Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-13
CHAT ABOUT TOWN.
There Will Surely be a Base Bal
League.
4 QUEER REPUBLICAN FREAK,
By Which Judge PAUL is lgnOred--AbOuf
Trusts"
THE COMING SPRING MEETING


"All this talk about there being no baae
ball league the coming season is bosh, u
said President W. B. Howell, yesterday
afternoon. 81 consider the prospects ex-
cellent, all around. We are dead sure to
have six clubs, and in all probability there
will be eight The twin city combina-
tiol up the river is @, as they have
81, 900 raised SO far, with prospects OF
more. Mansfield, Canton and Springfield
will be with us sure, and two or three
other cities will likely be on hand, smong
them Dayton and Sardusky. Marietta
and Youngstown have been discussed, but
do not know what the prospects are
there. We will have meeting tomorrow
afternoon, at the Howell HOUSE, wten
something interesting will likely tran
spire"
ga coed deal of this hodl about trusts
makes me tired" said a manufacturer
yesterday. ''If it was rot for some of the
agreements entered into by manufacturers.
some of the People now making noise
would find themselves losers In three
cases out of four the trust complained of
is nothing more or less than en- sgresment
made between manufacturers in certain
lire to stop cutting each others threats in
the matter Of prices, and hold their goods
to certain mark. Take our own produc-
tons as an example. We are selling stuff
TO jobbers all the way from rs to 80 per
cent. of the list price, with additional
discounts for cash on top of that. On GER
tain lines we have agreed with other man
ufacturers that prices shall be maintained
at such and such figures, on which compe
tition had forced rates down to point
which left absolutely no margin. That is
denounced as a combination and o
trust, while it was absolutely necessary
to the continuance Of business in that
particular line, and consequently to the
employment of labor. The retailers are
the people who keep up prices on the con-
sumner. 1t sometimes makes us laugh when
we happen to be in business house hand
ling our goods and hear prices quoted to
consumers. 1t makes no difference what
We sell at TO the jobber or wholesaler
they go right on demanding fancy prices
of the consumer, oftentimes quoting fig
ures 100 per cent. ard more above what We
Sc. for them"
81 think there is every prospect that the
special Committee of Council will be en-
abled to report the Wheeling and Harris
burg ordinance back in good shape, said
a Councilman, yesterday. 81 am satisfiei
members of the Trades Assembly will see
the improperly of insisting upon an
which will seriously cripple
and perhaps kill an enterprise which means
SO much for Wheeling, and will be salts
fed TO leave their cause, which is a good
one, in its general scope, in the hands of
Judge Cochran"
Said a teamster, yesterday afternoon, as
he halted his truck on siXa.,sv wlhreot
81 think the member from
The Fourth ward, ought TO lay before the
Finance Committee, in time to be included |
in the appropriations for 1889, a resolu-
lion providing for the paving ofSouth street
from the west end of Seventeenth street
past the old saw mill property to the in
tersection of Main and Sixteenth streets.
The street is nothing but mud-hole at
present, but if paved it would be used by |
everybody coming across the Market street |
bridge and bound up Main street or to the
B. & o. depot, as it would cut of some of
the distance and enable tesmsters to avoid |
driving along the railroad track, on Six
teenth street, wbi3h has practically been
'No, don't zee any prospect of break
in the Board Of Commissioners deadlock,
on Monday" said member yesterday.
81 think things will 90 right along as far
as the election of officers is concerned, for
an indefinite time"
''Yes, we are going along with the at
tempt to dissolve the Injunction granted by
Judge Jacobs" said City Solicitor Cald'
well, yesterday. "We have notified Col.
White that we will move, before Judge
on Tuesday, the 18th, to dis
solve the injunction, and service has been
accepted by the gentlemen on the other
side.n Mr.. H. NJ Russell is with Mr..
Caldwell for the city, the employment OF
additional counsel having been authorized
by Council at It's last session. The ques-
ton is, why bring Judge Campbell dis
tance of forty miles 70 listen 10 the argu-
ment, when Judge PAUL is here?
The Board of Directors Of the street rail
wsy companies will neat tomorrow, when,
it is expected, the extension of the cleo
trical system to the Island will be earnest
ly talked over. Some conclusion, it is to
be hoped, will be reached with the Bridge
Company.
81 have heard nothing new from the
various cities which II was contemplated
would join with Wheeling in the spring
racing circuit, said Secretary Hook, yes
terday, "but all the same We will 90 ahead
and have an excellent programme here in
Wheeling. No dates 20 far claimed con-
fict with us, except those at the Latonia
track, near Newport, where they have set
May 90 to 31st, but We would get few
horses from that territory anyhow. We
are assured for a fine list Of horse5."
eve expect the new rails fO7 the extern
sion of the line on the South Side in
about ten days" said John NJ. Sweeney,
last night, land then We will 20 right to
work laying down our track. The work
will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor,
once we get started"
There has been some little talk among
members of Council of making an effort to
get new city charter, or at least an amend
won't 20 tba rraeanf ma from the Tepis1a-