The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-23

YOU luhKb III GuNHE'i"'"i w" "'"'J
cents. DO yOI suppose people oyerthere
viii waste time and money in such
quantities just to get to Wheeling to
IBut there is another route shorter
and cheaper" suggested the reporter"
care YOU surrY Suppose man lives
in thc miner part OF Martins Ferry. lie
must, to come by the route to which
Won refer, walk TO the lower end Of that
iown and-invarlably miss the ferry.
hoSt 4 friend Of mine who used to
iva over there, said once, that the only
way TO catch that feTryb0at was to hide
behind Il corner and sneak NJ on her
when she came ill.,.
"But suppose the i"rryboat caught.
He rrosseaiIo river, Just IN time to see
n stree, car start up the hill IL few hnn.
,jrrd wards ahead. That means that he
must run-gplash--s plash-throush the
mud either along the I. ". ~ kyr
tracks, or Whist is worse, through the
mnd on that part OF Main street, To the
street car turn.table. Ii 1t happens to
be raining he must stand N the weather
lin another car comes, or drop into one
Of The saloons in then ciEhOorhood.
ain the end you viii tlnd that the
trim by way OF Bridgeport, although 1t
costs twenty cents more and sometimes
a little more time, is the cheaper when
YOU consider the wear and tear ON ones
feelings" n,
~ would pave Main street IRON the
RavinC, where the bricks now eud, to q
noint almost opposite the Top mill office.
| would rake the street car company
Inv its tracks to that point, or withhold
from il any privileges II may hsk here
after: and would have waiting room
huild by sOmU one, 80 people could be
sheltered from tho weather. Captain
Inglebright, OF the feryboNt, said to me
moi long since that il the street car COM
pany would lay It's trucks to a point
even with his wharf, he would build Il
waitiug.roOm, mud make regular trips
with the boat so as to meet either every
car. or every other car, that to depend Of
course upon the railway company's
"And what would It all amount to-"
"Younc man, have yOu any idea how
much money this city gets from Mar.
iin,s Ferry, and how much more We
coaId get il it wNs possible to get back
and forth within Ndecent interval"
"In the first place, We sell Martins
F,rry nearly everything she eats aud
drinks except "alrr and vegetables,
The retail dealers Of tina: town depend
largely upon our wholesale dry goods,
hnt and shoe hOus,s for thcirsupplies in
those lines. Formerly our retail cloth
iers, hGhcrlasIers aud dry goods men
sold the people over there nearly oil
Ihrir Goods, but WhccIing's short
in not providing means for
quick transit has caused quite a number
OF first class stores in those lines to
sDring W in Martins Ferry, and the re.
tail merchants Of Wheeling are the
losers.
Snow, for the sake Of comparison, take
Martins Ferry, IIridgC2ort and BCIlaifC.
Martins Ferry, RS | have shown, is al.
most inaccessible to Wheeling, especially
in bad weather. The same is true OF
Bellaire, although recent improvements
have made ii much better. bridgeport
IL In direct communication with Wheel.
inc by way OF the bridges and street car
line. Martins Ferry has three fine dry
goods stores, two good hat stores, sev.
eral gents furnishing stores, q big cloth
inc store, and another IN contemplation,
apd three as good shoe stores rs there
are in this city. Bellaiic is similarly
while bridgeport las only
one dry goods store, one shoe
store no hat store aud no
gents furnishing store. A dry goods
dealer aud shoe dealer have gone ont
Of business In Bridgeport in the last
year, although the population has in
because the people will go to
Wheeling to buy. The inference lie,
TINT BfidgCports money gOra in.
10 the pockets Of Wheeling bust.
npss men, and they would ret muCl
more Martins Ferry and Bellaire money |
Il there vac some quick md direct
means OF getting to aud from those
places"
"The Wheeling Bridge Company pro.
poses to build bridge and allow the
ears to 60 TO Martins Ferry"
"That's all right, | hope they will but
in the meantime let the city authorities
nut the present means communication
In the best possible shape, aud prGy aud
work for better means, lOhly hope TINT
the Wheeling Bridge Company will get
their bridges up within Il year, and that
the venture will prove no successful that
they will bridge the riycraL BUllairC, aud
run their, ours in The heart Of that CITY,"
The reporter thinking that possibly |
Mr.. John N, Sweeney, President Of the
Wheeling llail%ay Company, would
like TO say something In the promises,
rallied upon him at tho Mcclure house.
Mr.. Sweeney said that the company
you'd have either completed It's double
Ilack on slain street, or the loop by way
Of Market sheet, but for the fact that
Inc Union Bridge 4 Terminal Company
has not yet decided where Ito uptown
sutton will bU located. That company
will, II Ia Hnid, have n station somewhere
between Ne tunnels In JOlnalhAn'B Ia.
vine, and tho street laIlwAy Company
wants In trucks To pass HOnc&hcrc pIogD
10 tho station. Mr., Sweeney said further
HAT whiIU people alO complaining
ibouL lhuDtrCCt Cat service, they should
.1kn into consideration tho improve.
nUnt8 tlot have been made within a
Illlu morO than Il yrnr lie also admit.
ed Tint The street railway service Ia not
ghaL he aud tho company would like II
% b., nor whnl they Intended II Bhdll 10
n tho nDar future.
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