation for him. |
He is thoroughly welded 20 the stoga |
General Manager Odell, of the b. and
D., buys four or five thousand of these
stogas every month, smokes some OF
hem himself, and gives the others away |
70 the railroad men whom he meets opt
N the line. Whenever he meets an en-.
yineer, brakeman, fireman or section
BOSS, he hands out a stoga. One Of the
division superintendent on the Pennsyi
sania does the same thing. and Gays the
heap cigar materially helps him H.
making the acquaintance and gaining
he friendship Of his men. So the stoga
8 not such bad thing after all.
WALTER WELIMAy.