Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-06
WIS 4 GREAT SUCCESS.
A Regular Jam at the Supper Given
By Island Ladies.
More Than Eight Hundred Meals
Served, and Many Were Turned
Away-A Circular Issued Yes
terday by the Stock Committee.

The luncheon and supper given yes
terday afternoon and last evening by
the committee of Island ladies, for the
benefit Of the Ferry Company, was one
of the greatest successes ever achieved
in this city by similar affair AT 8
o'clock last evening it was estimated
that eight hundred meals had been fur
nished, with every indication that the
number would reach one thousand by
the close of the evening. Many were
turned away for sheer lack Of accom-
mediation.
The affair was given in Myers hall,
at the corner of Virginia and South
Penn streets, which had been tastefully
arranged for the occasion under the
supervision of the committee of ladies
in charge. At the outset arrangements
were only made to seat about sixty at
a time, but it was early seen that at
that rate it would take until midnight
to supply the ticket holders, and q
large additional space for guests was
provided. The menu was very at
tractive and appetizing one, and the
service excellent; yet so great was the
rush that people crowded into the hall
and stood behind the chairs Of those
at the tables, ready to drop at once into
a place as soon as it Should become
vacant. Just what the proceeds of the
supper will be could not be ascertained
last evening, but it is likely that three
hundred dollars will not a bad guess.
The supper seems TO have had the
effect Of renewing the Island enthusi-
asm about the ferry generally, and it
was freely predicted over there last eve
ming that it would now be a go"
The following circular was issued yes
terday:
THE committee appointed by the
stockholders of the Island Ferry and
Packet Company at their last meeting,
held session Monday night, and de-
cided to leave lists for the accommoda-
ton OF those who are DESTROYS Of sub
scribing for any Of the $4,000 preferred
stock. which the stockholders author
lied the Directors to issue to pay off the
Indebtedness of the Company, at the
following stores on the Island and in the
city:
Henry Somehow, 456 Market street.
"Schenderline Bros, 20 Zane street.
"R. B. Burt, Virginia and Penn
streets.
"Bogart & Co, Zane street.
&C. Lukens, Zane street.
"Exley Bros, Penn and Zane streets.
Henry Juergens, Maryland and York
streets.
q. Muhleman, Virginia and Broad
way streets.
&c. 7. Paul, Virginia and Penn
streets.
Geo. H. Dinger, Virginia and Broad
way streets
"Gaus & Weigle, Zane and Broadway
streets.
"Pebler & Wohnhaus, Virginia and
Huron streets.
"H. Seamon & Son, 1850 Water street.
"Hugo Loos, 1920 Market street.
Justice r. II. Gillespie, 1925 Chap
line street.
Justice H. c. Peterman, Fourteenth
street
"R. K. Giffen & Co., 1920 Main street.
1T is requested that the friends of the
ferry will avail themselves of this OPP
portunity to show in a substantial way
that they are determined that the ferry
shall run and that they will not be fore
ed into paying the two corporations,
who think they have them by the throat,
excessive and eXorbitant rates for the
privilege of passing to and fro from
their homes-a privilege, by the way,
enjoyed by the residents Of the other
wards without extra taxation or cost"