Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-02-14
Of SEVERAL SORTS.
A Number of Local Matters of Passing
Interest.
A Wheeling Man who Learned
Something New in New York.
Wheeling's Prize Mud Holes.
Something About the New Gun
boats, and the Council Appropria-
ton for the Wheeling.

boats, and the Council Appropria-
ton for the Wheeling.
They are telling an exceptionally
good story on a Wheeling business
man, who paid visit to Gotham a week
or so ago. While in the big city he
fell in with two other Wheeling bust
ness men, and the three stopped at the
Hoffman House, at Broadway and
Twenty-fifth streets. Nothing of par
ticular Importance took place until the
time of departure, when the three, each
with his grip" boarded the elevated
road at Sixth Avenue and Twenty
third streets for the trip down town to
the Jersey City ferry. The three were
deep in a story of mutual interest when
the elevated was boarded, and the party
of the first part set down his yalise in
an absent-minded way. II was prompt
ly kicked under a seat by one of the
others, and pulled out on the other
side. Then came a chance for joke.
BY about the time the train had gotten
down 10 Eighth street the Wheeling
gentleman missed his grip" He had
no apparent recollection of having car
ried it from the hotel TO the l. road.
and the others at once assured him that
it had been forgotten and left at The
hotel. Don't worry about it," said one
of the other two I'll just tell the con-
ductor to telegraph back for it at the
next station, and the hotel people will
send it down through the pneumatic
tube. and ii will meet us before we get
to Liberty street" "Er-hows that?'
asked the owner of the grip. The in
formation was repeated in matter OF
fact way, as though it was nothing I'M
usual, and the owner of the grip
thought over it moment, and then
said: Elbow much will it cost?'
ooh, about half dollar, and the
charges for the telegram We'll, I'll
be glad to pay that, for if | don't get
that grip I'll have to go back after it,
and miss the train. Don't worry
yourself, was the reply. I'll just tell
the conductor and it will be all right.
The party who was up TO metropolitan
ways wrote something on a piece OF
paper and then gave it to the conductor,
with a few words of whispered consul
tatiOn. At the next station the con-
ductor got off one end of the car and
got on the other. and coming through
said it was all right Another station
was passed. and the owner of the grip
began to be little uneasy, and said
he had some doubts about the matter,
but he was assured it was all right, and
the conversation was changed. Final
L.. q 80 Il af@C IN ~
said: II don't believe that tube story,
and I'll bet a bottle of wine don't get
that valise." I'll take you" said one
of the gentlemen. Want to double
ito" said the other. Don't mind if |
do" "All right, it's a GO and the
three shook hands. Another station
passed without the grip, and the owner
thereof began to believe he stood to
win two bottles Of wine, even if he had
to go back after his baggage. but at the
next stop the conductor came in from
the wrong end of the car and yelled:
rs of Wheeling, on this
train?" Yes. I'm the gentleman an
swered the owner of the grip. We'll,
here's your baggage-fifty cents,
please" The owner of the grip pass
ed over a half in a dazed sort of way,
and at Philadelphia he purchased two
quarts of Mumms extra dry, which cost
a ten dollar note. His travelling COM
panions exhibit two corks as evidence
of the truth of the narrative.
Wheeling is celebrated for its muddy
streets, but probably the muddiest
place in town is Ohio street, between
South Front and South Penn. The
street is absolutely impossible for pc
destrans in this sort of weather, and
nearly so for teams. The street has
been in process of filing up for a decade
or so. and all sorts of stuff, from yellow
clay to street scrapings have been piled
in there. to a depth of eight or ten feet.
There is no sidewalk at all on the north
side. under the approach to the steel
bridge. while on the south side there
is but yard-wide pavement from Front
street a hundred yards or so west. The
remainder of the way is a bottomless
pit of semi-liquid mud. There is no
reason in the world why the city should
not complete the alleged Improvement
and either lay pavement under the
bridge approach or compel the Bridge
Company to Law one Certain it is that
the existing state of affairs is disgrace
to the city and daily inconvenience
to hundreds of people.
Speaking of mud, another standing
disgrace is the condition OF Market
street. from the Second ward market
house TO the postoffice. Here we have
a smoothly paved street, which coulu
be kent absolutely free from mud at
comparatively small expense OF trouble
time and money. The B. p. w. are ap-
parently utterly Indifferent, however
and the most they do is to cause STRIP
a couple of yards wide to be scraped az
and very uncertain intervals.
Sometimes this Is done once week,
and sometimes il isn't, and the puDllc
have to take the mud as 1t comes. Ollen
il is so bad that even the sidewalk at
Fourteenth and Market, on the Opera
uouse corner. is half an inch deep in
black slime and mud. for a long dis
lance Surely, there should be some
remedy for this sort of thing. one
man with a section Of fire hose could
keen this stretch of street as clean as
a kitchen foor. for instance but 1t Is
usually so muddy as TO be disgrace
70 a country village. Probably some
time Wheeling will have a Board OF
Public Works which will have modern
ideas about this sort Of thing.
o,5 MANY questions are daily ask