Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-09
HE TALKS OF WHEELING.
Walter wellman, q Newspaper Man, Does
Upihs Cliy-Bsd Breaks.

Up The Cly-Bsd Breaks.
In tw0-column article in last Sundays
issue Of tie Des Moiues, Is., Leader, Wal
ter Wellmau, one Of the newspaper men
who accompanied the party Of New York
capitalists on the occasion of their recent
visit here, talks Of West Virginia and her
resources, and devotes a great deal Of the
article to ex-Senstor Davis and bis sons-in-
law, Stephen b Elkips snd Lieut.. Brown.
The article is an interview with Col. Thos.
O'Brien. In comparing the Garrett family
with the Davises, the writer speaks of Miss
Mary Garrett in the following way;
81 was in this very station in which we
are now talking, said Col. 0'Brien, a few
weeks ago, when a special car rolled in.
From it stepped beautiful young woman,
blonde, attired in plain travelling COS
tune. Her eye appeared quickly 60 take
in every hiog-the station, ths tracks, the
condition Of the railway property in gen
eral. She made Inquiries OF the men who
accompanied her, aud gave some direc-
lions / asked who she was, and was told.
Miss Mary Garrett the boss of the B. x
o. railroad She was on tour Of inspec-
tion. 1t is said she has actual and active
control OF the vast interests of the Garrett
family, and that under her management
the property is now in better shape than
it has been ut any time during the last five
years"
Ia the following sketch in one of Wheel
iDg's Industries, the writer gets pottery
mixed up with nails, evidently. He says:
"By the eide of the railway tracks 10
Wheeling had pointed ont 10 me several
large pottery and glass works, abOut which
a good story and story with a moral can
bs told. OF these my entertaining friend,
the banker, said: There, sir, are some
of the mos, prosperous concerns in this
city. Each Of them was start years ago
by poor men on the cooperative plan.
Take the big pottery over there, for exam
pie. Eight or ten pottery workers of Pitts
burg, tired of working for wages, loaded
their household goods into q
freight car, brought a few tools, came
to this city and found an old shed in
which TO 20 TO work. Their combined
capital did not exceed a Thousand dollars.
Bat every man in the firm WAS a worker
and skilled mechanic. They found
ready sale for their wares, and prospered.
Their pottery, ~ you now see it, covers an
acre or more of ground, and gives employ
ment to several hundred persons. To this
day 1t is owned by the original proprietors
or their children or grandchildren. Ii has
made several men rich and all interested
are well TO do. These potters have KEPT
close together, not only in business, but
10 church and society They have inter
married, and Thus we have n co;erie Of
potters in our community, and no better
citizens have We"
Continuing, the writer speaks Of Wheel
ing's rich men and her stogies. Ia refer
euce TO the former he is again mistaken.
He says
in these days OF millionaires / was as-
tonished to hear that the city Of Wheeling,
manufacturing town, full of nail mills,
steel mills, blast furnaces, glass works
and potteries, contains not one million
aire. How many cities are there in this
country, Of so 00O Industrial population,
that can boast of the absence of million
aires from their midst? | say boast, be-
cause 10 millionaires means diffusion Of
wealth and general prosperity.
"a friend came into the car there and
handed me small pasteboard box. Take
that home with you,' he said, faceiiously,
bat be careful how yon use its
contents. IL may make trouble in
your family Ii Was a box of Wheel
ing stogies. 'Statisucians have clleulst-
ed, added ray friend, that one divorce in
ten in this country il caused by the smok-
Ing Of Wheeling stOgies by husbands. SO
our town has has good deal to ans ser for
What is called the Kentucky stOg g, made
here of the strongest Kentucky tobacco,
gives the smoker breath that will stain
furniture. But the regular Wheeling stogie
is not so bad. Try one. We make mil.
lions of these every year Machinery is
employed in the rolling Of them. and the
labor is pretty cheap else we could not
make them and pay ih- same internal rev.
enue tax that is paid IN high priced cigsrs
end sell Gt IS thousand. Wholesale
Everybody in Wheeling smokes stOgies.
There must be some peculiar fascination In
the long, thin twists OF tobacco, for they
soy that after a man has smoked them for
time the most delicately peffumed cigar
hDs no temptation for him. He IL thor
oughly welded to the stogie. General Man
ager Odell, Of the b. q o huys four or i've
thousand OF these stogies every month,
smokes some Of them himself, and gives the
cthera away TO the railway men whom he
meets ont on the line Whenever he meets
An engineer, fireman, brakeman or section
boss, ne hands out stogie. One Of the di-
vision superintendentso on the Penpsy ylvania
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 siogie IL not such bad
thing after all