The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-15

Market House, aud an Argument Set
thug Forth That sReh MOvo would
Bcneht the City.
To the Editor OF the lRteHIgencsr.
sIR;-The market wagons land we
cannot have a market without having
wagons) require about one-half the
width of the street east OF the present
Second ward market house, all the way
from Eleventh to Tenth street, and the
whole of the other half of the width of
the street In the same square Is neces-
sarlly monopolized by the street car
line, so / may fairly state that the mar
ket wagons, and the street car line so
monopollze and unavoidably congest
Market street between Eleventh and
Tenth streets that vehicle drivers and
bicycle riders and even pedestrians.
avoid this eongested square, and Main
street hill Is avoided by drivers and by
bicycle riders, and the narrow part Of
Eleventh street thus becomes the main
thoroughfare between Main and Mar
ket streets for vehicles and bicycles,and
as before intlmated this part OF Elev-
enth street Is very narrow and conse-
quently 1t often becomes over-crowded,
and as the turn at the corner of Main
and Eleventh is abrupt and the grade
very bad, collisions and upsets and ac-
cldents generally at this point are more
numerous than the whole number OF
such accidents In all the balance OF the
city, and this. notwithstanding a notice
Is posted on the corner, telling the
drivers and riders to be careful, as
there Is danger In making this turn.
Now as sure means of relieving the
congestion referred to. and for the bet
terment OF all the Objectionable fea-
lures spoken of l respectfully suggest
that the city acquire strip on the west
side of Market street extending from
Tenth to Ninth street. this strip to be
sixty feet deep Chat Is as deep as the
present market house and that part OF
market square on the west OF II to-
gether), and locate the market square.
and the market house between Tenth
and Ninth streets, then the south end
OF the market house would rest on the
street car tracks on Tenth street, and
the market house would. as now, have
every possible benefit obtainable from
the street cars, as every car which runs
on the line would pass the end Of the
market house. Both the street car line
and the market would have plenty OF
elbow room, and cease to choke each
other all the way from Eleventh to
Tenth street, and the congestion ON
Market street would be no more and
the congestion on the narrow part OF
Eleventh street would be relieved. The
present market square would be used
more for vehicles and bicycles aud the
value Of all the real estate in the square
above Tenth street will be increased be-
cause the location OF the market house
In that square will carry some business
with Il. The value OF the real estate In
the present market square will be in
creased, because It lays so well, and ~
so grandly located that 1t will be util-
ized for fine class Of business and
business houses so soon as the ancient
market house be removed, and the pre-
sent congestion relieved.
After the present market house would
be removed the square where 1t now
stands could be made very attractive
without altering Its shape, but II the
city could give good title to the ground
between the present west line OF mar
ket square and the true line OF. Mar.
ket street, the city could obtain for the
same enough to pay all the expense OF
the undertaking, and the great improve.
ment could be made practically with
out cost, as no doubt every person who
now owns property fronting on the west
side of the present market square would
be glad to pay good price for the
space between their property and the
true line of Market street.
Moreover. this would be q most hap
Ply termination of the trouble OVER che
Tenth street stock yards, and I may say
after viewing this idea from every Inn
aglnable standpoint. II itbe carried out
II will greatly benefit everything and
everybody concerned, and inJurG none,
and II every citizen and especially II et-
cry councilman, win give It the consldI
Grafton to which Its merit entities Il, 1t
will be 70,
ONE WHO HAS THOUGHT IT OVER.
Wheeling, September II. ."if