The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-10
CHRISTIAN PEOPLE
Are Given Some Statements to
Think on by DR.. Gushing,
SALOONS AND EVIL RESORTS
Arc Responsible for tho Ruin OF
Young Men-..seme Figures Oh
X tho Business OF tho Sunday
Saloons and Other Houses.

some action 10 save from ruin and pre-
ligacy the young men and women OF IL
city.
ne took his text from St. Luke, fl
teenth chapter and twentieth verse
'And he arose, and came to his fathe
But when he was yet a great way OF
his father saw him, and he had con
passion, and ran aud fell upon his necl
aud kissed him."
He drew comparison from the tex
to show that those who would reclaim
prodiSals and proligates must 20 on
and meet them and help them to return
He described the different kinds O
protligate men and said that while her,
and there an old grey.haired man /
found among them, they usually di,
yonng and before reaching what shoult
be the prime ofliie.
Allowing that one.scventh OF all til,
men in Wheeling arc between the age
oftifteen and thirty years, he calculated
that there are 5000 young men in til,
city, and he asked II bis hearers imagin
ed that 500 Of them were in all thu
churches combined last night.
ONLY ONE FOURTH IN CHURCH,
He eaid that carelnlly prepared statis
tics show that seveAty.Gve per cent O.
all young men never enter church al
all, which leaves Wheeling with 4,OOl
young men who never enter any church
He said he was alarmed and concerned
that boys twelve and fifteen years old
should adopt tho thoughts aud many Of
tho vices Of proiligates.
He said he never Saw 30 large q con.
gregation as the one over which he
presides with as few young people in it,
The other ministers in the city have
told him that their proportions OF young
men are co1respondipely small, and
that in the whole city, the percentage OF
young men in the churches is very small.
He then went into the causes Of this
vast amount OF proHigacy, and named
the amounts Of barley used for beer and
ale in Wheeling. and the number Of
barrels OF malt liquors brewed. The
amount OF beer and ale brewed was put
down ut 10000 barrels year. and the
profits OF one concern at $4,000.
SOME ALARMING FIGURES.
He then went into other lines and
stated that there are la7 licensed saloons
and hundred other places in the city
where liquors are sold. Ofthese twenty
five arc directly connected with houses
cf prostitution and twenty.seven have
rooms for purposes OF prostitution. One
hundred and twenty-one of them en-.
courage and permit gambling and 12l of
them violate the Sunday laws regularly.
On Sunday, August 81, last, in ten min.
utes, elxty young men ranging in age
from fifteen to twenty-five years were
seen to enter one Market street saloon.
On the came day Main street saloon
WAS filled with young men for an hour,
and the proprietor at the time was in hia
back yard cutting bouttonnieres for
them. On another Sunday at Seven
teenth street saloon one hundred and
lhilty-two young men passed in in one
hour, and the, proprietor openly boasted
that he had made $500 the Sunday be.
fore. AT the same saloon on the same
Sunday twelve children under ten years
old bought beeri in buckets and pitchers.
He stated that there are seyenty-five
houses OF prostitution that have on an
average three women in each, and TWEEN.
ty-lve houses with five each. In one OF
the higher claas houses twelve young
men havo been seen to enter in ten
minutes, and in one OF the lower class
houses thirty-eight young men have
gone in in one hour. He said that he
had been informed on good authority
Ethat there is one place in the city where
girls are procured for these houses.
These houses are, be said, running more
young men than tho saloons, and their
work goes hand in hand, except that
the degradation effected by the former is
farther reaching and fsstens its hold 10
greater degree and causes more dc.
plotable end.
YOUNG GIRLS on THE STREETS. +
He also called attention 10 the number
of young girls who walk tho streets
alone, or in company with immoral men
and who arc on the road to ruin. He
said he has a long list Of names OF girla
who need come one to lift them up, and
that he will furnish the names to any
society OF Christian women who wish to
take the matter in hand.
He appealed to the congregation and
10 the Christian people Of Wheeling to
try to do something to stop the ruin that
is being wrought among the young men
and women. He appealed to the church
to waken, to the Christian men to Join
banda in the work and to Christian
women to look to the condition OF theil
own eek. ST.
The sermon was attentively listened
10 by q good congregation, and produced
profound feeling in those who beard
him. DR.. Cushing was very much in
earnest, and those nearest the pulpit Bay
tears trickled down his checks as he
spoke.