The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-11

US my London iriond assured me. thev
afo also goat merchants and sIrowd
,raucrs. Tia Scotch Themselves, "a hc
t"t'u.N'ed, woro not cnnnior In n deal,
Iof IRE they not both Celtic In ttoIr
l was oil the moro inclined to take
etoek III this statement OF my Saxon
riehu, altor hearing Morris llorkhol.
~ say last summer that Ii II man was
Ho,hg 20 doal to any advantage to him.
so't with Col. Thomas 0'Brion he had
rosa 10 got up very carly IN tho morn.
ing lilo intiina,ed that ho had tackled
tho colonel moro thun once mud wa, n
living Witness to tho truth OF hi, 70.
marx. Now ! venture 10 say TINT there
afe snrowd tradsra here, like our friend
Morris, who will 20 him onu better a,
RESPECTS this necessity for carly rising.
ana VIII tell him that those who l,ayo
any aspirations In tho direction Of dis.
l~ancinGoither Jimmy Campbell or John
eculIen In a deal must needs not only
got up very carly In tho morning, but.
ior that matter, renain up all tho night
before. 80
THE FATE OF PROMOTERS.
lobseryed recently a punyont para.
graph In Joe M~cCullayh's paper (he.
toe. Ia an I'ishman} advising the city
council to, place all tho streets, alleys
anu sidewalks OF tho town at tho DISPOSAL
oil Scullen. for streut railroad purpo,es,
4 allow him to gridiron them all with
ms trackage ne might suit his idoas and
interests. Thinks | to myseli, on read.
ing this paragraph, JosopI, IL hitting at
both OF his friends iu this paragraph,
albeit he only names ono OF them. In
other words, | felt quito sure that our
eS'townsman might expect to DO In.
Guided In tho next blast from his warn.
ing trumpet. This, you know, is tho
late OF promoters and other pooplo who
DO things tho world over. At a trinm.
phal banquet given to Boss Shepherd.
on his return from Mexico to the
national capital n few years ago, ono Of
tho speakers made Il remark to the
OBJECT that X q man was not willing to
be misunderstood by his follow citizens,
and even TO be called hard names, he
mad no mission as q municipal promoter;
that IL. as q protector, expioiter aud
builder oil magnificent streets, parks.
circles. b~ouleyards. electric ligh. plants
and street car lines.
ST. LOUIS GROWING.
This retereucs bring. mo naturally to
the promotion and construction OF some
OF these same kind OF improve.
ments in St. Louis, particularly tho
various street railway systems and
their 264 mica OF track. The CON.
trast which the city presents in
the matter OF rapid transit to tho sort
OF transit that l have always asso.
ciaied with my previous visit here in
1883 is very striking induced. Those
were the days Of tho slow going horse
car lines, and | remember then as both
slow aud shabby; almost such as YOU
still see here on ono or two insignificant
limos. Those were the turtle DAYS OF
st. Louis, sure enough, and it is no
wonder that she had such = dwaried
and repres'ed growth for so long n
time. She raj then in her 10th year,
and during those four generations OF
existence she had not, with all her
natural advantages. such rs | pointed
out in my first letter, accumulated as
many people nor made anything like
the progress that Chicago had made in
less than two generations. She was
still a horse car town. In that year.
however, or the one following, the cable
lines were introduced, aud the people
hQH fnr FhR n rat fFDn unnNnfhtr ~ IL, tI,N
nature OF rapid transit. The effect was
very decided in the growth OF popula.
ton and tho rise OF tar out values. She
gained 10000 people from 1850 to 1899,
whereas in the previous decade she
had only gained aoout 10000. l pre-
sumo she owe something of this growth
to the two promoters / have named and
their municipal following.
wHEgLISd's RAPID TRANSIT ARCHITECT.
Wheeling owes d good deal 10 John
Sweeney as q promoter, although q good
many people do not think SO. lie is the
architect OF rapid transit there on both
sides OF the river. OF courIe no went
in, as tho prime consideration, to help
himself, just as all promoters do; but,
all tho same. he dida great deal for tho
town. VOL, it was a dictum OF Johns
that rapid transit begets its own reward
in the way of patronage. the truth OF
which observation. DO far az Wheeling
Is concerned, would have no doubt
demonstrated itself ere thi, but for tho
breakdown in her industries just about
that time. Its truth has boon fully
demonstrated In ST.. Louis, "a the fig
ure, abundantly show. For instance.
on q street railway system OF ISL miios,
in 1884. and q population Of about 40J.-
900, the lines carried i3,00o,000 pasSen.
gers that year. whereas ten years later,
in 1891. with a population OF $4,000.
they carried 05. 100000. In other words.
while tho population increased about
ono.third, and the street rail ways in
about the same proportion, tho patron
age increased over one hundred per
cent. Thus you see how vol rapid
transit has paid the promoters OF it
hero, and | notice BY their resumption
OF dividends R. Wheeling that 1t haa be-
gun TO pay thore. also.
TROLLEY vs.. CABLE.
St. Louis is we'll situatod for n rapid
transit town. It has some long stretches,
OF easy grade. in both north and south
directions. Tho area OF tho city is about
Il 1000 acres, or abont half tho Rroa
OF Ohio county. It's river line ia equal
TO tho distance between Short creek and
Grave creek, and it has an average
width OF abou, six miles. This i, tho
area ~traver,ed by its 2Gi miles OF street
railway. This mileage Is divided be.
tween six or scyen systems, the princi.
pal OF which nrs tho Union Depot sys.
ten, tho Lindoll. tho Missouri and tho
Suburban. rlirce.four!hs OF the track.
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