Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-02
THR GLASS HOUSES.
TEE EFFORT TO RAISE THE CAPITAL SHOULD
NOT Sc RELINQUISHBD.
There is Ample Capital Here TO Restore this
Necessary Branch Of Industry, and It Can
Be Obtained if the Work is Kept Up.

There Is a disposition in some quar-
tiers to be discouraged at the compare
lively small amount Of stock which has
been subscribed to the proposed new
glass Companies, and several gentlemen
who at first took very active part in
the project are understood as being
very much disposed to drop the matter
as being impossible OF success. Others
upon the Subscription Committee
are by no means inclined to give up,
and are convinced that by renewal Of
the effort, under the changed conditions
made by dividing the single Company
originally proposed into two corpora
tions, sufficient money can be obtained
20 put the glass industry again on its
feet in Wheeling this winter, and that
once a start is made, other capital will
flow TO the enterprise from natural
desire to profit by what all past expert
ence shows is a good thing In financial
wav.
The gentlemen of the frame OF mind
last above named are 10 the right, and
they should not only perSevere in their
laudable endeavor to put the glass in
dustry upon its feet again, but their
hands should be held up by the entire
community. On this point gentleman
who does not desire his name used, said
last evening: at requires no argument
TO show that this city and surrounding
country prospers just In the proportion
that the local Industries are running,
and with the two big glass houses
closed forever, and the four or
five hundred hands ordinarily employed
in them, thrown permanently out Of
employment, there will be correspond
ing loss of trade, depreciation Of
realty, loss Of reu6s, and the growth
and prosperity OF the city will have re-
ceived a serious back set. About one
hundred thousand dollars have been
subscribed TO the stock Of the
proposed new Companies, so
far, and with the work to be
done on the South Side, the coming
week, through the efforts of MesSrS.
Brockunier, Frohme, and others, this
SUN will be very considerable increased.
A number of people who are willing TO
take stock, in the business portion Of
the city, have not been seen by the Com
mittee, and it is possible to raise goodly
sum among business men, by little
more vigorous and well directed work.
Numbers Of people, also, will take
a few shares OF stock each, who are not
business men and vino have not yet
been seen. The task is by no means
impossible Of accomplishment, and there
should be q reforming OF the ranks, if
they be broken, and another charge
made. Too much is at stake. Wheeling
cannot afford to have it said that in d
community as wealthy as this one is, 1t
was impossible 10 raise two hundred or
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to revive one Of her great industries,
and one which has given the city ma
tional reputation in years past. To be
sure the times are hard, but they will
not grow better if our industries are to
slip away 10 this manner. The starting
of the glass houses would make times
better in a week. The knowledge that
they are to remain closed permanently
will make them much harder in very
short time. Our people have the
money. Let us take hold OF the matter
afresh, give another long pull and the
companies will be organized"
1t will be seen that there is a good
deal Of the right sort OF spirit in the
above remarks. They indicate a spirit
which ought to animate every one in
this crisis, and in place OF the discour-
agement now existing among few
gentlemen, who have done well in the
cause so far, there ought to be no more
of that feeling, but Z rer wed deter
mination to succeed In the project.
Let there be no talk Of turning back
upon the work Of securing the neces-
gary cnnital.