Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-20
LOBBY LECTURES.
What the Hustlers Say as They Go
By.
HOTELS EXPERIENCING THE
PRESS OF BUSINESS THAT USU-
ALLY COMES WITH THE SEA
SON-CHAT PICKED UP IN THE
CORRIDORS AND UPON THE
STREETS.

The hotel business of the city is
revealing in the first stages OF the
boom which generally strikes the
town at this season of the year.. Any
one who has never observed, will be
astonished at the number of CONNER
cial travellers who drop in during the
early months of the new year ana
CLEAN the orders as they pass along.
The advent of the drummer is also
the signal for a host of retailers 10
journey to the metropolis, and busl-
ness men from suburban localities may
be seen in the corridors and sample
rooms every evening. Some OF the
hotels are unable to take care or all
who come to them, and two OF the
front street houses have been turning
people away daily. One hotel turned
away twenty-five Wednesday evening,
and this excess has even been exceeded
upon one or two occasions recently.
This should indicate the business
houses of Wheeling and vicinity are
good buyers and that a fair spring
trade is contemplated.
Two travelling men were discussing
the merits and dement's of trusts n
the aggregation of capital and It's CEN
tralization in large business II man
~ufacturing concerns, at the Mcclure
last night. One looked upon the for
nation of combines as the most for
midable sign of the times and predict
ed a campaign in 1900 fought upon
these lines alone. Said he: 1T all
means that before another quarter OF
a century passes there will just be two
classes of people in this country
grouped under the heads employer
and 'employe.' Every n will either
be a master or a minion. and nobody
will be working for himself or run
ming an independent business"
Polemic No. 2 saw nothing to fear
from the tendency to Capitalization and
predicted more comfort and better llv-
ing as the outcome and added: Il can
prove it by my Shoes" And then eX-
hibiting a pair of neat No. rs contin-
ued: Before the crossroads Il vii
lage shoemaker was driven out of bus
mess by the wealthy manufacturers
with their enormous factories equipped
with modern machinery, | wouldn't
have been rich enough to sport such
footwear as that. No journeyman that
ever lived could turn such beauty, COM
fort and excellence from his last for
double the money these cost me, and
the same is true with a thousand other
articles of human necessity. No, the
danger is not in the Capitalization n
cooperation of large industrial inter-
ests. for it is a well-accepted principle
of economics that this cheaDens pro-
duction. All that is necessary is for
the people through their legislators to
set limitations upon the power OF ag-
gregated wealth and this they will
gradually learn to do"
And now they're gettin' ready to
courtmartial Gen'l Eagan," said the
oratund knight who is ever ready to
take an order or crack a joke with
equal sang froid. I'm just wondering
where this scandals goin' to stop.
Suppose in the hearing of Gen1 Eagan
some witnesses lambaSticates him in
regular Eaganian style. Then what
the deuce will come next? Evidently
another courtmartial, and so on ad in
finitum. The United States army is a
pretty big thing and they can keep it
up a good while, but there's bound to
be an end. The thing that worries me
is, who - the - fires goin' to court
martial the last MANI"
q would like you to tell the world
what | think of the last Ohio Legisla-
ture,' said a Belmont county polite
ian who was in the city last night. IF
there ever was a more totally incompe-
tent and irresponsible aggregation Of
politicians gotten together at one time
| have never heard of it. Look, now
at that law changing the date when a
sheriff shall take his seat. A more
superficial piece of legislation was
never heard of. After all the trouble
and scramble and anxiety it has caused
those who aspired to serve the eight
months interim, the Supreme Court
comes along and knocks the whole
thing galley-west and then you are
just where you were before the legisla-
ture met. Yes, We have biennial ses-
sions of the legislature, if we didn't
the Supreme Court would have to work
double turn. If we had annual ses-
siOns with men smart enough to re-
peal at the second session every law
they pass at the first it might be an
improvement and afford much needed
relief"