Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24


street fWd jsFes above out FIFTH avenue 70 Riverside
hive The characteristics Of the typical American indus
trial city are in evidence everywhere only marvelousy
multiplied
The broader the base Of pyramid the higher its peak
rse and the misery OF the poor is abect here
and such vast acreage, while Individual fortunes
loom like church Spires all this writing human tolnda
ton. In Wheeling building tradesmen look for days
work. New Yorks East Side men stand with pitlful
inadequate kit Of tools wrapped up in oil cloth, looking
for an hour work-a half hours work There work
ing people who live in Easements and in upstairs il
heeng there they living in atcs and In sub cellars
We have Is cent restaurants and two dollar ones Their
they have two cent restaurants and twenty dollar ones
the relative medium of any city there stretches out
as glass blower stretches bulb, two thin extremes
That is what has given Americans false impreSSlo
on New York the extremes which the newspapers k
featureas There value in the fact tina
four millions of people living normal lives, earnins
daily bread by the sweat of their brow, but there's
news value in shooting scrape between DRINKS in Null
Berry or white among the Chinese, monkey
Inner Fifth avenue So we get the idea that New
vast riot of guns and Knives and idleness and
adness generally We think Fifth royal row
East Side den of vice too dangerous to tread with
atpoce escort Now Fifth Avenue has stores at one en-
you to take money, and residences al
heher end that you cannot enter because you haven
money And there surely nothing peculiar to New Yorl
in that
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struck with brick 1t is safer than any uniol
mining town in West Virginia The only thing that strikes
theghtseer is the awful poverty OF the people The
avideee is so overwhelming proof in the babies that fill
the sidewalk because there is other place for them
the Uttered fire escapes of the hghstored tene
nnt proof in the Of squaor the miles Of misery
proof the signs that fill the poorly kept windows OF the
poorly kept stores and deck the pushcarts that line up
endessy against the curb in every direction advertising
everything ri ct '2 cts 3 cts '-everything imagn-
able for needs of people who live not only from day
day. but from meal to meal That's the trouble with the
East Sidenot it's crme not it's feuds not its robberes
and rl1rders-its Poverty! There no more than
such conditions would breed anywhere There is simply
great poverty The vasness Of the population makes the
contrasts geater than smaller city, contrast which is
proved by the white gloves the hands Of the Fifth
policemen and long clubs in the hands OF East Side
i cops.
New York has failed to do anything to justify it's size
Galveston produced Commission Charter, Mobile In
slranee Law Salt Lake CITY developed Mormanism Bog-
ton had Tea Party, Philadelphia the Constitution Pitts
burgh produced Carnegie and heeng took the fame Of
being the first city to refuse Carnegie Library but New
York. with better natural advantages than any other
city in heand has done nothing but make great fortunes
for few and greater misery for the many
ID Collecting $121 100000 year in taxes the people
have nothing they can call their but the and
enagerie And there they have to take off their hats
and with funeral STEALTH and submit to constant
watching though they expected to steal the corpse
The ctys transportations system is Wanted it's
chief claim to dstincton and yet Boston ahead with
subway, and when New York got system it with
the agreement that it would remain the private property
Of group Of expoters for fifty years to comet 1t costs
five cents for the cheapest ride with seldom chance for
seat 80 persons year killed by the in Brooklyn
alone costs $150O0o0 to operate gets revenue
Of 90 cents per mile at cost of cents and per capita
per year of $16 half the have hand brakes
posed wheels and no lenders and of the employees
work only half time and all average but OF week
aProportionately we beat all this in Wheeing with
privately owned street railways, but in Glasgow,
where the public the street railways the average
fare is two CENTS standing in the not allowed whole
years pass without single fatality the operating cost is
100000 the revenue mile is % cents the operat
ing the cost u CENTS the per capita have
safety wheel gllars no hand brakes for many