Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-24

nresent time. Since that time the Eli
sion Manufacturing Company WORKS
have been practically idle until recently
when nearly the entire force was put 10
work upon orders which will give them
omnlovment for almost year, and to-
dav there are between 700 and 500 per-
sons at work at these shops. A few
wears ago this one concern gave employ
roent TO between a thousand and twelve
hundred men, but with the arrival OF
the manic the railroads stopped order
inc cars. the Ensign Company was
without orders and the men were out
of work.
BUSINESS in other lines became dull,
some of the other factories closed down
and the city was full Of men without
employment. Huntington suffered as
much as any city in the country by rea-
son of the hard times, but it has man
aged to keep up with the procession
and is to-day feeling as much as any
other place the return of prosperity.
The starting up of the Ensign WORKS
with almost a full force has done much
to encourage business and has put into
circulation considerable money. Some
of the other works which had been Idle
have resumed operations, a great deal
of building is going on with more IN
prospect. and there is employment Tor
nearly all who seek it.
THE REPAIR SHOPS
of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad are
al work with full force of five or six
hundred men and the smaller factories
of the city are in full blast. In Central
City, our western suburb, all the fac
tories are at work, giving employment
to several hundred men. The glass
works. the handle fatory. the brewery,
the distillery, the saw and planning mills
and other industrial concerns there have
built up around them quite a city. where
four years ago there was scarcely a
house, and in the city of 1900 or 1000
persons there is no idleness, plenty Of
places in shop and factory being sup
piled for all the residents who apply for
them.
All the building trades have had work
for some time and are still busy. The
"slly-scraper, as Mr. Harris's building
has been called is the pride of the city,
being one of the largest business houses
in the State. 1t is seen stories high
above the basement, each floor about
80 bv $50 feet. 1t Is occupied by two
wholesale concerns. This building is
one of those recently constructed and Is
very onspiuously located. Several
large business houses are now IN course
of construction, two large blocks tour
Stories high and to contain several store
rooms each are under way on Ninth
street while numerous smaller ones
are going up in various portions OF the
town.
Not for many years have there been
so many residences building at one
time MS now. Major Ely Ensign has re-
Gently occupied his new Third avenue
residence. probably the handsomest res
idence in the city. f. b. EnsloW Is
building a new home which will cost
him several thousand dollars, and Will
be- together with the new home OF W. H..
II. Holswade. as handsome as any in
this part of the State The new State
building at Marshall College will be put
I'D this season and will be credit to
this we'll known institution.
ON TOP BIZ ALL THIS
building viii come the construction Of
The new Court House, the plans for
which have lust been adopted by the
County Court. The building will be
,ali of stone. three stories high above the
basement. with ample accommodations
for all the county offices and all the
courts which are ever held in Cabell
county. and will cost 100000. BY the
way. this will be the first Court House
which Huntington has ever had. The
old Court House at BarbOursville, which
was formerly the county seat, is now
used now by the Barboursville College.
When Huntington. which had grown
since II was founded in 1872, to quite
p city. made appliation for the county
scat il was agreed that the city would
furnish free of cost a building 10 be
used for court purposes until such tlme
as the county should see fit to build
one. Acting upon this agreement the
county has used for the last ten years
the city's building. But it is now TOO
small and the new one will replace it.
For some years the people OF the county
have cen agltating the Court House
question. but they have refused to vote
the onds for its construction. The
Court decided the Court House should
be built at any rate and regardless
of the vote on bonds will go ahead and
build by direct levy. The levy was
laid Monday at 20 cents on the hundred
dollars valuation outside the city Of
Huntington and co ents inside the city.
This is an increase of 10 cents, while
the road levy laid only in the country
districts. was reduced rom 80 to %
cents on the hundred dollars. Thus
the people who defeated the bonds will
be made to bear their
SHARE OF THE COST
Of the new building and the roads will
suffer. But every one Will be glad to
see the new building and to know that
by the time it is finished it will have
been paid for.
All of this building, the construction
of the new railroad up the Guyandotte
river, which the gentlemen in charge
assure us will be built, work to be be-
gun within the next so days, the start
ing up Of factories and the employment
of men who have been idle make bus
mess good and the people here are con-
fident that the wave of returning pros
perity has overtaken them at last.
a NEW CHURCH BELL.
Special TO the Register.
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