Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-17
THE INV BUILDINGS
ERECTED IN WHEELING DURING The PRS
ENT YEAR.
4 Total Of q Million Dollars Spent in Perna
asnt Improvements Of One Scr; and An
cher BY Oar CihzsnS

4h1 49, 64S0a Va
idly nearing its end in this city.
Contrasted with the two previous
years, the season has not been as good
as either 1891 or 1892, but still, consid-
ering the times we have been having,
the record made is a very fair one.
and ole not at all to be ashamed OF.
Something like FIVE hundred thousand
dollars has been spent in permanent
improvements, In the building line alone,
four-ffths OF IL in the erection Of new
buildings and the enlargement or i'm
proyement Of old ones, the Remaining
hundred thousand being represented by
such work as the new Mozart Park in
cline and the new bridge Of the Wheel
ing and Belmont Company, over Back"
river.
The noticeable business buildings
erected during 1898, or approaching
completion, and intended to be ready
for occupancy by January lst, are: The
FIVE story LANCE building, at Main and
Fourteenth streets; the new five story
Masonic Temple, on Market street; the
Egerter building. at Market and Elev-
enth streets; the five story Delaplaine
building, on Main street; the four story
Johnson building, on the same
street; and the new Wingerter build
ing, on Main, north Of Eleventh.
These buildings are all in the business
portion of the city, and are ell fine
structures, doing much to improve the
looks OF the central portioH OF the city.
In other portions Of town noticeable im-
provements ucder way are the new
Reymann Brewing building, the new five
story building Of the Bloch Tobacco
Company, the new Lincoln school build
ing, at the head OF Tenth street. All
these edifces are large and thoroughly
modern structures, and represent In the
aggregate a very large sum OF money.
In the residence districts the improve
ments are many and the aggregate cost
large. In North Wheeling the Kirbach
block, the Brennan residence, AID a
number OF others represent a consider
able outlay, while In the Second ward a
number OF residences have been built or
practically rebuilt, and one or two
other considerable buildings have
had work upon them commenced. On
the Island at least twenty houses have
been erected, noticeable among them
bsing the business houses OF DR.. T.. c.
Myers and c. II. Copp and the new
building for st. Luke's Church. At
least fifty thousand dollars has been
expended In building In this ward
alone, and perhaps more. In the
Third ward the new residences
have been mainly east OF Wheeling
hill, where a dozen or more new homes
have been built, and In the Fourth
ward there are a number Of new houses,
among them the JuerRens and Butts
residences. On the South Side the big
addition to the Bloch Tobacco Com
pany represents a good many thousand
dollars, and such buildings as Ankles,
Notes, D~evlin's, Carries and st. Glars
count up rapidly In the amount OF dol
lars, not to mention a number OF others
approaching completion.
The improvements made TO buildings
about the city are many, and represent
q large aggregate cost, while, notwith-
standing the lack OF money up about the
City Hall, the city government has
made quite extensive improvements
about the city in the way OF sewers,
paving, curbing, ETC., something like ff-
ty thousand dollars having been spent in
this way in the aggregate. No notice,
either, has been taken o. the immense
expenditure by the city 10 the direction
of the new water works pumping
station and pipe lines, which has
absorbed quarter Of mil
lion dollars, nor OF the tens OF thou
sands OF dollars expended by manu-
featuring corporations in the improve
ment Of their plants, all Of which gave
employment to hundreds OF men during
the season and aided in keep
ing the dollars In circula-
tion. Looking over the entire field II is
likely that q sum exceeding a million
dollars 10 cash has been spent In Wheel
ing this year 10 public and private i'm
proyements, tending TO the benefit OF
the community, and that isn't a bad
record for these times OF strlngency
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