The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-08
"NHFE[|NG AND SUBURBS ONE
j. LARGE FAMILY THAT SHOULD
Be UNITED" SAYS CAPT. PRICE
Great CITY NOT A 1HvotUT1OF-
AIRY MOVEMENT BUT FO1LOM1D
CnuTSr 0P NATURAL EVENTS.
WHEELING SHOULD BECOME CITY
OF 10000, 900 ATTG1 THE CA"AA
Is COMPLETED.
ROOM FOE ExFASIoN MUST he
PROvDED TO MEET HouSN0
FACILITIES.

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Mayor Klein called the meeting 10 or;
der and John r. Arbcnz was selected
chairman and. with few rcmarhs' OPEN
! ed the meeting. n
The first speaker t called t Was Greater re-
Wheeling project was not a revol9iono
airy movement. but Just followed tEe
course of events. London. the largcst
CITY in the world, was combination W
cities. said Mr.: Naylor. as Lona ~,
portion Of the greater city. ne sain saTe
Greater Wheeling movement pesai'
about 10 years ago and mas grown W
the dimensions of Today when the pro
inct should be launched. as 1t has been
completed in almost every dctall. lne
NJ rsonncl Of the Greater wheeling COIL COIL.
| mittee was gone over. and practically
| ali OF il comprised residents OF the s ,.,
| urbs and were heavy taapayet ~, com
delay in bringing the matter 10 tne su
munity as a whole was the need LOT
| less cumbersome city government Will MN,
| he said, the city now had ana inc .ii.e
was now ripe TO bring II ociorc 'ne
Cities expand according to Their nat ~
urai growth. II Wheeling wanted 70
remain the original town laid out ~
! Ebcnezer Zane should never nave aosoi =.
cd Ritchietown and went Iro'H III a Saw,or
| n city BY the acquisition. MI; -1''.
made long and interesting tax on lme
| hjrrcr city and presented Sood arsu-
| ments for It's consummatlon; nc W.
followed BY Capt. jarvis isod to sneiT
~. I've Is q recent arrival in the commu;
nity, but he said he liked Whceilns ano a
| her suburbs and spoke OF thSin as On
big family. with no ties that I pr;n. ". snid
that tho building Of the Lake ERE Snu
| 0hjo canal which was sure 10 coine'
would add prestige 10 Wheeiins'r I nno
ing her a city not of +5'OVo or "r ,,mst
hut 100000 or more. ana .S Snan oSSnsnsion.
come in tho city to meet TINS ekpahhs' ,I,l,
ond the only outlet was through the
| suburbs. o,Lor want
! cd 10 know what the SUBURBS VIII
from Greater Whecling. ne s,Ihrrhan
TOWNS money and wanted to know what
| moro Wheeling wants. he saIo LIZ i.,,
| YYheelins's business houses ana lnstItu
! tions gouGe customers from, the suou[us.
| According to Mr.. IverSon. EdF~ooo mas
l ius, as good fire department az
Wheeling and that the larger city Just
\ wanted TO get the suburban towns IN "
get more money.
STANLEY Floyd next had the floor ana
as an answer 10 Mt IVerson saIu 10
wall fifty feet high around her borders
that the outlying towns %ouIo DC the
| first TO raise a cry. He sold that inc
| suburbs needed Whccling's co-opcrat'on
more Than Wheeling needed .he w shesi ~.
/ Mr. Floyd said that the properties IN an
] OUTLYING towns would he increased IN
: value and tho same would Dc .Tue y.
| Wheeling property. Flc adrocateo .,ic
! removing Of the barrier between tne
: mother CITY and her children as he
i; likcncd the smaller communities oy GU
operation and said that the fire protec.
! ton in out tho pike towns was oi.ty
! fair as m ordinary fire would ne DC De
tnr
Ting was the only solution TO "hceIihb
| creek md tho Rrwer question. -
Robert Anderson said he was on" o!
the oldest residents of Edgwood ana
favored the merging INTO srca,ec co.;
or Wheeling and also said that volunteer
f! fire depart ments were incfficient ena
not fair 10 the mon who have 10 otler
| their work for nothing.
MAYOR Klein explained TINT EdGwooo
! wns better off than most any otner
! suburban town as it had better I'M
proycmcnts in the way OF paved streetS
and other civic improvements ana "ou'G
! he a big asset. to Greater NncrlIhS anu
/ hr thought It fair that wheeling snouig
vote to see whether or not 1t ~anlcu
: Edgwood. r.
Charles Eiscnnch intcrspersed his talk
with n grco; deal Of humor: he said nc
! was ono OF tho oldest residents OIL Lug
, wood and had worked hard to build up
! timr, many Of the residents STOOD IN inc
way Of improvements and has been
! willing for n long time /" go into
! Greater Wheeling. Mr.. Eiscnnch nadc
good talk for larger city rocordc- Of
/ E.dgwoud. said he was neither tor or
against Greater Wheeling. but 1t looked
| to him az though tho majority we're IN
favor Of tho movement, hut hc wouin
! like 10 see n just vote. lie wanted TO
! SlibltrhS vote unit ana separate
| from tho :otc in Wheeling.
Attorney Frank OBrien. the next
! speaker. presented m entirely new line
! was the bcyI talk Of the evening either
! for or against. Mr.. OBricn SAID he
! went MS a listener and not ns a speaker
but while hr had the floor. nc may as
we'll give his opinions. He to,d o.
! vast wealth. tho wcalthicst city IN ire
| stntc paving t~c-fifthS OF tho taxes
| paid in the state treasury. MT. y br!eh
| said when he travelled h" did not regis
WAYS wrote Wheeling after his nalno
! on tho hotel registers. 1t was not tc-
/ cause hr did not like Wheeling that he
moved from the city TO the SUBURBS out
/ because he had TO go some place ;or
| Residence us the city was crowded, but
| hc would never thing Of moving his law
: offices to Lcnoy. whore he lives, as an?
! business moved from the city I" me
| suburbs would meet with miSrrapIc lhli-
urc until The natural course OIL ouSl-
| ncss takes il that way by the proper
! channels, which would be greater city
! expanding itself whore no business OK
! ;st Take down these barriers and the
ncnt-up business Of the city would :N-
| nand 10 the suburbs. which. rs suhuros.
| would move further on TO make room lot
j a business community.
! Mr.. O'Rricn said that the citizens or
all Of WhcrinGS suburban lo~ns ana
! those wrom Wheeling itself when IN an.
! other community or city. hraS about
! coming from n community. Of l?9.ouu'
| whereas they may 20 from LenoN.
| WoodsdaIc or other nut-thc-pikc towns
! with population Of "A few hundred.
| He asked for realization If Greater
| Wheollng big and prosperous. with sub
! lacked into the future and saw Greater
! Wheeling big and prosperous. Will sub
urhs growing abound her boundary lines
and. tho children of III" citizens or TO-
! dny start another Greater Wheeling
! movement Ia take in those suburbs IN
tho same manner that the Greater
! Wheeling movement OF today is asking
! The suburbs TO como into the proSenl
Wheeling. A.,
Asa barometer of the feeling Of III"
meeting a standing rot" was taken OF,
| tho resolutions passed by the EdE"o"I
| council. which prayed for thc r?t'nG ~
| the suburban towns az II separate UNIV
| from the vote Of Wheeling. and the vn''
| standing vote on the Greater wheeling
| stood IS for anil Q against. Another
| was Is for md against