The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-11
THEY LIKE Us.
Fairmont people greatly taken
with their treatment here.

Fairmont people greatly taken
with their treatment here.
West yirginian tells what they saw and
Gid white hcre-0id luminosity forgot
ten--What Mereansswn Is doing
Splendid future MI. ad of tsr town
Fire st,.i,sni nj accorded to the wish
.ors-nh 1 hi valley is to become
The following article is taken from
the FaiFulent West Virginian in refe-
renee 20 the visit II the councils to
this place and the banquet given them
by the Morgantown city fathers:
The old familiar cry, faint no
USE which vet SAUNDERS in the menu
cries OF the surviving members of the
old time base ball teams of Morgan
town and Fairm0nt, and which was
the innocent cause of a major p triton
of the rivalry aud jealousy that has
seemed TO exist between those tox Us,
and yet which is more imaginary than
real, has been again revived bus for
the only purpose Of assisting TO culti-
vate and cement the ties of real
friendship that now bind the citizeps
of the neighboring cities one toward
the other for mutual advancement
pleasure and profit.
The growth aud development Of the
commercial and business interests of
the Upper Monongahela Valley have
in the past few years been most mar
yelous, and the twin centers of that
region, Morgantown and Fairmont,
have in a little while from being in
significant country villages, become
centers of wealth, refinement and we
may almost say congested popula-
tion.
Our citizens are enterprising, public
spirited and up to-date, and nothing
is being left undone by our city coun-
ellis that will contribute to the health,
comfort and convenience of the peo-
pie: and in order to review the work
now in progress, compare notes and
inaugurate new plans for the coming
year, the city council of Morgantown
recently extended to their brethren
Jour city fathers) an invitation to en-
joy banquet with them on New
Years eve, December 81, 1898, which
was of course most cordially accept
ed.
The Fairmont party which went to
Morgantown on Saturday afternoon
last consisted of Mayor f. 2. Hall and
Messrs. J. Harry Meredith, W. S.
Hamilton, j. E. Mccoy, E. F. Hart
ley, f. G.. Boydston. John S. Hamil-
ton, w. NJ. Fleming, J. NJ. Prickett,
j. E. Morgan, and e. NJ. Showalter.
They were met at the station by q
committee and escorted to the hand
some and commodious apartments of
the Mingo Club, where they were most
| Hospitality entertained until the ban
quet hour.
The year 1898 has been one of es-
pecial progress for Morgantown. The
public Improvements made there dur
ing that time have far exceeded those
of any previous year. The citizens of
the "Athens" are to be congratulated
upon their wisdom in the selection of
a council who have so ably solved some
of the perplexing questions of munich
pal ICtOl Ill anu anu w
doubt not they will continue in the
line they have so well begun. The
members of the present city council
are:
w. e. Glasscock, ESQ.,, Mayor.
Mr.. w. e. Arnett, Recorder.
Messrs. w. w. Hayes, E. Shisler, A.
| w. Lorentz, Joseph Moreland and
Fred Hennen, Councilman.
John G. Samsel, City Engineer.
T. Bennett, Chief of Police, and
Harry Pride, Assistant.
Some members of the Fairmont
party have not been frequent visitors
to Morgantown, but even those who
expressed considerable surprise at the
metropolitan airs she is taking on.
The sudden decline in the thermom-
eter and the heavy snow fall that ush-
cred in the new year prevented very
much outdoor sightseeing, but these
are few of the many Improvements
that attracted our attention.:
| Main, Foundry and part Of Front
street are all paved with fire brick
from the Glade Fire Brick Company,
of Fairmont but the Morgantown
Brick Company has lately been organ
lied with home capital and plant in
Seneca with capacity of 30, 900 daily.
The Postmaster DR.. J. P. Fitch,
WILL beginning with this week dis
pense mail from the new postoffice,
the Brock, White & Courtney building
a magnificent three story brown stone
front, that is just completed. The
building is most substantial one and
entirely fire proof The postoffice
which is commodious, is equipped
with new and up-to-date furniture
throughout.
| One of the monuments to the thrift
and culture of our neighbors, and a
credit to the State as well as the town
is the new public school building just
nearing completion. The structure
is pressed buff brick, of beautiful de
sign modern in all its appointments,
contains twenty-one rooms and was
erected at a cost of 100000.
Another splendid business house
soon to be completed is the Poster
building a red Roman pressed brick O..
four stories which is very substan
tial piece of architecture.
| A $50, 1000 wing has been added to
the main University building this
year.
During the coming year new M.
e. church will be erected at a cost of
500, 900 and new Lutheran church is
now building.
Another anticipated improvement
for the coming year is municipal
building and still another is free
bridge across the Monongahela river
Altogether the prospects for sue
cessful era for Morgantown are very
bright, but, like Fairmont the COM
munity is hampered by being cut up
into three municipal corporations
Morgantown, South Morgantown and
Seneca-but new city charter and a
Greater Morgantown let us hope, is
not in the far distant future.
| The party returned home Sunday
morning with full determination to
go back again real soon, or else have
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