Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30
BOARD OF TRADE MATTERS.
FOR THE CONFER
ENCE WITH GENERAL MANAGER
UNDERWOOD OF THE b. & o.
NEXT WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Meeting VIII be Open to Any
Member of the Board - Messrs.
Laugh1in and stone Meeting With
announcement In the Theatre
Proiect-Chamber of Commerce
Will Probably BE Discontinued.

The railroad committee of the Wheel
ing Board Of Trade had very i'm
portant meeting yesterday morning,
and made arrangements for the confer
ence with General Manager Underwood
of the B. & O. next Wednesday morn
ing, and for entertaining him at the
Fort Henry club during his stay in
Wheeling. The object OF Mr.. Under
woods visit as previously stated, is to
confer with the Board OF Trade rela-
tive to the new passenger depot here,
and an improved passenger train SER
vice for Wheeling
1t was decided at the committee
meeting yesterday that it would be pro-
per to invite the entire board to be
present when Mr.. Underwood comes.
1t was decided to issue special notices
to the members. If the board rooms in
the Hub building are found to be too
small to accommodate all who may at
tend, the meeting may adjourn to the
Opera House or the Carroll Club Audi
tCrium.
General Manager Underwood will ar
rive in Wheeling in his private car at
1890 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Mssrs. Laughlin and Stone did some
more canvassing yesterday, for sub
scriptions to the proposed Stock Com
pany for the erection CT new theatre
buiIuing. and received a great deal of
encouragement. The project is one
which citizens cannot well afford to
discourage, inasmuch as a commodious
modern theatre is an excellent adver-
tiSement of a community. The need
of such an institution in Wheeling has
long been felt and it has frequently
been intimated that if the proper
per sons interested themselves in
the matter, no difficulty would
be experienced in = raising the
necessary capital. The opportun-
ity is now presented, and even if
men of means are dubious about the
investment, they should subscribe %
the stock as a matter of local pride
Anything which gees to make Wheeling
a desirable residence city, is obviously
of benefit to the merchants. II the pro-
posed theatre would attract patronage
from other towns, it would be an adj
ditional advantage to the city.
A subscription to the capital stock is
not a contribution, however. 1t is a
business proposition, which the projec-
tors believe will pay seven per cent
certainly six per cent. upon the invest
ment from the start. The promoters
are dealing with facts. The building
will cost $120,000, and any person de-
string to invest can be convinced that
it will yield a six per cent. profit, al
lowing for all margins of expense. The
theatre can be leased for a period of
five years, at $1,000 rental per annum.
as soon as it is completed Messrs.
Laughlin and Stone have already raised
$4,000 of the $50, 5000 which is nee
essary to make the theatre an assured
fact. They should experience no diff
Guilty in getting the remainder.
The proposed building would be the
handsomest in the city, without excep-
ton. Not only would it supply the
need for a new theatre but the neces-
sity for a commodious convention hall
as well. The Board of Trade will have
its committees to look after State con-
ventions, and large assemblages which
attract strangers to the city, and the
committee would be in a much better
position to secure conventions if it
could offer a centrally located, COM
mOdiCus hall. The scheme has many
advantages, not the least being the GER
tainty of satisfactory returns for finan-
cial investment