Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-18
A GOOD SUGGESTION
To AfIord Relief tor the Unemployed of
the City.


the City.
10 tAs Editor Of As Reois,er:
SIR:-The undersigned tax payer en-
dorses heartily the strenuous efforts
now being made TO provide work for
the laborers OF Wheeling. The class
for whom something must &c doue 10
order that they may not suffer from
want OF food and clothing, &C., during
the severe weather may set in at any
moment do not want charity. They
want work, so that they may provide
for themselves by their own honest
labor.
Give them that work and give II with
the least delay possible. But let there
be good, sound judgment In selecting
the work. | regret to see a Disposition
to talk about work Of very little use 10
the city. First, the idea Of the Tenth
street tunnel would be OF very
| little use. More than two.thirds OF the
city is too far south Of Tenth street TO
make Ii OF much use TO. that portion OF
our people. Those north OF Seventh
would most likely pass over the hill
rather than drive or walk down TO the
Tenth street tunnel. The same did
culties would present themselves In the
case Of the other tunnel. Secondly, the
cost OF one or the other tunnel would be
simply enormous, entirely beyond any
advantage that would accrue to the
city. Thirdly, any practical man in the
tunnel business would tell our Commits
sioners and Council that q great part
OF tunnel work requires experts. Such
man as ID. NJ. Carey would simply
laugh at the idea Of tunnel being put
through by the rank and tle OF
the laboring men Of any city. / venture
to assert that two-thirds OF the
work would have to be done by experts
from abroad. That is not what we want.
We are striving TO support our own SUI
ferlng people. Any work that Will ac-
complish il is what we want. Any work
that does not, we do not want by any
means. Pave as many streets as possl-
BILE. Repair those that need repairs.
Make new streets on the west side OF
Wheeling Hill. Continue such streets
as Market and Eof. Clean up every
nook aud corner of the city, II money
is to be spent, and II must, or hundreds
OF families will suffer TO degree that
would be a shame and worse, an inhu-
manitJ. BY the way, Mr.. Editor,
might not the cutting down OF Wheel
Ing hill TO the level OF the para
pet wall of the new basin be
good thing? 1t seems to me that the
city and county would be greatly bene-
flied by the work land II is OF the sort
which requires DO expert lsborers).
First, the city would be benefited By
the removal OF what has always been an
eye sore. Secondly, the city and county
would be benefited for all time TO come
as soon as the lots which could be laid
out were In the market After such
cut a nice annual income in the way Of
taxes on those lots and on the improve
ments which would soon be put on
them. Whatever work Is provided let
IL be, honorable gentlemen OF the Board
OF Commissioners aud OF the City Coun.
ell, something that any one OF our lab
orers can take part IN, and keep the
wolf from his door and secure
for his family the Decessaries OF life.
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor. the under
signed respectfully urges good, sound
judgment in the selection OF the work.
Hoping that these suggestions may be
endorsed by taxpayers generally i SUBJ
NIT them for their consideration as well
as for that OF the honorable gentlemen
who are now, TO their great credit, en-
gagged 10 the noble and most humane
effort to relieve existing and still more
threatening suferings. TAXPAYER.
Wheeling, December II, 1928.