Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-18
STILL IN IMPROVEMENT.
One Family Discharged Yesterday,
and Others viii Be To-Day.
One New and Very Mild Case Re
ported in a House Previously
Infected - The Ohio Press Again
on the Rampage-The Despicable
Tricks of Baltimore and Pittsburg
Travelling Men.

The smallpox situation continued TO
be satisfactory yesterday. One new and
very light case was discovered in the
family of Mrs Dixon, corner of Alley B
and Twenty-third street, the patient be-
ing a small child. There have been
other cases in this house. and the fact
ohat another Of the residents contracted
the disease was not at all unexpected.
TO counterfeit this, the Smith family.
on Main street, near Twenty-fourth.
were released from surveillance and the
flag taken down, and at least two other
cases VIII be discharged to-day. The
Health Officer investigated several sus-
pected cases, but in no event was the
fear Of the presence Of the disease con
frmed. The new cases developed with
IN the pas, week have been a very Egh.
form of the disease. and there is a hope
that any further cases will be Of this
nature
As the situation improves in this city,
the rumOrS outside OF town appear to be
more exaggerated than ever before, and
the tenor of the ne.ghborhood press
becomes decidedly more hostile and
ven0mous. A gentleman arrived in the
city yesterday over the B. & o. from
the west. He said that when his train
reached GAINESVILLE a telegraph boy got
aboard and asked for a gentleman, say
ing he had a message for him. The
proper party responded and when he
read the message he exclaimed: well,
what do YOU think of that?' Some one
asked him what was wrong, when he
read the message aloud. II was TO this
effect:
There have been sixty-e:ght new
cases Of smallpox in Wheeling the past
twenty-four hours. Give up your trip"
The party TO whom The message was
addressed got his baggage together and
left the train. The Wheeling man en-
deavored 10 ascertain where the message
was from, but hadn't time to do so be-
fore the train pulled out.
The Martins Ferry Times was par
ticularly venomOus yesterday. devoting
One-half Of the space given to smallpox
news TO the case of the arrest of Mr..
Henry Meyer, of this city, on Monday.
The article was full of hostility to
Wheeling and Wheeling people, and it
added insult to injury when it printed
this reference to Mr.. Meyer
The statement that he was subject
ed 10 undue severity by being placed in
a cell is also a pure fabrication. He
was left TO run az large in the corridor
as The buns that occupied the cells OBJ
jected to having a Wheeling man lock-
ed up with them and their wishes were
respected"
The quarantine in both Martins
Ferry and Bridgeport is being enforced
with great severity against Wheeling
people. while passes are still granted TO
residents of those towns TO come over
here and TO drive their teams over and
do business about the city as usual.
Many passes were granted in Martins
Ferry yesterday and others were grant
ed IN Bridgeport, while in the latter
town the wife of a North Main street
merchant and manufacturer, who does
not live within mile of any case Of
smallpox, was refused permission, a
day or two ago, to walk from the
Bridgeport end of the bridge to the C.
& z. depot to take train.
although she had a certificate from Dr.
JepsOn. At Bridgeport yesterday the
guards stopped a Wheeling drummer
from canvassing. The gentleman has
been boarding on the Ohio side of the
river ever since the quarantine went
into effect. while at the same time
Bridgeport citizens came and went over
the river at will. passes still being plen-
tiful. 1t appears as though all that is
necessary is to know that a man has
Wheeling interests. even if he does not
come TO this side of the river at all, to
incur the displeasure Of the authorities
in Over-the-river towns.
The Bellaire Independent, too. after
being fair and reasonable for some
time. broke out again last evening in
TRADE against Wheeling which, read
between the lines, appears to indicate
that somebody with an axe to grind is
moving to keep the scare up and even
to perpetuate hard feeling between this
city and the communities on the Ohio
side. Ii would be interesting TO know
whether this is true, or whether the
Ohio editors are simply still hot be-
cause there was objection over here to
their grossly exaggerated and persist
entity published statements Of untruths.
Ii must be one or the other of these
things for simple desire to protect
the Ohio towns by quarantine or other
measures ought not TO cause the editors
in question 10 get red IN the face and
excited and unjust in their publica-
tions. Maybe the truth will be dis
closed i'm the future.
The following special telegram shows
another phase OF the effort to injure
Wheeling:
Special to The Register.
Salem. w. Va, September 1.-THE
Piusburg and Baltimore commercial
men are doing q great amount Of harm
10 the wholesale houses OF Wheeling.
To work their scheme in securing or
ders they have been going all along the
b. & O. branch telling the merchants
that they had better not buy OF the
wheeling houses. as the city had an
endemic of smallpox and it was dan
gerous to have goods shipped from
there At the Richie County Fair this
same racket was worked against the
Wheeling travelling men.
The peculiar business methods here
almded to have been practiced nearer
home by Pitsburg, GAINESVILLE and other
travelling men. and have been kept up
for months. II illustrates well the
concerted attempt to injure this city
and its interests all along the line
In the midst of these exhibitions OF
hostility and unfairneSs it is refreshing
and encourag ing to occasionally meet
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