Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-27
WORLDS FAIR ASPECTS
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that of the real estate owners and their
agents. This loss is most difficult to es-
innate in figures, but the total will be
enormous, and the grandicose and allur-
ing Ideas of many a subdivision boomer
have been literally washed to pieces.
Even to-day miles of eligible real estate
in the suburbs is hidden from sight
under one vast sheet Of water, and
many garden farm can only
be traversei by raft or boat.
From the car windows OF many OF
the lines running out of the city signs
of 'For Sale-These exceptionally high
and we'll drained lots" ETC., can be seen
sticking out from an expanse OF water
covering hundreds Of acres, and 1t Will
take many months, and perhaps years,
for the remembrance Of the scene to be
effaced from the recollections OF would
be purchasers. As q rule, in fair
weather, real estate boomers and agents
are only too keen to take prospective
purchasers out to the. ''acre tracts" In
the suburbs, and free railroad tickets,
free lunches, personal escorts, ETC., are
always on tap. But this week the
agents are bending all their efforts 20
keep purchasers away from the prop
erty they have for sale, alleging
various excuses. The agents have
been training the purchasing public In
the opposite way for so many years,
however, that nearly every one insists
upon visit to any given tract before
buying, and as result the agents are
having an uphill fight, and much
money will be lost. For mile after
mile through the suburbs, in every d.
rection, fine residences can De
seen standing out of lake OF water
and to a Wheeling man the idea OF the
Island or the South Side wards In
time of freshet in the Ohio is very fore
IDLY suggested.
One other thing done by the great
storm deserves to be chronicled. IL
cleaned out that mass of putrid NTH
known on the map as Chicago river,
and sent the whole vast accumulation
into the lake. The cleaning out of the
river was undoubtedly a good thing,
but the dumping of so much filth into
the river was bad, for the water was
discolored with the refuse of the great
city as far as two miles from shore, and
there are grave suspicious that
good deal of the pollu-
tion has been drawn in at the two-mile
crib, and been distributed over the city
for potable purposes. This, added to
the great amount Of water lying on all
sides OF the city, and which absolutely
refuses to run off, has created fear
that there will be an unusual amount
of sickness the coming summer, and
the papers are loaded down with advice
TO boil the water TO be used for drink
ing, and urging various other precau-
tions in an attempt to ward of the
threatened danger.
Throughout large section OF the State
the damage by the storms was only less
than at Chicago, because there was less
property to destroy, and the total loss
has been reckoned at million dollars
in Illinois alone.
The last of the Convention people
have left, and the hotels have settled
down 10 something like their usual APP
pearance. High as were the rates, and
large as were the crowds at the various
hotels, it is stated that with the excep-
ton of the Palmer House little money
was made. On Thursday night the
Palmer had 3, $50 people on its register,
and the income of the house for the
week must have been $1,000 The
Grand Pacific had about l, 500 guests on
its biggest day, the Great Northern
l 400, the Leland 700, the Auditorium
600 outside OF it's regular boarders, who
were not disturbed, the fremont 1000,
the Sherman 600, the Richelieu 500 and
so on. At all these hotels thousands OF
dollars worth of carpets, decorations
paints. paper, ETC., were ruined. At the
the Palmer House alone, 1t is stated, IL
will cost 81, 900 to clean up. Cart LOADS
of rubbish were left in the corridors and
about the headquarters rooms each day,
and Friday and to-day there was a
small army of men at work at all the
large hotels, tearing up the temporary
board coverings of the marble stair
cases, floors, ETC., putting down carpets,
carrying furniture back to the parlors'
washing of walls, etc. Tonight the no.
tells were comparatively decent again,
but it will take week to settle things
back to the old routine.
AS matter Oh COuISes WIN sum "
crowd, the bars about the hotels did an
enormous business. At the Leland,
comparatively small hotel on Michigan
avenue, where SIS Tamnany men
stopped, the bar took in $1,000 a day
right along. The Palmer House bar
took in about So, 500 day on an aver
age, the Grand Pacific about 81, 500, and
the others in proportion, while the cafes
were correspondingly patronized. Pr
ces were marked up all along the line
for the especial entertainment OF the
Convention crowd, and the visitors must
have left a couple Of million dollars In
the town.
The big Convention ice house is rapid
" disappearing and will soon cease to
exist. The lumber will be used TO build
four hotels of 1000 rooms each near the
Worlds Fair Grounds.