Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-19
MANINGTON.
a Great and Growing Town Won
derfuI Resources of Marion Coun-
ty's Second City.

0NSaN AM0 NEOWlnB
derful Resources of Marion Coun
ty's second City.
Special to the Register.
MANNINGTON, w. Va, May 49,
Warrington, the second city in pop
ulation and importance in Marion
county, was incorporated in 1852. TIT
town was laid out by James H. Fur
bee, ST., who owned the land at tina
time. The history of the early settle
ment is conflicting in many points, but
q family named Beatty claim TO bt
the original proprietors of the land
and have in their possession papers
drawn up and signed by Patrick Henry
of Virginia, conveying a large tract
of land to them in this section. The
population of Warrington in 1880 was
908. 1t is now over 5000 and still
growing. Warrington grew SO fast
in the days of the great building boom
that many old inhabitants who went
to bed at night did not know which
part of the town they lived in the next
morning.
The town is a model is all respects.
being lighted by electricity and gas, has
paved streets, water works and sew
erage.
There are five churches in the town,
consisting of the following denomina-
lions: Methodist Episcopal, Baptist.
Presbyterian, Catholic and Episcopal
ian. The Methodist Episcopal church
is one Of the finest ediices of its kind
in the State, and was built at a cost
of $25, 900, and has one of the finest
pipe organs in West Virginia. The
City Opera House has a seating capac-
ity of 1000, but will soon be replaced
by a larger building.
The town has three banks, all of
which do a large business, the Ex-
change bank being the sixth in size
of business, In the State.
A new city building will be erected
at a cost of 1000, and the new pub
lie school building, which was fin
ished a short time ago, is one of the
finest school buildings in the State,
costing, when complete, $4,000. The
Masons will erect a three-story brick
business block this summer. Several
business blocks are now going up and
many more will be built during the
ummer. There has never been enough
houses to shelter the people of the
town since the oil boom first started,
many living in tents and shantTes on
the outskirts of the town and build
Ing dwelling houses as they could. A
large number of dwelling houses are
continually under construction, and
1t is safe to say that several hundred
will be erected here during the sum-
mer. The principal hotels of the town
are the Bartlett and the Floyd. The
Bartlett will be replaced by a $4,000
brick hostelry as soon as plans suita-
Bile are accepted. The Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company are negotiat-
ing for property on which to build a
SIS, 900 depot, the plans for the build
ing having, already been accepted.
Warrington has several manufac-
tories which add to the commercial
Importance of the town. The Man
nington Glass Company employs over
$50 men, manufactures both pressed
and blown ware, and is a three-tank
concern.
The<West Virginia Boiler and Ma
chine Company works employ over 100
men and manufacture everything in
the way of coal mining machinery, as
well as boilers. They also have a pat
ent on a steel elevator, which in time
will be a big thing for Warrington
in the manufacturing line. The Phil
lips Oil Well and Tool Manufacturing
Company plant is located here. They
supply part of Pennsylvania, all of
Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and CAL
ifornia in drilling and fishing tools.
They employ a large number of men.
The Leidecker Tool Company. the
Burt Manufacturing Company's tan
merry, the largest in the State; the
H. Stewart marble works, the largest
marble works in the State; the Baker
and the Furbee Touring mills, and a
soft clay brick plant are other i'm
portant manufactures.
Warrington has excellent deposits
of soft and fire brick clay. The fire
brick clay has been tested by experts