The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-08-20
AL. FINLEY, PIONEER PRINTER
OF THIS CITY, VISITS HERE
STARTED WORK on TsTEIu.
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Tas Travelled Throughout ire Coun-
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Captain Al FINLEY. tourist printer.
one who L. known IN practically every
shop from Maine 90 California ana
from Canada 10 Florida stupped m
th~ city yesterday afternoou on Ms
Nay from Carrul'on. onto 10 the
Chesapeake bay. and 20 show that NE
feelings stll revert back to The OLD
n times. stopped az the in.ellgeucer'-
onlce- Captain Finley Vho worked
Win me pioneer newspsp@rrn-n 81
Wheeling. and Who worked In the
Ola luteillssncer's COMPOSING room
gave many interesting incidents q hts
NE. and also the many char e-s that
nave taken place since be set type
here BY the hand system
Afhough No. has reached the axe OF
81 yearE. be- stiu Is spry and active
ana able 90 step With the younger
boys Ills life h an open hook. ready
Tor Inspection. and when IRE vim,
come 90 cross the great Divide. Al
viii D. there HE handmade. pleas
ant words and jovial manner. wins
him friends wherever he goes ana
MS friends number into the thous-
ands Not only Is he tourist. out
a poet and artist. as well He satd
last niEht Il feel somewhat like the
spirit displayed In Shakespeare 8
story n Hamlets fathers ghost 4
am doomed 20 walk the earth by nirnt
and day until my sins are purged
away
Early Work or "inteIL"
He said. u came 90 this city m
lsso. having learned my trade IN
1873 and BEGAN work on the old In
telligencer The boys that I worked
with then. have most an gone over
the Great Divide They were All
princes. Among those with whom
he worked. some OF whom sim live.
were Jack Ninder. Marsh Robinson.
Col Hamilton. Dave Dillow. Captain
Sims. brother Of Ned. Tom car
nahan. Bernie White. Pete Corbett
nov foreman 81 the Courier Journal
OF Louisville. Ham" and Tom SIvey.
and Doc" Nichols composed the list
Seven % them have started work on
their last paper
They made up the old IntelIigenca-
guard I % here IN 1854 and went
90 Washington and then on south and
visited every state but Florida I Eot
tied up In Jacksonville. BY the Times
Union. or ] would have gone through
the state. One incident that may in.
terest. was the time Jim Getty. who
d. now dead. and .. went 20 the The
Farent Chautauqua." Chautauqua
Lake. Work was scarce. and a crowd
OF printers was standing around. At
last We made up our minds 20 20 into
the Chauiauqua office and get a Job
u was Ike prison. high walls. and
everything had a penal air We mad
10 do something Tor We only had rs
cents piece. so after cogitating Jim
went In. He got a letter telling us
both 10 come inside and IN we went
We remained there a few days and
decided TO get out
There was only one way could
see. for you know they made you
stay inside that enclosure on sunday
but down toward the lower end OF the
pen was big pool Of water with
barbsd wire stretched under the wall
We made up our minds 10 10 through
there. Just as ] was getting a good
start an old man yelled for as 10 come
back inside. Wen. I came back. but
J left the greater part Of my pants
with the fence
Praise for Pioneers.
"One thine . want 20 tell you before
forget aud that is about the men
4" no managed the old IntelllEencer.
There was John Frew and brother.
Bob. both fine men. Old Archie Camp
bell was there too. and let me say
that he was the whitesf' man ! ever
knew Jack Winder was foreman
There is another man that we don't
find equals for very often Re met
his men with smile and never had
a crouch Work with him was pleas
ure. am going back nos % see my
brother az no is growing very old. and
BE- ] don see him this time. I don't
expect We viii meet again this side
Of the grave"
Al seldom comes here Ho only
came this time 20 see the old men
whom be used 20 work with The
city has now put on a metropolitan
afr and 20 use his own words. q
didn't know Market street" He con.
fInued that he was on hls way down
where the oysters grow" Al began
life az printer in 1879 and has been
i0 the business ever since. but the
hand ~ time has dImmed bic eyes
end DO cannot work fhe night shifts
aa ho used % Hr has made name
for himself in the printer world. and
also during Die ifn har0ism haa been
@ feature Tho following incident be-
told o. him while travelling through
fha middle west.
Saves Train From Wreck.
During recent threapeeka work
re 1nInurr In Arthur rr modoaffv