Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-31
MARTINS FERRY.

The School Industrial Exposition, which
occurs next week, is tbs principal topic OF
conversation among the larger pert Of our
people The children are all in ecs tacies
over it. and toe older people sre almost
equally interested. The affair promises to
be very interesting and will be worked for
AL tho good there is in it. AS has ben
stated before there ara TO 0e / 600 articles
on exhibition, all the hsndiwork of the
children Each article will bear plscsrd
telling the name, age and grade of the pu
pill There will be lots of interesting sx-
ercises during the three days, and the
town will re expected 10 turn out.
One would imagine from the number OF
patriotic citizens, who seem willing to
serve the town in the capacity of Water
Works Trustee, that the Office required lit
tie else OF man than that he draw his
salary. With the pipe system in its pres
ent very incomplete condition, with only
one pipe into OF from the reservoir AID the
hill pushing into the reservoir, the water
works Trustee will hear enough complaint
to keep him for a long time wishing MIN
self dead These things are not so bad as
the fact that there is no money with which
to remedy the defects. Some provision
must be made and that Immediately for
the repairing Of the slip OF the reservoir,
or it may get into such condition as to
jeopardize that part of the plant, as We II
as the lives Of all who live below It. Ole
gentleman with more imagination Then
mechanical knowledge suggested .yester-
day that the hill be pushed back with sck
screws, and another of the same party re-
marked that water txerted pressure III all
directions and that he didn't see vhy the
water in the reservoir didn't keep the hill
pushed back.
The other day Hanover street me chant
who has q coal hole in the pavement, went
down into thu cellar to clean mp that part
Of the premises lie was IOIor stricken,
to find right near the coal hole, a large
bunch of exCelscr such ss IS used 10 pack
furniture and other articles, closely work
ed together, and Ga top Of it q lot of burned
paper, The whole Let vas snugly packed
In kind Of nest urder the edge OF some
boxes and looked at the first glance very
much as if an aftemp had been made 20
burn the building. A closer inspection,
however, showed that the excelsior hsd
been placed in little at time from the
street and that the peculiar currents of
air in the cellar had twisted 1t to-
gether The paper had come from the
fires made in the street. by merchants TO
burn waste paper The discovery gave the
owner of the building quite scare. and it
further illustrates the danger which ac-
companies the practice OF throwing all
kinds of rubbish into the streets, and the
burning of paper. Had lighted piece of
paper blown into the cellar instead fOnly
the charred tissus, a serious fire might have
resulted Paper can not be utterly de-
stroysd by fire, and even if no such q &C
cident ever occurs, the firing of paper in
the street results in a great amount Of dirt,
which blows about till II lodges behind or
under some more stable object
Hyacinth bert who has been laid up
with typhoid fever, ia again able to be
out
TIE colored gentlemen who has for sew
eral months past been In charge of mail
car On the Bellsire and Pittsburg G & P.
route, made his last trip last night He
makes room for Jack Hamilton, who. for
years, held run under Republican ad-
ministrstion.
POLITICS and political discussions we're
the only ripples on the calm surface of
affairs in this city yesterday. In the
morning, even when the weather was