The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-31
LIVELY TIMES
In wheeling
AIT MIDNIGHT
Tonight When the Two Pythiant
Twelve Founders and Little
Tip, Assisted by
CHURCH ! AND SCHOOL BELLS
And Whistles Galore Will Usher in
the New century-Arrange-
ments Completed.

Practically complete are the arrange
ments for the ushering In OF the New
Year, and Century tonight in Wheeling.
During the hour between midnight and
! O'clock pandemonium will be let
loose. flguratlvely speaklng-the two
Pythian battery twelve Founders
Will rs try to Guido each other
stationed on the brows Of Wheel
Ing and chapllne hills. respectively,
while the Inteliigencer cannon. Little
Tip" will Join. in the chorus from the
Wharf, under the direction Of that bat
2tle-scarred veteran, Capt Caleb Sylvis.
Then nearly every church and school
bell In Wheeling and the surrounding
towns will add to the volume Of the
racket while factory whistles, locomo-
tive whistles and steamboat whistles
will Join In with their shrillest blast.
Again. there will be the shooting cane,
the cannon cracker and every other old
noise making device that has survived
the Glorious Fourth and the late cam
paign. All these combined viii punctu-
ate the midnight air from IL to / with
little or no intermission. after which
the New Year and Century may be said
to have had its official christening.
The Battery Boys.
The boys of Battery a, Uniform
Rank. Knights of Pythias-the only Sc
cret society battery In the United
States-are taking great interest in
the demonstration. Yesterday Capt.
John ". Reed selected the details for
the two guns, as follows:
Az. Gun No. l.
IN Commandment. Edward Birch.
Post-WheelIng hill.
Gunners-Hugh Cusck. William Gill,
Edward Molter, ST.. Gus Franzhelm,
wv. c. Williamson, Charles Levy,
Eugene stamm, Charles Funk.
(, Gun No. 2.
In Commandment. Edward Elliott.
Post-Chapline hill.
Gunners-Harry Bodley, Herman
Friedrich, j. W. P. Crawford Samuel
Stringer, ]. G. Nixon, William Wiede-
busch, J.. L. Scott. Ambrose Brown.
The two guns will be taken to their
respective posts this evening Mt z
O'clock, No. l by four horses furnished
by the Reymann Brewing Company,
and No. 2 by animals from the Whita-
-ker iron works. Accompanying the guns
will be wagons carrying kegs of water
to be used in swabbing. and n miscel-
laneous assortment Of boxes to be used
for a camp fire. The details will as
-semble ut the city building promptly at
) 10 O'Clock tonight, to, march to their
posts. The first shot will be fired by
No. l gun promptly at Il o'clock, and
one and one-half minutes later No. 2
Will respond; thereafter the guns to al
ternate at Intervals of ninety seconds,
until each has fired twenty rounds at
a m.
The Speaking.
z On Tuesday afternoon at O'clock,
the presentation OF the Commemorative
tablet which the committee is to have
placed in the south wall of the city
building. will occur. The. speech Of
presentation will be made by Secretary
S. A. Thompson, of the boabrd of trade,
and that of acceptance by Mayor
Sweeney. The committee expects to be
able to have q band on hand for this
function.
The finance committee will mike its
trip through the business district
this afternoon. to raise the s12S' needed
to defray the expense Of the gun sa-
l1tes tablet atc