The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-26
MERCHANTS DAIS
During State Fair Week WIN be
Hammers Without Doubt.
COMMITTEE IS HARD Al WORK
And has Practically Completed All
the Arrangcments-A $1,000 Fire
works Display Wednesday Night
II y Proposed 70 Erect sixteen or
Twenty Electrically Lighted Arches
on Main and Market streets.


The Merchants Day committee has
nearly completed arrangements for the
entertainment Of the thousands OF
Etrangers who win be attracted to the
city BY the excellence OF the programme
mapped out for their beneat, There
will be two days OF undivided pleas
pre'for all OF such nature that every
man. woman and child who can win be
only too willing to take advantage Of
the very liberal rates offered by the
railroads, and. come to Wheeling 10 see
the big show.
From the moment the visitors enter
the city until they go home there will
be an abundance of amusements and
slght-seellng AFFORDED for them, as a
glance at the programme arranged by
the committee will show. It IS as fol-
lows;
wednesday September 9th.
Morning-Arrlvul OF the visitors. All
trains on all roads win be met by a
committee. and the strangers escorted
to headquarters. The morning win be
devoted to merchant meeting merchant
and sight seeing generally. Trips
about the city to the industrial estab-
Illhments. parks, etc. win also be
made.
Afternoon-A visit to the West VIr-
ginia Exposition and State Fair, where
an especially fine racing and amuse-
ment programme viii be carried out.
Observation-Disclosures $3.50 display
of fireworks from barges anchored in
the Ohio river, opposite the public
landing.
Thursday September 9TH.
Mornlng-More sightseeing and visits
to points of interest in and about the
city.
Afternoon-Another visit to the State
Fair. This will be West Virginia Day
at the fair. and the racing programme
includes the 2:2s pace 2:2s trot and the
grand free-for-all pace.
Evening-Free ride on special trains
around the city and surrounding towns.
For this, every railroad entering the
city has offered special trains, and
there viii be an abundance of red fire
and Gre works on hand for the occa-
sion. A complete circuit OF Wheeling
will be made, and the trip will include
Benwood. Bellalre, Bridgeport. Mar
tins Ferry and other towns.
The committee has worked hard to
make Merchants Days this year the
best of all. and their efforts should be
appreciated by the citizens generally.
Messrs. schwertfeger, Meyer, Mccoy
and others have labored might and
main, and they have the thanks Of the
community.
AS to the fireworks display, Il may be
stated that 1t will be the finest ever
seen in Wheeling. It will commence
promptly at 8 o'clock Wednesday eve
ming. and there will be no charge for
anything. Several persons approach
ed the committee, asking for the privi-
lege to erect a grand stand on the
wharf, where people would be required
to pay for seats, but they were re-
fused.
There is a movement on foot which
should be pushed through without the
least trouble, and that is plan where
by electric arches WIN be erected on
Market and Main streets, at the inter-
section of all streets and alleys from
the creek to Tenth street. Council has
granted permission for the use of the
streets and the Idea is to erect sixteen
or twenty arches, and allow them to re-
main until after the Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge and Tri-state Encamp-
ment, which occurs october 10 to oeso-
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