The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-14

wGloTWaH-noOut TUG Hphu OIL thO Az
lantn ocean by tho most Travelled route
and every loot oil it depending for its
highest efficiency ON the improvement
OF tho PRINCIPAL stream. The coal opar'
ators Of tho MouongaheiN hayo no
trouble to tloat their coal to Pittsburgh;
but to-day 100000 bushels OF coal
wait at Pittsburgh for water to bear that
product southwark to its market. Tho
coal Of the improved Great kanawna,
striking the Ohio 262 miles below Ptttd'
bursh, has better fortune and yOt hag
its own tale OF woe. There arc eight
dams in the Great Kanawha. There is
ono dam in tho Ohio and another is
building. Congress has given more at
tention to the branches than TO the
great trunk.
II the Ohio river eau serve the par'
poses OF trade as it dsos in its present
condition, what would it be to the great
Ohio valley and to tho country after
such boltorment as engineering science
knows perfectly well how to make? To
say that tho commercial efficiency OF
the stream would be doubled would be-
to conline within narrow limits tho ln-
estimabIe possibilities. Every interest
in the valley would feel the impulse Of
now life. Population would increase
with trade. II tho work be not pushed
there arc river communities that will
continue TO shrink. Wheeling may be
one OF them. Cincinnati docs not hold
her own. II that city could restore its
lost value to tho real estate in tho once
busy wharf locality, she could we'll
afford to stand half the estimated cost
of locking and damming the Ohio from
headwators to the mouth. ltis sorry
sight, those once great warehouses now
tenantless or used as barracks for cheap
dodgers. There stands tho old Spencer
House oven after the war busting
center Of activity. Its glory, too. has
departed, and tho famous old pile looks
as though it would BIO relieved II it
could drop out OF ita miserable environ
mont into oblivion. II is not tho rail-
road that has done all this. Tho rail-
road has changed some conditions and
shifted some scenes, but ii Cincinnati
had had tho benefit OF water IN tho
IlNNF bIlt Will laNb lAhA NJ was wv
ralroad and the river could do Tor her.
and her relative place among cited
would have been higher than il is.
Cleveland, which has shot ahead Of
Cincinnati, has deep water and rail.
The growing cities OF this country are
tho cittos that have good rail and water
communication with tho world.
Tho Ohio River improvement Asso'
citation, the organization which resulted
from tho Cincinnati convention, came
very near getting West VirGinian for
its president. When tho war began
John l.. Vance, young Buckeye, came
over tho river and entered tho Fourth
Wcst Virginia as captain, later bccom'
ing lieutenant colonel. lle was q good
soldier in good regimen. Colonel
Vance presided over the convention be-
fore no was made president Of tho asso.
citation, aud ho showed himself an ideal
presiding officer Tho convention
thought him just tho man to head tho
river improvement movement. He has
intelligence. energy and public spirit
highly developed. 1.-THE rost do hall AZ
much AZ think Colonel Vance will do.
the movement will DO successful.
In tho center OF the reception room
In tho Burnet House hangs au elaborate
crystal chandelier which must have been
wonder when it was Young. Under II
have stood to receive the homage Of
tho peoplo OF Cincinnati Jenny Lind,
Louis KoSsuth, Abraham Lincoln, Con
oral Sherman and scores OF other nota'
blos. Major VandCrEritt, Of the Golden
Rod, to whom | owe tho pleasure Of
this historic poop. was prosont a. tho
Kossuth reception. lie FomatEOd to mo
that IL was impossible to bo In thU prCs'
encu Of tho Hungarian patriot without
being impressed with hii aingularly
lofty spirit aud winning personality. In
tho samo room was planned tho march
from Atlanta to tho acn. ! ain glad that
1t occurred to Major Nondcrcriit to take
mo to that room and toll mo about 1t,
Life isn't nil hog and homny, Ia 1t?
Whio va wore In Cincinnati! wa,
held tho goat ltopublcan meeting In
Music Hall, tho lust that will over DO
hold IN that historic place. Tho day
nilor the meeting tho work OF dOmol.
ishing tho old building began. Cincin'
natl 10 famed Tor thu cordinlity Of hor
reception Of public mon. Until now
tho ovation 10 Mr. Blaine has boon
thought high waior mari, Moro than
unn porion whp nnw thai aud ala1 the
reception VI Governor Mckinley lnt
Wndnoadny night, toll mD that tue Me-
KinIuy denomination was mover
c1untrt tr that cttS. the sigHlHeaHee
oi tlii1 IL that thorn has boon an lniuH'
trious effort 10 make II appear that IN
Cincinnati there i1n perpetual nlno''
phurir disturbance that means deadly
hol,lly 10 tho governors presidential
aspirations After tho Music Hall ul.
fair had tho pleasure to noot Gov
otnor Mckinley aud Senator shofmnn
IN their apartments NJ thp Grand,
N0nNtot Sherman Ail, m rrply ~ n
HuoatlOn, that ht entertained no doubt
Whnt1v1r that mckinley will rluuivr
tho nold aud loynl support NJ ono In
tho national u1nyontl1u lwuguyOrnUr
] lha nb'Ululc confidence In tnu 8nmr fo'
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