Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

INTERESTING EXPERIENCES.
Those citizens of Wheeling who
don't live in the city, but have their
domiciles out along the line of the
Wheeling and Elm Grove railway and
the National pike, between the city
limits and Elm Grove, were mildly as
tonished and disagreeably surprised
yesterday morning, when they ascer-
tanned that the electric railway was
not performing as usual.
Many of the citizens aforesaid did not
get their morning papers, although the
Register was sent out, because in the
sudden emergency no perfect method of
transportation had been improvised, and
as result, although there had been more
or less vague rumors of coming trouble
between the employees of the Company
and the corporation for several days,
there was general ignorance of the
cause of the lack of transportation.
Some fancied that there was broken
wire, others that the machinery at the
power house was disarranged, and still
others that some accident had tenn
porarily blocked the track, and all i'm
agined there would be a car along in a
short time.
These suburban residents generally
come to town at hours which pretty
well indicate their stations in life, or.
in common parlance, the size OF their
pile" The gentleman who lives in
for wages, usually aims to catch the
six o'clock car; clerks, ETC., are con-
tent if they get one an hour later, and
business men, capitalists, their wives
and daughters, bankers and all the rest
string along to the city at any old time
after eight o'clock. On the return trip
the situation is reversed for the we'll
TODD and wealthy go home early, and
the wage-earners go home late, in ac-
cordance with that universal rule that
the more money man makes the shor-
ter his hours.
These different sorts and conditions
of people got down to one democratic
level yesterday, and walked. Their eX-
periences were about the same. They
left their residences, and gathered in
little groups at the various stations
where they usually board the electric
cars. There they killed more or less
time in wondering when the car would
come, in specializing what was the mat
ter and in telephoning for information,
which they generally didn't obtain.
Then they set out to "hoof it" The
struggling procession of pedestrians
was gradually increased as successive
stations were passed and recruits fell
into the ranks, until along at the east
end of Fulton it resembled an art1stlcal-
ly tailored and well groomed detach-
ment of Coxey's army, for every one
was covered with pike dust, and there
was much genteel profanity and some
mud 1t was moving sight, and
might we'll have brought tears to the
eyes of the sympathetic spectator VINO
didn't have business in town. Most OF
the pilgrims made a short cut ever the
Thompson bridge, along the d. u y.
road, and through the tunnel, and some
astonishing records were made by
elderly gentlemen unaccustomed to
forced marches. One gentleman de-
ciared he made the journey from Park
View to Main street in just one hour,
and another said he came from the Park
to East Wheeling in forty-five minutes.
He was asked how far he rode in
wagon, when he blushed and changed
the subject. Every passing vehicle,
city bound, was hailed, and many bus
mess man came triumphantly into town
perched on a farmers wagon. A line
of cabs would have made all kinds of
money, and bus would have almost
paid for itself. Last evening there were
the same invonveniences on the return
trip from the city, but on smaller
scale, for arrangements were made in
numerous instances for vehicle traff1c.
The suburban ladies were generally cut
off from the delights of Saturday after
noon shopping, however, and it being
the day before Easter this hardship
caused no little feminine distress.
One of the greatest troubles arising
from the railway strike was that occa-
stoned to workmen and contractors oc-
cupied with suburban work A great
many workmen engaged in such jobs
found early in the morning they could
not reach the scene Of their labOrs eX-
cent by walking, and the transportation
of the usual Saturday supplies for fam
tiles was also sadly interfered with. In
fact. everybody found out very suddenly
that the electric railway was something
which could not we'll be dispensed
with, and the inconvenience will con-
tinue until a settlement OF the existing
trouble has been arrived at.
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