Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-14

AS a result OF the meeting at Mar
tins Ferry last evening between some
sixty business men and representative
citizens and a committee from the
Wheeling Board of Trade, that city
will be represented on the floor of the
Wheeling board in order to better pro-
mote the interests of the communities.
That was the sense of last nights
meeting, although the vote for that plan
of operation as against forming an
Independent board of trade received
only two majority.
The meeting was held in the Shreve-
Hervey block. There were present Sec
rotary Thompson, Assistant Secretary
Adams and Messrs. George S. Feeney,
William Schwertfeger, J. ]. Holloway,
Charles w. Franzheim and Lawrence
Sands, deputised as the Wheeling board
committee. The following citizens of
Martins Ferry were present: James
A. Dickson and George H. Smith, of
the Commercial bank; Will II. Wood,
Judge John S. Cochran, T. II. Stanton,
John Hayne, Herwward Long, Thorn
as Green, stephen Hopkins, Theodore
Snodgrass, T. w. Shreve, R. T. VIII
Jams, John Moore, HI. G. Pratt, Henry
Stanton, E. E. McCombs, w. T. Dixon,
Alexander Dixon, Howard Smith, Sam
uel Hope, E. j. A. Drennen, L. L.
Scheehle, George w. Reece, W. B. Fran
els, J. p Farwell, president of the
council; S. T. Kerr, Frederick Jones,
e. ]. Hoyie F. R. Sedgwick, j. E. Reyn-
olds, l.. c. Sedgwick, Mayor Goodhue,
DIR. A. R. Ong, ]. T. Hanes, ]. G. Camp
field, Councilman John Frazier, City
Solicitor George Cook, Eearl Wells,
Louis Perry, Alvin Sedgwick. Ira Sedg
wick, Thomas Pugh, Walter Taylor, w.
L. Noble, Henry Rothermond, John
Fewcett, L. Greyson, r. G.. Heslop,
Adam Werning, j. A. Moore, August
Kratz, r. R. Kerr and Fred Dixon.
Mr.. Drennen was chairman and ].
E. Blackford secretary. Mr.. Drennen
called upon Secretary Thompson to ex-
plain the object of the meeting.
Mr.. Thompson said he did not know
exactly what action the citizens of
Martins Ferry desired to take, but it
was especially for the benefits to be
derived from operation between the
two cities. To illustrate his point, he
read an explanatory section from the
charter of the Wheeling board in which
it stated that the board was organized
for Wheeling and vicinity He went
on to explain that the gentlemen who
organized the Wheeling Board OF
Trade did not want the work to stop
at the city limits of Wheeling, but
wanted to embrace the entire neighbor-
hood. While in the northwest he saw
the results of jealousy existing between
neighboring towns. He was glad to
nnd no such feeling in the Wheeling
board, as the board in its entirety rec
ognized the fact that in community as
closely allied as Wheeling and it's en-
virons, what benefited one benefited
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He said he believed cooperation
could be effected. The only question
was: What is the proper basis? How
can the two cities best work together
Tor their common interest?
INIT. j. j. Holloway was called upon.
His remarks were brief He explained
the presence of the committee to de-
wise some way by which manufacture
ing interests may be made to locate in
this section. He said he believed
Martins Ferry should have some rep
resentation directly or indirectly on
the Wheeling board.
The other gentlemen on the commit
tee spoke briefly.
Chairman Drennen said Board of
Trade had been organized in Martins
Ferry once or twice in the past ten
years but died. and he invited express
sions of opinion.
Mr.. J. I. Hanes moved to organize
Board OF Trade. He suggested that
Martins Ferry citizens try to sustain
a board for time, and if this proved
impossible, then was it possible to fall
back upon the Wheeling board. 1t did
not follow that the two boards could
not cooperate for the common veal.
Then followed a rather general as
cussion of the advisability of forming
en- independent board or the mer-
chants of the town joining the Wheel
Ing board. Mr.. Thompson was asked
a number of questions.
Upon being asked his candid and I'M
biased opinion of the most advanta-
geous mode of procedure, he said it