The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-02
GETTING READY.
Chamber OF Commerce Preparing
for the Coming Visit OF
RIVERS & IIARBORS COMMITTEE
To the Ohio Rlvsr-Thc Committee on
River Improvement will Meet the
Statesmen at pltt,bnrzh-rhe banquet
Occur. on Saturday Evening, March IA.
Now Is the Time for New Members to
Come in-ro be an Elaborate Affair.

The time of the visit OF the congress
slonal committee on rivers aud harbors
10 the upper Ohio. has been officially de-
cIded. The committee Is to leave Wash
ington on the evening OF Thursday.
March 19, going through to Fairmont
on the Baltimore 6 Ohio raod. From
Falrmont the committee will go to Nor
gantown. the head OF navigation on the
Monongahela, via rail, and there take
one OF the Pittsburgh and Morgantown
packets for the Smoky City, arriving
there In the afternoon. There the In
dustrial magnitude OF the community
OF Greater Pittsburgh will occupy the
visitors until evening, when the cham
Der OF commerce and the coal exchange
will tender banquet.
From the banquet the committee, who
by the way. will be accompanied by
their wives and daughters. and make
up q party OF about thirty, Will go to the
palatIal Pittsburgh and Cincinnati liner
Virginia, which has been rendered the
committee through the courtesy of
President and General Manager James
A. Henderson. The committee and
party, newspaper correspondents. rep
resentatives of the Wheeling chamber
OF commerce and prominent river men.
will make UP the party on the trip OF the
Virginia. She win leave the Mononga-
hela wharf early the next morning and
the trip 10 Wheeling will be made with
practically no stops, arriving here late
In the afternoon. II is In the stretch OF
river between Pittsburgh and Wheeling
that the improvements are so badly
needed II IL safe to predict that the
rlvermen and the representatives OF the
Wheeling and Pittsburgh commercial
bodies will not let slip the opportunity
to show the committee how great need
exists for systematic scheme OF i'm
provement OF the most important In
land water highway in the world.
At Wheeling the committee OF the
chamber OF commerce on river I'M
provements, composed Of Messrs. Hart,
Scott. Peterson, Lange and StainnkeT,
and assisted by President Hullihen
Quarter and Secretary Howard Haz-
lett. will be the Immediate hosts Of the
visitors. At the public landing the vOy-
ayers will be met by q reception COM
mittee with carriages and taken to their
hotel. The banquet has not yet been
arranged, but that It will bean elaborate
affair goes without saying.
And speking OF the banquet, II will be
well TO state here. that none but mem
bers OF the chamber OF commence Will
participate. President Quarter and
Secretary Hazlett extend pressing In
vitation to all business men and manu-
facturers Of the city to get In "out OF the
wet" flguratively speaking. by coming
up with their little ~" ray OF the Uncle
Sam edition. II is desired to interest
the entire business community In this
enterprise that so greatly concerns the
welfare OF the city as well Us the
entire upper Ohio valley. Eevery buSi-
ness man who can should be on head
and by his presence show that he takes
the proper amount OF interest in the
project OF river Improvement. Repre-
sertatlVeS OF the Rellnlre board Of trade
and OF the commercial bodies OF Mar
tins Ferry and bridgeport are to be Inv
vited to attend the banquet.
The addresses at the banquet Will be
mainly by the members OF the commits
tee and by gentlemen from other cities.
For once home talent will remain in the
background.
MIR. Charles Burdett Hart, chairman
OF the chamber OF commerce river I'M
provement committee. has returned
from Washington, where he conferred
with members OF the rivers and har-
bors committee regarding their trip 10
the Ohio lie found Congressman Do
vencr busily at work making arrange
ments for the trip. He also talked with
other members Of the committee and
found that they are looking forward to
the trip as means OF getting desirable
Information regarding tho needs Of the
river.
1t is probable that the committee will
proceed down the river on the Virginia
TO ParkcrSourg, where they may return
via rail TO Washington. Considerable
pressure. however, is being brought TO
bear on the committee 20 induce them to
continue down the river TO Cincinnati.
Cincinnati districts. and MIR. Berry. OF
the Newport CHy.) district, are par,icu-
larry active In this effort