Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-08-16
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D. M. Carey, Contractor Il thinl
there is little doubt as to the compile
ton of the stone bridge this season, ]
we have any kind OF luck from TIL
out. OF course, the site is not par
ticularly inviting at present, but 1t viii
not be very long until we have the
south abutment up to an even leve
with the masonry on the north side
and then we will put up the centres
and begin on the arch right away. The
timber for the centres, is nearly all cut
and framed, and it will be ready when
we are ready for it. We Will drive
piles on each side Of the creek, and
will rest the centres upon them, leaving
an opening thirty-tiye feet wide In the
centre for the passage of drift ano
water from possible floods.
A Cigar Manufacturer-This thing OF
paying fifteen and twenty dollars a
hundred for fine cigars is pretty largely
foolishness. The cigars are not worth
the money, Five to eight dollars a
hundred ought to buy cigar good
enough for most people, and when you
get beyond ten dollars the chances are
largely that you are swindled. Most OF
the fine cigars, so called, are made OF
common tobacco, perfumed up so as to
attract attention, or there is smooth,
fine looking Sumatra wrapper on very
moderate filler. Sumatra tobacco
isn't worth q cent for smoking, and 1t Is
only used to give goods fine appear
ance. Make an all Sumatra cigar and
it won't smoke. There are tricks In all
trades, and the fine cigar manufacturers,
In the East and in Florida and Cuba
have the thing down fine.
A Business Mani have it straight
that the Terminal Railroad Company
will not build their proposed retaining
wall on the north bank of the creek,
from the Market street bridge east, for
many year to come. In other words,
they will make the trestling they have
put in last a, long as possible, and ditto
the temporary buildings they are about
to put up. They did intend to build
that wall, which would contain
forty thousand cubic yards Of
first-class masonry, and their sur
veys, plans ald estimates are all ready,
but the award for the tack factory prop
erty made some of the monied men
sick, aud they will hold off, Had that
wall gone in, / would have been willing
to risk my reputation as a prophet on
the prediction that the whole of the
creek, from say the gas works to its
mouth, would have been walled in and
rooted over inside Of ten years. AS it
Is, you will live to see people doing bus
mess right over the centre of the
stream.
w. H. Hall,r, Real Estate-Business
in my line is rather dull just at present,
but there is going to be revival in the
fall. Holders are stiff, and better fig
ures are the word IN Wheeling from
this time on. Real estate has been o
good Investment in this city for many
years, and man who wants a sure
thing cannot DO better than make his |
investments N good property, right
here at home.
Thomas T.. ThUnNr, Oity OrC'-
have sent off The order for the electric
light bonds. There will be one hundred
of 500 denomination, one hundred OF
$500, and the TEST in bonds OF the de-
o, $1,000. The bond will
have cut of an arc light on them,
and will be handsomely gotten up.
A Bar Keeper-Free lunches are com
ing to the front in the saloons OF the
better class, and there Is going to be a
great run of good lunches the coming
fall. There was time, years ago, when
good lunches was the word in most
Wheeling saloons, but the bad squirt we
had six or seven years ago knocked
them out, as the proprletors had 10
economic. OF late there has been nothing
going except the ordinary run OF poor
SOUP, which we have always with US,
but within the past three months sever
al of the best saloons have been setting
elegant lunches of cold meats, salads,
fine cheeses, ETC., and | hear serious dis
cussionS Of good coffee, in after-dinner
cups, and I believe it would be a great
thing to introduce, between certain
hours-kind OF bracer, you know.
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Company-The statement, made during
the recent electrical campaign, that
Wheeling would be the best lighted city
in the country, is strictly correct. 1t
will be the best lighted town In Amer
lea, If present plans are carried out, and
| am sure they will be. The Commits
sioners will have lots Of lights at their
disposal, and they are going to hang
them up.
A Business Manufacturing this morn
ing of the power mill explosion, it oc-
ours to me that the Powder Companies
can very well afford to be blown up
about once In so often. The profits OF
the business are immense, as Colonel
Sellers would say. / have In my mind
one concern, with an output OF eight
hundred kegs day, which In one year,
declared dividend OF twelve and half
per cent, carried 100000 to the re-
serve fund, and added another 100000
to its plant. Its nearly as good busi-
ness as running sheet iron mill.