The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-29
BUT WITH FLOOD WALLS TO PRO-
TeSI MnEELINo-wHAT
Rev. ,. Sumner Stone Discusses the
Flood Problem-WheeIina Can
Have Protection " she
Mani u.

-he Nail City is forming the habit
~ attempting a mans job. She has
certainly turned a corner In her ca
seer. The day OF small things has
passed forever. A Wheeling cOngre-
cation II now ready TO appreciate the
TWO suggestive divisions OF a cele-
prsted old-time sermon. Attempt
Great Things. Expect Great Things.
What 10 Wheeling facing now? Notn
Ing less than the task OF controlling
the Ohio river In its most rampageous
moods. saying TO the yellow floods.
Hitherto shalt thou come and no far
Their; there shall thy proud waves be
stayed" Is this like the mad dream
OF a king OF England n sat on his
throne in the path OF the tide n or
dered back the billows2 Modern engi-
neers are more powerful than old King
Canute. The lntelligencer was never
more worthy its name than now when
II IL advocating and demonstrating
h feasibility OF protecting the homes
and industries of Wheeling from the
annual visitations OF the Ohio river
In food. The Nal City Is winning the
respect OF the nation as an Industrial
center. Capital Is turning her way.
Her hills and valleys ofer the highest
opportunities to investors. Coal n
gas In prodigal abundance are all
about you. Transit facilities by rail
and water are all that can be de-
sired.
a N~svisable Stage.
Arrangements are being completed
for a ~navigable stage of water the
year round. Her citizens have dem
onstrated that they are able to give
a SQUARE Teal and a clear field to the
man with money or the man with
Drawn and brain who desires TO in
vest his capital in their neighborhood.
Big Business Is looking Wheelingward
for sites and developments unexcelled
anywhere.
with a passionate love for the
bank and braes" OF the Ohio river.
though a wanderer from the Ems
of my boyhood for more han thirty
years, I never return but I am
stirred by evidence of the new life
in the old town. What our fathers
hardly dared dream their son &C
cept as almost commonplace in these
days of Enterprise.
Wheeling has an increasingly ser
ious problem facing her sons. A
more strenuous and convincing ad-
yocate han the Intelligencer thun-
ders its menacing message. The
Ohio river every year. some times
twice or three times a year summons
you to rub your eyes, sit up and
think. When | was n boy in my Is
land home an occasional flood was
a picnic TO us youngsters. Our faith
ers talked OF 80" and so" as mem
cries g to the oldest inhabitant,
occasions when the Ohio river
showed what II could do. But their
boys in their teens can tell "Whop-
pers" about the old Ohio hat would
maxi the fathers blush. The facts
are n ono Is passing from the per
iodical to he habitual. The appeal
from philip drunk TO Philip
sober" loses its force when Philip is
always liable to be full. The Ohio
vas never so unreasonable m ir-
rational in getting full as the last
t4p,a % kraL. ave No AAAu ,an fnr-
cast its conduct. Once We knew
from the marks at Pittsburgh
what IL might do at Wheeling. But
there are hundreds about town who
have not recovered from the losses
incurred by depending last year up
The facts are that Parkersburg and
not Pittsburgh must be looked "a
in the future II we complete our for
casts OF floods.
Paul Revere Role.
The Intelligencer Is playing the
role of Paul Revere as it sumons the
citizens OF Wheeling to 10
meet wore disasters. ! know not II
the Intelligencer will grow weary OF
ringing the alarm bells. | am Ger
a the old Ohio will keep the mat
ter before your minds. Protect
yourselves is his message or take
the consequences.
We laugh al the saying The Duici
have aiken Holland II was no joke
TO the Dutch when they wrestled will
the tremendous ask OF beating bacl
the North sea. wrestling victory from
repeated defeats until they forever
freed their land from the incursion,
OF the ocean.
Our problem Of compelling the Ohio
river to keep within its banks Is bu
childs play compared with the feat
OF the Dutch. accomplished before the
A-1 .aLWL-Aa - ---U
neering were other than the stun q
which are dreams are made What
the Dutch did by all but brute
strength. whipping both the North So;
and Philip OF Spain with Alva as q
sort OF side issue in their fight. wsi
command the applause OF man to tn,
n Of time. Dutch grit will also in
cite men to great deeds wherever Their
story Is reCited. am neither ar
engineer nor the son OF an engineer
so ! will not attempt TO demonstrate
how Wheeling con shut Ohio flood.
from her homes and factories. The
Dutch blood In my veins inspires the
conviction that IL can be lone. NJ
n will deny that IL paid the Dutcl
to make their experiment. vii
leave II 10 the Intelligence 20 ciphei
out in dollars and cents the cost ant
the probable saving to Wheeling bl
protecting with dykes. n Island anC
the exposed parts Of tho main LAND
occupied by the city. Let others tel
how material can bc sucked by nv
draulic mach ines from the bed Of me
river accomplishing two valuable To-
suits. the deepening Of the chaunc
and the protection from floods.
Watched Others.
have visited Seattle and witnessed
some n the engineering victories ac
cOmplished by hat young western
city On the W av 81 driving back tho
Oceau. retaining land. levcling hills
and doing other things that seem inn
pOssibilitics 10 ONE Whcoliugites.
IN Manila ] have watched our folk
with their little brown brothers wresi
square miles. wore or less. from tho
sea and add And OF untold value Ia
the G. pital Of the Philippine. dem
onstratlng that Yankees are not be-
hind the Dutch when great things arc
20 be % Important docks and ono
Of the greatest hotels ln the east now
occupy that reclaimed land
wish ] could describe % Won the
splendid fcafe accomplished bv tho
Brazilians ln Rio. the most beautiful
city In the world. have phof0rrapha
Of a sea vail where the waves dash =
hundred feet into tho air as tho sn1
against the barriers rot f0 efay
ifa proud pillows Those faTIDua ur.
der Tho Grnan arann Ca T.r..H