Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-10
PULPIT ECHOES.
REV. c. ". CUSHING GIVES SOME STATISTICS
OF WHEELING NIQUITY.
Rev. c. ". Al6rt breaches on tie Bible and the
Newspaper Preacher Who Frowns Oh
the Sunday lssre-0utline Of
the Sermons.

Last evening, at the Fourth Street
Methodist Church, Rev.'C. w. Cushing
gave another discourse bearing on the
iniquitieS Of Wheeling, and how they eff
feet the young men of the city. He
started out by saying that statistics
show that only about % per cent. of the
young men Of this country attend church
at all, and Mr.. Cushing went on to say
that since he had been in Wheeling he
had never preached to so large con
gregatiOn where there were so few
young people. Other churches in the
city, he understood, were in about the
same condition. The candidates for
pronigacy here in Wheeling were more
numerous than any other city OF the size
he had visited.
He spoke Of the alarming temptations
by reason of the vast quantity of liquor
that was floating on the surface here,
and all SO easy OF access. He alluded
10 the fact that one brewery in Wheel
ing makes annually 10000 barrels of
beer, using up 200, 900 bushels of bar
ley, and employing 100 men, another
brewery here making 10000 barrels
year, using up 10000 bushels of barley,
and employing 80 men. There is an
other concern that manufactures some
10000 barrels of beer and ale every
year, making an aggregate of 100000
barrels of the damnable fluid that is
annually produced right here in
Wheeling. The Government gets - OH
every barrel Of beer, making in the
neighbOrhood of $500, 900 that flows into
the treasury for this traffic, making the
Government party to the crime. 1t
makes me blush with shame whenever
I think of IT, The profits of one of the
big Wheeling brewerieS last year was, |
am told, Sl25, 900. OF course this beer
is not ell sold in Wheeling, yet the fact
that il is made here renders it easy of
access, and il becomes powerful temp
ter in the paths of young men.
There are l27 licensed saloons in
Wheeling. There are, as | understand,
fully 100 more that are running without
q license. Twenty-Five of these saloons
are said TO be directly connected with
houses Of prostitution. and Il OF them
let rooms out for the purpose. Out OF
the l27 licensed saloons 100 permit and
encourage gambling on the premises,
and in open defiance OF the law. Mr..
Cushing said that on certain Sunday
afternoon recently there were counted
so persons between certain ages who
went into Main street saloon in the
course Of fifteen minutes. Mr.. Cushing
then gave 4 long line of statistics giving
the number Of persons who went into
the different saloons at certain times,
and how many children were sent ont
with GROWERS.
There are in Wheeling - houses
of public prostitution, and rs |
understand 80 private houses with
an average of three inmates to each
house. am also informed that there
is one house in town that makes il bust
ness of procuring girls for these iniqui-
tOuS places. Mr.. Cushing then told how
many people were seen going into
these places within a certain time, and
told how the ages of the applicants
ranged. Mr.. Cushing has evidently
been conducting quite an extensive
campaign in this line of reform, as he
appeared to be loaded with statistics
touching on the various iniquities.
Everybody knows" said the pastor in
concluding that these places are run
in open defiance Of the law, and every
body knows that they could all be
closed within three months if the Of
ticialS only had mind to-"