Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-03-01
ISLAND BUILDING
WILL go RIGHT ALONG WITHOUT REGARD
TO The FLOOD.
The Queer Disposition to SymPathi7s With Garden
Spot Peopls-Tts Electric Light Plant
General Town Talk.

hRen NASSeAHc
there will 90 right ahead, as rule, ana
had il not been for the present cold snap
two or three dwellings would have been
started the past week. There is DISPOSE
tion. however, TO build houses higher, and
this is eminently sensible, and should De
made the universal rale. Every house
erected hereafter. for residence purposes,
moi only on the Island, but in the residence
districts on the South Side, should oe
built high enough TO stand az least forty
five feet Of water without its coming in on
the first floor, and if forty-six or forty
seven foot level IS chosen, so much the
better. From an architectural point of
view. the additional cost will be slight,
while the measure Of satisfaction, IN
times OF food. VIII be great. y
few feet of filling around the houses so
built will do away with any tall-tower ef-
feet, and people viii De aoundanuy recon-
pensed, in the future. when they can SIT
in such houses and see their
less fortunate neighbors with several feet
of Ohio river on Top of their parlor carpets.
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curious feature of every food is that
il always brings 10 the front lot of latent
sympathy for Island people. Gentlemen
who own property in that growing section
of the city are invariably condoned with,
folks wonder how much property in the
Seventh ward will be deprecated, and
there are any number of expressions TO the
effect that "Oh, wouldn't live over there
for anything Most of this sort OF thing
is amusing. a gentleman talking upon the
subject yesterday said:
There goes a mao VINO has been sympa
thizing with me because | live on the
Island. He is honest about it, too; but it's
tiresome and very funny. We of the Island
are about as well off, in the matter of floods,
as about twice our population east of the
river, but somehow d good many people
are not able 10 get that fact into their
heads. When the Island is flooded
with forty-tive feet Of water, every
business man on Water and Main
on Market street. from the creek to
Twelfth street, are disconnected, while
part of the Fifth ward. and at least half
the Sixth and Eighth wards, are fully as
deeply submerged as the Island. This is
an undeniable fact, amply illustrated last
week, yet who hears of any depreciation of
real estate east of the river or who saws it
is dangerous, or risky. or troublesome, TO
live or do business in any OF these sectionst
A great many Island dwellings were not
entered by water last week. In one or two
spots the surface OF the ground was not
even covered, and the people over there
are quite as well off as about ten 10 fifteen
thousand people in the city proper. In the
future, / think. buildings will be built
higher, not only in the low-lving portions
of the city, but also on the Island, and
predict that the next forty-fve foot flood
will do less damage than the last one, al
though many buildings will go up in the
meantime
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There is great deal of truth in this gen
tleman's statements Even after the great
flood of 1854, unprecedented as to height,
Island property increased in value right
along, and has steadily sold higher year
after year Fer many years 10 come 1t Will
offer the only available residence sites for
people of moderate means, DESTROYS of
locating close to the business part of the
city, and it is safe to say building will not
suffer dimunition.
BY the way, there is good deal of talk
in the direction of taking some concerted
steps in the direction of raising the levels of
streets, in verious river cities, subject to-
overflow In Allegheny City, it is propos-
to eXpend several hundred thousand dollars
in raising the grades of streets four to six
feet, and the idea seems TO be entirely
practicable Here in Wheeling the matter
is being discussed a great deal, and some
good may yet come out Of it.
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Electrical Engineer John A. Seeley left
New York City last night, and is expected
to arrive in this city this evening. He will
be met by some o. the members of the
Electric Light Commission on his arrival,
and tomorrow will be devoted TO looking
about the city, that he may get some idea
of the topography of the town and the gen.
eral nature OF the work he will be called
upon to do. 1t is probable that the Com
mission will be called 10 meet Mr.. Seeley
tomorrow evening, az the City Hall, and
matters Will then begin 10 take on a tangi
bic shape.
a number Of residents Of the lower
portion of the Island are quietly moving
in the direction OF securing the opening of
a thirty-foot street. from South Broadway
to South Penn street. about mid
way between Ohio and Fink streets. The
present square between these two streets
is about eight hundred feet long and it's
a Sabbath Days journey for a person TO
get from one side of the block TO the other
without going through private grounds.
There are two vacant thirty-foot lots
directly opposite each other, which would
make the opening of the street an easy
matter AS they are the only pieces Of
vacant ground rightly situated, left on the
two streets, there is feeling that now is
the time to act in the matter, if it is ever
TO be accomplished.
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With the new SIX story building for the
City Bank, TO 90 up on the corner OF Alley
Nine and Market street, and the big hun
dred foot front, five story building Of the
Peabody Insurance Company, square
farther up the same street. Market street
will look a degree more Gifted. The cell
lar for the Peabody building is being exca-
waited by Mr.. John Shriver, and the old Y.
NJ. c. A building, on the north side of the
ground, will soon pe torn down. BY the
way, In the rear Of this building stands one
OF the very few log houses remaining In
Wheeling Ii was erected away back IN
the early DAYS, when Market street was
good deal higher than il is now, and when
the front brick building was built the log
house was moved back and weatherooard-
ed. One end of it hangs over on the Beu-
ter property foot or more, in a somewhat
picturesque manner.
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There is a chance thai Wheeling will
have new hotel, one of these days. A
certain enterprising young gentleman is
endeavoring to induce a certain capitalist
to erect a modern hotel hotel building, OF
big proportions, on Market street, and II 1t
is go" as the saying is, the building
will be an ornament TO the street and city.
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"See that cabbage,' said a grocer. yes
terday.
Yes
''Well. that's imported
Imported
Eyes, sir; came from Germany. Regu-
lor Dutch cabbage, you read about. Heads
solid as a rock; sells by the pound; five
cents a pound; beats homegrown stuff
clear out Of sight
THE West Virginia Natural Gas Co.
desires TO give notice 20 the residents of
the Island that the gas viii be shut off