The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-21
GLENDALE.
The "sowickloy of Wheeling" and
It's Many Charms.
An Article that is Well Worth Read
ing.


There is very little room iSts discus
sion about Glendale. Everybody who
Is familiar with tho land says he has
always looked upon 1t rs Just fhe place
for a city. Even people who,teye seen
It only from tho railroad have formed
tba. opinion. Visitors who take time to
90 over the ground say they had no idea
that it was so well laid out, so extern
siyely improved, or so nearly made ready
for its destiny as a place q. elegant
homes. A few tell US that We have
made a mistake in laying it out
How is that2 we ask.
Why, you SEQ you have given so much
Iopd away parks and streets aud alleys,
and made your lots 60 large that you
have only got PSF lots out Of 24B acres.
Now there arc plenty OF people who will
not makejue allowance for these things.
They think and spoak Of a lot simply as
d lot, and with them the price Of lot
ought TO DO just aboutso much. whether
it IS little or big; andso youwill not be
able to realize US much out OF your
property rs you would II you had made
YOUR lots smaller.
We reply that We know that there are
such people, and q great many OF them,
Du. they are not the people we are look
ing after Tor customers. We have laid
out large lots and established building
lines, so as to compel a degree of ele-
gance somewhat in keeping with the
Natural beauty and advantages Of the
land. We expect customers from a
class OF people who appreciate beauty
ind comfort and good intelligent neigh-
bors, and who know, or can easily cal
culate, that a lot that has q frontage OF
100 feet and runs back 175 feet is just
seven times rs large rs one having n
frontage OF % feet and running back 100
feet. We want our customers from
among people who appreciate the adj
yantages OF good natural drainage and
see tho value ola system Of streets and
alleys that will allow perfect system
Of sewerage.
We want customers who appreciate
the labor and pains expended in get
ting accurate typographical and other
surveys, in making and improving
streets, in laying sidewalks, in secur-
ing depote, and switches, and trains,
and cheap rates, and in getting the
electric light; the whole resulting in
obtaining already a nuciens OF good
houses and first class citizens. We
want them to understand. that the
good work which has been begun is to
be carried on, and that Glendale il to
DO the Sewickley of this part Of the
country.
The writer OF this advertisement was
the attorney for the plaintiffs in the
suit in which the old Fair Ground on
Wheeling Island was sold, and was
one OF the commissioners who made
tho sale. The entire Fair Ground pro-
perty was sold at public aaction on
October 81, 1887, by. the same auc-
tioneer who will otiCiate at Glendale
next Tuesday, June %. In advertising
the fair ground property we called the
attention OF tho public to they views OF
eminent financiers as to the wisdom Of
buying ut auction real estate which is
intrinsically valuable and located in the
line OF progress. We then ventured q
prediction that fair ground lots would
prove very profitable to Purchasers.
Ever since that sale the property has
been advancing in price. On the day
on which this is written, Wheeling
lawyer who bought small lot at that
sale for Sl45, sold it, still upimproved.
for 5000 cash. We predict as great If
not a greater rate Of profit for purchas-
ers at Glendale.
There was recently published in the
Detroit Journal u series OF letters writ
ten by famous men in answer to in
ouiries us to the safest and best method
Of investing money. Nearly all Of
them recommended real estate invest
ments as the very safest andtbest.
Grover Cleveland begins his letter as
follows: gsa n
an reply to your letter / would say
that think real estate, which is likely
to increase in value, the best possible
investment you can make OF Whatever
you are able to save" sisi
Andrew Carnegie closes his letter
thus:
"Statisticians tell us that in our largo
cities, within fifty years, all improved
real estate has paid taxes and interest,"
and quadrupled in value, while 90 per
cent OF merchants and traders have
failed, and 20 per cent OF all business
corporations have done likewise or gone
outof business, SO that their stock has
been wiped out. In view OF these facts
there can be no question that real estate
is tho very safest and best OF all invest
ments for savings, and the one OF all
others most likely to increase in value"
At Glendale we have thus far sold
lots only to persons who intend to i'm
prove their property. We would be
Elad 10 limit our sales in tho same way
IN the future, but we have concluded to
give everybody q chance to buy, taking
care, however, that lots which are so
situated that they could BIO cut cross
wise into number OF small lots 'front.'
ing on a different street, shall not be
sold without conditions MS to the man
pey Of their use. Realizing the advan-
tage Of the excursion from Wheeling to
Glendale, which We had few weeks
ago, We have concluded to have another
excursion on Wednesday evening Of the
present week. We want tho people to
visit the place and see for themselves
what it is. "i
In to.morrow's paper this space will
be occupied with an entirely different
advertisement. giving some facts
about railroad facilities and the inn
proyemeut made aud to be made at
Glendale. We have an excellent litho-
graph plat OF Glendale, OH which is
printed copy Of the recorded instru-
ment OF dedication, devoting streets
and parks to tho use Of the public, dc.
lining tho building lines, &c. We will