Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-11
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THE NEW CITY BANK.

Even the not particularly Observant
stranger, Sojourning with us casually
and briefly, can not help noticing
that there is a decided and ever-ln-
creasing disposition on the part OF con-
servative old Wheeling TO depart from
her traditional easy-going and first-half-
of-the- Nineteen h-century way, and to
put herself more thoroughly in accord
with the spirit OF this particular de-
cade. This most comm eDdable change
has manifested itself in a number OF
ways of late, noticeable eXempllhca-
ton being the popular movement in
favor of electric lights, in which inter
est has never tagged during the last
six months; but in no way has the
awakening been more marked than in
the number and character of the build
ingS, both for residence and business
purposes, in actual course of erection,
under contract, or projected. To en-
phaSize this fact and at the same time
demonstrate the high degree Of merit
embraced in some Of these improve
ments, the REGISTER this morning pre-
sentS TO its readers faithful sketch OF
the splendid six-story granite front
building to be erected by the City Bank
at the southeast corner of Market street
and Alley 9, and in doing so it is entire
~ within bounds to say that, although
other cities can, of course, boast OF
much larger buildings. few can
show edificeS devoted 10 business
purposes more pleasing to the eye or
more substantial. Fronting forty feet
on Market street, and rearing its walls
one hundred feet above the level of the
sidewalk, the City Bank building will
stand a prominent exemplification of
the New Wheeling which is 10 hence
forth rapidly take the place Of the Old
Nail City, and of which such other
structures as the Windsor Cafe, the Sti-
fel building, the Schafer & Driehorst
building, the to-be transformed HeiSkel
block, and others are at once the prom
Use and the reality Of the old towns pro-
gress.
Much cash is involved in these sub
Stantial architectural improvements in
the central portion of Wheeling-much
more, perhaps, than the average citizen
imagines. Taking alone the territory
from Tenth street to Fifteenth,
and from the river to Eoff street,
and nearly half million good
dollars are being piled up in the shape
Of handsome and substantial buildings,
the list embracing the Hawley improve
mentS at Main and Tenth, the projected
"Pewiky" depot. the Stifel block. the
City Bank, the Schaeier x Driehorst
building, the Heiskel building, the
Foreman residences, the Reymann resi-
dence, the new jail building. and others,
while plans have been drawn and more
or less definite arrangements made for
many other improvements OF note.
within substantially the same territory,
and still others are talked over in
a preliminary way. II these more
striking examples OF activity in
building there is added the scores OF resi-
dences under way or projected, and the
dozens of considerable Improvements
commenced or under consideration, the
total money expenditure involved
reaches an altitudinOuS figure. Then
there remains the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars-millions indeed-in-
volved in such great enterprises As the
building OF the new bridge TO the Island,
the extension of the electric car lines
to Bridgeport and Martins Ferry, the
great Terminal Railway Company i'm
prOvementS, the new stone bridge,
the mysterious purchases OF Island
real estate TO the amount OF more
than 500, 900, the proposed electric
light plant, and last and most important
the Wheeling and Connellsville Rail-
road enterprise. and we have total
which demonstrates in most conclusive
manner that Wheeling is rapidly emery
ing from state of chrysalis into city
whose enterprising citizens, backed up
by confidence in her future abundant
iy warranted by her Solidity in the past
and in her natural and inherent advan-
tageS as a manufacturing and business
centre, are fully equal to the task of
taking and maintaining an enviable po
Sition among other munich palities
whether near or remote.
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