Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-14
TALK OF THE TOWN.
SOME OF The THINGS A REPORTER
HEARS,
As he Hustes About in Search Of Nsws-Bright
Ideas, Gossip, and the General Chatter
Of the Town.

serving fruit by the California colo
process. Some of the writer's seem to
think it is a patent and difficult to OBJ
tain the right to use, but such is not
the case. The material used is the COM
pound Of salyx, which any druggist, ii
he does not have it in stock, can easily
obtain. 1t has been used by many large
fruit houses for years, so that the sys-
tenn is wei! established. You do not
heat or seal the fruit; just put it in the
vessels you wish to keep it In and pour
the solution over the fruit and it will
keep it's natural color and taste for
years. You can keep currants on the
stem, green corn on the cob, and fruit
or vegetables Of any kind in perfectly
natural state. The cost is only about
one cent per quart, and the labor almost
nothing. You can put up bushel OF
berries in ten minutes easily. We have
put up hundreds of packages OF fruit by
the California cold process; and we have
never had it fail to give satisfaction and
we have shipped fruit to all parts OF the
United States. The salyx Is made
especially for preserving fruit and veg
etables and the druggist from whom
you buy will give you complete direc--
lions for using. We have berries, cher
ries, grapes and pears kept this way, and
we do not believe any one could tell
them from the fresh picket fruit, and
then it is so cheap and so little trouble
that any one can derive great benefit by
adopting the California cold process, as
we feel that any one once trying 1t Will
never put up another can Of fruit or use
any other method"
81 have an idea for big local eel
ebration," said NJ. T. McNabb, (which
think would be great go. As you
know, October 18th has been set aside
as national holiday In honor OF the
discovery of America by Columbus.
Why not have all the campaign clubs OF
both political parties, the Ltnsly
cadets, the fire department,
the police, and sll the civic and
labor societies unite IN monster
parade? 1t would be the biggest
thing Wheeling has ever had in that
line. and would attract thousands of
people from out Of town. 1t could
easily be arranged, and success would
be sure. Why not try the plan, and
have big day in WheelingP"
"Talk about Saloons" said bar
keeper, wheeling people are slow.
We have enough bars, but not one real
Y big one. In Plttsburg there is some
big business in the saloon line. am
told the bar Of the Seventh Avenue
Hotel takes in enough to pay the rent
of the entire house-S27, 900 year.
There's business for you; and some Of
the other prominent bars do nearly as
we'll"
eyes," said Charley Van Keuren,
"Uhere is room in Wheeling for really
irst-class and big hotel. I mean a
house built in thoroughly modern style,
with all the latest hotel ideas hand
somely carried out. The man or firm
or company which puts 100000
in such building, with prices
graded from say S1.75 day
uD to as high as the guest wants to go,
with the Accommodations, service, etc,
strictly frst-clsss, will do tremendous
business. Combine a fine theater, roof
garden, cafe, etc, with such a house,
fine store rooms on the first floor, and
you would have an investment which
would be dead clnch."
"You often hear of lawyers library
being sold out for a snug sum-" said a
physician, yesterday, "but never Of a
similar case concerning a physicians
library. The reason is that good law
book is always a good law book; while
the science Of medicine is constantly
changing through new discoveries, and
doctors books rapidly become ancient
history, for the most part, aud can't be
sold for half what they cost. A lawyer
can fall back on his library, In case OF
hard luck, but doctor-well, If he
does, he don't get much out Of H."
"The twenty-five cent meal is great
institution" SAID Martin Thornton,
''and I am its inventor here in Wheel
ing. came here twenty years ago,
when the cheapest meal you could buy
in the town was fifty cents, and fried
oysters were seventy-ave cents every
time. l had been carrying on the
grocery business IN Louisville. /
thought I saw q chance for good bust
ness here, and l went back TO Louisville,
sold out, hurried up to Wheeling, aud
opened a twenty-five cent restaurant.
Custom was slack at first, but l stuck to
it, got up good meals for quarter, and
have been at 1t ever since"
ppm glad the heated term let up for
few days" said saloonist. at was
nothing but mixed drinks from morning
till night, anu 1 got sick Of making
cocktails and sauers and sherry lemon
AIDES with appolinaris in 'em, and so on.
By the way, do you know mixed drinks
are coming in again. Time was, three
or four years ago, when IL was pretty
near q lost aSt in Wheeling, but the
tatse is running back to complications,
and as result the profits OF the best
bars are running up and It takes some
thing more than knowledge OF jerk
ing beer to hold down poSish."
"Some Of the tax bills this year are
unusually complicated" said a deputy
sheriff yesterday, as he looked up from
. big sheet Of paper covered with fig
ures. "In Liberty district, for instance,
here is q man taxed with S5,567.s5. The
tax is 25c. State, 10c. State school, soc.
county, SIC. State school fund, l2c.
building fund, and csc. road tax. Just
seA what lot Of trouble that is. And