Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-26

At 80 o'clock this afternoon, Hon.
George Wesley Atkinson, Governor of
the State of West Virginia, will touch
an electric button on the elevated stage
in the enclosure, which will set in mo-
ton the machinery of the Oriental
Carnival, Art and Industrial EXPOSE
ton.
The Governor will preface this cere-
mony with an address of welcome on
behalf of the State, after which Mayor
Andrew T. Sweeney will formally well
come the visitors on behalf of the city,
and in concluding his address will pre-
sent large emblematic key of the city
to the Exalted Ruler of Wheeling
lodge.
The committees of Wheeling lodge
have performed the duties apportioned
among them, and performed them well.
They have made arrangements upon a
scale never before attempted in West
Virginia for an amusement enterprise,
and they have provided an exhibition
which will be instructive, diverting
and entertaining, and which may be
seen at nominal cost to the visitor.
All that now remains to insure the
success of the big show is fair weather.
That there will be thousands of strang
ers in the city from all points within
radius of one hundred miles of Wheel
ing, is almost assured.
The Elks made a most happy selec-
ton in naming Mr.. Charles A. Feinler
as the press and advertising commit
tee, and comforting plenary powers
upon him. Mr.. Feinler appreciates the
value of printers ink, and his exper-
fence in the show business has proved
invaluable. The fair is billed like
circus. Oriental Carnival paper covers
all the dead walls, fences and stones
within radius of fifty miles Of Wheel
ing, and if all that section does not
empty its population into this city dur
ing the present week, it will not be be-
cause the urban and country folk do
not know that there will be things a.
dom in Wheeling.
Chairman Hill, of the hotels commit
tee, has book filed with names and
addresses of persons having rooms to
rent for the week, with or without
board, and all the hotels have cots in
readiness for the anticipated rush.
There will be Elks at the trains to
answer questions, and there will be an
admirably equipped information bureau
on the grounds, with prompt and reas-
enable messenger service, local and
long distance telephones, etc.
The souvenir programme is one of
the most creditable ever issued any
where. 1t is a 100 page book, hand
some in its typographical appearance,
and comprehensive in its contents. The
front page of the cover is beautiful
design by Edith Lake Wilkinson, and
is printed in purple. Between the COW
ers are lists of the Elks' committees,
history of the order of El1s and of
the local lodge; brief history of the
city Of Wheeling, the official pro-
gramme for the week and other inter-
esting data. 1t is handsomely illus
trated with views in and about the
city, and portraits of officers and mem
bers Of the executive committee of
Wheeling lodge The advertising
pages contain the announcements of
enterprising merchants. and are also
very comprehensive, rejecting infinite
credit upon the programme committee,
and especially upon its hustling chair
man, Emanuel Hanauer. The pro-
grammes will be on sale at nominal
price on the grounds. and will make
most attractive souvenir of Carnival
week.