The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-29


utr CIty.-Othcr big improvements.
I, has been n matter OF general COM
mont in the building season just closing,
both by Wheeling people and visitors,
fla, the city was growing and impror-
osatarllo never experienced in her
history before. The large number OF
new buildings going up, the unusually
;uyo,in, and costly character OF many
oi Them, and the tasteful architecture
DISPLAYED, have thoroughly impressed
everybody who gets about over town
much. That new era has set in for
Wheeling was shown by the completion
oi spcll buildings as the new Stilel
I,prk. on Main street, and the progress
nj the new City Bank building and
others In the style oil both her resi-
annrn. and her business houses Wheel.
inc has not been abreast oil the age in
ms; Years; to-day she is far ahead Of
HE average town OF her size, and the
hes, oi ills that she seems TO have got
a uoye Oh her. to use 4 colloquial but
Eim.iraut expression, the good fruits
nWhicl have but begun to be seen. 1t
/. no longer, Ms it seemed to he Tor Il
lon. time, 4 question OF good enough
with those who build, but the problem
is how to excel all others.
THE GGaAr PROGRESS APPARENT.
It needs but 4 glance at tho two
buildings named above, the now St.
James church, Mr.. Anton Reym0nn's
residence on Fifteenth street, the i'm
movements in progress by the two
brewing companies, or the ScIaeter
block. IN Main STREET.-THE instance but
4 few OF the creditablc structures now
in some stage OF progress--to demon
state that progress is the watch-word
d tie community, and this fact has
been apparcH. to everybody ior some
time HOW.
!, is still safe TO say, however, that
not ha!t-doGen people in Wheeling,
not in some way connected with the
puH!!AE traces, nave u! adequate COLI
cegtIoh Of inc amount oi money spent
"G amount Oh ta%aDIe valnes 10 pe
extent OF the improvement OF the city,
rs the result Of this seasons unprece-
denied operations. Manufacturing es-
td5Gsbmcnts, residences, public build
ms business elocks, nave gone up or
ere fo.hS up III su!!lceht humocf 10
maze the Guy seem prosperous II Inc
operations were spread Out over thrce
o. louf years.
SOME THINGS NOT COUNTED.
For the purposes OF the present re-
,i,v. :, i ,a+ nr,,osoa - ,a,,o ;r., 40
w" '''' Opposes ~ .'"v .'''' az
G'ln' me Wo!k doh2 ny the wheeling
b!!d"e " Terminal halfway Company,
except rs 10 t!ie ne" buildings actually
erected oy tiat company; nor the work
o. iHe MneeIinS BrldG. Company,
WI M4 ;i l''s JusI co'npletea lts Two great
9FidseS over The two channels OF the
T" XIII ,ne' t''i nt Si,e CIV 5i; e1 5; ,nr
bridges over CaldwcIi's run and tho
unusually large amount OF that class OF
wor, that has added for the past year
10 the general SUN OF local prospcrity
The Wheeling Bridge Company's
bridges. ius. thrown omen to the public
10; only represent nm ryncnd;,nrn of
nearly three-ounrtcrs Of n million
d dollars. hit they so incrcoso thr
facilities ior business communication
rs to be worth 10 the CITY much more
than what thev have cost their enter.
prisinr builders The Terminal com
0anv's expenditure benefits tho town in
the same way. besidc, setting in circu.
latioi. the LARGE amount of money Tho
c.tv's Main street hr;doe while its
final total cost is vet = matter ri dis.
pute vii! certainly cost not less than
100000, and thcso ontarnrisrs with
the other bridrcs nj which 60 monv
have gone I'M, and thc s,rrrt imnrovc-
ments and the ike done this ycar will
represent Il cost OF certainly NOT loss
''''' wv i''t''o''S Oh uo!lars'
oS,.iIa = - ~ S'''''" a ~,
N"ISluc Vi these great WORKS, how
ever, there have hppn enouoi, Lo,sn,
ernrted IA m,l., -, - -.
60, - -'" P4S'IS Eoou Si"cu
""H, anu enough money spent on them
10 make very good sized one. There
is NOT a snr,ion ~ tho 49, L., -.
cLnroJ ~ ~. VI Wv eity tiI.'' Hts no.
s"aIeu IN TINS prosperity. Even away
up on the hill and around the hill on
the "GnoSetowpr ao., M, olo;,, ,,I,o,.
i'r ros; Gss'o"" ,I"ts' iio' cnoice places
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