The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-08
Plttsbnrch REM Estnte.

'For forms OF faith let angry bigots hght,
His creed cannot DO wrong whose life lie right"
Pittsburgh Real Estate.
Real estate still booms at Pittsburgh,
despite the heaviness in the iron mar.
ket and the decadence Of natural gas.
The Central Hotel property on Smith
field street, between Third and Fourth
avenues, was sold last week to tho Kauif-
mans IA big clothing and furnishing
house, for ss5O,0OO. While the price
paid is considered large, yet the hotel
property stands on what is regarded as
tho sure coming business centre of
Pittsburgh, and is therefore pronounced
. long-headed Investment. smithfeld
street is, more and more, getting to be
the retail street, and will. it is thought,
gradually distance Fifth avenue and
all other competitive. streets, Y
Considering everything, the activity
in real estate at Pittsburgh is some
what remarkable! It shows that the
monied people up there have as much
confidence as ever in its supremacy as
the Birmingham Of America The city
has become so'latge, Capital 50 fixed and
enormous, the Investigation. OF indus
try SO Widespread, that the future is
assured beyond reasonable doubt. 1t
would be as difficult to take away the
iron supremacy of pittsburgh in this
country asthat Of Birmingham in Eng
land. The concentration OF great plants
and great wealth is there to stay,
Mn. JOHN 0. PExDLEToN has already
begun his campaign for a denomination
in 1892. He is at present engaged in
letting the people OF the interior know
how much he don't know about the
political issues OF the day. This is all
we'll enough, but Mr.. Pcndleton will
realize that making speeches q year
ahead is not going to make the nominal
ton sure. There are other statesmen
who have their eyes set in the direction
OF Congress, and they do not intend
TINT Mr.. Pendloton shall get there with
ont struggle. By pleadingthe martyr
act he secured the prize the'last time,
and now these gentlemen and their
friends think the young man, having re-
ceived his so-callcd "vindication, !"
should allow one OF the old wheel
horses or an ADLER representative Of
Democratic principles toitfy his hand
Mr.. Pendleton should not deceive him
self by thinkifasthat merit won for him
the nomination before, or that lie will
ever receive aaother nomination
through merit, personal popularity.
Tug prcieettg build a, railroad up the
Little Ksna8ha valley from Parkers-
burg to connect with tho Camden sys-
tenn i'll Webster county'hasitaken prac-
teal shape and there is ne doubt of the
early completion of the road. 1t will
penetrate rich region, one Of the lich-
est Of the undeyclopcd portions Of the
State, and open up vast territory now
in virgin forest, Thus is the.work
West Virginia development forging
ahead. West yirginia's COCA time is
getting here in greapshape.
IT is whispered that the worst fea-
lures OF tile baccarat scandal areyet to
be made public. II Sir William is
worsted in the suityit Is aaid.he will
tell some things he knows about the
aristocratic circles of EnglsndsNnd they
will serve to show some of the inside
rottenness Of the society in which tho
future King OF Great Britain. moves,
and will not contribute toward making
the people Of England more devoted to
the royal establishment.
--Iss--
ARTHUR MIDDLETON writes this morn
ing entertainingly about the guber.
Material situation among our Demo.
cratic brethren in West Virginia. His
letter furnishes some interesting
pointers regarding candidates. There
arc amusing times ahead.
The New York boy who swallowed a
Thermometer will, if he ever gots rid of
the instrument, be ablc to furnish to
science exact unavailable information
regarding tho temperature of the
human stomach.
Few statesmen die who arc more
widely and sincerely incurred than Sir