The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-11-04

Clarksburg built the engines
which we're shipped to the Klon-
dixie forthe Alaska improvement
association.
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Clarksburg is said to be the
most important shipping point on
the Baltimore & Ohio between
Baltimore and Cincinnati, exclu-
sive okCumherland. The num-
Der ofcars shipped out OF here
last year was As, 900, representing
an income for the railroad Of 81, 4
100000, The passenger tickets.
sold run considerably over 800,
600. This is perhaps only half
of the actual passenger business
done out of the town, as most Of
the people use mileage books.
III.
The mining industry in the adj
joining counties of Marion and
Taylor has recently added i'm
petus. The writer learned that
six new mines will be opened for
business at the first of the year,
and the end is not yet.
M. Il
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Clarksburg has its romantic
and historical side as we'll as It's
commercial aspect, and the for.
mer is equally interesting as the
latter. One of the towns chief
claimsto greatness is being the
birthplace Of the famous Con.
federate leader, Stonewall jack
son. The valiant generate birth.
place was inn little brick house
which stood on Main street on
the site now occupied BY David
DaYiasons hnild ling Many sQfl
Eiie older ~ leN u clss0n we'll
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one in particular Coi Luther
Raymond. was aerown man when
jackson was born. Col. Hay
mond is 90 years old, but up until
a few months ago filled his posi-
ton here as cashier Of the Merch-
ants bank. He was without doubt
the Oldest cashier in the country.
He is full of "reminiscences OF
Stonewall Jackson whom he
knew as q boy, and he remem'
bers distinctly the time when
Jackson went to West Point and
returned in his soldier clothes.
"Stonewall's" characteristics as a
youth were the same that gave
him a name in er,years as one
of the heroes of history-a love
for fighting. When boy he
licked all his schoolmates and
when at the age of 16 was a con-
stable and at IS a deputy sheriff.
There are many blood relatives
of his now living here, and they
all have acquired wealth, though
before the war they were very
poor.
Still the list of Clarksburg's
good things are not complete
The town has a magnificent hotel,
opera house and business build
ing-the Traders. The stranger
in Clarksburg is agreeably sur.
prised when he is escorted into
the capaclous office of the Traders
hotel. and learns that, although
now in the interior of West
Virginia he is not to be fed way
down on the hog and sleep on
corn husks. The Traders pretty
near makes good its claim OF
being the finest hotel IN the south.
The outward appearance of the
building itself is unique. 1t oc-
cupies an entire block with heavy
stone trimmings. The structure
is neatly topped with a well de
signed Mansard root and pinnac-
led towers rear into the air at
numerous points of vantage.
The corner room is occupied by
the Traders National bank and in
the south wing is the neatest lit
tie opera house in the State.
The remainder of the building is
devoted to the purposes Of the
hotel. Thomas B. Seeley, an ex-
perienced hotel man. is proprie.
tor, and personally manages the
hostelry. The equipment is ex-