The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-07
TALKING OF BUILDING.
Important Projects which have not
yet Crystallzed into Facts.
SOME MORE OPERA HOUSE RUMORS
And an Explanation Of thcm...Thcrc
mny DO Another big Granite Block
on Main Street ncxt scason...NIln
improvements about the City.

Tho report that Wheeling is TO have
new fine large opera house, up to date,
on the site OF the present one, seems q
veritablc Baubuo's ghost. As soon rs 1t
is downed it starts up in new place.
Yesterday many people made up their
minds that tho new theatre was n suro
enough 60, and that it would be built
soon. Tho reason OF this pleasant i'm
preston was that Architect Liner, sew
cral members OF the board OF directors
OF the German Insurance Company md
q well known contractor, were seen with
tape limo industrially measuring tho
size OF the company's real estate, which
extends on Fourteenth stree. from tho
lHrELLIGESCER alley to tho Reilly block,
and OH Market from tho Reilly
block to the Hess building. This
was enough TO give tho report
new weight, and reporter who had not
asked Manager Riester question on
the subject for q week was sent to find
out what tho measuring meant. Mr..
Ricstcr said tho company had not de-
cldcd to build n new theatre nor any
thing else, nor had it decided not to
build. There has been talk OF building
M opera house, and also OF abandoning
the theatre business and erecting fine
office block. The committee OF the
directors to whom the question OF u new
building was some time ago referred,
desired for its information some idea OF
what sort OF q block and what sort OF
theatre could be put on Its ground, and
what each would probably cost. For
this purpose Mr.. Liner was engaged to
make suggestions and approximate esti-
mates. and this was all that had been
done.
did your company ever receive n
proposition from life insurance com.
pany or anybody else who wanted to
purchase the Reilly block also and
build big block, including a thea.
trc?'
mo, sir" said he, ~ never heard OF
that till somebody told me it was in a
newspaper. | do not think there was
ever any foundation for the report"
Mr.. Rioster was told OF the talk OF q
new opera house to be built with out.
side capital, project which according
to the talk OF tho initiated is only kept
from fruition by the belieithat ifanybody
else began to build 4 theatre tho Ger
man Insurance company would also re-
build, and knock the other house out.
He said he did not think any person
who wanted to invest in n theatre need
hesitate on That account, for ii another
theatre were built he felt confident the
present one would be abandoned, and a
business block built, with perhaps 4
larg hall for public meetings and great
social events over it. Such hall is
badly needed in Wheeling, and the
company has often discussed the idea.
Ii anybody with the price wants to buy
the company's property, Mr.. Riester
added, it could be purchased very
quickly.
1t is a fact that men with money have
long had their eyes on Wheeling rs
good town to build a theatre in but for
the fact that there are already two here.
Mr.. Ricstcr's assurance might have the
effect OF again directing the attention OF
these gentlemen to this project.