Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
We MUST EXTEND
TO MEET THE DEMAND,
IS THE EXPRESSION OF SUCCESS
FUl BUSINESS MAN OF WIDE
EXPEHiESCE.
TAKE FULTON AND MORE
INTO wheeIing's City Limits anu
Build Homes 10 Meet the Dcman"
for Them-Wheeiing Wonderiui
Trade Cenfer-Fuiton Is wise IN
Her Council.


Manager W. Allen, Of the great
House & Hermann establishment, was
found yesterday on the third floor OIL
the big store very busy experimenting
the arrangement of lot of new goods,
but he took time to give his valuable
views on khe Fulton annexation ques-
ton and Greater Wheeling:
Most assuredly am in favor of TAX
ing in the town of Fulton. was glad
to learn through the columns of the
Register that the Council of that vii
lage had adopted an annexation reso-
luton. It's streets are used largely by
Wheeling vehicles, its enterprises are
largely the property of Wheeling citi-
zens. yet the only revenue the town de-
rives from these is the small tax on
the real estate occupied by the Wheel
ing industries located there. Futon is,
in a sense, a part of Wheeling already.
1t gets its water from this city. The
adoption of the annexation resolution
was an evidence vi good judgment On
the part of the Town Council. Its bur
den of taxation can but grow heavier
yet its geographical situation is such
that it is simply impossible for 1t to
increase its area. Not only Fulton, but
Leatherwood and all that beautiful resi-
dence section up to and including EN-
s,,fA I,n ov41 cd
city limits. The beautiful residences
along the line of the Wheeling & Elm
Grove railway are the homes of Wheel
ing business and professional men and
their families and yet the city gets no
credit for them in the census returns
of population, as the Register apty
stated
The town of Fulton has but about
one hundred voters and a population
OF less than a thousand and yet it has
to pave and keep in repair streets that
thousands outside of it's limits are con-
stantly using. Yet it gets nothing, nor
can it get anything in the way of reve-
nue. from these thousands who leave
nothing in its stores. as the great es-
Establishments of this city-a third or
half mile away in a direct line.
certainly hope to see that whole valley
added TO Wheeling's corporatei limits.
There is scarcely any other section
available for fine residences, and GER
4ainly none more attractive. Business
will extend into the new northern
suburb that is so rapidly taking shape.
That is to say. it will be occupied by
manufacturing plants and homes for
those employed in them, and doubtless
more-erowded out of the present mar
row limits, where property is too val
liable to admit of low rents for homes
The eity's business interests are stead
lily and rapidly crowdine against and
Into the residence section of the smaller
Wheeling. Families are giving up
their town houses and building beauti-
full homes in the valley section, which
is already worthy to be called a royal
suburb.
There is no question of greater flu
ture for this city. Already 1t is the
trade center of population within a
radius of three or four miles at most,
the monthly pay roll of whose manufae-
turing establishments exceeds a mill on
dollars per month. New plants are To-
eating within this radius, increased de-
mands for skilled laborers imperatively
call for a class of houses suited to
their needs, and we simply must ex-
tend our borders to keep pace with the
demands uponu us as city. Greater
Wheeling is not a question, it is
necessity"
1t may not be generally known that
Manager Allen has been traveller in
many lands. But it is true that there