The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-25
w,room. 10 the Merchants.

Welcome TO tho Merchants.
The Intelligencer reflects the sent-
ment, of not only the business men of the
city of wheeling, but of all classes of cit
liens as well, in extending thrice
hearty welcome to the visiting mer-
chants from the towns and cities of West
Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, East
ern Ohio and Western Maryland, who
will be the guests of the city to-day on
the Invitation of the Wheeling business
men. The preparations which have
been made for their entertainment are
on q scale which promises that the visit
will be one of mutual pleasure and profit
to guests and hosts. The doors Of hos
pltallty will be thrown wide open, for
Wheeling never entertains her guests on
any other plan. 1t is one of her chief
characteristics to make pleasant the stay
OF those who come within her gates,
The purpose of the gathering here to-
day is wen understood. 1t is, not alone
to give the visitors good time" but to
impress upon the merchants of the sur
rounding territory the Importance of
Wheeling as jobblng, manufacturing
and shipping point. 1t Is to demonstrate
to them in practical way what Wheel
ing has to offer. and her advantages as a
general trading centre. Many Of the
visitors are men who have for many
years had dealings with the merchants
and manufacturers OF this city. They
will be no strangers here. but they come
to renew acquaintance and to revive
social and business relations. Those
who are strangers who are possibly
making their first visit to the chief city
OF West Virginia, will not be treated as
such. They will be made to feel that
they are among friends from the very
moment of their arrival, and that the
business men of Wheeling desire their
good will and the establishment of reclp-
rooaI .oIa4tasx, .,,ily, lL.zz
Though just recovering from long
period of business depression. Wheeling
has much to exhibit to her visitors in the
way of signs of progress and enterprise.
To the retail merchants her tobblng in
terests will be shown to be equal to any,
and the superior of most Of those OF cities
Of this class, with facilities for shipment
as good as the best, and the ability to
supply the trade with goods on terms
equal to those of any jobblng centre in
the country,
The conservatism of the business men
of Wheeling Is known the country over.
BY steadily doing business on safe
lines they have won the confidence OF all
with whom they have had dealings.
During the hard times, which, happily,
are now disappearing. there were fewer
failures here than In any other city Of
Wheeling's size in the country, with
possibly one or two rare exceptions. In
the two great panIcs which have shaken
this country in tho past twenty-five
years there was not single bank
failure in Wheeling, and only one very
short temporary suspension. only to re.
sumo stronger than ever In the very
midst OF panic. These facts speak well
for the city as a substantial business
point and will DO duly appreciated to. |
day by the visitors from abroad.
Az a manufacturing point this city bas
in times past been more prosperous than
Just at present, but, with the recovery !
from the long depression Of trade, she ia
looking up once moro and viii soon bs
In the throoD OF a general revival win
the great iron and steel and Tin mills, the
glnsa and pottery lnduBhlcs, ana yafl5Hg
other enterprise great and small. In th,
city and within a radius Of throo or four
miles surrounding, Wheeling ls firmly |
established ns n manufacturing can.c
and holds no small bilco In the world OIL
trade and commerce. II ~ unnecessary
to deal with statistics In simply calling
attention to ttlosc faetq
with facilities Tor chipping oyor rryon
railroads and In nlno directions, bo,ldso