Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-30
..Hnw is hnsiness?"

Glow is business?'
Each day this question is asked in
Wheeling between those who travel
here and those who are established and
residing in the city. Ii is answered in
a thousand different ways, as the per-
sons may view the subject or as they
may be particularly engaged. The re-
taiIers iobbers. office men, banks and
railroads all have details to explain in
answering the question, and which, Of
course. fit their particular information
in resDect to the matter. In COMPARE
son with one year ago, all say that
there is a marked change for the better
i'm this city. A round OF the commercial
parts of the city yesterday showed that
the retail merchants Of the city have
more goods i'm stock than ever before
in the history OF their trade, and that
customers are purchasing freely. The
same is true of the jObbers OF the city,
and the daily rush about the freight
bouses of the different railroads clearly
demonstrates that a good many goods
are being shipped and received from
this point and tonnage and freight
figures given speak in no uncertain
terms of a great improvement in this
particular view of. business over that
off one wear ago. There is more idle
money i'm the banks Of Wheeling to-day
and I'm the hands of capitalists than
for years. and this capital will not re-
main idle. The lumber and
general building material men
OF Wheeling have from Il fourth
to third larger stocks than a year
AGO. and their early orders are in
creased in about such proportion over
that Of one year ago already If the
facts could be known, it would seem
from the way men talk there is actual
" more figuring on new constructions
and Improvements in this city and vicin-
ity than for rhe past four years. The
manufacturing interests Of the city are
i'm a far better condition than one year
ago. and but few idle men are observed
on the street corners of the city during
the day 1t cannot be doubted, then,
if statements made are the reality but
what the great mass of business in
terests in the city of Wheeling are not
to- be compared with that of one or two
years ago i'm the matter of what is be-
ing daily transacted. The only feature
in the whole city that has not returned
to former conditions is the fact that the
laboring classes of the city have not
vet regained the losses or accumulated
the reserves they had before the period
of depression overlook the country. and
this fact Of necessity directly affects
numerous classes of trade in the CITY
toward the point of former volumes in
business. and while improving at the
present time cannot, as a matter Of fact.
get itself back to that former condition
until the wage-earners have been per
uitted to have steady work for some
period of time.
Wheeling is in touch with the rest Of
the commercial world and its business
interests cannot become DISCOURAGED at
a general view of business throughout
the country for the future. and its own
business circles are active. with no
cause to complain, and when labor
shall begin to get hold of its returns
and create its surplus. the question of
Glow is business" will not REQUIRE so
detailed an answer and explanation as
in the past