Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-09

s. Is flegeIand this morning o. the
Wsheslinr = I,s1e ERE excrsicn.
III. 4. RAtcliffe, 81 Mt Pleasant. was
here on business yesterday.
The G. & r. employees received ther
pay yesterday.
The oyster and chicken supper given
last evening in the Commercial hall by
the Ladies Aid Society CT the Christian
church was well patronized and prov
ed quite a success, both socieally and
! financially. The proceeds will be
added to the church improvement fund.
Mrs. l.. w. Inglebright left for Pitts
burg yesterday to visit relatives and
friends.
Owing to the gradual increase OF bus
mess the Beaumont Glass Company
find it necessary to embargo their facii-
tiles TO some extent in order to keep
I'D with their orders. To do this they
are having three now kilns put in.
Ernest Justice, of Portland Station,
will have charge Of Harry Dyson's
barber shop during his absence.
Walter Duff has opened shooting
gallery in the Hess building on Han
over street
Miss Matte Smith, Of Beaver, Pa,
is visiting here.
is booked for the Opera House October
IA
Miss Ora Milligan has resigned her
position as clerk at II. Humphreville's
grocery.
Mrs. William Reynard left for Jew
EFT, o.. last evening to visit her grand
daughter.
Mrs. NJ. Bartholomew and Mrs. w.
F. Floyd of the Island, are spending
the day at Johnson, o.
H. J. Geary, of Caldwell. o., was
here Yesterday on business
Gen. Grosvenor and Capt. Danford
| will speak in the Opera House at
Bridgeport October %.
The following is letter received here
by Councilman Charles Carpenter from
Bert Shaver. who left for Porto Rico
the latter part Of August;
Ponce. Porto Rico, Sept. %, 1898.
Friend Charles: Well. I am at last
in the promised land We arrived on
the 18th. having smooth voyage, so
they said, but it turned me inside out
on the second day out. and I continued
| to feel rather bad all the way over.
The grub was so bad that could hard
| ly eat it, and you know something Is
radically wrong wh6n fail to feed well.
think If this country was settled up
| by the Americans It would be the finest
in the world, but as il is. so far as
have seen it, does not throw out golden
! opportunities. There ore no improve
ments and the PEOPLE all speak Spanish
so ii is quite difficult to make them I'M
! derstand what you want. !
am preparing a pocket dictionary, SO
| by the time we start on our journey
we will be able to make our wants
| known.
We find the natives very courteous
and willing to do almost anything for
us. The other day while on little
stroll to the country with rife and
camera, native stopped me to see my
rife. which was quite a curiosity TO
him. Later learned from him that he
was a brickmaker. He took me through
the yard. when showed him my card.
telling him was in the same business.
The brick are 17sX4Rx9R
burned, and Of the very poorest kind.
I don't think we could give them away
| in the States. They are handled in
Tai u anu uaUitQ UA dhu t|EI LiilpN
| them to the second story of the build
! ing one at time. ] don't think they
ever saw hod. The mortar is hoisted
up in small tin buckets with rope.
II strikes me that horse I'd cattle
raising would be the m; profitable
| thing one could go at. You ,nnQt buy
| one of their horses for less than ST5
| to $780, and they are small ponies.
J - httr To crnf
around on, but cannot find one that
suits. I find this is the only way will
! get TO see any Of the country, as there
is not even a stage coach or livery
! stable.
Here they deliver the milk to your
door in the cow. You are supposed
to use 1t without straining It. Milk Is
6 cents a quart, chickens $3.50 apiece,
eggs 8 cents, and rum 2 cents a glass,
They say you can get a beautiful jag
on for 10 cents Land sells for from
$40 an acre up, and almost anything
| can be raised on 1t. Ice is worth S2J
q ton. One dollar is American money
is worth S1.f5 here
There is not an American newspaper
here. There is one that attempts to
print some English. but 1t is the poor
est excuse l ever saw.
saw most of the boys that came
down with us going back in the same
steamer we came down on. Some OF
them brought a lot Of dry goods and
| such stuff down with them. only to find
when they got here that the same arti-
cles sold for less here than they cost
them in the States.
Hoping that ! will be able to write
more interesting letter the next time,
I remain, yours
A. G.. SHAVER.