{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3453", "width": "2007", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1819", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1819", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1819", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1819", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3261", "width": "1819", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "I*\\n@k ^_D\\nTHE\\nP U S T^ 7\\nw -J\\n%2\\nV Z^-0F3=^9\\nWHEELING.\\nAL, DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL\\nR E VIEW Z\\n-OF THE-\\n^OMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES\\n5 v^.-\u00e2\u0080\u009e x nn\\n1F-\\nWheeling, Bellaire, Ohio, Martin s Ferry Ohio, e.\\ntuicji-d according to Act of Congress, in tlii\u00c2\u00bb y^-.tr 1S79, by Land Bkown, in the office\\nor the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, l p\\nWHEELING, \\\\V. VA.\\nPUBLISHED BY LAND BROWH\\n1879.\\n,x", "height": "3271", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "PUBLISHERS NOTICE.\\nIn placing this work in the hands of the public, the publishers feel no hesitancy\\n:u expressing the assured conviction that no volume heretofore issued, relating tu\\nWheeling and its industries, contains so great an amount of useful, if not indis-\\npensable information.\\nFor nearly five months a staff of reporters and writers, representing in their\\nseparate departments unusual ability, have been engaged in obtaining all the pos-\\nfacts within the compass of our design, and giving them a readable and or-\\nderly construction and every trade manufacture or mercantile enterprise has\\nbeen sedulously and fully described no firm or establishment of any prominence\\nwillingly excluded from its pages.\\n.No small expense ha.- been entailed upon the publishers, and no efforts have\\nbeen spared 10 secure such excellence\u00e2\u0080\u0094 so far as its mechanical production is con-\\ncerned\u00e2\u0080\u0094as shall give it an attractive appearance to every reader. A careful\\nperusal of this volume, on the part of those residing at a distance, or unfamiliar\\nwith the marvelous diversity of the resources of Wheeling, is earnestly commended\\nas certain to excite interest, and likely to suggest experimental relations at least,\\nthat must conduce to the future profit of all parties.\\nIn the preparation of a work of this description, much difficulty is experienced\\nin obtaining reliable statistics, and no doubt the larger number of fault-finder.,\\niio have refused to give our reporters information relative to their\\nbusiness through fear of tax collectors, revenue officers, or from an inexcusable\\nj iir_ or want of enterprise and business sagacity.\\nThe acknowledgements of the publishers are due to the City Council for the aid\\no-operation extended in the task undertaken, without which the enterprise\\ni shorn of no small part of the success that has attended it. To C.\\nC.Johnson, Esq., editor Sunday Leader Hon. Thus. Eiornbrook; Captain Hiram\\noung, Inspector of Steam Vessels at this port Halstead Grubb, editors Satur-\\nthe Daily Register; Deutsche\\nJohn 11. Zevely, editor JPostoffice Bulletin and Judge (i. W. Thomj son,\\nfor substantial encouragement and highly valued assistance, the publishers also\\nreturn their most cordial assurance of appreciation; and with the belief that our\\nlabors will prove not altogether ineffectual in conducing to the general welfare\\nof the business community, wc are,\\nVery respectfully,\\nLAND BROWN,", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "5? \u00c2\u00abS\\nINDEX.\\nPage\\nAlexander. William. Wholesale and Retail Grocer, Bridgeport, 101\\nAlbright. Henry A., Manufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware 113\\nAcademy of the Visitation 132\\nArbenz Co., Furniture 126\\nAndes, Steamer, Wheeling, Pittsburgh and .Cincinnati Packet 12.\\nBoat Building in Wheeling 38\\nBerger, J. Bro., Leather. Shoe Findings, c\\nBall, E. Co., Boots and Shoes 74\\nBlum, I. Bro., Dry Goods and Notions 74\\nBehrens Co., Groceries. Produce, c 80\\nBulger, C. E., Tobacconist 72\\nBaker, Lewis Co., Publishers of Daily. Tri-Weekly and Weekly Register, Job\\nPrinters and Book Binders\\nBlond, L. V., Boots and Shoes 88\\nBaer, S. Son. Wholesale Grocers and Flour House\\nBeltz Flading, Planing Mill 89\\nButtorfield, John, Maltster and Hop Dealer 95\\nBellaire Boiler Works, Bellaire, 98\\nBloch 1 brothers, Wholesale Grocers LOO\\nBloch Brothers, Manufacturers of Cigars and Smoking Tobacco 100\\nBrice, S. L., Druggist 104\\nBell, Joseph Co., Foundry 105\\nBeck Simpson, Plumbers. c 110\\nBeck, N. W., Brass Foundry and Machine Works 116\\nBenwood Iron Works\\nBooth. C. H. Son. Produce Commission Merchants 130\\nBelmont Nail Company 141\\nChandler A- Haldeman, Iron Roofing 63\\nCox, Dickie Vance. Boiler Makers, c\\nCentral Glass Company. Tableware, Bar and Lamp Goods\\nCummins Woods. Queenswai-e and China\\nCarnahan Jz Co., Boots and Shoes 114\\nConnally, J. 11. .V Son. Fire Extinguisher, Pittsburgh\\nDelaplain, L. S. A Co.. Wholesale Dry Goods 58\\nDwight, Chas. E.. Druggist and Chemist 77\\nDriffield, U. J., 1106 Water Street 102\\nDonaldson, Lewis Co., Carriages, Wagons, c 114\\nDinger, C. H., Wholes tail Hats and Caps 117\\nDilworth, W, S.. Dry Goods, c, Martin s Ferry, 121\\nDurst Kober, Wholesale Grocers, Produce and Commission\\nDentistry, Invention, fec\\nr, A. C. Co., WlioL ommission Merchants\\nExcelsior Machine Shop... s 7\\nEbeling Pebler, Manufacturers of Cigars and Tobacco 114\\nFriedel, John China. Glass. Queensware\\nFree Burt. Bellaire, 98\\nFriend A Son, Furniture, Carpets, vc 119\\nGeographical Position of Wheeling 21\\nGrowth, Population. Climate and Health\\nGraves, Joseph, Books, Stationery, Wall Paper c 82\\nGreer Laing, Wholesale Hardware 85\\nGundling, 1). Co., Star Clothing House 95\\nGray s Iron Line 1\\nGutman, M. Co. Clothiers, Furnishing Goods Ac 118\\nGrubb, Jacob, Jeweler and Optician 130\\n*S", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "J^6 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nPage.\\nGraham, William, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Furniture, fcc 137\\n1 \u00c2\u00bbn ibr ok s Park 51\\nHughes, Thos. Co., Merchant Tailors 59\\nHarper A Bro., Wholesale and Retail Hats and Gaps 62\\nHoward Bros. Co., Patent Solicitors, Architects, fcc 76\\nHanes, Wilson Co., Planing Mill. c 78\\nHandlau. Ratcliffe Co., Dry Goods, Groceries and Notions 69\\nHoffman, Fred.. Furniture, Bellaire, 69\\nHare. Win.. Plumber, GasandSteam Fitter 71\\nHutchins, W. S.. Artists Materials. Pianos and Organs 72\\nHarbour A- Dittman, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Ac 81\\nHandlan, W. C. Co., Pork Packers and Grocers 81\\nHebrank Bro. Jewelers, Watches. c 81\\nHiggins, T. H. Photographer 84\\nHelmbright, L. H., Cigar-sand Tobacco 86\\nHall, JohnH.. Saddles, Harness, Trunks 90\\nHowell, O. H.. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware. Bellaire, 97\\nHorkhiemer, S. Co., Wines, Liquors. Ac 99\\nHesse, Geo., Boots and Shoes 107\\nHanna Clemens, Fulton Paper Mill 112\\nHollinger Perkins, 0. K. Shaving Saloon 120\\nHobbs, J. H., Brockunier Co. Glass Manufacturers 136\\nHoyle, E. J. Bro., Threshing Machines, Martin s Ferry, 121 123\\nHoehle Bro., Furniture 126\\nJohnson, Geo. W.. Copper, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware 61\\nJacobs, G. E., 99c Store 61\\nJones Bro., Copper. Tin and Sheet, Iron Ware 100\\nKnote Hutchisson, Saddler s Hardware 94\\nKress, Kilian, Brewer 107\\nKennedy. P., Dry Goods L33\\nKerr J. A. Co., Star Planing Mill, Martin s Ferry, 121\\nKelley, Geo. W, Physician and Surgeon 138\\nKelley it Roberts, Druggists and PI larmacutists 112\\nLong, Conrad, Tin. Copper and Sheet Iron Ware, Martin s Ferry, 90\\nLogan, List Co., Druggists and Baking Powder 92\\nLewis A, Clemens, Metropolitan Shaving Saloon 106\\nLoos, Hugo L. Cigars and Tol \u00c2\u00bbacco Ill\\nLarkin, E., Dry floods and Notions 113\\nList, D. O, Pork Packer and Manf r of Sugar Cured Meats 11.\\nLaughlin Bros A Co., Wholesale Druggists 116\\nLash, Jno. A., Watches, Clocks and Jewelry 120\\nLucas, V., Music Store L29\\nLuke, Robert, Livery and Sale Stables Ill\\nManufacturing Ad vantages 11\\nMuhn Brandfass, Manufacturers of Cigars, Ac 70\\nManly, W. A.. Manufacturer of Shirts and Underwear 66\\nMiller, J. C. A Son, Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods and Groceries 68\\nMcNeil, John W. Co., China, Glass and Queensware 69\\nMarsh, M. A Son. Tobacco and Cigars 71\\nMoenkemoeller, has.. Druggist 72\\nMoffatt, T. C. Merchant Tailor 83\\nMaxwell A Ishani. Wholesale Grocers 93\\nMcMasters, Win., Druggist, Bellaire, 94\\nMayer A Blum, Dry Goods, Notion-, ,v,\\\\. Bellaire, 1)6\\nMellott, A. O. A Co., Furniture, Ac, Bellaire, 97\\nMathison, George, Wholesale and Retail Hats and Caps, Bellaire, Ohio 98\\nMyles, \\\\Vm., Photographer Ill\\nMount De Chantal, Conventof the Visitation 132\\nMcCoy, Dr. Halley, Physician and Surgeon 124\\nMendel G. Co., Carpets and Furniture 128\\nNesbitt Son. Copper, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware 71\\nNaylor, ,J. R., News Dealer, Bellaire, 108", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "J^P THE INDUSTRIES OE WHEELING. 7\\nPa\\nNational Planing Mill, Bridgeport, 127\\nQ Kane Divine, Boots and Shoes L06\\nOtt, Hall Co., Wholesale Hardware 108\\nOpera HouS( i of Wheeling 9\\nohm Valley Protective Union I;;1\\nOhio City Planing Mill. Martin s Ferry, 126\\nOhio Valley Agricultural Works. Martin s Ferry, 139\\nPen Pictures _\\nParsons, Photographer\\nPlummer, Photographic Gallerj\\nPaull, A. W., Wall Paper 91\\nPollack, Augustus. Manufacturer Cigars and Tobacco 109\\nPates of Freight. West 27\\nHates of Freight, East 32\\nRobinson, Wm. EL, Paints. Oils. Sash, Doors. c 57\\nReed, L. C. Co., Fashionable Merchant Tailors HO\\nRoth. (t. O.. Dry Goods, Carpets, Ac 71\\nRhodes, J. S. Co., Wholesale and Retail Drj Goods 68\\nPoth. M., Dry Goods, Groceries and Notions 81\\nRichardson, A.., Groceries and Produce, Bellaire. 7\\nRhodes. M. Co., Wholesale Grocers, Bridgeport, L02\\nPeed, John A Co., Maltsters and Hop Dealers 104\\nReed Houston, Druggists 107\\nRoemer, John, Dry Goods. Notions. Ac 115\\nRhees, Dr. M. J. Homoepathic Physician L34\\nRiverside Furniture Co., Manufacturers Furniture, c L40\\nSiebke. Chris., Dealer in Imported Liquors, Beer Bottler, Ac 73\\nSinger Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company 75\\nShriver, H. X.. Wholesale Paper and Printers Supplies 77\\nSheppard, J. B., Wholesale and Retail Saddles, Harness. Trunks, c 83\\nSpeyer Bros. Millinery and Straw roods 85\\nSheib, Win. H., Pianos, Organs, Music, Ac v, j\\nSonneborn, M.. Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Bellaire, s 7\\nSmyth, P. J., Family Grocery 91\\nSeabright, C. W., Merchant Tailor 93\\nSteinhauser, N., Liquors, Ac, Bellaire, 98\\nSharp, -I F. Retail Grocer. Bridgeport,\\nSellers, J. W., Photographer, Bellaire, L04\\nSweeney, A. J. Son.. Machinists K r\\nSchmulbach, H. Co., Wholesale Liquors 109\\nSeelev, Oscar. Plumber HI\\nStifel, Geo. E. Co., Dry Goods, Furs, Notions. Ac US\\nSchultz, Nicholas, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Candies, Fruits, Nuts. Ac 117\\nSt. Lawrence, Steamer, Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet l. I\\nThe Railroad System of Wheeling 24\\nTable. Showing Names of Boats Built from 1849 to 1879 43\\nThe Suspensii \u00c2\u00bbn Bridge 47\\nThe Paxton Fountain 55\\nThe Daily Register 56\\nThe Intelligencer 56\\nThe Sunday Deader 56\\nThe News-Letter 56\\nThe Saturday Evening Journal 56\\nThe Deutsche Zeitung 56\\nTaylor, Geo. P.. Retail Dry Goods\\nThe Howe Machine Company, Sewing Machines 70\\nThe German [nsurance Company 86\\nTiemau, G. W. Tobacco and Cigars 91\\nThe Bellaire and Southwestern Railway 103\\nTheaker, P. M., Hardware, Cutlery. Ac, Martin s Ferry, 104\\nTurner Dillon, Jewelers H 8\\nThe Star Foundry I 24", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "J^y 8 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. N\u00c2\u00a3^\\nPage.\\nWheeling Iron and Nail Company (Top Mill) 75 j\\nWilson Dunlevy; Barrel and Kog Manufacturers 77\\nWheeling Hinge Company 65\\nWilhelm, Carl, Upholsterer and Decorator 81\\nWheeling Female College 96\\nWhitl aker Iron Company 1 00\\nWheeling Hos] )ital 110\\nWeitzel, T. W., Grocer 117\\nWheeling Female Academy 132\\n1 1 er, D. Paper Manufacturer I 35\\nWheeling. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Packet, St. Lawrence 134\\nWilson Bros. 1 ots and Shoes 121\\nWheeling, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Andes. L25\\nWheeling, Parkersburg and Cincinnati Transportation Company 137\\nWheeling and Sistersville Daily Packet Pheaton. 138\\nYoung. Alex. T.. Druggist and Pharmacutist 73 i\\nZane, Platoff, Real Estate 64\\nZink A- Morehead, Jarpets, c 80\\nINDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.\\nArhenz Co 147\\nAlderson, J. C 1 r 4\\nBooth H. Co 146\\nBaggs Co., Bridgeport. 148\\nBuckeye Paper Mill 149\\nBehrens Co. Jrocers 150\\nButterfield John, Malters 15]\\nBerger J Bro., Leather, c 1-1\\nBeltz Flading 152\\nJurtis W. N. At fcorney-at-Law 149\\nDobbs. Eleisenger 147\\nDil worth W. S. Martin s Ferry 148\\nI hirst Kolier 15]\\n/Etna Life Insurance Co 146\\nEbeling Pebler, T ibacc igai-s, c 154\\nEgerter, A. rrocers 154\\nGraham, Wm. Furniture, c 146\\nGerman Insurance Co 153\\n[aldeman, N H. Iron Hoofing L46\\nKelmbright, L. IP. Cigars and Tobacco 146\\nI loci ile Pro.. Furniture 147\\nHare, Wm. Plumber and Gas Fitter 147\\nHollinger Perkins. Barbers 149\\nHarbour Dittman, Carpets. c 152\\nHutchins, W. S.. Artists Materials, c 152\\nHughes, Tims. Co., Clothiers 1\\nHanes, Wilson Co., Planing Mills 153\\nJacob, Cracrafl A Ferguson, Attorneys-at-Law 149\\nJacobs, (1. E. !)9cts Store 147\\nJordan L. S. Atti n 1 1 sy-at-Law 149\\nl\\\\en-. J. ,v Co., Planing Mill, Martin s Ferry 148\\nKreig, Wm. P.. Jeweler 151\\nLevytype Co., Photo Engravers lit\\nLewis A Clemens, Barbers 148\\nList, I). C. Pork Pucker 154\\nLuke, Robert, Livery Stable 146\\nMendel, G. Co., Furniture 143\\nManley, W. A.. Shirt Manufactory 15]\\n_ _", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ERRATA\\nThe editorial on the Belmont Nail Company, page 141, twenty-fourth line, in\\ndescription of Blast Furnace, should read \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2One Engine and six Cylinder Boilers,\\n48 inches in diameter and liti feet in length.\\nJcP THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 9^0^\\nPage\\nMoilatt, T. C, Merchant Tailor 152\\nMutual Aid Association 145\\nNorth Wheeling Glass Works 1 4\\nOpera House 146\\nOhio City Planing Mill 148\\nOtt, Hall Co., Hardware 154\\nParks, Geo., Pork Packer 154\\nPittsburgh Souther] i Railway L44\\nParsons, Photo igrapher 152\\nQuimby, C. H., News Dealer 153\\nRiverside Furniture Co 147\\nRedman Co 147\\nEthees, Dr. M. Physician 147\\nRobinson, Wm. H., Paints, Oils, Glass, c 150\\nReed, L. t !o. Merchant Tailors 152\\nSpence, 1 1 I s\\nSteamer St Lawrence 148\\nSteamer Phaeton\\nSteamer Andes 147\\nSeabright, C. VV., MerchantTailor 150\\nSchmulbach, H. Co., Liquor Dealers I 1\\nShieb, Wm.. H. Music and Musical Instruments 152\\nSheppard, J. B., Trunks, Harness, fcc 152\\nSmyth, R. J., Grocer 154\\nThe News-Letter 151\\nTurner Dillon, Jewelers 1\\nWheeling ParkersburgTrans] tori ation Co 146\\nWarwood, Henry, Martin s Ferry 148\\nWheeli] ig Female Seminary 149\\nWhite. Bob t Attorner-at-Law 49\\nWilson Bros., Boots and Shoes 151\\nWilson, Dunlevy Co 1\\nZaue, Plattoff, RealEstate Agent 153\\n*B", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "J^PlO THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. ^S\\\\\\nSTEAMBOAT TIME TABLE.\\nCincinnati Packets.\\nSteamer Andes has. Mukleinan, Commander; Ed. Muhleman, Clerk. Leaves\\nWheeling for Cincinnati every Tuesday at 3:00 o clock p. m. Returning, leaves Cin-\\ncinnati for Wheeling every Friday at 5:00 o clock P. M.\\nSteamer St. Lawrence VVm. M. List. Commander; C. D. List. Clerk. Leaves\\nWheeling for Cincinnati every Saturday at 3:00 o clock p. m. Returning, leaves Cin-\\ncimiati for Wheeling every Tuesday at 5:00 o clock p. VI.\\nParkersburg Packets.\\nSteamer Courier leaves Wheeling for Parkersburg every Monday, Wednesday\\nand Friday, at 10:30 o clock m. Returning, leaves Parkersburg for Wheeling every\\nTuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 5:00 o clock a. m.\\nSteamer Diurnal Asa Booth, Commander: E. K. Louth. Clerk. Leaves Wheel-\\ning for Parkersburg every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 10:30 o clock u.\\nReturning, Leaves Parkersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at :00\\no clock A. M.\\nPittsburgh Packet.\\nSteamer C. W. Batchelor leaves Wheehng for Pittsburgh every Tuesday, Thurs-\\nday and Saturday, at 7:00 o clock v. m. Returning, leave-; Pittsbiu gh eveiy Monday\\nWednesday and Friday, at 1:00 o clock p. m.\\nM itamokas Packet.\\nSteamer Mallie Ragon leaves Wheeling for Matamoi*as every Tuesday, Thusday\\nand Saturday, at 1:00 o clock p. m. Returning, leaves Matamoras every Monday,\\nWednesday and Friday, at 6:00 o clock a. it.\\nSistersville Pa ket.\\nSteamer Phaeton leaves Wheeling for Sistersville daily at 3:00 o clock p, m Ke-\\nturnin Jistersville daily at 5:00 o clock a. At.\\n!larington Packet.\\nSteamer Telegram leaves Wheeling for Clarington daily, at 3:00 o clock p m\\nReturning, leaves Clarington daily at 0:00 o clock a. m.\\nSteubenville Packet.\\nSteamer Abner O Neal leaves Wheeling for Steubeuville daily, at 2:30 o clock p.\\nM. Returning, leaves Steubenville daily, at 8 o cock a. m.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CITY OF WHEELING.\\nPEN PICTURES.\\nIn September, 1770, no human habitation occupied the point of land where\\nWheeling has since arisen The Indian trapper, and adventurous scout, the\\nJesuit gliding along the great rivers in his bark canoe, or traveling, Indian led\\nover the forest trails, had all brought stories, and told tales of the wonderful\\ncountry, through which numerous rivers gave facilities for travel and trans-\\nportation. It was in the year 1769 that Ebenezer Zane, accompanied by his\\nbrothers John and Silas and one or two others, started from their homes on\\nthe south branch of the Potomac in search of the great Ohio. Before reaching\\nthe river one of their party was taken sick from the exposure, and they were\\ncompelled to turn back in order to save his life, which, however, proved useless,\\nfor soon after his return home he died.\\nIn the spring of 1770 Ebenezer and his two brothers made another start and\\niu the month of September reached the point of land that is now known as\\nMt. Wood Cemetery, and standing there viewed the landscape o er. Before\\nthem rolled the waters of a great river, sweeping to the Mexican Gulf, and giv-\\ning outlet and egress to the nations of the earth. Behind them was already\\npressing, despite the hardships of pioneer life, and the dangers of Indian war-\\nfare, the power of emigration. Around them rose in all its grandeur the prime-\\nval forest, and who can say what prophetic thoughts in the warm fancy of the\\nthen young men, sprung and grew.\\nTruth is stranger than fiction says the adage. In the great city of Wheel-\\ning, extending for miles around the point where in that September day these\\nthree brothers stood alone and thought the future o er; and in the fifty mil-\\nlions of people, with all their wealth of farms, factories, mines and cities, to\\nwhich the business of Wheeling has access, by her river and her railroads, the\\nreality outs wells the ambitious dreams of those who alone gazed upon the\\nblue waters of the then forest shaded Ohio. Perusing these lines now at the\\nbeginning of the second century of American independence, may it not be\\nconfidently said that where all the same primary elements of growth still exist,\\nas they do, within Wheeling s control, tfiat in the future her wonderful in-\\ncrease will be repeated, and, in a period of years yet unborn, truth be again\\ncited as stranger than fiction by he who shall then tell the story of Wheeling s\\ngrowth.\\nHere then stood these three brothers, the projectors of Wheeling. It is\\nprobable that standing in that balmy September day on this point of land,\\ntheir minds rapidly overran the future, and saw from the town they ha 1 already\\nprojected, westward the star of empire takes its way. After establishing their\\nclaims, which was done by notching or cutting their names in the trees, it\\nwas decided that one of the brothers should stay and protect the claims while", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "18 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nthe other two returned to their homes for their families. This duty fell on\\nSilas, the youngest, and although at that time peace^prevailed, in name, it was\\na hazardous undertaking.\\nDuring the winter Silas was compelled to live in the hollow trunk of an old\\nsycamore tree which stood on the bank near the forks of the creek, and here\\nhe was found by his brothers in the spring of 1771. when they returned with\\ntheir families.\\nIn 1774, Fort Fincastle was built. It was planned by Gen. George Rogers\\nClarke and constructed by the settlers under the supervision of Ebenezer Zane\\nand John Caldwell. It covered a space of about three-quarters of an acre of\\nground. In 1777, the name was changed to Fort Henry in honor to Patrick\\nHenry.\\nIn May, 1777, Wheeling was but a small Fort, with a few log cabins sur-\\nrounding. On every hand, save where the little village and the few cleared\\nfields around basked in the warm spring sun, the dense forest clothed lull and\\nbottom, ravine and river s edge. Down from the north on one side, swollen from\\nthe melting northern snows, came sweeping the clear, bright waters of the La\\nBelle Riviere of the French, the O-hi-o of the aborigine, to be, in years to come,\\na highway of commerce, wonderful in its towns and cities and the traffic on its\\nwaters.\\nUp into the clear atmosphere wreathed lazily, or swayed fantastically in the\\nbteoze, the pale blue smoke of wood-fires from the two dozen of houses which\\nformed the village, shadowy forerunners of the dense black columns that were\\nin an hundred years to be shooting up in every direction for miles around the\\nlocation of the little settlement of 1777.\\nScantily, here and there, about the doors of the few cabins, or along the one\\nstreet grouped the few settlers, little thinking that before the suns of another\\nspring had ripened the harvest they would be called upon to protect their little\\nhomes with their lives. Before the entrance of the fort the sentinel paced lazi-\\nly his monotonous beat, the clank of his musket and accoutrements, making a\\nfaint forereaching echo of the clang and clash, of the machinery that then far\\ndown the aisles of time was moving to forge the bar ami drive the plane, to\\nsmelt the ore, and shape the metal, and wake the echo of over two hundred\\nmiles of streets, and render noisy the da} and clamorous the night in a hundred\\nyears from then.\\nThus in May, 1777, sparkling in the sunshine ran the river, green and fresh\\nswayed the trees, idly about the fort lounged the hand full of settlers, ami qui-\\netly under the warm May sun rested Weeling as by the Delaware Indians\\nthis embryo of Wheeling was called. It has been a subject of considerable con-\\ntroversy as to how this city derived its name. Some state that, it was named\\nafter a Catholic priest named Whalen, while others say that it is named from\\nthe creek because of its crooked course. Of this we have no historical account.\\nThe following communication from one John White, printed in the American\\nPioneer, January, 1842, we take as the most authentic yet published, when we\\nremember that Mr. White saw and talked with John Brittle at the time. We\\nquote from his letter: John Brittle, formerly of Pennsylvania, was taken pris-\\noner by the Indians in 1791, and lived nearly five years among them. He lived\\nwith the Hoohinguy-pooshees or l!i Cat most of the time.\\nIn the earliest period of the settlement of Pennsylva-\\nnia some white settlers descended the Ohio riverin a boat, and stopping at the\\nmouth of Wheeling creek were killed by the Delawares. The savages cut off\\nthe head of one of their victims, and placing it on a pole with the face toward\\nthe river, called the spot Weeling. Tlje Indians informed Mr. Brittle that the\\nhead was placed there to guard the river. I presume to guard the camp from\\nthe incursions of the whites. Mr. Brittle says that if an Indian was asked,\\nafter shooting a deer or bear, where he had hit the animal, his answer (if in the\\nhead) would be weeling.\\nIn September, 1777, Fort Henry endured a seige from the Indians which de-\\nserves to rank among the most memorable events of border warfare, defended as\\nit was, by a brave band against more than thirty times their number, who\\nwere led by the notorious Simon Girty.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "JcP THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. lO^Sy\\nIn L781, the village was again visited by the hostile Indians who after burn-\\ning several houses, departed in the same mysterious manner in which they\\nhad come.\\nOn the 11th day of September, 1782, a body of three hundred Indians and\\na company of fifty British, known as the Queen s Rangers, under com-\\nmand of Capt. Trait, again made an unsuccessful attempt to lake the fort.\\nFailing in this, they destroyed all of the cabins and after killing all the cattle\\nthey moved rapidly to the rivet- ami disappeared and the seige was ended. In\\nless than an hour after they had gone Capt. Boggscameto the fori with seven-\\nty mounted men.\\nWe have not space in out work to give an extended history of the border\\nwarfare in which Wheeling formed a conspicuous part.\\nIn January, 1806, Wheelingwas incorporated as a village, and on the 24th of\\nMatch, George Miller took the oath of office as Mayor of said town, Turning\\nfrom the vision of Ebenezer Zane and his two brothers, standing, in I77\\nviewing the uninhabited point of land where Wheeling has since grew from\\nthe Fort Fincastle of 1774, we pass to the present time, and the great city of\\nWheeling in 1879, rises in all its proportions, wealth, and business before its.\\nWhat wondrous record the years contain of change and progress. In them\\nhave had birth and growth of the steamboat, the railroad, and the electric\\ntelegraph.\\nWhere in September, 1777, a little village stood on the verge of civilization\\npeering timidly into the forest beyond, in September, 1879, a great city stands.\\nTwenty millions of people to the east of her, twenty millions on the west of\\nher, while the electric telegraph, the railroad, and the steamboat, connect her\\nwith the world and its commerce.\\nThroughout the nation, of which this city is such a central point, nails from\\nits mills are found in every mart. Its glass is on the table of every hotel, and\\nin the windows alike of city residences and frontier cottages. Standing a giant\\nof American industry glowing with the blaze of her furnace fires swart\\nand grimy with their smoke, Wheeling may well be proud of her past, and\\nlookVith great hope to the future. Planted on one of the grandest fuel fields\\nof the world, she has wonderful facilities for receiving crude minerals and\\nother material, for the world s needs and consumption in their manufactured\\nforms; equally able to distribute them to consumers.\\nIn September, 1777, a little village of afew houses, clustering around a small\\nfort. Wheeling in September, 1879, is a great community, occupying an area\\nof 10,000 acres, having two hundred miles of streets, with almost as many wards\\nas it then had houses. The Ohio which then swept through miles of primi-\\ntive forest, now flows past from four to six miles of city, with its massive blocks\\nof houses, its miles of paved and gasdighted streets.\\nWhere in 1777, a solitary Indian canoe or skiff here or there crossing from the\\nlittle village to the forest on the other side, formed the connect ion, now a grand\\nsuspension bridge spans the waters of the river.\\nWherein 1777, the waters of the creek flowed through forests before it min-\\ngled with the waters of the Ohio, now it courses through the center of this\\ngrand city, and is spanned by four iron and stone bridges, which are hut as\\nsections of the streets which extend for miles from their either ends. Where\\nthen there were no churches, now the spires of over twenty-live point heaven-\\nward, from whence arise praise and prayer to Him who holds the destinies of\\nnations in His hands, and has not forgotten Wheeling in the blessing which\\nfall alike upon the just and the unjust.\\nThe traveler in passing in or out of the city of Wheeling, sees things under\\nsuch a gloom of smoke that the beauty of the suburbs is generally unknown.\\nThe ear has been stunned by the whistle of the escaping steam, the clank of\\nmachinery, the din of metalic reverberations and the roar of forge tires and\\nglass furnaces in all directions. They have caught glimpses as they passed of\\nhalf-naked men throwing about in savage play huge masses of red hot metal\\nthey have seen for a moment the interior of great cavernous buildings, where\\nstalwart, sooty men, were pulling and hauling and dragging about long bars of\\nglowing metal which went twirling and slipping like fiery snakes through rap-", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "20\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nPAXTON FOUNTAIN -CAPITOL SQUARE.\\nidly revolving cylinders fchey have caught glimpses of streams of molten metal\\npouring like burning water through gathered groups of workmen they have\\nheard strange demoniacal yells and shrieks, passed clouds of scalding vapor,\\nglided for miles by sombre house, Mack discolored churches and gloomy ware-\\nhouses. They recede from its boundaries with an impression that they have\\npassed through some city, half enchanted, such as Marco Polo, and other old\\nVenetian travelers, fabled to have found in the then unexplored regions of the\\nearth, a city of lire and smoke.\\nAndsuch is Wheeling in 1879, to the passing traveler, as he enters itbyeithe:\\nof the railroads that centers in the city. To the tourist who may spare the\\ntime to explore Wheeling and its suburbs, there is, besides that region of fire\\nand smoke, sections of calm delight and districts of great beauty.\\nIt needs but the tourist in the budding month of May, or in sunny June, or\\ngolden September, or russet October to drive a foot pace out the National road.\\nCostly residences and charming cottages attract the eye on every side, beautiful", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Jv^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. VVXs\\\\\\ngrounds, rich with cultivated shrubbery, or picturesque with natural foresl\\ntrees charm the sight. There to the righl the massive and costly Mt. de Chan-\\ntal College stands towering up into the clear, sunshiny sky, while no lin of\\nmachinery disturbs the sylvan quiel of the scene, or shadows of smoke glooms\\nthe view, [f the business portion of Wheeling is a city half enchanted, of fire\\nand smoke, inhabited by demons playing with fire, the suburbs of Wheeling is\\nalso under enchantment of a different kind, and smiles a land of beauty,\\nbrightness and quiet.\\nIn the long summer twilights a ride over the suspension bridge to the [aland,\\nthe Garden spot of Wheeling, the perfume of (lowers and the [resh foilage\\nfills the air and renders it a drive without a parallel. Here too the tourist\\nfinds himself outside of the din of machinery and the blurr of smoke and void\\nof annoyance from the noise of factories.\\nThere is no more impressive sight than at the top of !hapline hill of a clear\\nnight when a strong wind has swept away the volumes of smoke from the city.\\nClose against the hill rises gray and grand the beautiful Female Seminary, be-\\nlow it the waters of the creek shimmer in the light. To the. right, to the left\\nand in front lies the city of Wheeling with its miles of streets, marked clear and\\ndistinct by the rows of glittering gas-lights. Beyond this scene clear and bright\\nfiows the Ohio, La Belle Riviere, with perhaps a while steamboat gliding past,\\nwith its tall chimneys sending out showers of sparks, a very star spangled ban\\nner. To the right, to the left, and in front of t he spectator, furnaces are throw-\\ning up columns of flame. Through the wide open doors and windows of fac-\\ntories and mills illuminations of their interiors from their forge tires, the glow\\nof the flowing metal and twisting red hot bars of iron throwing off scales of fire\\nunder the pressure of machinery, presents a picture the spectator will not\\nsoon forget.\\nThe beauties of Wheeling sketched in the foresroing paragraphs, travelers\\nrarely see, nor many of her own citizens, from want of knowledge of where\\nand when to see. There are a dozen other points around the city where the\\nscenery by day or night is beautiful, but they may not all be presented even\\nby pen and ink. Enough has been given of pen and ink pictures of Wheel\\ning to show what it was at its inception, and to present some idea of what it\\nis to-day, leaving the succeeding chapters to -portray its growth, present its busi-\\nness, tell the story of its industries, suggest its advantages, and foreshadow its\\nfuture,\\nGEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.\\nWheeling is situated in latitude 40\u00c2\u00b0 s v north longitude 80\u00c2\u00b0 17 v west, and oc-\\ncupies the position of capital of West Virginia, and western terminus of the\\nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad.\\nLocated on the banks of great Ohio river, she commands an inland naviga-\\ntion of many thousand miles. Distant only about four hundred miles from\\nthree of the most important seabord cities of the Union, and but a summer days\\nride from either. About one hundred miles from the great chain of inland\\nseas, to whose shores access is had in a few hours ride, she partakes of the ad-\\nvantages of the lake cities for intercourse with the Canadas; and for outlet\\nthrough the lake route to the ocean; while by her rivers she commands an-\\nother and an easy access to the ocean and foreign nations. Thus having the\\nchoice of three avenues, whereby she may export beyond the borders of the\\nUnited states her manufactures, or receive the products of other countries.\\nIn the years past the use of the Ohio as a transportation facility has\\nlimited by the occurrence of seasons when low water interrupted the continu-\\nous use of the river, and deprived it of the force of a daily reliable facility for\\ntransportation.\\nThe improving of the navigation of theOhio, has in pasl en strong-\\nly pressed upon Congress by a board of Commissioners for the seven Ohio\\nriver States. A plan for its radical improvement has been adopted by the\\nUnited Stales Engineer, and an appropriation made by the government for", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": ",0^22 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X\\nthe construction of the first adjustable dam which was began at Davis Island\\nin 1877. By a series of these dams it is proposed to secure the desideratum of\\nnever less than six feet of water at all seasons, insuring a continuous daily navi-\\ngation of the hio by boats, carrying a thousand tons and upwards.\\nThe increasing demand for cheap transportation, and in fact all transporta-\\ntion arising out of the multiplying wants of the growing populations of the\\nvarious sections of the nations, must at an early day cause the Ohio to be made\\nas fully available for transportation as it is possible by engineering skill to ren-\\nder ii. How greatly that will strengthen the already strong geographical posi-\\ntion of Wheeling, is easily seen.\\nReaching through the natural avenues of travel the following States ami\\ncounties by steamboats, without transhipment of goods.\\nBy the Ohio river from Wheeling to Cairo, touching every important point in\\nWest Virginia, southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, southern Indiana and Illi-\\nnois. B\\\\ the Mississippi, the towns and counties bordering upon that river in\\nLouisiana, .Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois,\\nIowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. By the Missouri river, central Missouri,\\nKansas, Nebraska, Dakota, and Montana. By the Arkansas and White rivers,\\ncentral, southern and northern Arkansas. By the Red river, central Louisiana.\\nBy the Wabash, central Indiana. By the Tennessee river, western Tennessee,\\nKentucky and northern Alabama. By the Cumberland river, interior of Ken-\\ntucky and northern counties of Tennessee. By the Big Black and Yazoo rivers,\\ninland Mississippi. By the Minnesota, the interior of Minnesota. By the Illi-\\nnois river, the interior of Illinois. By the Muskingum, the interior of Ohio.\\nBy the Kanawha river, the interior of West Virginia. By the Allegheny, the\\nnorthern portion of Pennsylvania, and the southwestern portion of New York.\\nBy the Monongahela, southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia.\\nThus reaching by river navigation eighteen States and two territories, not\\nonly the border counties thereof, but the interior of these States as well, afford-\\ning unparalleled facilities for reaching from the 46th degree of northern lati-\\ntude to the 30.th, from the 1st degree to the 22d longitude west from Washing-\\nton, embracing an area of 1,052,000 square miles of territory.\\nOf this extent of country, the Ohio river passes along the borders of six\\nStates, watering the shores of 71 counties, viz 2 in Pennsylvania, 12 in A ir-\\nginia, 13 in Ohio, 25 in Kentucky, 14 in Indiana, and 5 in Illinois. The Mis-\\nsissippi traverses the boundaries of ten States, and gives navigation to 95 coun-\\nties, viz; 6 in Minnesota, 10 in Iowa, 8 in Wisconsin, 17 in Illinois, 14 in\\nMissouri, 2 in Kentucky, 5 in Tennessee, 10 in Mississippi, i in Arkansas and\\n17 in Louisiana. The Missouri washes the shores of three States, 24countiesin\\nMissouri, 11 in Nebraska, and ii in Kansas. The Tennessee gives water trans-\\nportation to three States, and outlet to fourteen counties, viz: 2 in Alabama, 6\\nin Tennessee, and 6 in Kentucky. The Cumberland aftords water carriage\\nthrough two States, and to 9 counties, viz: 6 in Tennessee and 3 in Kentucky.\\nThe Illinois and Kaskaskia give to twenty-four counties in Illinois navigation,\\nand the Wabash similar privileges to 6 counties in Indiana and 5 in Illinois.\\nThe Arkansas affords 12 counties in that State a like advantage, and the Red\\nriver the same to t counties in Louisiana. The White river gives carriage to\\n9 counties in Arkansas, and 5 in Missouri.. The Yazoo, the Sun Flower and Big\\nblack, afford to 11 counties in Mississippi travel by river communication. The\\nBatchee raid )bion, the same facilities to 6 counties in Tennessee. The Ken-\\ntucky and Green rivers, egress to the Ohio to 14 counties in Kentuckv. The\\nOsage and Missouri rivers, steamboat navigation to 8 counties in Missouri. The\\nPlatte river to 4 counties in Nebraska. The Des Moines and Iowa rivers give\\nto 11 counties in Iowa access to the Mississippi bv water, and the Wisconsin\\nand Lock rivers the same facilties To 11 counties in Wisconsin. The Mus-\\nkingum to counties in Ohio. The Kanawha river to 3 counties in West Vir-\\nginia. The Allegheny gives 8 counties in Pennsylvania and 1 in New York\\ncommunication bv water to market for their productions, and the Monon-\\ngahela similar advantages to two States, 5 counties in Pennsylvania, and 1 in\\nVirginia \u00e2\u0080\u0094being :;7, counties to which Wheeling has direct communication.\\nIn view of this unequalled river system giving Wheeling this direct access to\\n^_ 8", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE INIHJSTRIES OF WHITTLING.\\n23^\\nthe very hearts of eighteen of the finest Slates of the Union, can there be any\\ndoubt of the future of the Nail City as a commercial and shipping, as well as\\na manufacturing pojnt The contemplated improvement of the Ohio may be\\nI m- a brief time delayed, hut the very necessities of the country will force the\\nexpenditure of the money requisite to render this great highway of transporta-\\ntion all it can be made, and which its location to producing and consuming\\npopulations of the country indicate it must be. Not only will the constantly\\nincreasing wants of the people for cheap transportation require this, but the\\nsteady growing hulks requiring transportation will render it necessary, and\\nsuch improvements of the navigation of all connecting rivers, as will make\\nmost available to those twenty States this system of navigation, without a par-\\nallel in any nation or in any country whose value the following table shows:\\nSTATISTICS OF THE CENSUS OF 1870.\\nOf the Principal Rivt rs Navigable from Wheeling to their head waters without trans-shipmi\\nRIVERS.\\nAllegheny.\\nArkansas...\\nBis; Black..\\nCumberland....\\nJ es Moines\\nGreen\\nHatchee\\nIllinois\\nIowa\\nKaskaskla\\nKent iicky\\nMissouri.\\nMeramee\\nMonongehela.\\nMuskingum...\\nMississippi\\nOhio\\nOsage\\nObion\\nPlatte\\nRed\\nRock\\nSunflower.\\nTennessee.\\nWabash....\\nWhite\\nWisconsin.\\nYazoo\\nTotals.\\nPa.\\nN. Y.\\nArk.\\nMiss.\\nTenn.\\nIvy..\\nIowa.\\nKv.\\nTerm.\\n111.\\nIowa.\\n111.\\nKy.\\nNeb.\\nMo.\\nKan.\\nMo.\\nPa.\\nVV. V\\nOhio.\\nArk.\\nIowa.\\n111.\\nKy.\\nLa.\\nMo.\\nMiss.\\nTenn.\\nWis.\\nMinn.\\nIn. I.\\n111.\\nOhio.\\nKy.\\nPa.\\nW. V.\\nMo.\\nTenn.\\nNeb.\\nLa.\\nIII.\\nMiss.\\nKy.\\nTenn.\\nAla.\\n111.\\n[nd.\\nArk.\\nWis.\\nMiss.\\nPopulat n\\n505,999\\n13,909\\nII 7, 1..H\\n79,028\\n142.181\\n32,712\\n147,Sl j\\n94,820\\n68,890\\n404,650\\n7:;,:;71\\n138,501\\n73,730\\n72,4NO\\n11,9:\\n35,081\\n216,373\\n13,547\\n105,858\\n42,889\\n280,214\\n138,545\\n1 1,91 l\\n366,637\\n182,269\\n129,482\\n126,468\\n115,129\\n252,124\\n46,017\\n424,845\\n298,342\\n12,243\\n29,290\\n11, 41:\\n111.664\\n1 17,455\\n1 1,569\\n23,09\\n70,828\\n120,960\\n72,111\\n168,295\\n58,736\\nCash Value\\nPersonal and\\nReal Estate.\\n:;77 7,834,908\\n.Same territory, 1850.\\nIncrease in 20 years\\n4,600,426\\n3,234,582\\n166,559,891\\n20,620,578\\n46.717,249\\n17,217,641\\n99,594,035\\n8,615,440\\n70,172,::! I\\n76,553,755\\n27,523,66\\n294,109,666\\n44,559,300\\n94,719,512\\n31,156,717\\n38,759,779\\n781,580,770\\n38,997,189\\n15,458,520\\n175,442,325\\n4,445,\\n52,476,159\\n22,303,58!\\n171,893,476\\n307,910,775\\n5,755,571\\n249,194,823\\n121,178,520\\n44,092,210\\n61,242,891\\n71,922.260\\n73,436,276\\n151,372,179\\n17,410,560\\n56,5135,353\\n262,330,888\\n67,395,785\\n17,lii(),ii(Hi\\n11 47:. 7: .:t\\n2-_v;:)4, s-i7\\n!i,717,7:i7\\n6,191,200\\n20,165,447\\n18.564,598\\n6,745,207\\n25,719,823\\n111,748,770\\n37,893,421\\n$5, 108,292,792\\nCash Value\\nFarms.\\n134,109,995\\n22,91 1,176\\n11,915,701\\n8,460,130\\n2,984,353\\n4,154,292\\n15,207,468\\n9,994,930\\n171,352,94\\n28,774,948\\n42,624.517\\n21,119,829\\n18,873,549\\n161,705,310\\n13,964,\\n7, [64,692\\n119,031,064\\n1,724,358\\n34,250,070\\n5,699,945\\n88,11 1,90:\\n167.216,820\\n3, 1 72,584\\n31,266,079\\n46,883,09:\\n22,620,138\\n17,594,456\\n28,299,010\\n27,630,190\\n57,449,434\\n5,573,869\\nt 13,896,281\\n80,762,422\\n60,646,521\\n27.964,932\\n7,127,978\\n4,388,101\\n60,915,264\\n6,002.270\\n8,187,035\\n7,800,849\\n1,884,223\\n17,972,443\\n56,711,788\\n6,084,961\\n52,461,314\\n16,523,247\\n,953,519,698\\n601,312,416\\nCash value\\nFarm Pro-\\nducts.\\ni 19,189,794\\n5,224,21)7\\n9,737,231\\n7,675, /88\\n7,320,624\\n2,389,414\\n12,088,227\\n6,563,663\\n35,847,671\\n8,029,545\\n12,526 68(\\n5,656,039\\n5,4 10, 12 i\\n38,122,565\\nI, oss, 272\\n2,022,517\\n13,776,920\\n1,161,916\\n6,738,05\\n1,834,456\\ni 69 i,04\\n42.1 11,47\\n1,410,62\\n20,963,613\\n13,207,193\\n16,686,602\\n18,752,485\\n10,058,448\\n10,272,324\\n13,282,795\\n2,265,663\\n27,478,685\\n21,027,194\\n6,502,355\\n5,888,622\\n2,196,192\\n3,092,877\\n1.489,543\\nLi;440,665\\n14,276,561\\n3,818,040\\nL,588,080\\n1,469,930\\n1,488,678\\n8,528,248\\n6,659,33;\\n1 1,342.529\\n522,833,759\\n1,352,207,272 303.841,752 229,085,345\\nCash value\\nI ai mi StOCk.\\n-I 1,328,980\\n1,192,525\\n4,051,731\\n2,954,476\\n5,234,567\\n1,493,178\\n9,638,004\\n4,126,972\\n6,090,578\\nt.312,076\\n3,781,176\\n26,794,071\\n2,837,867\\n1,023,960\\n10,937,032\\n71,260\\n1,420,775\\n1,6 ?,661\\n16,830,325\\n24,078,023\\n663,784\\n9. 182,765\\ni;948,541\\n5,202,647\\n7,928,265\\n1,113,369\\n16,085,167\\n13,934,083\\n4,591,501\\n3,924,395\\nl,7 l 2H2\\n1,7::::. 77ii\\n3,521,096\\n10,654,091\\n798,862\\n2,708,193\\n3,1 19,334\\n810,013\\n3,210,430\\n2. .-.41. 12::\\n4,006,599\\n8316,498,908\\n87,413,443", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "24 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n8\\nTHE RAILROAD SYSTEM OP WHEELING.\\nBy reference to a map it will be seen that the Wheeling Railway System is,\\ntaking into view the scope of its connections, one of great value. It will also be\\nseen that all principal points North, South, East and West, can be reached by the\\nBaltimore and Ohio Railroad and its connections.\\nThe B. O. R. R. after leaving Wheeling takes a south-eastwardly course to\\nGrafton, thence northeast to Cumberland, Md., when it takes a southeast course\\nto Washington City and north to Baltimore.\\nAlong the main stem of the B. 0. H. R. from Wheeling there are the fol-\\nlowing connections:\\nAt Benwood with the Central Ohio Division, which takes a direct westward\\ncourse to Newark and Columbus, Ohio.\\nAt Newark the Lake Erie Division takes a direct northern course to Chicago\\nJunction, Sandusky City and Lake Erie. The same branch also runs south from\\nNewark to Shawnee.\\nAt Chicago Junction tlie Chicago Division has a direct westward course to\\nChicago and Lake Michigan, where connections are made with the chain of roads\\nLeading westward from Chicago.\\nAt Grafton the Parkersburg Branch runs directly west to Parkersburg, W.\\nVa., and Cincinnati, O., continuing a straight line West to St. Louis by the Ohio\\nMississippi Railroad; it embraces in its connections the entire net-work of\\nroads which cover the western States.\\nAt North Bend, Ind., a branch runs south to Louisville, Ky., where connections\\nare made to points south from Louisville.\\nAt Cumberland with the Pittsburgh Branch northwest to Pittsburgh, where\\npoints in eastern and middle Pennsylvania, can be reached by railroads Leading\\nout of that city.\\nAt Harper s Ferry with the Valley Railroad running south to Staunton, Ya.,\\nwhere it connects with railroads leading through the whole southern country.\\nAt Washington, D. O, with the W. C, Virginia Midland and (i. S. II. R.\\nsouth to Danville.\\nAt Baltimore with the PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON BALTIMORE RAILROAD\\nto Wilmington, Del., and Philadelphia.; thence by the An: Line Route to New\\nYork for connection through the New England States.\\nThere is also a branch running from Wheeling to Washington, Pa., which con-\\nnects with the Pittsburgh Southern for Pittsburgh this is unquestionably the\\nshortest route to Pittsburgh.\\nThe value of this great trunk line of 3,558 miles of road to this city needs no\\ncomment. It requires but a glance at a railroad map to see how great are the\\nfacilities possessed by Wheeling through this great railroad, to distribute to near-\\nly every State in the Dnion her manufactured products, or to receive from the\\nagricultural districts of the great west, their products.\\nThe following table, made from the annual report of the company for 1878, gives\\nsome idea of the immense amount of business done by the B. 0. R. R.\\nREVENUES OE THE MAIN STEM AND BRANCHES.\\nThe Revenues of riie Main Stem, including the Winchester Potomac, Winchester\\nStrasburg, the Strasburg Harrisonburg, the Metropolitan Branch, and the\\nWashington City Poinl Lookout Railroads, and of the Washington County Rail-\\nroad, lor THREE MONTHS to January 1, 1878, have been 8,563,956 85\\nOf the Washington Branch 27(5,879 40\\nof the Parkersburg Branch 659,698 77\\nOf the Central Ohio Division 829,252 77\\nOf the Lake Erie Division 657, (332 04\\nOf the Chicago Division 1,057,558 96\\nof the Wheeling, Pittsburgh Baltimore (formerly Hemnfield Railroad) 40,984 25\\nof (he Newark. Somerset Straitsvilie Railroad... 135,295 06\\nOf the Pittsburgh Connellsville Railroad (Pittsburgh Division) 1,544,021 89\\nTotal $13,7(55,279 99\\nThe above shows au increase compared with 1877 of $55(5,419 91", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OP WHEELING.\\n25\\nThe main stem and liiu-s operated by the Baltimore )lii Company in their\\ndifferent courses runs through and into the territory of ten States, and gives by\\nits own direct lines transportation to sixty-five counties, through whose area its\\nrails run. The value of the population, wraith and products of these COUntie\\nthe importance of the routes as instanced by the value of personal and real estate,\\nvalue of farms and farm products, as stated in the census of 1*7(1, is shown in\\nthe following table:\\nSTATES.\\n.y ashv f lue Population\\nPersonal and i a7n\\nReal Estate, I lw,u-\\n1870.\\nCash value\\nFarms,\\n1870.\\nCash value\\nFarm\\nProducts.\\nCash value\\nLive Stock.\\nWest Virginia\\nMaryland\\nPennsylvania\\nOhio\\nIndiana\\nIllinois\\nKentucky\\nMissouri\\nDistrict of Columbia.\\nVirginia\\n84\\n498\\n484\\n705\\n124\\n87\\n116\\n511\\n113\\n10\\niirts\\n851\\n260\\n131\\n766\\n325 1\\niiim\\n,023\\n,111\\nTotal 05 \u00c2\u00a72,743,495,034\\ntill\\n180\\n939\\n206\\n129\\nlis\\n351\\n131\\n20\\n5 44\\n76\\n109\\n,092,844\\n,035,644\\n,218,068\\n,729,331\\n,536, 174\\n,133,478\\n,253,89\\n,409,035\\n,800,230\\n,877,00(\\n108,340\\n532,491\\n962,166\\n878,045\\n115,348\\n339,346\\n631,076\\n566,476\\n319,517\\n097,901\\n2,921,109 3072,030,007 8118,150,709 872,699,763\\n86,511,176\\n5, 1911,127\\n1,333,793\\n114,916\\n1,168,311\\nBesides the above, this road has connections all through the East and West, and\\nas before stated reaches very nearly every State in the Union.\\nThe second great trunk line which renders Wheeling a city of so much import-\\nance is the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati St. Louts Railway. Although the main\\nline of this road does not centre here, a branch the Pittsburgh, Wheeling Ken-\\ntucky connects Wheeling with the main stem and through it to six great States,\\nand thirty-one counties of said States, the value of which is shown in the follow-\\ning table:\\nSTATES.\\nV\\na\\n3\\no\\nCash value of\\nPersonal and\\nReal Estate.\\n1870.\\nPopulation\\n1870.\\nCash value\\nFarms,\\n1870.\\nCash value\\nFarm Pro-\\nducts, 1870.\\nCash value\\nLive Slock,\\n1870.\\nt\\n2\\n13\\n9\\n6\\n1\\n09,288,390\\n4,000,127\\n425,885,900\\n2:13,819,990\\n88,307,350\\n511,035,000\\n48,483\\n4,303\\n472,805\\n266,056\\n12 310\\n351,189\\n39,015,600\\n2,317,814\\n200,454,07:;\\n105,025,30:\\n42,573,200\\n28,409,635\\n4,526 239\\n347,055\\n35,852,054\\n16,612,261\\n10,515,962\\n3,500,487\\n33. V I\\n218,840\\nOhio\\n22,121,605\\nIndiana\\nIllinois\\n12,400,111\\n1,333,793\\n31\\n11,332,090,703\\n1,270,312\\n8417,796,285\\n71,420,047\\n846,097,572\\nThis route, bv its connection with the Columbus, Chicago* Indiana Central,\\nreaches eleven other counties in Indiana other than those in the table above, which\\nhad, in 1870, a population of 134,025; personal and real estate to the value of $99,-\\n221,323; farms of a cash value of $55,476,850; producing farm products to the\\nvalue of $11,657,183; and live stock worth $8,782,514. By its connection with the\\nToledo, Peoria Wabash Railroad, nine more counties, other than those pre-\\nviously given, and reached direct, having in 1870, a population of 262,118; with\\npersonal and real estate of the cash value of $176,582,022 with farms of a cash\\nvalue of $108,350,561; yielding farm products worth, at cash valuation, $23,82o,-\\n592; and with live stock worth $19,850,000 cash.\\nThe Cleveland Pittsburgh Railroad runs through four counties in Ohio,\\nhaving a population of 220,987; a cash value of real and personal estate of $19o,-\\n703,000; with farms of $75,939,385 cash value; yielding $10,521,143 of products,\\nand having $7,041,313 of live stock.\\nThese statistics are those of the census of 1870, nine years ago. lth two trunk\\nlines running their daily trains through such immense wealth, it needs nol much\\ncomment to show the value of Wheeling s railway system as a sustainer of her\\nJ$", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Jo^26 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X\\nbusiness and a promoter of her growth. When to these is added that of the bal-\\nance of the contemplated railroads, it is evident that Wheeling s continued pros-\\nperity with a railway system giving access to such wealth, in addition to the other\\nenormous sums shown by the census of 1870 to lie along the course of her accessa-\\nble rivers can be a subject for no doubt, however, it may be temporarily affected by\\nthose periodical depressions of business to which the country has been subject.\\nThere are several minor roads running out of Bellaire whose future is yet unde-\\nveloped. Among these is the Bellaire A Southwestern, whose line will soon be\\ncompleted to Woodstield, Ohio, thus giving to Wheeling a new outlet to central\\nOhio.\\nf the various projected roads, it is not requisite here to speak; as of their\\nroutes or their trade statistics no data could be given. That several of these will\\nhereafter add to the railroad facilities of Wheeling, is one of the certainties of the\\ncity s future.\\nThis brief exposition that is here given of Wheeling s railway system shows its\\npower. Its lines readies to the East, Northeast, Southeast, South, West, North-\\nwest and North it reaches the great seaports of the Atlantic coast with a singular\\ndirectness and force it lays hold on the great lakes as strongly it reaches into and\\ncovers the West with a wonderful grasp, and, as shown, lays a similar broad hand\\non the South. This presentation of Wheeling as a railway center, suggests at\\nonce a greatness for the city, increasing with the products and wants of the greater\\nportion of the Union.\\nft", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n27\\nRATES OF FREIGHT WEST BY B. 0. R. R.\\nIN CENTS PER 100 LBS. FROM BELLAIRE. O., WHEELING AND\\nMOUNDSVILLE, W. VA.\\nTO\\n1st.\\nClass.\\n2d\\nIns-.\\nAkron,\\nAlbion, Mich\\nVJgona, Iowa\\nAlida, Ind\\nUegan, Mich\\nAltamnni, 111\\nAlton, 111\\nAlexandria, Ind\\nAnderson, Ind\\nAnn Arbor, Mich\\nAppletou, Wis.\\nAppleton June, Wis. f\\nAshland. Ill\\nAthens, O\\nAtlanta 111\\nAtlantic, Iowa\\nAuburn Junction, Ind\\nAustin, Minn\\nA villa, Ind\\nAvoca, Iowa\\nBangor, Wis\\nBanker s, Mich\\nBattle Creek, Mich\\nBay City, Mich\\nBeardstown, 111\\nBellefontaine, O\\nBelleville Out\\nBeloit, Wis\\nBement, Iil\\nBerlin, Ont\\nBerlin, Wis\\nBloomingtbn, 111\\nBoscobel, Wis\\nBow man vi He, Ont\\nBrampton, Ont\\nB ram t ford, Ont\\nBrockville, Ont\\nBrod heads, Wis\\nBuffalo, N. V\\nBurgoon^O,\\nBurlington, Iowa\\nBurnett, Wis\\nButler, Ind\\nBushnell, 111\\nCairo, 111\\nCambridge, O\\nCambridge City, Ind\\nCameron, Mo\\nCamp Point, 111\\nCanton, 111\\nCarey, O\\nCarver, Minn\\nlassopolis, Mich\\nCedar tiapids, Iowa\\nCelina, O.\\ni lenterville, low\\nChampaign, 111\\nChapin, III\\nCharlotte, Mich\\nChaska, Minn...\\nChatfieid, Minn\\nChatham, Ont...\\nChester, Wis...-\\nChicago, II-\\nChillicothfe,\\nCincinnati, 0....\\nCirclerille, O....\\nCleveland.\\nClinton, Iowa...\\nClinton, III\\n321\\n50\\n150\\n50\\n50\\n65\\n50\\n50\\n:.7\\n65\\ni\\n75\\nno\\n15\\n150 1\\n15\\nl 10\\nlis\\n45\\n50\\n50\\n65\\n10\\n108\\n92\\n1 29\\nl 15\\nm;\\n50\\n15\\nto\\n82\\nton\\n65\\n25\\nto\\n129\\nto\\nto\\n,,n\\n55\\nHi\\nto\\n15\\n60\\n110\\n35\\n123\\n15\\ntin\\n98\\n35\\nHI\\n40\\n55\\n30\\n83\\n3d\\nClass.\\n1(1\\n101\\n120\\nill\\n72\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0in\\nit.lt\\nClass.\\nHi\\n23\\n16\\nno\\n25\\n95\\n25\\n.in\\n79\\n25\\n30\\n30\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0in\\n25\\n62\\n60\\nm\\n45\\n.i\\n10\\n78\\n56\\n411\\n45\\nill\\n07\\n28\\n25\\nr 7\\n25\\n61\\n4(1\\n23\\n25\\n61\\n45\\n54\\n25\\n80\\n30\\n65\\n25\\n7n\\n37\\n40\\n30\\n79\\n90\\n51\\n57\\n30\\n23\\n23\\nin\\nNails\\nit It in\\nClass Loads\\nCar\\nLoads Keg.\\nin I\\nIT\\nny 9\\n23\\n25\\n18\\n15\\n19\\n12\\nii\\n7U\\njo\\n30\\n30\\n20\\n18\\n23\\n17 15\\n32 27\\n70 ,,ii\\nIS\\n7n\\n18\\n7U\\n59\\n18\\n20\\n22\\n30\\n17\\nin\\n15\\n15\\n50\\n46\\n17\\n25\\n14\\n35\\n4.-. 35\\n30 23\\n32 27\\n14\\n30\\n58\\n36\\n35\\n32\\n13\\n211\\n15\\n30\\n41\\n18\\nII\\n15\\n18\\nll\\n30\\n39\\nis\\n7,7\\n20\\n45\\n20\\n50\\n20\\n20\\n56\\n37\\nII\\n20\\n17\\nL5\\n17\\n12\\n40\\n30\\n:14\\n23\\n4o\\n31\\n30\\n27\\n37\\n15\\n12\\n32\\n15\\n12\\n15\\nill\\n25\\n31\\nII\\n12\\n15\\n21\\n1\\nII\\n4.-,\\n32\\n15\\n15\\n15\\nin", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "5\u00c2\u00a37\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nRATES OF FREIGHT WEST BY B. 0. R. R-Continued.\\nTO\\nClinton, Ont\\nClinton Junction, Wis-.\\nCoburg, Ont\\nColumbia City, Ind,\\nColumbus, O...\\nColumbus Junction, Iowa\\nConnersville, Ind\\nCornwall, Ont\\nCrawfordsville, Ind\\nDanville 111\\nDavenport, Iowa _.\\nDakota, Minn\\nDayton, O\\nDecatur, 111\\nDecorah Iowa\\nDefiance, O\\nDelavan, 111\\nDelawaie, O\\nDenver, Ind\\nDe Pere, Wis\\nDeshler,\\nDes Moins, Iowa\\nDetroit, Mich\\nDetroit, Mich., Lake and Kail\\nDubuque, Iowa\\nDunkirk, N. Y\\nDunleitb, 111\\nEast Saginaw. Mich\\nFast St. Louis, 111\\nBaton Rapids, Mich\\nEddyville, Iowa\\nEdge wood. 111\\nEffingham, 111\\nElkhart, Ind\\nEvansville, Ind\\nFairfield, Iowa\\nFaribault, Minn\\nFarmer City, III\\nFerrysburg, Mich\\nFindlay, O.\\nFlint, Micb\\nFond un Lac, Vv is\\ni,\\nFort Atkinson, Wis\\nie, Ont\\nFori Howard, Wis.\\nFori Howard June, Wis. j\\nFori Mapison, Iowa\\nFori Wayne, Ind\\nFostoria,\\nFreeport, 111\\nrot,\\nFremont, Neb\\nFrontenac, Minn\\nFulton, ill\\nGalena, Til\\nGalion, O\\nGait, ont\\nI\\n1st\\nClass.\\n86\\n90\\n98\\n45\\n10\\ntoo\\n50\\n112\\n60\\n62\\n72\\n120\\n4o\\n65\\n145\\n45\\n65\\n40\\n48\\n83\\n15\\n115\\n40\\n35\\n100\\n50\\n100\\n50\\n65\\n50\\n105\\n68\\n63\\n102\\n150\\n65\\n55\\n40\\n50\\n90\\n40\\n86\\n76\\n83\\n75\\n45\\n40\\nmo\\nMl\\niasa\\n100J\\n40\\n2d\\nClass.\\nGananoque, Onl i 110\\nGenesee Hi l \u00c2\u00a3?J\\nch, Onl\\nshcii Ind\\nGrand Crossing, Minn,\\nr in I Ha*/, n Mi; I:\\nGrand Rspids, Mich\\nI Hay, Wis\\nI in it.k I ml\\nnvill-\\nrmiicll. low i\\n::i-i|0i, Ont.\\ntown, ind\\n3d\\nClass.\\n50\\n120\\n55\\n50\\n83\\n60\\n120\\n721\\n64\\n73\\n73\\n35\\n30\\n80\\nin\\n85\\n48\\n49\\n58\\n95\\n35\\n50\\n[20\\n35\\n55\\n30\\n38\\n68\\n35\\n85\\n30\\n25\\n80\\n35\\n80\\n10\\n55\\n10\\n85\\n53\\n50\\n45\\n51\\n82\\nl-js\\n50\\n45\\n30\\n10\\n72\\n30\\n70\\n04\\n65\\n35\\n30\\n85\\n30\\n121\\n100\\n80\\n80\\n30\\nft,\\n85\\n73\\n45\\n40\\n100\\n45\\n40\\n68\\n48\\n35\\n100\\n53\\n40\\n4th\\nClass.\\n37\\n13\\n36\\n18\\n15\\n17\\n18\\n13\\n23\\n25\\n32%\\n55\\n15\\n30\\n68\\n18\\n30\\n18\\n20\\n39\\n18\\n45\\n15\\n13\\n40\\n20\\n40\\n20\\n30\\n20\\n47\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n26\\n47\\n70\\n30\\n25\\n18\\n20\\n41\\n18\\n40\\n29\\n39\\n35\\n18\\n18\\n50\\n15\\n65\\n55\\n40\\n40\\n15\\n30\\n37\\n18\\n43\\n45\\nS*\\n4th\\nClass\\nCar\\nLoads\\n32\\n33\\n31\\n15\\n12\\n35\\n15\\n38\\n19\\n20\\n25\\n30\\n12%\\n23\\n45\\n15\\n25\\n14\\n17\\n2.\\n15\\n35\\n12*\\n10*\\n27*\\n15\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2l V\\n17\\n25\\n17*\\n40\\n24\\n23\\n25\\n23\\n40\\n47%\\n23\\n20\\n14\\ni7k\\n27\\n14\\n31\\n24\\n28\\n15\\n14\\n32%\\n12%\\n55\\n30\\n27%\\n27%\\n12\\n25\\n31\\n15\\n38\\n35\\n22%\\n17\\nJK\\n55\\n30\\n30\\n35\\n25\\n20\\n20\\n30\\nv\\n17%\\n17%\\n55\\n38\\n25\\n25\\n29\\n21\\n17\\n17\\n25\\n17\\n15\\n15\\n85\\n60\\n35\\n42\\n30\\n2\\n25\\n1 25\\nis 1\\n15\\n15\\nJ?", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHF.KUM\\n29^5\\nRATES OF FREIGHT WEST BY B. 0. R. R-Continued.\\nTO\\n1st 2d\\nClass. Class.\\n3d 4th\\nClass. I iss.\\nNails\\nIlll ill C;ir\\nClass Loads\\nCar Per\\nl,ouds Ki^.\\nHamilton, O.\\nHamilton, Out\\nHannibal, Mo\\nHaskell s Ind\\nHastiugs, Minn\\nHavana, 111\\nHenderson, Kv\\nHillsdale, Mich\\nHolland, Mich\\nHolly, Mich\\nHomer, Mich\\nHoopeston. Ill\\nHorricon, Wis\\nHudson, Wis\\nHonover, Wis\\nIndianapolis, Ind\\nIndianola, Iowa\\nIowa City, Iowa\\nJackson, Mich\\nJacksonville, 111\\nJanesville, Wis\\nJefferson City, Mo\\nJeffersonville, Ind\\nJefferson, Wis\\nJolliet, III\\nJonesboro, Ind\\nJonesville, Mich\\nJunction City Ohio,....\\nKalamazoo, Mich\\nKasota, Minn\\nKaukauna, Wis\\nKellogg, Minn\\nKendallville, Ind\\nKenosha, Wis\\nKeokuk, Iowa\\nKingston, Ont\\nKnoxville, Iowa\\nKokomo, Ind\\nLa. Crosse, Ind\\nLa Crosse, Wis\\nLafayette. Ind\\nLake City, Minn\\nLarooile, Minn\\nLancaster, O\\nLangdon, Minn\\nLansing, Iowa\\nLansing, Mich\\nLa Peer, Mieh\\nLa Porte, Ind\\nL.1 Salle, 111\\nLima, O\\nLincoln, 111\\nLincoln, Neb\\nLitchfield 111\\nLittle Chute, Wis\\nLittle Kaukauna, Wis\\nLogansport. Ind\\nLondon, Ont\\nLouisiana, Mo\\nLouisville, Ky\\nLudington, Mich\\nLyle, Minn\\nLyons, Iowa.\\nMadison, Ind\\nMadison, Wis\\nManchester, Midi\\nManitowoc, Wis\\nMankato, Minn\\nMansfield, O\\nMarco, Ind\\nMarietta. O\\nMarinette, Wis\\nMarion, Ind\\n50\\n72\\n7ii\\n60\\n125\\n65\\n90\\nI.\\n55\\n50\\n62\\nno\\n111\\n93\\n:ni\\n125\\n105\\n45\\n65\\n86\\n103\\n58\\n86\\n58\\n50\\n45\\n45\\n50\\n140\\n88\\n120\\n45\\n55\\n70\\n10S\\n105\\n48\\n50\\n120\\n50\\n125\\n120\\n45\\n125\\n120\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n76\\n45\\n65\\n130\\n65\\n88\\n83\\n48\\n80\\n70\\ni ;u\\n55\\n140\\n100\\n58\\n100\\n15\\n74\\n1 l i\\n40\\n77\\n45\\n90\\nis\\nto\\n53\\n60\\n15\\ntoo\\n55\\n7H\\n35\\n45\\nin\\nto\\n49\\n72\\n87\\n7.\\nin\\n95\\n85\\n35\\n55\\n70\\n85\\n46\\n70\\n46\\n40\\n35\\n35\\n40\\n115\\n72\\nKill\\n35\\n45\\n60\\n83\\n85\\n38\\n4(1\\n95\\n40\\n100\\n05\\nKm\\n95\\n40\\n40\\n4(1\\n63\\n35\\n5(1\\n11(1\\n55\\n72\\n68\\n38\\non\\ni;n\\nis\\n45\\n11 i\\n80\\n46\\n82\\n35\\n61\\n11.\\n30\\n61\\n7\\n19 16\\n30\\n1.:\\n25\\n2.\\n2U\\nV,\\n30\\n:-;ii\\n48\\n38\\nis\\n15\\n25\\n20\\n20\\n17\\n20\\nIV\\n2.1\\n2H\\nII\\n32\\n50\\n32\\n4b\\n35\\nis\\n15\\n55\\n41\\n47\\n40\\n18\\n15\\n30\\n25\\nId\\n31\\n50\\n40\\n20\\n17\\nHI\\n31\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J 4\\nIS\\n23\\n18\\n18\\n15\\n17\\n15\\n20\\n47k\\n65\\n40\\n25\\n55\\n30\\nis\\n15\\n25\\n19\\n30\\n25\\nin\\n35\\n47\\n40\\n20\\n17\\n20\\n17\\n5b\\n30\\n21\\n17\\n3d\\n55\\n3(1\\n17\\n15\\n55\\n311\\n55\\n30\\n21\\nn%\\n21\\nmz\\n21\\n17...\\n3o\\n27\\n17\\n15\\n31\\n23.\\n55\\n45\\n30\\n25\\n41\\n25\\n39\\n25\\n2i\\n17\\n34\\n2\\n3(\\n25\\n22\\n10\\n25\\n20\\n62\\n51\\nin\\n27\\n2(1\\n17\\n50\\n30\\nis\\n15\\n33\\n25\\n65\\n47\\n1..\\n12\\nll\\n36\\n17\\n15\\nII\\n34\\n20\\n17", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "^30\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nRATES OF FREIGHT WESTjYj 0- R. R-Continued.\\nTO\\nMarion, O\\nMarshallton, Iowa\\nMason City, 111\\nMason City, Iowa\\nMatoon, 111\\nMc Iregor, Iowa\\nMemphis, Tenn\\nMenasha, Wis\\nMenominee, Mich\\nMexico, Mo\\nMichigan, City.Ind\\nMiltord Center, O\\nMilford Junction, Ind\\nMilton June. Wis\\nMilwaukee, Wis\\nMinier, 111\\nMinneapolis, Minn\\nMinnesota June, Wis\\nMinneiska, Minn\\nMishawaka, Ind\\nMitchell, Out\\nMobile, Ala\\nMoline, III\\nMonmouth, 111\\nMonroe, Mich\\nMonroe, Wis\\nMonroeville, O\\nMontreal, Que\\nMount Pulaski. HI\\nMount Vernon, O\\nMuncie, Ind\\nMuscatine, Iowa\\nMuskegon, Mich\\nMinster, O\\nNapanee, Ont\\nNashville, Tenn\\nNebraska City, Neb\\nNeenah, Wis\\nNew Albany, Ind\\nNewark,\\nNew Castle, Ind\\nNew Irleans, La\\nNorthfield, Minn\\nNorth Manchester, Ind.\\nOconto, Wis\\nOmro, Wis\\nOshkosh, Wis\\nOskaloosa, Iowa\\nOtis, Ind\\ni ittawa, 111\\nOttumwa, Iowa\\nOwatonna, Minn\\nhveiisboro, Ivy\\nOwasso, Mich\\nPaducah, Ky\\nPana, 111\\nParis, HI\\nParis, Ont\\nPaxton, 1U\\nPekin, III\\nPella, Iowa\\nP ia, 1 II\\nPeru, III\\nPeru, Ind\\nPeshtigo, Wis\\nPetersburg, III\\nPiqua,\\nPlainview, Minn\\nPlainwell, Mich\\nPlatte City, Mo\\nPlattsburg, Mo\\nPlymouth, Ind\\nPlymouth, Mich\\n1st\\nClass.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22d\\nClass.\\n3d\\nClass.\\n40\\n120\\n65\\n1 45\\n62\\n120\\n90\\n88\\n90\\n105\\n50\\n45\\n48\\n92\\n55\\n75\\n110\\n90\\n120\\n50\\n82\\n100\\n72\\n114\\n40\\n100\\n40\\nlis\\n65\\n40\\n50\\n75\\n55\\n45\\n108\\n75\\n140\\n88\\n60\\n3;\\n50\\n110\\n140\\n48\\n8\\n93\\n93\\n105\\n50\\n74\\n140\\n85\\n50\\n65\\n65\\n62\\n7t;\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a212\\n60\\n1 85\\n00\\n76\\n48\\n89\\n65\\n45\\n135\\n50\\n1(42\\n102\\n50\\n30\\n100\\n55\\n117\\n49\\n95\\n70\\n72\\n75\\n80\\n40\\n35\\n38\\n75\\n45\\n60\\n85\\n72\\n100\\n40\\n62\\n.so\\n58\\n94\\n30\\nSO\\n30\\nss\\n50\\n35\\n40\\n60\\n45\\n35\\n83\\n60\\n115\\n72\\n48|\\n30\\n40\\n85\\n120\\n38\\n72\\n76\\n76\\n85\\n40\\n61\\n72\\n115\\n65\\n40\\n55\\n50\\n4!)\\n571\\n49\\n50\\n85\\n50\\n63\\n38\\n71\\n55\\n35\\n(10\\nto\\n82\\n82\\n10\\n40\\n4th\\nClass.\\n23\\n85\\n10\\n:U\\n35\\n75\\n50\\n55\\n60\\n63\\n30\\n25\\n28\\n60\\n35\\n46\\n65\\n57\\n75\\n30\\n4!\\n70\\n15\\n74\\n25\\n65\\n25\\n4th\\nClass\\nCar\\nLoads\\nNails\\nin Car\\nLoads\\nPer\\nKeg.\\n15\\n60\\n30\\n66\\n25\\n55\\n34\\nto\\n44\\n16\\n20\\n17\\n20\\n45\\n25\\n32\\n45\\nII\\n55\\n20\\n35\\n44\\n32\\n54\\n15\\n50\\n15\\n12\\n35\\n25\\n50\\n20\\n30\\n29\\n25\\n:;i\\n38\\n15\\n17\\n35\\n19\\n27\\n66 43\\n40\\n23\\n25\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n62\\n15\\n85\\n55\\n32\\n23\\n25\\n75\\n97\\n28\\n58\\n59\\n59\\n65\\n30\\n48\\n55\\n90\\n55\\n30\\n30\\nis\\nis\\n25\\n20\\n10\\n31\\n55\\n40\\n22\\n15\\n18\\n19\\n7ii\\n20\\n12\\nII\\nI!\\n47\\n20\\n34\\n39\\n65\\n4S\\n20\\n40 30\\n40 30\\n25\\n32\\n25\\n25\\n55\\n25\\n35\\n20\\n43\\n30\\n17\\n60\\n20\\ntl\\n41\\n20\\n20\\n30\\n32\\n30\\nny 2\\n30\\n39\\n25\\n39\\n12\\n39\\n36\\n23\\n11\\n15\\n25\\n20\\n15\\n35\\n26\\n45\\n25\\n19\\n12\\n15\\n44\\n47\\n17\\n33\\n34\\n2- r\\n40\\n1%\\n25\\n2S\\n47\\n38\\n17\\n25\\n23\\n20\\n27\\n20\\n21\\n45\\n21\\n27\\n17\\n33\\n25\\n15\\n41\\n1%\\n31\\n31\\n17K\\n12\\n35\\n25\\n50\\n20\\n30\\n29\\n25\\n34\\n38\\nX\\n15\\n17\\n35\\n19\\n27\\n30\\nS\u00c2\u00a3*\\n30\\n17\\n30\\n39\\n25^\\n39\\nW*\\n39\\n12\\n36\\n23\\n14\\n15\\n25\\n20\\n15\\n35\\n26\\n45\\n25\\n19\\n12\\n15\\n44\\n47%\\n17\\n33\\n34\\n25\\n40\\n17\\n25\\n2S\\nit 1\\n38\\n17i\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\n25\\n23\\n20\\n27\\n20\\n21\\n45\\n21\\n27\\n17\\n33\\n25\\n15\\n11\\n17\\n31\\n31\\n37\\nn", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nSI\\na\\nRATES OF FREIGHT WEST BY B. 0. R. R-Continued.\\nTO\\n1st\\n2d\\n3d\\n4th\\n4th\\nClass.\\nClass.\\nCla\\n1 his,-,.\\nCar\\nLoads\\n138\\n103\\n76\\n56\\n51\\n100\\n82\\n65\\n50\\n39\\n64\\n17\\n38\\n27\\n22\\n98\\n73\\n56\\n36\\n31\\n50\\n4(1\\n30\\n25\\n20\\n;,(i\\n1(1\\n30\\n20\\nIV, j\\n15\\n35\\n25\\n17\\n15\\n74\\n61\\n45\\n33\\n25\\n133\\n109\\n85\\n60\\n12\\n120\\n95\\n75\\n55\\n30\\n112\\n85\\n64\\n13\\n38\\n115\\n95\\n75\\n46\\n138\\n103\\n76\\n62\\n57\\n70\\n60\\n45\\n30\\n25\\n125\\n100\\n75\\n30\\n55\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n19\\nL25\\n100\\n75\\n30\\n55\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n20\\n160\\n135\\n100\\n70\\n55\\n50\\n40\\n25\\n18\\n15\\n90\\n72\\n57\\n41\\n32\\n135\\n11(1\\n85\\n60\\n40\\n72\\n58\\n45\\n32\\n25\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17%\\n70\\n60\\n45\\n30\\n25\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n17\\n15\\n79\\n59\\n46\\n33\\n28\\n110\\n85\\n65\\n45\\n30\\n140\\n115\\n90\\ni\\\\r,\\n47%\\n119\\n99\\n80\\n60\\n45\\n40\\n30\\n25\\n15\\n12\\nm\\n64\\n51\\n37\\n32\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17\\n86\\n64\\n51\\n37\\n32\\n130\\n103\\n81\\n58\\n(3\\n90\\n73\\n58\\n43\\n33\\n74\\n61\\n45\\n33\\n25\\n40\\n30\\n23\\n18\\n14\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n17\\n15\\n105\\n85\\n65\\n47\\n40\\n150\\n115\\n90\\n65\\n50\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n15\\n117\\n97\\n78\\n58\\n45\\n65\\n55\\n40\\n30\\n25\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n15\\n12\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17\\n110\\n85\\n65\\n45\\n30\\n50\\n4(1\\n30\\n20\\n17\\n76\\n57\\n45\\n32\\n27\\n45\\n35\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a225\\nis\\n16\\n65\\n55\\n10\\n30\\n25\\n60\\n48\\n2!)\\n21\\n17\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17\\n40\\n30\\n25\\n15\\n12\\n10\\n30\\n25\\n15\\n12\\n65\\n50\\n37\\n26\\n21\\n111\\n93\\n75\\n57\\n45\\n80\\n60\\n47\\n34\\n29\\n65\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n23\\n75\\n60\\n48\\n35\\n31%\\n118\\n98\\n78\\n57\\n47\\n57\\n44\\n32\\n24\\n20\\n65\\n50\\n37\\n26\\n21\\n74\\n61\\n15\\n33\\n25\\n45\\n35\\n25\\nis\\n15\\n40\\n30\\n25\\nis\\n14\\n65\\n.mi\\n37\\n26\\n21\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n15\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17%\\n65\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\nRails\\nin r,i\\nLoads\\nIV,\\nKeg.\\nPoint Levi, Que\\nPortage, Wis\\nPort lolbourne, Out\\nPorl Hope, Onl\\nPort Huron, Mich\\nPortsmouth, Mich\\nPortsmouth,\\nPort Washington, Wis\\nPostville, Iowa\\nPrairie do Chien, Wis\\nPrescott, Out\\nPrinceton, Mo\\nQuebec, Que\\nQuincy, 111\\nHead s Landing, Minn.\\nRacine, Wis.\\nRacine I miction, Wis.\\nRed Winn, Minn\\nReed City, Mich\\nRedwood Falls, Minn..,\\nRichmoud, Iud\\nRipon, Wis\\nRochester, Miun\\nRock Island. Ill\\nSaginaw, Mich\\nSaint Louis, Mo\\nSaint Mary s O\\nSaint Mary s Ont\\nSaint Paul Minn\\nSaint Peter, Minn\\nSalem, Wis\\nSandusky, O\\nSarnia, Out\\nSchoolcraft, Mich\\nSeaforth, Ont\\nShakopee, Minn\\nSharon, Wis\\nShebovgau, Wis\\nShelby, Ohio\\nSidney, O\\nSigouruey, Iowa\\nSiox City, Iowa\\nSouth Bend, Ind\\nSouth Chicago, HI\\nSparta, Wis\\nSpringfield, III\\nSpringfield,\\nState Line, 111\\nStillwater, Minn\\nStillwell, Ind\\nStratford, Ont\\nSturgis, Mich\\nTaylorville, 111\\nTerre Haute, Ind\\nThree Rivers, Mich\\nTiffin, O\\nToledo, O\\nTolouo, 111\\nTomah, Wis\\nToronto, Ont\\nTower Hill, 111\\nTraverse City, Mich\\nTrenton, Mo\\nTroy, O\\nTuscola, 111\\nTwo Rivers, Wis\\nUnion City, Ind\\nUpper Sandusky, O\\nUrbaua, III\\nUrbana, O\\nValparaiso, Iud\\nVandalia, 111\\nVicksburg, Mich", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "^32\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nT\\nRATES OF FREIGHT WEST BY B. 0. R. R-Continued.\\nTO\\nVincennes, Ind\\nVirginia, 111\\nWabash, Ind\\nWabasha, Minn\\nWalkerton, Ind\\nWanatah, Ind\\nWarsaw, Til\\nWarsaw, Ind\\nWaseca, Minn\\nWashington, 111\\nWashington, Iowa\\nWashington c. 11., o\\nWashington Heights, 111\\nWaterloo, Ind\\nWatertown, Wis\\nWaupun, Wis\\nWeaver, Minn\\nWellsboro, Ind\\nWenona, Mich\\nWest Liberty, Iowa\\nWeston, Ont\\nWest Salem, Wis\\nWhitby, Ont\\nWhitewater, Wis\\nWinchester. Ind\\nWindsor, 111\\nWinneconne, Wis\\nWinona, Minn\\nWiuterset, Iowa\\nWyandotte, Mich\\nXenia, O\\nYpsilanti, Mich\\nZanesville,\\nZunibrota, Minn\\n1st\\n2d\\n3d\\n4th\\n4th\\nClass\\nClass.\\nClass.\\nClass.\\nClass.\\nCar\\nLoads\\n63\\n50\\n35\\n24\\n21\\n65\\n55\\n40\\nMO\\n25\\n48\\n38\\n28\\n20\\n17\\n125\\n100\\n75\\n55\\n30\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17%\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n1734\\n70\\n60\\n45\\n30\\n25\\n48\\n38\\n28\\n20\\n17\\n140\\n115\\n90\\n65\\n47%\\n81\\n67\\n49\\n36\\n32\\n105\\n85\\n65\\n47\\n40\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n17\\n15\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n17 V,\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n18\\n15\\n80\\n65\\n50\\n37\\n29\\n90\\n72\\n57\\n41\\n32\\n120\\n100\\n75\\n55\\n30\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\nn%\\n1V%\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n100\\n80\\n65\\n47\\n35\\n82\\n62\\n49\\n35\\n30\\n119\\n99\\n80\\n60\\n47\\n98\\n73\\n56\\n36\\n31\\n90\\n73 1\\n57\\n43\\n33\\n50\\n40\\n25\\n18\\n15\\n65\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n23\\n93\\n76\\n59\\n44\\n34\\n120\\n95\\n75\\n55\\n30\\n130\\n97\\n72\\n57\\n45\\n40\\n30\\n25\\n15\\n12%\\n45\\n35\\n25\\n17\\n15\\n50\\n40\\n30\\n20\\n1734\\n40\\n30\\n23\\n15\\n12\\n140\\n115\\n90\\n65\\n41\\nNails\\nin Car\\nLoads\\nPer\\nKeg.\\n21\\n25\\n17\\n30\\nn%\\n1%\\n25\\n47^\\n32\\n40\\n15\\n17%\\n15\\n29\\n32\\n30\\n17%\\n30\\n47\\n31\\n33\\n15\\n23\\n34\\n30\\n45\\n12%\\n15\\n17\\n12\\n41\\nRATES OF TRANSPORTATION EAST BY B. 0. R. R.\\nBETWEEN\\nGeneral Mer-\\nchandise.\\nper 100 lbs.\\nSPECIAL CLASS RATES.\\nIn car loads. Owners\\nto load and unload.\\nWHEELING, W. VA.,\\nAND\\n5\\ncts.\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\nOS\\n5\\n-d\\ncts.\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\nCO\\ncts.\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n3\\n,a\\ncts.\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n:;4\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a09,\\n*A S\\n0) n\\n.E;3a\\n33\\n,fi.o\\n3\\n3 O\\no-J\\nfa\\n5~\\nSo\\n3\\nu\\ncu\\n03\u00e2\u0080\u0094.\\n30 O\\nI:\\nOS \u00e2\u0080\u00941\\na,\\nSr O\\n3\\nBaltimore\\nMd.\\ncts.\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n29\\n29\\n29\\n28\\n28\\n28\\n28\\n28\\ncts.\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\ncts.\\ncts\\n991^\\ncts.\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\ncts.\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\nRelay station\\n25:2234\\n25 22%\\n25 22 V*\\n25122%\\n25|22 2\\n25 22%\\n25 22%\\n95 W/:\\nOrange Grove\\nlichee ter\\nEllicott City\\nElysville\\nDorsey s Run\\nPutney Riddle\\nWoodstock\\n50 2522%\\n50 25 22 3 o\\n50 23 22%\\n50 25 22%\\n50 25122%\\n50 2522%\\n50 25 22%\\n50l 2ol22%\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\nMarriottsville\\nSykesville\\nHood s Mill\\nMorgan s\\nWoodbine\\nWalersvillc\\nMount Airy", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "S5\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n33*31\\nRATES OF TRANSPORTATION EAST BY THE B. 0.\\nR. R\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Continued.\\nPlane No. I\\nMonrovia\\n[iamsville\\nFrederick Junction\\nLime Kiln\\nBucke;\\nAdamstown\\nWashington Junction\\nPoint oi Rocks.\\nCatoctin\\nBerlin\\nKnoxville\\nWeverton\\nSandy Hook\\nHarper s Ferry\\nDuffiei\\nKemesville\\nVanclevesville\\nMartinsburg\\nNorth Mountain\\nCherry Ban\\nSleepy !r\u00c2\u00ab\\nHancock\\nHound Top\\n.sir John s Run\\nrreal li\\nOrleans Road\\nDoe inilly\\nNo. 12 Water station\\nPaw Paw\\nLittle Cacapon\\nlUoiioko\\nFrench s\\nrreen Spring.\\nPatterson s Creek\\nNorth Branch\\nCumberland\\nBrady s,\\nRawling s\\nBlack Oak\\n21st Bridge\\nKeys sr\\nI i edmont.\\nBloomington\\nFrankville\\nSwanton\\nWilson s\\nAltamonl\\nDoor Pari\\nOakland\\nLoyd s\\nllutton s\\nRodemer s\\nBradshaw\\nRowli\\nAnderson\\nTunnelton\\nAustin Miius\\nNew burg\\nIndependence", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "3\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nRATES OF TRANSPORTATION EAST BY THE B. 0.\\nR. R\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Continued.\\nBETWEEN\\nWHEELING, W. VA..\\nAND\\nHardman s Switch W\\nIronton\\nWesterman s\\nThorn tou\\nGrafton\\nFetterman\\nValley Falls\\nNuzutu s\\nf- and .Switch\\nTexas\\nBenton s Ferry\\nMonongahela...\\nFairmont\\nBarnesville\\nBarrack ville\\nGallaher s\\nFarmington\\nMannington\\nGlover s Gap\\nBurton\\nLittleton\\nBoard Tree\\nBelton\\nGarrett s Siding\\nCameron\\nLoudensvilie\\nEaston s\\nBoseby s Bock\\nMoundsville\\nBen wood\\nWheeling\\nWebster\\nSimpson s\\nFJemington\\nTyrconliell\\nBridgeport\\nClarksburg\\nWilsonburg\\nCoketon\\nWolfs Summit\\nBrandy Gap\\nCherry Camp\\nSalem\\nLong l!un\\nSmith tun\\nW si Union\\nCentral\\nGreenwood\\nToll Gate\\nPennsboro\\nEllen boro\\nCornwallis\\nCairo\\nSilver Run\\nPetroleum\\nLaurel Fork Junction\\nWalker s\\nKanawha\\nJJavisville\\nParkeisburg\\nHalltown....\\nGeneral Mer-\\nSPECIAL\\nCLASS\\nRATES.\\nCHAND1SK.\\nIn\\nCAR LOADS ONLY.\\nper 100 lbs\\nOwners to load and un-\\nload.\\n\u00c2\u00ab2\\no to;\\nu\\nu\\nc\\ne \u00e2\u0096\u00a0_\\n_j:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eX!\\nm\\nC\\n03\\no~\\no\\na\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a\\n_\\no S\\n|3=\\ngo\\nss\\na\\nr.l\\nets.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts\\ncts\\nct-8\\nCLs.\\nVa\\n43\\n28\\n23\\n19\\n34\\n17\\n16\\n13k\\n11\\n4:;\\n35\\n28\\n2:;\\n19\\n34\\n17\\n16\\n11\\n42\\n35\\n28\\n23\\n19\\n34\\n17\\n16\\nr.;\\\\\\n11\\n41\\n3b\\n26\\n23\\n18\\n32\\n16\\n15\\n13\\n10\\n39\\n35\\n25\\n22\\n18\\n32\\n16\\n15\\n12\\n12 1\\n10\\n39\\n36\\n25\\n22\\n18\\n32\\n16\\n15\\n10\\n36\\n24\\n21\\n17\\n32\\n16\\n14\\n12\\n10\\n35\\n35\\n24\\n20\\n17\\n32\\n16\\n14\\n12\\n9%\\n9k\\n34\\n34\\n23\\n20\\n17\\n32\\n16\\n14\\n12\\n33\\n23\\n20\\nit;\\n30\\n15\\n13\\n11\\n9\\n32\\n32\\n22\\n19\\n16\\n30\\n15\\n13\\n11\\n9\\n31\\n31\\n22\\n19\\n15\\n28\\n14\\n12 k\\n10\\n4\\n30\\n30\\n22\\n19\\n15\\n28\\n14\\n12k\\n10\\nWa\\n30\\n30\\n22\\n19\\n15\\n28\\n11\\n12% 10%\\n4\\n28\\n28\\n21\\n18\\n15\\n28\\n14\\n12 10\\n8\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ii\\n27\\n21\\n18\\n15\\n28\\n14\\n11\\n9k\\n7%\\n26\\n26\\n21\\n18\\n14\\n26\\n13\\n11\\n9k\\n7\\n23\\n21\\n18\\n13\\n25\\n12\\n10%\\n9\\n7\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0jo\\n20\\n19\\nIS\\n12*/,\\n25\\n12\\n10\\n6 l 4\\n19\\n19\\n1.\\n1-\\n12%\\n25\\n12\\n9\\n7%\\no\\n16\\n16\\n16\\n16\\n12\\n20\\n10\\n8\\na\\n15\\nlb\\n1..\\n15\\n11\\n20\\n10\\n8\\n7\\n5\\n14\\n14\\n14\\n14\\n11\\n20\\n10\\n8\\n7\\n13\\n13\\n13\\n13\\n11\\n20H0\\n6k\\n5\\n11\\n11\\n11\\n11\\n9\\n16 8\\n6%\\n6\\n10\\nID\\n10\\nJO\\n9\\n16 8\\n6\\n5\\n4\\n9\\n9\\n6%\\ny\\n8%\\n16\\ns\\n5%\\n4\\n\u00c2\u00abk\\n\u00c2\u00abH\\n6\\n12\\n6\\n4\\n3\\n4\\n4\\n4\\n4\\n8\\n4\\n4\\n3k\\n2k\\n1%\\nLH\\n1%\\nj\\n1%\\n3\\n1%\\n1%\\n1%\\n1%\\n41\\n35\\n26\\n23\\n18\\n32\\n16\\n15\\n13\\n10\\n4:t\\n28\\n23\\n19\\n34 17\\n16\\n13k\\n11\\n43\\n36\\n28\\n23\\n19\\n34 1 7\\nHI\\n131.\\n11\\n44\\n30\\n23\\n19\\n34 17\\n16\\n13%\\nIlk\\n46\\n36\\n31\\n24\\n19\\n36 is\\n17\\n14k\\n12k\\n18\\n39\\n24\\n19\\n36 18\\n17\\n15\\n13\\n50\\n40\\n20\\n38 19\\n17\\n15 V\\n14\\n51\\n11\\n20\\n38 19\\n17\\n15k\\n14\\n51\\n11\\n20\\n:-;s 19\\n17\\n16\\n14\\n141.,\\n52\\n42\\n14\\n25\\n20\\n38\\n19\\n17\\n16\\n52\\n12\\nU\\n2..\\n20\\n38\\n19\\n17\\n16\\n14\u00c2\u00ab\\n53\\n16\\n2.)\\n20\\n38\\n19\\n17\\n16\\n14k\\n,4\\n11\\n36\\n25\\n21\\n40 20\\n17k\\n16k\\n15\\n55\\n4b\\n2o\\n21\\n10 20\\n17\\n16k\\n15\\n55\\n16\\n38\\nl-\\n21\\n40 20\\n17\\nirtw\\n15\\n55\\n15\\n39\\n26\\n21\\n4ii 20\\n17k\\n16k\\n15\\no.)\\n15\\n40\\n26\\n21\\n4o 20\\n1 7\\nn;i\\n15\\n55\\n40\\n20\\n21\\n40\\n20\\n17\\n16\\n15\\n55\\n45\\n40\\n26\\n21\\n4o\\n20\\n1 7k\\n161,,\\n15\\n55\\n45\\n40\\n26\\n21\\n40\\n20\\n17k\\n16i\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\n15\\n55\\n45\\nW\\n26\\n21\\n40\\n20\\n:7 k\\n16\\n15\\n55\\n45\\n10\\n21\\n40\\nto\\n.7\\n16i\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\n15\\n55\\n45\\n40\\n26\\n21\\n40\\n20\\n7\\n6 k\\n15\\n55\\n45\\n40\\n1,\\n22\\n40\\n20\\n.8\\n7\\n15k,\\n15%\\n56\\n4(i\\n40\\n22\\n40\\n20\\n8\\n17\\n.57\\n47\\n40\\n1,\\n.22%\\n40\\n20\\n8\\n7\\n18\\n10\\n40\\n10\\n8\\n7\\nfi\\n59\\n49\\n10\\nm\\n40,20\\n8\\n7\\n6\\n60\\n50\\n40\\n2S\\n22%\\n40 20\\n8\\n7\\n6\\n6\\n!6\\n18\\n53\\n25 J\\n46J5\\n!3\\n21\\n20\\n19", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n35\\nRATES OF TRANSPORTATION EAST BY THE B. 0.\\nR. R\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Continued.\\nBETWEEN\\nd\\\\.\\\\ eral Mer-\\nchandise.\\nper 100 lbs.\\nSPEC! \\\\i- CLASS RATES.\\nIn CAB LOADS. Hi RS\\nTO LOAD AND ONLOAD.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0WHEELING, W. VA.,\\nAND\\na\\n5\\na\\n3\\nT3\\n3\\no o\\n3 I\\n3 7^\\nis.\\n3 O\\nv\\no\\n5~\\nA, per\\n100\\nClass\\n100 lbs\\nr.\\nW. Va\\nVa.\\nMd.\\nD. c\\nMd-\\ncts.\\n76\\n76\\n76\\n77\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n7.S\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n7S\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n7s\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n7s\\n78\\n77\\n76\\n76\\n76\\n7s\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n7s\\n78\\n7S\\n7s\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n7h\\n78\\n78\\n7s\\n76\\n76\\n76\\n76\\n76\\n76\\ncts.\\n66\\n66\\n67\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\nCts.\\n48\\n48\\n48\\n49\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\ncts.\\n34\\n33\\n34\\n34\\n.;i\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n:;i\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n33\\n33\\n34\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0u\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n34\\n:;i\\n34\\n33\\n33\\n3a\\n33\\n33\\ncts.\\n26\\n26\\n27\\n27\\n27\\n2 7\\n2 7\\n28\\n28\\n28\\n28\\n29\\n29\\n29\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n4S\\n48\\nis\\na0\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\nr,ii\\n50\\n10\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n:,ii\\n.in\\n50\\n50\\n50\\ncts.\\n24\\n24\\n24\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\ncts.\\n22\\n22\\ncts.\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\ncts.\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n2(1\\n(1\\n211\\n20\\n68l 50\\n2(1\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n68\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n2(\u00c2\u00bb\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n25.2212\\n25 220\\n25 22i\\n7,2]\\n25 22i\\n25 22 i\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n20\\n2(1\\nCowan s\\nLinville\\n21\\n20\\n21\\n29\\n50 2512212\\n21\\n29 50 1\\n2(\\n68 50\\n68 50\\n68 hi\\n68 50\\n68 50\\n68 50\\n68 50\\n68 50\\n68 50\\n67 49\\n66 18\\n66 18\\n681 50\\n68 51\\n68 5(\\n68 51\\n68 51\\n68 51\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2_ .i\\n29\\n28\\n28\\n28\\n28\\n27\\n27\\n27\\n27\\n27\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a227\\n26\\n30\\n30\\n31\\n31\\n3l\\na\\n31\\n:;i\\n31\\n31\\n30\\n2!\\n28\\ni\\n26\\n2(\\n26\\n26\\n2.i 22i\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\n5(1 25 221.\\n511 25*22i|\\n20\\n20\\n2(\\n;,i\\n51\\n51\\n.,1\\n51\\n50\\n50\\n4s\\n48\\n4s\\n50\\n5(\\n51\\n51\\n5C\\n5C\\n5(\\n25 22,:\\n25 2217,\\n2.1221.,\\n2:22i;.\\n211\\n2U\\n21)\\n211\\n2;\\n25\\n24\\n24\\n24\\n25\\n25\\n22.: 21\\n211\\n22 1\\n22\\n22\\n22\\n22\\n22\\n22\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n2\\n2t\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n2t\\n2(\\n25 22\\n2(\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n25\\n21\\n2!\\n22\\n22\\n22\\n22\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n2\\n2\\n6J\\n6$\\n61\\n6\\n61\\n6(\\n6\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n50\\n48\\nt\\nts\\n1-\\n4-\\ni H\\n2\\nJ\\n50 25 22JJ\\n16 23 21\\nI- 2 1 22\\n18 24 22\\n48 21 22\\n48 24 22\\n1- 24 22\\n2\\n1\\nI 2\\nh\\n2", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "36\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nRATES OF TRANSPORTATION EAST BY B. 0.\\nR. R\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Continued.\\nGeneral Mer-\\nSPECIAL CLASS RATES.\\nchandise.\\nIn car loads only.\\nper 100 lbs.\\nOwners to load and un-\\nBETWEEN\\nload.\\nWH-EELING.TW. VA,\\n;S\\n\u00c2\u00a73\\nft.^\\nft../\\nft.\\nAND\\no\\n~C-\u00c2\u00b0\\nm\\nm\\nrt ft.\\nW~\\n\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00a3i\\nmo\\nmo\\nO\\n5\\nO\\nU\\n\u00c2\u00bb5o\\ntToT\\n3*r\\n5\\nn S\\nsa\\n13\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a26\\n,g\\n\u00c2\u00a3so\\nS 3\\n6\\n1-1\\nC4\\nh]\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\nCts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\ncts.\\nMd.\\n7G\\n77\\n66\\n67\\n49\\n49\\n34\\n!4\\n27\\n27\\n48\\n50\\n24\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00c2\u00bb5\\n22\\n22^\\n21\\n?1\\nII\\n0\\n78\\n68\\n50\\n34\\n30\\n50\\n25\\n21\\no\\n78\\n68\\n50\\n34\\n30\\n50\\n25\\n91\\nii\\nD. C.\\nMd.\\n78\\n78\\n68\\n68\\n50\\n50\\n34\\n34\\n30\\n30\\n50\\n50\\n25\\n5\\n22 2\\n21\\n21\\nii\\nii\\n77\\n67\\n49\\n:;i\\n27\\n50\\n25\\n21\\n24\\nGROWTH, POPULATION, CLIMATE AND HEALTH\\nOF WHEELING.\\nFrugality and industry are prominent characteristics of the inhabitants of\\nWheeling; consequently a large amount of conservatism is observable in all their\\ntransactions.\\nThe industry of its population is not surpassed by that of any other city and\\nthere is, for all the wealth of its population, fewer gentlemen of leisure than in any\\ncity of the Union.\\nThe wealth of the city is generally distributed a result of the frugality and in-\\ndustry before mentioned, as well as of the opportunities here for the accumulation\\nof money.\\nThe population of Wheeling, including Bellaire and Martin s Ferry, is proba-\\nbly 75,000. In 1810, it was 914; in 1820, 1,567; in 1830, 5,221 in 1840, it was\\n7,385 in 1S50 it had increased to 11,391, and in 1860, 14,983. These figures do not\\ninclude that part of the city lying south of Caldwell s run, though in reality it\\nwas a pan of the city.\\nFrom 1817 to 1825 the city was at a stand still from effects produced by the war\\nof 1812, between this country and Great Britain. In 1817 business throughoutthe\\ncountry was more or less paralyzed, and Wheeling was compelled with the r\\nshare the dull times. In 1821 the distress appeared to have reached its height;\\nmanufactures, trade and industries were all prostrated. In May of that year the\\nprice of flour was one dollar per barrel, boards were ten dollars a thousand feet,\\nwhisky fifteen cents a gallon, sheep and. calves one dollar per head. It required a\\nbushel and a half of wheat to buy a pound of coffee, and twelve barrels of flour to\\npurchase a yard of superfine broadcloth.\\nIn 1825 and 1826, the city began to rally, and in 1830 she was again prospering.\\nIn 1837 she was, with other cities, retarded by the subsidence of the land specula-\\ntion fever and the panic. It will, however, be observed that notwithstanding these\\nadverse years, that from 1820 to 1830 there was a large increase in her population.\\nFrom 1840 to 1850 there was a marked increase in the population, the increase\\nbeing equal to 95 per cent., or per cent, a year. From 1850 to 1860 the increase\\nwas not quite so large, being only about 50 per cent. From 1860 to 1870 the in-\\ncrease was equal to not quite 52 per cent., or a little more than live per cent a\\nyear.\\nThis denomination of the percentage of the increase upon the whole number of\\njS", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "]^P THE INDUSTRIES OP WHEELING, 37^5^\\nthe community in each decade, results no1 Erom diminished increase in numbers\\nyearly added 1 mi t Erom the greater magnitudes of the sum total of the city s pop-\\nulation, en which the percentages are computed, and could not be otherwise, un-\\nless under some unusual aggregation of fresh population. While, as in the lasl\\ndecade, the actual numbers added show so large a per cent, of gain over the num-\\nbers increased in the previous decade, it is apparent there is a rapid growth even\\nunder diminished per centages on the previous population totals. The monetary\\ntroubles of 1857, and the depressions of L860-61, naturally checked tin growth of\\nthe city, hut as the results of 1870 show, the effects were only temporary.\\nStatistics are almost prophetic in their relations to the future, and the study of\\nthem gives confidence in thedeductions from their showings. When the statistics\\nof any given thing show the original ratios of increase to have been sustained and\\nverified from decade to decade, there is g 1 reason to have confidence that when\\nthe same powers that have caused that increase still arc operative, that what bas\\nbeen verified in the past, will he continued in the future.\\nThe steady increase of the population of Wheeling during the period of seven de-\\ncades; through the disasters of the peace of 1815, the bankruptcies of 1837, the\\nmonetary troubles of 1842, the national panic of 1857, and the depressions of\\n1860-61, from the outbreak of the rebellion, indicate (dearly, that although in each\\ndecade depressing periods of business and stagnations of commerce similar to that\\nof 1873-4-5. have occurred, yet the city as a whole, has continued to increase its\\npopulation, and consequently its business, however individuals may have, in the\\nWreck and crash of private fortunes and individual interests, sunk and been forgot-\\nten. Though the panic of 1873, and the prolonged business uncertainties of the\\npast years have had their effect on the city s growth, it will he found in the future,\\nas it has been in the past, thatin a decade of years the ratios of growth will show-\\nno material disturbance.\\nWheeling s geographical position is unchanged her railway system as compre-\\nhensive as ever; her powers of manufacturing as great, and is on the eve of obtain-\\ning vet greater force. Her position near the head of a grand system of inland nav-\\nigation will receive new strength and importance during the next decade, hi that\\npermanent improvement of the navigation of the Ohio, which has already begun.\\nWith the market^ of the world openingtothe manufactured product- of the United\\nStates tinder their ability, by their power to manufacture cheaply, to compete\\nwith and in European and Asiatic nations, Wheeling will grasp her .-hare of this\\nnew volume of trade. In the obtaining of it, in addition to that of her old mar-\\nkets of the South and West, and to which she is in nails, glass and other staples,\\nrapidly adding thai of the East, population will continue as heretofore to go hand\\nin hand with her increasing production and sales. Where the statistics of the\\npast so forcibly, through a period of seventy years, show the aggregate of popula-\\ntion, it is reasonable to believe that the statistics of the population of Wheeling\\nin the eighth decade will repeat what they have shown in the past seven. Why\\nshould they not, when all and more of the power that has attracted population in\\nthe past still exists? Under the preceding ratio- it is not presumptious to believe\\nthat, in L880 the census will show Wheeling and adjacent towns to have loo, (too\\ninhabitants\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and over 150,000 in 1890? From 1850 to I860, in which occurred two\\nperiods of depression of business, in Wheeling alone over 5,000 inhabitants\\nwere added to the population of Jthe city. From 1860 to 1870, over 8,000 people\\nwere added to the population. From L880to L890, so Ear as human intellhj\\ncan foresee, promise.- to be a prosperous decade for the whole United States. The\\neffects of the panic of 1ST. are slowly wearing away. The finances of the nation\\nare gradually adjusting themselves on a fresh basis. Capital is abundant, and with\\nthe returning confidence, will become active from its own inherent necessity to be\\nemployed to preserve itself from decrease in its holder hand-. The manufactur-\\ners of the. United States are reaching beyond their own home markets for sale of\\ntheir products, and with success: and the horoscope of the decade of L880-90, indi-\\ncates enterprise, activity and development, as full of progressive results to Wheel-\\ning, as in the past.\\nThe climate of Wheeling, has no doubt much to do with the healthfulness\\nof the city, and its healthfulness much to do with its success as a man-\\nufacturing and commercial city. A healthful location is one of the, pri-", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "38 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nmary conditions of a successful manufacturing community. Why, it is hard-\\nly necessary to discuss. It is apparenl that strength, cheerfulness, and abili-\\nty to perform unbroken labor, are threeof the conditions most requisite to render\\nfully available the skill of the mechanic, orthe sinews of the workman. The posi-\\ntion of Wheeling is peculiarly a healthy one, situated several hundred feet above\\nthe level of the ocean nearly four hundred miles from its tide marshes two hundred\\nfeet above the level of Lake Erie, and more than one hundred miles from its coast,\\nthe city is far enough removed from causes of disease originating in the marshes\\nof the coasts of such large bodies of water, and near enough to feel the beneficial\\neflects of their moisture upon the atmosphere, without the injuriousness of the great-\\ner dampness in fogs and chilliness of a nearer location.\\nThe great heats usually occur in July, and the extreme cold in .January. The\\nwinter does not generally set in with severity until the latter part of December;\\nand in the average of seasons, the moderate temperatures of spring begin about\\nthe middle of February. Vegetation comes rapidly forward in the latter pari of\\nMarch and April but there is almost invariably frost during the first ten days of\\nMay; fires are not generally dispensed with, however, until the first of. June.\\nThe autumn is a delicious season in this vicinity. From the first of September,\\nwhen usually the nights and mornings become slightly cool, until the last of No-\\nvember, a period of delightful weather prevails with a clear serene atmosphere\\nwhich acquires that, peculiar hazy appearance, in October, usual to that\\npleasanl season known as Indian summer. During the winter months the wind\\nis generally from the northwest, and during rain storm- and damp weather,\\nfrom the northeast. In summer months the pleasant southwestern winds prevail,\\nchanging to southeasterly currents during rains. The average temperature is\\nfor the winter quarter 23\u00c2\u00b0 above zero; spring 48\u00c2\u00b0; summer 71\u00c2\u00b0 and Autumn\\nabout 50\u00c2\u00b0 above zero.\\nIf it were not for the coal smoke, which is to strangers more objectionable than\\nnatives, there is not a pleasanter location in the United States. The scenery,\\nwhich along the river is highly romantic and picturesque in its character is di-\\nversified by plain, mountain and valley; and a walk of fifteeen minutes from the\\nbusiness centre of the city will bring the pedestrian out upon high table\\nground from two to three hundred feet above the level of the business portion\\nof the city and clear of its smoke, while, as stated in the chapter in which pen\\npictures of Wheeling are given, there are sections of the city, altogether as free\\nfront the annoyance of smoke as any city in the Union. This sun ike, however,\\naccording to the report of eminent physicians, is from the carbon, sulphur and\\niodine contained in it, highly favorable to lung and cutaneous diseases. The\\nsmoke is also antimeasmatic, hence the few cases of remittant and intermit-\\ntant fever.\\nDr. Win, H. Denny, in his report on the health of Pittsburgh, says Stran-\\ngers with weak lungs for a while find their lungs aggravated by the smoke;\\nbut, nevertheless, asthmatic patients have found relief in breathing it. In this\\naccount, coal is our creditor in another way its abundance, cheapness and\\nconsequent general and profuse use by the poorest inhabitants, is undoubtedly\\nthe cause of our superior healthfulness. The low levers so prevalent in the\\nlarge cities among the poor during a hard winter, and the ague and fever so\\ncommon in the. eastern countries where wood is scarce, are here in a measure\\nprevented by the universal practice of keeping good coal (ires late in the spring\\nand early in the autumn, and indeed at all seasons when the weather is damp\\nor inclement. The above will apply with equal force to Wheeling.\\nBOAT BUILDING IN WHEELING.\\nThe steamboat having had so important a place in the growth of the busi-\\nness of Wheeling, and the developments of the West, a limited space may be\\nproperly spared and a digression allowed from the real topic of this chapter to\\nbriefly present some fact- as to the invention of steamboats.\\nIn February, L756, one John McKinney was taken prisoner by the Indians\\nand imprisoned in Fort Duquesne, where Pittsburgh now stands, after being\\ncarried to Canada, from whence he made his escape to Philadelphia, gives the\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE INJ i STRIES OF WHEELING.\\n39^5\\nfollowing incidenl in his description of the fort, which is t lie first account,\\nhundred and twenty-three years ago, of the carrying trade on the Ohio. While\\nhe was in Kurt Duquesne\\nthere came up the Ohio from\\nMississippi, about thirty\\nbatteaux and aboul one hun-\\ndred and fifty men, loaded\\nwith llmir, pork, brandy, peas\\nami Indian com they wore\\nliner months coming to Fort\\nDuquesne, and came all the\\nway up the falls without un-\\nloading.\\nA diary kept by .lames Kin-\\nOHIO RIVER steambo i i. neyj who was a trader at Fori\\nPitt in L761, three years after it was built on the ruins of Fort Duquesne\\none hundred and eighl years ago, gives the following, which we copy from\\nthe Historical Magazine for September, 1858:\\n1761.4th inn. 4th\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ayoung man called Wm. Ramsey, has made two little\\nboats, being square at ye sterns, and joined together at ye stems by a swivel\\nmake ye two in form of one boate, but will turn round shorter than a boateoi\\nye same length, or raise with more safety in falls, and in case of striking ro.\\nhe has also made an engine that goes with wheels enclosed in a box to be\\nworked by one man. by settingonye end of ye box and tredding on treddles\\nat bottom with his feet, sets ye wheels agoing, which work scullers or short\\npaddles fixed over ye gunnels turning them round; ye under ones always lay-\\ning hold in ye water, will make ye boate goe as if two men rowed and he can\\nsteer at ye same time by lines like plow lines.\\nThis is perhaps, oneof those first germs of the steamboat thatsuggest the fam-\\niliar quotation Coming events cast their shadows before them, and render\\nit a subject of so much controversy as to when and by whom the first initial\\nidea- of a steamboat was conceived.\\nThis was twenty-five years before either James Rumsey, of Berkeley county,\\nVirginia, succeeded in propelling his flying boat, as it was called by the peo-\\nple, against the current of the Potomac at Shepherdstown by steam alone, at\\nthe rate of four or five miles an hour; and also twenty years before, Fitch,\\nin 1780, accidentally meeting Kumsey in Winchester, imparted his idea to\\nhim of propelling boats by steam.*\\nWe know, nor hear, nothing more of the young man William Ramsey, with Ins\\ntwo little b aed togethi r al ye sterns, and he rests another of those whose\\nminds illuminated by the first spark of aninvention brought to practical use by\\nothers in after yearsi either from want of means, actual ability to work out their\\ncrude idea into full conception, or the want of appreciation of the valueoi their\\nthought.\\nFrom a work published about forty-three years since in Spam, ol original pa-\\npers relating to the voyage of Columbus, preserved in the royal archives at Sam-\\nancos, and those of the Secretary of War of Spain, in L543, it is stand, that\\nBlasco DeGaray, a sea captain, exhibited to Charles V., in the year L543, an en-\\ngine by which vessels of the largest size could be propelled even in a calm, with-\\nout oars or sails. The Emperor decided that an experiment should be made,\\nwhich was successfully attempt. on June 17, 1543, in the harbor ol Barcelona.\\nThe experiment was on a ship of two liimdr. d and nine tons, called [lie Trinity.\\nDeGarav never publicly exposi d the construction of Ids engine, hut it wasobs rved\\nat the time of hi- experiment that it consisted of a large cauldron of boiling water-\\nand a movable wheel attached to each side of the ship. The statement says, fur-\\nther, the Emperor and Prince, and others with them, applauded the engine, and\\nespe eiallv the expertness with which theshipconld he tacked. The Treasurer, Rav-\\nago, an enemy to tic project, said it would move two leagues in three hours, it was\\nvery complicated and expensive, and exposed to the constant danger ol bursting\\n*The statement as to Rumsey obtaining his idea from Fitch is on the authority of Hon. I.\\nWicklitt e, vol. 1, page 36, American Pi.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "J0P4O THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. XS\\\\\\nthe boiler. It is claimed that this account is ficticious, the offspring of some in-\\ndividual jealous for his country s reputation, as the date is fifty -four years before\\nthe birth of the Marquis of Worcester, who is given by history, the credit of be-\\ning the original inventor of the steam engine. From this statement it would ap-\\npear that DeGaray not only originated the steam engine, but made at the same\\ntime its application to one of its most practical and beneficial forms,and at a sin-\\ngle effort accomplished what took the light and talent of several generations to in-.\\nvent and bring to practical shape.\\nA treatise was printed in London in 1737, describing a machine invented by\\nJonathan Hulls, for carrying vessels against wind and tide, which George II\\ngranted a patent for fourteen years. A drawing is prefixed to the treatise showing\\na boat with chimney smoking, a pair of wheels rigged over each side of the stern.\\nFrom the stern of the boat a tow-line passes to the foremast of a two decker, which\\nthe boat thus tows. This is evidently the first idea of a steam tow boat.\\nThe experiment of James Rumsey, before mentioned, is the next in order of\\nwhich there is a reliable record. In October, 1774, he obtained from the Legis-\\nlature of Virginia an act guaranteeing him the exclusive use of his invention in\\nnavigating the waters of that State for ten years. Riunsey s boat was fifty feet\\nin length, and was propelled by a pump which forced a quantity of water up\\nthrough the keel and out through the stern, through a pipe a few inches square.\\nTlie impetus of this water acting against the exterior water, producing the pro-\\npelling power. The boiler held only live gallons of water, and needed only a pint\\nat a time. Rumsey had another project which was to apply the power of a steam\\nengine to long poles, which were to reach to the bottom of the river, and so push a\\nboat. Eumsey, after the experiment above alluded to, went to England, and\\nthrough many discouragements, struggled on until he had constructed a boat of one\\nhundred tons and pushed his machinery so near to completion, as to be able to\\nindicate a day for a public exhibition. Death, however, put an end to his career\\nin Liverpool, and under touching circumstances. He had consented to give a lec-\\nture in exposition of his plan, so as to enlist patronage from the public. When the\\nevening came the hall was filled with the learning, fashion and beauty of Liver-\\npool, lie was overwhelmed with this evidence of interest and saw his most ar-\\ndent hopes on the eve of accomplishment. He arose to begin his lecture in great\\nagitation. A glass of water was handed him; he returned his thanks in a few in-\\ncoherenl sentences, sank into his chair and never spoke again. The boat he had\\nnearly completed was set in motion after his death, on the Thames, in 17 It\\nwill thus he seen that Virginia is not only the mother of Presidents, but also the\\nmother of the first man who successfully navigated a steamboat in this country,\\nand so nearly constructed one in England that it was afterwards run on the river\\nThames. It is proper to quote here a tilting tribute paid to his memory by the\\nCongress of the United States on February 1839, when it was unanimously:\\nResolved, That the President be, and he is hereby required to present to James\\nRumsey, Jr., the son, and only surviving child of James Rumsey, deceased, a suit-\\nable gold medal, commemorative of his father s services and high agency in giving\\nthe world the benefit of the steamboat.\\nIn 1785 both Rumsey and Fitch had exhibited models to General Washington,\\nand on March 15, 1785, Washington in a letter to Hugh Williamson, certifies thai\\nhis doubts are satisfied, after witnessing Rumsey s experiment before mentioned.\\nAs previously stated, it is claimed that Rumsey got his idea from John Fitch,\\nwho made many efforts to have his invention tried. He applied to Congress and\\nwas refused, just as was nearly the fate of Morse with his telegraph. Lie offered\\nhis invention to the Spanish Government for the purpose of navigating the Mis-\\nsissippi, without better success, but at length obtained the funds for the building\\nof a boat, and in 1788 his vessel was launched on the Delaware. Fitch used oars\\nworked in frames. After many experiments Fitch abandoned his invention, hav-\\ning satisfied himself of its practicability, and being embarrassed with debt. In\\nhis autobiography, he says 1 know of nothing so perplexing and vexatious to a\\nman of feeling as a turbulent wife and steamboat building. I experienced the\\nformer, and quit in season, and had I been in my right senses, I should un-\\ndoubtedly have treated the latter in the same manner. But for one man to be\\nteased with both, he must be looked upon as the most unfortunate man of the", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Jor THE INDliSTKIKS OF WHEELING. 41^^\\nworld. He 1 i 1 in 1 7 M\u00c2\u00bb, ai Bardstown, Ky., and was buried Dear the Ohio.\\nPrevious to Leaving the East, lie wrote three volume-, which he deposited in man-\\nuscript, sealed up, in the Philadelphia Library, to be opened thirty years after his\\ndeath. The volumeswere opened in 1833, and in them he confidently predicts the\\nsuccess of his plan. He prophesies that in less than a century, the western rivers\\nwill be swarming with steamboats, and expresses a desire to be buried on the banks\\nof the Ohio, where the music of the steam engine may soothe his spirit, and the\\nsong of the boatmen enliven the stillness of his resting place.\\nHow full of disappointed hope is this sentence from his journal The day wil I\\ncome when some more powerful man will gel fame and riches fr n invention;\\nluit nobody will believe that poor John Fitchca,i\\\\ do anything worthy of atten-\\ntion.\\nIn 1787, after Fitch s experiment, a Mr. Symington succeeded in propellin\\nsteamboat on the Clyde, in Scotland. In 17!*7, John Steven-, of Hoboken, I\\nhis experiments, and succeeded in propelling boats at the rate of live or -i.\\\\ miles\\nan hour. In 1 71 7, Chancellor Livingston built a boat on the Hudson and applied\\nto the Legislature for the exclusive privilege. This was granted on condition thai\\nhe should propel a vessel by steam, within a year, three miles an hour, hut Living-\\nston anable to comply with this condition, dropped his projectfor a time, lie af-\\nterwards associated with himself Stevens, and aided by Nicholas Roswalt, carried on\\nthe experiments for several years, until he (Livingston) was sent to France as. Min-\\nister. .Mr. Stevens continued his experiments lor several years, when Mr. Living-\\nston having attained ;i renewal of the exclusive grant front the State of New York,\\nhe, with the assistance of his son, applied himself with greater attention to the pro-\\nject, aud in 1807, only a few days after Fulton s convincing experiment, succeeded\\nin propelling a steamboat at the required velocity of three miles an hour. Ful-\\nton, ic is said, had in 1803, made a successful trial on the Seine with a boat that\\nmoved at the rate of lour miles an hour.\\nAbout 1802-3, Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, built on the Mississippi a boat to\\nply between New Orleans and Natchez. When the boat was ready it was left\\nhigh and dry by the falling water, and the engine was placed temporarily in a\\nsaw mill. The mill was burned by some incendiaries, whom it was likely to de\\nprive of a profitable job of sawing lumber, and thus an attempt to establish .-team\\nboat- on the Mississippi was defeated some four years before Fulton experiment.\\nAll these en orts seem to have been preliminary experiments. To Fulton really\\nbelongs the credit of bringing to practical results, in the construction in 1810-11, i\\nby himself, Livingston and Roswalt, of the New Orleans, at Pittsburgh.\\nBut to return to the date of 17~ f from that date to 177b. there is DOthing oeces-\\nsary to record showing progress in the carrying trade of the western rivers a- con-\\nnected with Wheeling.\\nIn 177b, Messrs. Gibson and Linn, the grandfather of Dr. Linn, formerly a Sen-\\nator in Congress from .Missouri, descended by water from the head ol the Ohio to\\nNew Orleans to procure military stores for the troops stationed at Fort Pitt. 1 hey\\ncompletely succeeded in their hazardous enterprise, and brought back a cargi\\n136 kegs of gun powder. On reaching the falls of the Ohio on their return, in the\\nspring of 1777, they were obliged to unload their boats, and carry the cargo around\\nthe rapids, each of their men carrying three kegs at a time on his back. The pow-\\nder was delivered at this city from whence it was taken to Fort Pitt.\\nOnthe s 23d of February, 1777, fourteen carpenters and sawyers arrived at Fori\\nPitt from Philadelphia, and wire set to work fourteen miles above the Fort, on the\\nMonongahela river, at a sawmill. They built thirty large batteaux, forty feel\\nlong, nine feet wide, and thirty two inches deep, which were intended to transport\\ntroops.\\nThe contrast between the era of keel boats one hundred years ago, and the steam-\\nboat of to-day is extreme.\\nCould the ashes of one of those hardy boatmen which mingle with the du-t on\\nthe margin of the western rivers, become again a living man, the transition be-\\ntween now and then would he to him accountable only by magic.\\nOne hundred and three year.- ago, while Linn and Gibson were propelling their\\nboat to its destination, the community they left, and that to which they were pro-\\nceeding, might have been destroyed, and the tenants of the solitary boat, strug-\\ni 6", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "/C?42 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. \\\\5y\\nglingup the currents of the river, remain ignorant of the event until they arrived at\\nilit- end of their route. Now the traveler upon the western waters may daily and\\nfrequently more often, while the steamer is tarrying at wayside ports, converse\\nwith friends three thousand miles away, and Learn the successes or misfortunes of\\nhis fellow men, not only in the wide territory through which run the water- over\\nwhich he is traveling, but in the tar off nations of the earth.\\nFrom 177 tj to a period of twenty years, the commerce of the Ohio and the Mis\\ni i I was carried on in keel-boats ami flat-boats, fu duly, L794, a line of mail\\nboats was established, to run from Wheeling to Limetown and hack, once in everj\\ntwo weeks. These boats were twenty-four feet long, built like a whale boat, ami\\nsteered with a rudder. They were manned by a steersman and four oarsmen to\\neach boat. The men had each a musket and a supply of ammunition, all of which\\nwere snugly secured from the weather in boxes alongside their seats\\nThe same year there was started a line of boats from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh\\nand it took four weeks to make the round trip.\\nIn 1708-9 a brig of 120 tons burden was built at Marietta, Ohio, she was call\\ned the St. Claire, and was built by Commodore Preble.\\nFrom 1802 to L810, quite a large number of sea-going vessels were built at\\nPittsburgh and other points along the Ohio river. Some of these vessels were\\n500 to soil tons burden, and were tloated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,\\nthence through the Gulf to battle with the storms of the mighty cean.\\nThe year 1811 is an important one in the history of hoat-building. In that\\nyear was built the lirst steamboat for the navigation of the western waters. The\\nconstruction of tins boat, was the first step to the fulfillment of a prediction\\nmade by John Fitch, quoted in a preceding paragraph of this chapter.\\nThe boat whose steam engine was the first to soothe the spirit of poor John\\nFitch was the New Orleans. This boat, as before observed, was built at\\nPittsburgh in 1811. She was 138 feet keel and between 300 and 400 tons Inn\\nden her cabin was in the hold, and she had port holes, also a how-sprit eight\\nfeet in length, in ocean steamer style, which was painted sky-blue. She was\\nowned by Messrs. Fulton, Livingston and Hose wait, and her construction was\\nsuperintended by the latter gentleman. Her cost was $40,000. She was launched\\nin March and descended the river to Natchez in December, at which point\\nshe took on her lirst passengers and freight, and from thence proceeded to V-w\\nOrleans on the _4th of the same month. She continued to ply between New\\nOrleans and Natchez until 1814, making the round trip in two days, conveying\\npassengers at the rate of $25 up and $18 down. On her first years business she\\ncleared $20,000 net. In the winter of 1814 she was snagged and lost near Baton\\nRouge.\\nThe Enterprise, forty-live tons, was built at Brownsville, Fa., and made\\ntwo trips to Louisville in 1814. She departed from Pittsburgh for New Orleans\\non the first of December, 1814, under command of Captain Henry M. Shreve,\\nwith a cargo of ordinance. For some time she was actively employed trans-\\nporting troops. On the 6th of May, 1817, she left New Orleans for Pittsburgh\\nand arrived at Shi ppiugport (Louisville) on the 30th, being twenty live days from\\nport to [tort, and the first steamer that ever arrived at that port from New Or-\\nleans, which event the citizens of Louisville celebrated by a dinner to Capt.\\nShreve. The Enterprise was lost at Rock Harbor in 1817.\\nIn 1810 the Franklin, Oliver Evans and Harriet were built at Pitts-\\nburgh. The Franklin was sunk in 1819, near St. Geneveive. The Oliver\\nEvans burst her boiler near Point Coupee, killing eleven men.\\nThe Washington, four hundred tons, was built at Wheeling in the year\\n1810, and had her engines made at Brownsville. She was the first boat with\\nboilers above deck, the boats previous to that having them in the hold. She\\nalso, by making a round trip from Louisville to New Orleans, settled the ques-\\ntion whether steamboats could be rendered useful as a mode of navigation for\\nthe ascending trade, and convinced the public, which had continued doubt-\\nful, of the practicability and success of steamboat navigation on the western\\nwaters. She was in part owned by Cpat. Henry M. Shreve, and was built un-\\nder his immediate direction.\\nA small boat called the Pike was built at Hendersonville, Ky.,in 1816.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ST\\nTUT. INIMST1MKS OK W II KELINf!.\\n33\\nThe Independence was the first boat thai ascended the Missouri river.\\nThe Western Engineer was the first boal thai ascended to Council Blufls,\\nsi\\\\ hundred and fifty miles above St. Louis.\\nIn the firsl few years of boat building the progress was slow, and many diffi-\\nculties impeded the rapid advance of steam navigation. We have given some\\nof the particulars connected with the building of the earlier boats, as ilhistra\\ntive of the progress and spirit of the business.\\nFrom L817, when the success of steam boat navigation on the Western waters\\nwas finally conceded by the public, convinced by the trips of the Washing\\nton from Louisville to New Orleans and bach in forty-live days\u00e2\u0080\u0094 boat building\\nrapidly increased.\\nIn 1818, there was employed On the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, twenty-two\\nsteamboats, averaging nearly two hundred and thirty tons each. In 1818\\nthere were building at different locations on the Ohio river twentv-three boats,\\nof which number nine were constructing at Pittsburgh, five at Cincinnati, five\\nat Louisville, two at Wheeling, one atCorydon andoneat Limestone. From tins\\ntime until L849 there were built at Wheeling a large number of boats, which\\nwere registeredal Pittsburgh.\\nIn 1849 Wheeling was made a port of entry.\\nSlunviiig tlu Names of Boats Constructed at Wlweling from L849 to 1879.\\nWhen\\nBuilt.\\n1849\\n1851\\n1852\\n185*2\\n1853\\n1853\\n1853\\n1852\\n1 852\\n1853\\n1853\\n1853\\n1854\\n1854\\n1 854\\n1 855\\n[855\\n1855\\n1856\\n1856\\n1856\\nis;.;\\n1857\\n1857\\n1857\\nis. 7\\n1858\\nIS. I\\n1 S.V.I\\nI s.V.i\\nI860\\nI860\\nI860\\n1860\\nI860\\nI860\\nI SCI I\\nI860\\nI860\\nI860\\nI860\\n1861\\n1861\\n1861\\n1862\\n1862\\n1862\\n1 862\\n1862\\nft iapacity\\nTons.\\nCabinel\\nOrion\\nGolden Era\\nThomas Swan\\nBaltimore\\nVirginia\\nLabelle\\nCourier\\nArvrilla Wood\\nVtlanta\\nFori Henry\\nCity of Wheeling\\nInterchange\\nAltamonl\\nOrb\\nAlbemarle\\nWoodside\\nAvondale\\nCreole Belle\\nLotus\\nSilver Star\\n.1. B. Ford\\nLiberty\\nSouthern\\nKanawha Valley\\nCourier\\n[ngoiuar\\nDollie Webb\\nJeunie\\nMexii\\nII. D. Mears\\nKanawha Valley No.\\nMorning Star\\nSunny Smith\\niSallie List\\nCapitola\\nFrolic\\n.lanii !S Means\\nAlamo\\nPlanter\\nC. K. llillnian\\nBen Pranklin\\nEagle\\nBosedella\\nSignet\\nsi,:i: tl\\n(Delaware\\nOdd-Fellow.\\ni aberty Xc\\n189.85\\n128.90\\nJUT. mi\\n651.00\\n637.44\\n642.92\\n129.90\\n164.66\\n91.00\\n116.41\\n157.35\\n139.25\\n203.50\\n248.83\\n226.00\\n183.52\\n196.85\\n381.45\\n206.65\\n153 25\\n154.84\\n197.45\\n261.87\\n125.15\\n126.10\\n258.75\\n110.55\\n139.14\\n10.30\\n120.54\\n:;ss27\\n137.26\\n270.37\\n212.10\\n137.03\\n296.06\\nmi. in\\n123.49\\n313.84\\n120.06\\nWhen\\nBuilt.\\nName.\\n1862\\n1861\\n1861\\n1861\\n1863\\n1863\\n1863\\n1863\\n1865\\n186 i\\n1863\\n1 86\\n1866\\n1866\\nI860\\n1867\\n1867\\n1867\\n1868\\n1868\\n1868\\n1869\\n1870\\n1870\\n1870\\n1870\\n1871\\n1871\\nIS71\\n1872\\n1872\\n1873\\nis?::\\n1873\\n1873\\n1874\\n1 875\\n1875\\n1875\\n1 875\\n1878\\n1878\\n1879\\n1879\\n1871\\nIS71\\n1872\\n1872\\n1873\\nis?::\\n1873\\nWin. H. Harrison..\\nLeonora\\nI.avina Logan\\nSwan\\nDime\\ni rem\\nRattler\\nResei ve\\nNew State\\nPotomo\\nA. J. Sweeney\\nEmma Boyd\\ni leo. McPorter\\nR. R. Hudson\\nSt. Mary s\\nKenwood\\nSallie v\\nElla\\nPeytona (Tug)\\nEnergy\\nMt. Clare\\nSalado\\nScience\\nExpress No. 2\\nFlora\\nGary Owen\\nCarrie\\nI n tier\\nEd. Hobbs\\nHarry\\nC. W Hornbrook..\\nNail City\\n[da Leon\\nB\\n[ron Valley\\nIila May...\\nTempest\\nComfort\\nJacob Heal hi rington.,\\n.Monitor.\\nHudson.\\nMike Davis.,\\nNellie Porter\\nHome.\\nSt. Lawi i\\nt W. Batohelor.\\nTiinrnai.\\napacitT\\nTons.\\n168.39\\n258.18\\n145.55\\n36.75\\n33.88\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a01 10.53\\n398.83\\n._... 16\\n244.12\\n172.35\\n510.04\\n666.40\\n13.99\\n141.20\\n.V. .74\\n71.20\\n110.91\\n94.43\\n500.25\\n140.38\\n288.87\\n76.14\\n194.28\\n162.32\\n266.56\\nW.70\\n108.20\\n191.33\\n94.90\\n35.13\\n78.04", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "yCr 44 THE INDUSTBIES OF WHEELING. Hi*\\nMaking 99 boats constructed in the period embraced in the preceding table.\\nThere is no more pleasing sight than one of these beautiful boats, of which\\nthe Wheeling boat builders have launched so many, speeding its way along\\nthe Western rivers, nor is there any pleasure trip so filled with variety, com-\\nfort and restf ulness to the weary body and mind, as one on a well appointed\\nWestern steamer, to whatsoever point, time or inclination may dictate.\\nThe day for the full use of the Ohio and our Western rivers has not yet fully\\ndawned. When it does, the great facilities Wheeling possesses of material and\\nskilled workmen, will keep her in the front as a great ship yard.\\nMANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES OF WHEELING.\\nBy reference to the chapter of this volume treating of the geographical posi-\\ntion of Wheeling, it will be observed that, in the very important requisite of\\nnatural and cheap channels for the distribution of productions, Wheeling is\\npossessed of remarkable advantages. A similar reference to the exhibition of\\nthe Wheeling railway system will show, that in her artificial avenues for dis-\\ntribution, there is an equal superiority of position. By that reference it will\\nbe observed that through her river channels, she reaches from her own site, an\\nextent of country embracing more than 1,000,000 square miles, over which\\nshe has unlimited powers for distributing her manufacturs to the populous\\ncities, growing towns and thriving villages, which are profusely located through-\\nout it and by her railroad system, she possesses almost equal facilities for\\ndistribution.\\nThis facility of distribution is in itself an advantage of great weight, without\\nwhich the ability to produce copiously and cheaply would be of less worth. It\\nstands in the same relation that ability to send his crops readily to the best\\nmarket does with the agriculturist. It would matter not how bountifully the\\nearth might yield of its grains and fruits, if the carriage to consumers was diffi-\\ncult, slow and costly. The gains would be small, and the amount, disposed of\\nwould be limited, while some more favorably situated section would obtain the\\ntrade. Not only is facility of distribution of much consideration, but centrality\\nof location to the market to be supplied is of equal desirability. Transportation\\nto a wide, circumference is easy, when but radiuses are traversed to reachany\\npoint of the circle; thus greatly reducing transportation expenses in the ag-\\ngregate carriage to a broad market. Wheeling not only possesses that central-\\nity of position, but combines it witli such remarkably comprehensive lines of\\ntransportation that tew cities are possessed of equal advantages. This, an ex-\\namination of her geographical position and her railway system, shows. A\\nbroad market is a great basis tot lie encouragement of manufacturers; and where\\nthe possession of such a market is accompanied by easy reach to all its points,\\nthrough but comparative short distances of carriage, an advantage of great\\nvalue is held.\\nAfter thi power of distribution, the next point which attracts the attention\\nel the observer is the position which Wheeling occupies for the easy reception\\nof the staple materials of the country. By the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad\\nand its connections, by the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, Wheeling penetrates\\ninto the entire iron regions of West Virginia. When it is considered that al-\\nmost every county in the whole State is capable of the production of the\\nbody of iron, and the variety of ores, and the consequent character of the metal,\\nwhich, as it were, immediately surrounds Wheeling, is apparent. To this vast.\\namount of material. Wheeling has full access; and as already specified, great\\nfacilities for the transportation of the mineral from the furnaces, to her rolling\\nmills ami foundries, or of the raw ores from their deposits to her own furnaces.\\nIn addition to the West Virginia ore deposits, which are just beginning to be\\ndeveloped, she has equal facilities for icreasing the products of the Kastern\\nOhio iron furnaces by transportation over the Cleveland and Pittsburgh and\\nPittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroads and the Ohio river. The Ohio\\nriver also gives cheap facilities for receiving the products of the Tennessee\\nand Kentucky furnaces, and the ores and metals of Missouri. While the I\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "/CT THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 45^-^,\\nLakes with their cheap water carriage, and the short portage of the Cleve-\\nland and Pittsburgh Railroad, give equal advantage for obtaining the metals\\nof Lake Superior.\\nHer rivers, which penetrate the finest wooded districts in the country, give\\nWheeling enviable facilities for cheap transportation tor such timber as the va\\nrious manufacturers in wood which have and may arise demand. Fur wool,\\nbemp, cotton, and in fad any of the staples of the various sections of the CFnion,\\nthe exhibit which is already given in our river and our railways shows how\\nreadily they can be laid down in Wheeling, and how cheaply\\nIn the reception of material the same advantage of centrality of position ob-\\ntains as in the distribution of it in its manufactured forms, producing, in the\\ncombination of lessened expense, of reception in crude forms, and of re-distri-\\nbution in finished shapes, a great general advantage not to be too highly valued,\\nand one at all times powerful in holding position against competition.\\nAfter the facilities lor the distribution of productions ami the reception of\\nmaterials, the next important quality in creating and continuing a great manu-\\nfacturing city is fuel.\\nThere is no point combining, as Wheeling does, thetwo tirst necessary ad-\\nvantages, that possesses the last in a more valuable shape, indeed it may be said\\nthat the advantage remains with Wheeling from the easy access which is had\\nto it, and the consequent cheapness of the article. To manufacture in Wheel-\\ning there need he, from the location of the coal strata and the advantageous sites\\nfor factories at this point, little or no cost for the transportation of find. The\\ncoal lies in the hills immediately above the level ground on which the mills and\\nfactories are located, and can be sent down by cars directly into the yards there-\\nof, making the cost only about SO cents per ton of 2,000 pounds. Where from\\nany cause the factory is located in such a manner, that advantage cannot be\\ntaken of these unparalleled facilities for fuel, the cost of coal delivered into the\\nyards of the mills, foundries, c, is only from $1.31 to $1.50 per ton and con-\\ntracts have been made at even lower figures than those given. There is a large\\nextent of ground suitable for all descriptions of manufactories, where, as pre-\\nviously stated, coal can he sent down into the yards at acost of not above $1.00\\nper toil of twenty-five bushels, and down to eighty cents. In any article which\\nrequires for its manufacture large quantities of find, thegreal advantage gained\\nby this easy obtainance of fuel, and the almost nominal cost per bushel or ton,\\nisdecisiveas to the advantage of the location. This advantage of fuel, without\\nthe ability to distribute widely and cheaply, and to receive raw materials from\\na distance easily and cheaply, would of course he in itself, isolated from the\\nother two, oi little or no value; nor would they without the Other, be of tin-\\nsame force or value, hut such a combination of these three, as exists at W heel-\\ning is, beyond disputation, unsurpassed, perhaps unparalleled.\\nWith tiie growth ofthe country competition must naturally arise, but agreat\\nmanufacturing community is not evolved in a day. It has taken Wheeling\\nover fifty years to attain her proportions, and -at her around her the facilities ot\\nskilled workmen, experience, reputation and varied factories whose facilities\\nare each a support to the other.\\nThis is another advantage that Wheeling possesses which needs no dilating\\nupon, and must in all competitions give her superiority. Possessed ,,t great\\nnatural advantages, she has strengthened these by fifty years of accumulation\\nof those artificial advantages of varied machinery, masses of skilled workmen,\\nand divers kind- of manufactories, which, like the various corps ol a well\\nordered aim v. support one another and give power and endurance to the whole.\\nReturning from this illustration of the advantage of long established facilities\\nand years of acquired skill, a few more sentences may well be given to the pre-\\nsentation of the advantage of coal fuel, that being so primarily the germ ot\\nmanufacturing greatness.\\nThe quality of the coal of the Wheeling seam is so well understood by all\\nmanufacturers, that descriptions of its adaptations would he almost superfluous.\\nThe following, however, is an analysis of Wheeling coal, viz: Carbon, 52.03\\nvolatile matter, 44.04; ashes, 3.93; pounds of steam at 212\u00c2\u00b0 per cubic foot, 362.0\\nspecific gravity, 1,230 weight of cubic yard pounds, 2,075.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": ",0^46 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nThe value of coal as a fuel, or as a generator of steam, depends very essential-\\nly upon the quantity of fixed carbon which it contains. As a general rule in\\nthe manufacture of iron, the quantity of coal is necessarily augmented in the\\nsame ratio that the yield of carbon is diminished. The same is the case when\\nthe manufacture of glass is concerned, and, in fact, wherever heat is a requisite\\nin manufacturing.\\nFollowing: these great essentials, reception of material, distribution of pro-\\nducts and cheapness of fuel, comes cheapness and eligibility of sites for manu-\\nfcories.\\nIn Wheeling locations for building, combining the requisites of space, water,\\ntransportation facilities, and the best of those advantages already mentionedfor\\nobtaining fuel, are to be had in every direction around the city and the suburbs,\\nat very reasonable prices, and on accommodating terms.\\nOn both sides of the Ohio river run railroads. Along these roads sites for\\nfactories are abundant, where facilities for receiving raw materials into the very\\nmills and other workshops direct from the cars exists. In some of those which\\nare now constructed along these lines, side tracks run directly into the factory\\nyards. Shipment, direct from the factories, by either water or rail, is practical\\nand daily practiced. This facility has so much increased in the past few years\\nas #0 have caused almost a total abandonment of maintaining large warehouses\\nby manufacturers, nearly all shipments being made from the factories, effect-\\ning a large saving in rents, which is an important factor, not without its power\\nin holding trade under close competition.\\nIn intimate connection with the advantages belonging to Wheeling is the\\nsalubirity of the location. The tables of mortality treating upon this are con-\\nclusive of the superiority of this community on this point, and, without, doubt,\\nthe great health possessed by this manufacturing population weighs heavily in\\nthe summing up of the advantages of this location, as a point for manufacturing\\npurposes. Not only to the workingman is the health of his family and him-\\nself of importance, but to the manufacturer as well. The loss of income by\\nthree or four weeks sickness suffered by a workingman. or by the increased\\ndemands upon his earnings from frequent illness in his family, is seriously felt\\nin the consequent deprivation of comforts, which the money lost from lost\\ntime and necessarily expended in drugs and doctor s bills, would purchase.\\nThe lessening of such misfortunes is an object in the selection of a place of\\ntoil. To the manufacturer, whose profits always depend upon the skilled and\\nunbroken labor of a. set of hands, the loss from the forced substitution of green\\nhands for competent ones, or the ragged running of his machinery from the\\nforced depletion of his working force by illness, is also, especially if occurring\\nwhen his order books are full, a great injury not only to his profits, hut to the\\nsmooth working of his business.\\nTo the employer, therefore, as well as the employe, is the healthfulness ol a\\nlocation, a subject of careful consideration; and there is no point, as statistics\\nshow, which can in any way compare with Wheeling.\\nThe cheapness with which workmen can live is another point in manufactur-\\ning advantages. In this respect Wheeling compares favorably with other\\ncities; a majority of the articles of food are low in prices, and articles of cloth-\\ning as cheap as iii any of the large Eastern cities. Ln fact, the cost is not much\\nmore than half as much as it is in Kastern or Western manufacturing commu-\\nnities; while rents are much less than in other large cities.\\nFrom this brief sketch of some of the manufacturing advantages of Wheeling,\\nit is apparent that there an three advantages of cheapness those of fuel, ma-\\nterial and living; three of position\u00e2\u0080\u0094 those of reception, distribution and sites\\nfor manufacturing three of health -unbroken labor, lessened expenses and in-\\ncreased income.\\nAmongthe powers used in manufacturing, that of steam is preeminent, and\\nits advantages being in proportion to its cost, its value is great or small over\\nother kinds of power, according to its cheapness. At Wheeling, so cheap is the\\narticle of fuel, that steam becomes the prevalent power.\\nThe cost of material for the erection of the various species of manufactures\\nis so low at this point, that a desirable advantage is gained here from the re-", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "J^y THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING, 47x\u00c2\u00a3\\nduced cost of building. All such componenl parts of manufactories as wood,\\nbrick, glass and iron, are cheap, and labor is quite low in comparison with some\\noil.er points.\\nThere are in Wheeling abundant openings for manufacturing enterprises,\\nwhich will not tail to he highly remunerative it properly conducted. There is\\nbusiness and demand for more manufactories in iron, glass, wood, cotton, wool,\\nand in fact every staple of the country: ami lor the capitalist and mechanic\\nthere is no point in the Union where skill and money can in- re profitably\\nemployed than at Wheeling.\\nTHE SUSPENSION BRIDGE.\\nTo fully understand why the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, the lirst to span\\ntheOhio, and for some years one of the wonders of man s const ruction, was\\nerected, it is necessary to dwell briefly upon some antecedent national events\\nwhich have a bearing upon that, and the general history of Wheeling, in its\\nprogressto a Large and wealthy city.\\nIn L609, James 1, of England, granted to a London corporation, all the land\\nlying north and south within two hundred miles of Point Comfort, and by lines\\nextending west and northwest to the southern or Pacific Ocean. It is tine be\\nbad no right to make this grant, as England had no claim under the law of\\nnations, beyond the summit of the Alleghennies, or the head of the waters\\nrunning into the Atlantic Ocean, through lands settled by its subjects. True,\\nthis grant was revoked by the English crown, at the request of the colonist.-,\\nthemselves in 1624, and the title vested in the crown itself, which claimed for\\nthe colony only to the above summit, until the whole claim was wrested from\\nit in 178. by the result of our revolutionary war. Indeed, so late as 1763, the\\ngovernment forbade all settlement west of tin- Alleghenies, and in 1770, gran-\\nted to a new company or colony the land lying between the summit of the\\nAlleghanies and the Siota river. The action of this company was stopped by\\nthe revolution, during the pendency of which much attention was given to\\nthe northwestern territory, and all the colonies, principally New York Penn-\\nsylvania and Connecticut, which claimed under grants from the six nations of\\nIndians, surrendered their claims co the general government, except Virginia,\\nwhich refused to do so until 1783,and then did so because Maryland refused to\\ncome in the Union until all title was surrendered.\\nThis territory, embracing whal constitutes the States of Ohio. Indiana. Illi-\\nnois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, was the sole capital of the I nited\\nStates, and that without an English settler, or possessing any practical value.\\nThe government was of course in debt, and without resources. TheStates were\\npoor and many of the officers, especiallyof New England, who went into the war\\nrich came out poor, and sought to hide their poverty and build up a future in\\nthe western wilderness. They formed in 1786, the Ohio Land Company, select-\\ning the Eev. Moriscranch Cutler, of Ipsewich, Mass., their agent, July 5, L787,\\nhe arrived in New York. He was an attractive, learned and genial man. lie\\nprocured Nathan Dane, the member from his district, to presenl the ordinance\\nof 1787, and on the 13th it was passed as it now stands, prohibiting slavery,\\nproviding for the education of the people, and all those principles of freedom\\nand progress, which were as near as possible embodied afterwards in our\\nnational constitution. The government must have money, and to secure\\nover six millions they, with great unanimity, consented to take a long stride\\nahead of the general ideas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to adopt a measure that has not in one hundred\\nyears become old fogy\\nUnder this ordinance. Manietta and its surroundings were settled, Symmes\\nmade his purchase, and in fourteen years I hio had sprung from a wilderness\\nand demanded admittance into the Union as a State. As indicated in the\\nabove named ordinance, and confirmed by the constitution and laws admitting\\nOhio and all of the other States, they were to be placed on the same footing as\\nthe Atlantic States, and one of the means of so doing was the construction of a\\ncontinuous macadimized road from the navigable waters of the Atlantic to and\\nthrough the territory. In 1806, this road was commenced a little below Cumber-", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "^P 4 8 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. Kt\\\\\\nland. The law required it should strike the Ohio river between the town of\\nSteubenville and the month of Grave reek. The engineers, of whom David\\nShriver, of Cumberland, was the most prominent, following nearly the trail of the\\nIndian ami Buffalo, who were characterized by Thomas Benton as the best engi-\\nneers, struck the river at Wheeling.\\nThis road was ultimately completed to the Ohio river and through Ohio, ex-\\ncept the bridging of the river. It gave Wheeling its original prominence, brought\\nmen here who improved it, and made it the main avenue for passengers and\\nfreight between the great East and growing West, both for river and road, until\\nrailroads supplanted the national road. The travel and goods that went through\\nthis city were then wonderful, but were not an hundredth of what now pass over\\nthe various railroads. It brought some of the broadest and best business men of\\nthe country here.\\nBut the crossing of the river was a drawback, and a great one, for the direct\\nline was only Zane s swing ferry, made of a large Hat with a board sinking in\\nthe water upon cue side, and fastened by a rope far up on the Island. The boat\\nwas attached to the rope by a chain fastened to either end of it, and running on\\na wheel at the rope. The shore end was let down below the bows and the cur-\\nrent would carry it across. This was used many years, but was slow at all\\ntimes and stopped much by ice, and sometimes by accidents, while it must be\\non the Island side when steamboats were passing.\\nAs early as 1835 a decided agitation of the subject of the government com-\\npleting her contract by building a bridge over the Ohio at Wheeling was aroused.\\nThe press of Wheeling and the Western States advocated it; petitions were\\ncirculated through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in favor of it, and the people very\\ngenerally signed and forwarded them. The measure was up every year in Con-\\ngress all western members favored it; but Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania op-\\nposed, as well as most of the east and south, because the Democracy had\\nadopted the motto, No internal improvements by the general government.\\nIt, however, came several times near passing.\\nIn 1847 the citizens of Wheeling, like the farmer in the fable, determined\\nthey would cut their own wheat build their own bridge under a charter Erom\\ntheir own State. A charter was drafted, providing among other necessary\\nmatters, authority for the city to subscribe $50 000 and each of the hanks\\n$25,000 to its stock, and J. E. Wharton, Esq., sent to Richmond to secure its\\npassage. He stopped at Washington to try to get the Postmaster General to\\nrecommend an appropriation of $30,000 provided mails and government stores\\nshould forever be carried over free. The Postmaster General refused to do so,\\nbut manifested so deep an interest as to urge upon Gov. Smith, of Virginia,\\nthe passage of the charter by all means. It ultimately proved the success of\\nthe effort, for without his letter the charter would not have passed. There was\\nnot much difficulty in the house, but in the senate the Democrats considered\\nit as giving privileges to banks; those in favor of giving the B. O. R. R. the\\nright of way to Parkersburg opposed it as strengthening Wheeling s claim, and\\ntwo held that the State had no right to bridge a navigable stream. These last\\nwere brought over by the suggestion that now would be a good time for Vir-\\nginia to assert- her claim to the whole Ohio river, under the King James char-\\nter of 1607. Matters were brought down to a pretty line point, when Gov. Smith\\ncame in and converted one sinner by showing him that this matter was dis-\\ntracting and dividing the Democracy in congress. The hill passed by one\\nmajority.\\nThe stock thought necessary was mostly taken in Wheeling, but some in Mt.\\nPleasant, Cadiz and St. Clairsville. Nearly all took some stock the city and\\nbanks far less than they were authorized to take. John W. Gill, Esq., was the\\nlargest private stockholder. He has passed away, and his memory deserves\\nthe tribute of a passing remark here. He was enterprising, liberal of his large\\nmeans, simple and straight forward in his integrity, enthusiastic in all public\\nimprovements and a true patriot, anxious to see his country produce all she\\nconsumed. In furtherance of this he was the pioneer silk manufacturer of the\\nwest, and established works in a large frame building across the creek, where\\nhe manufactured silk handkerchiefs and dress patterns on a pretty large scale,\\n_ ^_ __", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "^5\\n/C7 THE INDUSTRIES OF w ll EELING. 49\\nwhich were pretty and very durable. This was continued some years, and we\\npresume there are some of his handkerchiefs still existing. It was, however,\\nbut a small part of liis business.\\nThe stock for the bridge was taken, and the Directors elected, Thomas Sweeney,\\nEsq., was elected president and E. II. Pitzhugh, Esq., Secretary. There were\\nthen but two persons known in the country as having any experience in building\\nsuspension bridges Chas. Ellet, of Philadelphia, who bad erected the bridge\\nover the Schuylkill, near that city and thrown a cable and footway over Niagara\\nriver, and Mr. Roebling, of Western Pennsylvania, who had erected the regular\\nbridge over Niagara. Thej both appeared before the hoard. Mr. Roebling pro-\\nposed to erect it with the abutments at the edge of low water, and a pier on the\\nbar some three hundred feel from the western abutment, leaving a five hundred\\nfeet span over the main channel, the road way to be one hundred and twelve feel\\nfrom low water and to contract to complete il for one hundred and forty-one thou-\\nsand dollars. Mr. Ellet proposed to put the abutments on the bankB where they\\nnow are, and make one clear span of one thousand and ten feet\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the largest span\\nin the world that of Frieburg being hut eighl hundred and seventy-six feet.\\nMr. Ellet proposed to erect it as superintendent, employing labor by the day ;but\\nestimating the cost below that of Roebling Mr. E. was a tall, tine looking man,\\nfluent talker, and plausible writer, while his opponent was the contrary. This\\nfact with the glory of having the longest span in the world, carried the day. Mr.\\nEllet s plan was adopted by a majority of the Directors, but opposed by Win.\\nPaxton, Esq., with much energy. The work was completed by Mr. Ellet, but was\\nmore than twelve feet lower than was proposed, and cost $218,000.00. During the\\nconstruction, and after the timbers were swung, Mr. Paxton, Mr. Sweeney and\\nothers recommended to him guy chains anchored firmly at the waters edge and at-\\ntached to the cables as far out as would be effective; but his only reply was that\\nhe knew his business, and none were put in, Tn the fall of 1849 the work was\\ncompleted and the formal opening took [.lace. It was a gala day for Wheeling,\\nguns were fired, Hags were flung to the breeze, and in the afternoon the whole\\npopulation Hocked to the bridge together with many from the surrounding coun-\\ntry. A procession was formed ten abreast, and marched to the music of the\\nCampbells are coming It was well the cables were of Missouri iron, ami well\\ntested and anchored, as, had it fallen under the strain, it would have been a bridge\\nof sighs as well as size. Under the measured tread, the slender web began to sway\\nuntil all had to adopt sea legs, and when the western approach was reached it was\\nmore than laughable to see men and women striving in vain to recover their ordinary\\nwalk. Some sat down on the ground and declared they would not walk, hut that was\\nlittle improvement for the whole world seemed swinging in a hammock. They went\\nback by pairs and dozens, and the bridge behaved better. After this it did pretty well\\nso far as it could, but it had foes to encounter as well as friends to support. True\\nit would bend about two feet under heavily loaded wagons or the maximum num-\\nber of cattle, and was often too low rse. Those were emphatically the days\\nof steamboats and tall chimnies on the hio, and Pittsburgh sported her brag line\\nof steamers, of which the Buckeye State was the chief for speed, and they were\\ncompelled to lower their chimnies to the Wheeling bridge when the water was\\nabove a certain stage. True this was easily done, hut it is probable that Hainan\\ncould get into the palace, notwithstanding Mordecai sat in the king s gate; yet he\\ndetermined to not only yank him out of that, hut to hang all the .lews in the\\nkingdom because of Ins impudence in sitting there. In the same spirit, Pittsburgh\\nemployed the late Edwin M. Stanton, the rising lawyer ,,f Steubenville, to go be-\\nfore tlie Supreme Court, there present the case and secure its destruction. n this\\nargument he removed to Pittsburgh, won the verdict of the court against the\\nbridge as an obstruction to navigation, and the bridge was ordered to be removed\\nor raised twelve feet. It was only saved by Congress, under the leadership oi Henry\\nClay declaring it a post-road. One evening after the passage of the declaratory\\nact, Mr. Clav, with Crittenden, Benton, Marshall, and others, walked over it from\\nthe hotel, and, arriving near the western tower. Mr Clay turned, and Manning\\nit admiringly, exclaimed Take this down you might as well try to take down a\\nrainbow 1\\nThere was one incident connected with il that was wonderful. boys had\\nS", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "^50 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nclimbed over the towers and walked the wires, but no accident had happened.\\nAfter it had stood a year or two, when the river had a spring burst up and was\\nfull of floating ice, a girl whose lover had left her, and the world seemed full of\\nsingleness and hornets nests, determined to give away her interest in it, So, one\\nmorning she went out to near the middle, threw off her shawl and bonnet, and\\naccoutred as she was, plunged in but she was not thus destined to throw off\\nthis mortal coil she went down between two cakes of ice, rebounded up between\\ntwo others, was thrown forward on one of them where she lay insensible on her\\nstomach, until the cold cake came near shore atEoff s mill, where she was taken\\noff, very cold, wet and flimsy. When she came too she did not feel as much in\\nlove as formerly, for she said the fellow was not worth all that wetting. Khe is\\nprobably living yet to thank God for her preservation.\\nA few more years passed over this magnificent cobweb, and the Island had be-\\ngun to gather some of those who could not find room between the river and Wheel-\\ning hill. Mr. Ellet had spent $1,700,000 in running the Hempfield Railroad to\\nWashington, and left it largely in debt the Central Ohio had been driven to Bel-\\nla ire. and Wheeling proper had been deserted by its travel and trade, when a little\\nafter twelve o clock M. of a summer s day in 1853, the few clouds that flecked the\\nblue of heaven above were seen to drive rather rapidly to the northeast and the\\nclose observer noticed a rather ghost-like cloud down the river; but in Wheeling,\\noust of Main street all was still not a leaf stirred\u00e2\u0080\u0094 not an awning waved, nor dust\\nmoved when suddenly the cry went from mouth to mouth, the bridge has blown\\ndown It seemed like a murderous bullet shot from a rosebud just as you were\\ninhalingits fragrance. Stores were closed, shops were deserted and thousands of\\ndoubting Thomas s and anxious Martha s hurried toward the scene; but seeing\\nwas believing. The rainbow was pulled from the skies, the beautiful structure\\nwas gone. The wire cables had been thrown from the towers, and the whole mass\\nof wire and wood lay prone on the ground and water below where the bridge had\\nbeen. The water was low and the regular line boats were not running; but labor-\\ners, teams and machinery were soon employed and cleaned the river of the debris\\nas early as possible. Much of the timber and most of the wire was saved.\\nThe first question was, how did it occur, and why was no one on it at the time\\nNone but the bridge tenders and those whose passage had been cut off could tell.\\nThe precursors of the ghostly cloud first began to swing the bridge. They who were\\non hurried off, and the tenders refused to let others go on at either end, while back\\nand forth it swung, farther and farther at each vibration until the full force of the\\nwhirlwind came under and carried it up as a feather far above the tops of\\nthe towers, and then dashed it down as if it were the angry genius of destruction,\\nbefore whom rocks, and towers, and gorgeous palaces\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all the works of man, were\\nbut as dust in the balance. The longest span in the world had stood but a short\\nspan in the line of time.\\nThe bridge had become a necessity, but a steam ferry was borrowed, the cables\\nand wood were drawn from the river and in a short time the cables were replaced\\nand a narrow structure put up under the superintendence of Mr. McComas, who\\nwas equally remarkable for his few words and much and good work. The narrow\\nstructure admitted of the passage of but one team at a time, and the bridge-wards\\nat each end warned the other when teams were going on by hells hung upon a wire\\nextending across.\\nIn due time the timber and wire were prepared and the present structure erected\\nbv ilic same gentleman, in a manner so guyed, braced and strengthened as to bid de-\\nfiance to tin- winds, and be equally safe to customers and profitable to stockholders.\\nLike most other public improvements of the city, it has been a success, and is fur-\\nnishing :i reliable chain between large and increasing populations.\\ni __^", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n.i*S\\nHORNBROOK S PARK.\\nThe beauties of Nature, ami ascriptions to Nature s God are themes on\\nwhich writers have\\ndwelt with a wealth\\nof language which no\\nother subjects have\\never evolved, even\\nfrom the most gifted\\nof pens. Poets have\\nW r i tte n i m mortal\\nverse by their aid.\\nYet. nature, unaided\\nand alone, never at-\\ntains that magnificent\\nglory that she does\\nwhen nurtured by\\nthe hand of Art. Na-\\nture and Art are, to\\na certain extent de-\\npendent on each oth-\\ner. That either of\\nthem can evolve a\\nthing of beauty, in-\\ndependent of each\\nother is quite true,\\n1) u t t h e i r highesl\\ntriumphs are achieved\\nSwhen they act as\\nhand maids to each\\nother. No more ap-\\nposite illustration\\ncan be given of this\\nthan the matchless\\nwealth ol sprouting\\nglory that greets the\\nvisitor to Col. Horn-\\nbrook s private park\\nwhich, if it have equals\\ncertainly has no su-\\nperiors in this coun-\\ntry, either in the\\nbeauty and splendor\\nof its marvellous features, or the consummate symmetry that manifests itself\\nto the visitor at every avenue of its umbrageous shade. We might write a\\nvolume on this subject and not exhaust it. We shall, for the purpose we have\\nin view, only descant on some of the maximum features of this comparative\\nparadise, as our space will prevent us from going into too much detail.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 pleas-\\nant otherwise as the task would be to ourselves, and doubtless SO toothers.\\nA.bout thirty years ago Col. Hornbrook purchased over fifty acres of land in\\ntl\\nov\\ncultivated with a hope of ultimate success in producing the magnificent ach eiv\\nment of the countless glories of his present magnificent park. Beinga noted capi-\\ntalistic spent money with a lavish hand in designing, cultivating, ami musing\\nbis comprehensive project. Years rolled on years, and as the scasonscame and\\nwent, bis efforts grew with the growth of his experiment, till at last the premises\\ngave ample assurance of complete success in his praiseworthy enterprise. Rorthe\\nlast fifteen years this park has been the wonder and glory ol visitors, both from-\\nhoine and abroad. The park of 1879, however, comes the nearest to completely fill-\\ning what may he deemed the highest niche to which Col. Hornbrook s ambition\\nHWJP\\nIP^ N\\nVIIUUl U1I1IV \\\\UiUS MfiU yjljl. 11UU1IJ1UU1V (JUIWIBOVU ..,vi mi, ni o iiuiu\\nhat beautiful plateau of territory situated on tin- National Road, something\\niver four miles east of the city This purchase he ingeniously laid out and", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n53^2\\nTHOS. HORNBROOK S BUSINESS BLOCK.\\naspired. Indeed, we should say that if he expects to surpass what hehasdone\\nin this line he might as well desist It was reserved for the poet Milton, how-\\never, to picture, in glowing and never fading colors something vastly superior\\neven to thi Park, in thai grand and matchless Epic Poem Paradise Lost,\\nthat ideal master-piece of the Christian world. A higher art than that of hu-\\nman skill fashioned the glories of Eden. Topographically speaking the premi-\\nses of Col. Hornbrook leave nothing to be desired. Nature in tins respect\\nseems to have been in entire harmony with the design of the proprietor. Con-\\ntaining over fifty acres, the plat of ground has two entrances, one at its eastern,\\nand the other at its western limit. These, in extent, are about a mile in their\\naggregate length. One of these is lined with many different kinds of beauti-\\nful trees, vines, c, which in season present to the observer superb reaches of\\nblooming fragrance and refreshing shade. This is merely on ot the notable in-\\nstances of romantic effect. This extensive Park, however, abounds in beauti-\\nful surprises for the visitor. Carriage-ways and various smaller avenues ad-\\nmit of approach to, and departure from, any noteworthy locality in this mag-\\nnificent domain of floral and pomological perfection. Trees, fruits and flowers\\nare, so to speak, the natural Trinity that presides over this exquisite place of\\nresort. These exceptionally beautiful objects are the results of human inven-\\ntion, assisted by the ever responsive and generous hand of Nature. Many of the\\ndrives are bordered with evergreens and ornamental trees. Of these latter, Col.\\nHornbrook is particularly interested in four specialities, viz: Evergreens, of whicl\\n_\\nft", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OP WHEELING.\\n*8\\ni)L HORNBKOOK S RESIDENCE.\\nhe lias forty-eight varieties. Magnolias, nine varieties, namely, Grandiflora,\\nGlauca, Tripitqla, Umbrella, Macrophylla, Acuminita, Auriculata Conspicua and\\nPurpurea. Hundreds of pear and apple trees of the choicest kinds annually\\ngive an abundant yield of their mellow products. There are over four hundred\\nvarieties of roses. One of these varieties is the fragrant tuberose, of which\\nthere is not less than 50 000! These features when combined with the multi-\\ntudinous variety of other riowers, shrubs, and the like germane to such an effu-\\nsion of floral wealth, present such an array of numbers as to cause the writer\\nto discover the hopelessness of the task of attempting anything like an enum-\\neration of even the minimum part of them. Suffice it to say that florists can\\norder anything in this line, and get the article desired. Besides the exquisite\\ncollection of fine Evergreens which have been alluded to, there are majestic\\nspecimens of Norway, Sugar and Silver Maple trees, which are of surpassing beau-\\nty also Austrian, Scotch, White and Hemlock Pines; American Elms And Poplars.\\nAlmost every variety of tree known to this climate may be found in this won.\\nderfully prolific private enclosure. What has thus far been said in this entire\\narticle, however, is only a mere outline of the park. To be fully appreciated,\\nthese magnificent grounds must be seen. Col. Hornbrook is a native of Eng-\\nland came to this country quite young. He has lived in Wheeling for over\\nsixty years. He started in business when but a lad we might say on little or\\nnothing. A ten dollar bill would more than cover the entire capital stock. To-\\nday, it would be no exaggeration to say that he is worth over a quarter of a mil-\\nlion of dollars He is one of Wheeling s most prominent citizens, and is a\\nstaunch advocate of the temperance cause for which he is a fluent speaker, and\\nit may be said that he is one of its most liberal supporters, financially speaking,\\nand indeed, of every deserving charitable appeal.\\nWhat a magnificent public park this would make for the citizens of Wheel-\\ning, exclaims the reader, and very naturally and justly. The city of Wheel-\\ning, with all of its advantages, lacks one great essential that is possessed in\\nsome form or other by almost every city in the Union, i. e. a site for a Public\\nPark. Cast your eyes where you will, within the corporation, and no eligible\\ngrounds art to be seen, that could be advantageously converted into a Public\\nPark. What could be better for the purpose than that the city should avail\\n\u00c2\u00bb_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "5?\\nTHE [NDUSTKIKS OF WHEELING,\\n55^\\nitself of the opportunity of purchasing this magnificent property for the pur-\\npose alluded to? It may be urged that it is too Ear away from the city limits.\\nIt is very true thai it is quite a distance from the city, hut when steam is intro-\\nduced on the Wheeling Elm Grove Railway, this objection will be un-\\ntenable and frivolous. The only objection that has any force in it, is, the ex-\\npense attendant on a trip to the Park. But this mostly vanishes when we\\nknow that if steam was introduced on the W. E. R. R., passengers to the\\nPark could be conveyed to and from the place with profit to the railroad com-\\npany, at much lower rates than are at present charged, perhaps one-half of the\\npresent fare and the time consumed in making the trip would he much re-\\nduced, likely in the same ratio. As the proprietor is a gentleman of great wealth,\\nit is not at all unlikely that his conditions, as to the purchase money would\\nbe easy, and no great burden to the city. It might he paid in installments\\ncovering a series of years, with a fair rate of interest on deferred payments. It\\nis a splendid opportunity for the city, and about the only one for the purpose.\\nTHE PAXTON FOUNTAIN.\\n(See Engraving, Page 20.)\\nThe circumstances connected with the origin of this classic and beautiful orna-\\nment to the place of his nativity, are of such an honorable character to the gener-\\nous donor James W. Paxton, Esq., that, never having been made public it is but\\ndue to the citizens of Wheeling and himself to record them here. When the State\\nHouse or Capitol had just been finished, and the spacious stone pavement which\\nsurrounded it had been laid, the gentleman alluded to had visited the spot stand-\\ning on the pavement of the western front of the building, and surveying the struc-\\nture from that standpoint, he causually observed to a gentleman a city official\\nthat one thing was needed to give the western main front view a complete finish\\nand that was A Public Fountain. The remark was added, that it was not likely\\nthat the city authorities would soon, if ever, engage in such an enterprise. Here\\nthe conversation dropped, but the idea of a Public Fountain incorporated itself\\nfirmly in Mr. Paxton s mind. A resolution was taken the very same day out of\\nwhich has evolved the present costly and splendid Public Fountain a magnifi-\\ncent tribute to the enlightened and elevated motives that prompted the munifi-\\ncent gift. Correspondence was immediately opened with parties in the East, in\\nrelation to the procuring of a fountain not to cost over $10,000.00. Communica-\\ntion in relation to the matter was also had with parties in Europe, through the\\nmedium of A. J. Sweeney, Esq mayor of the city, who was there at the time De-\\nsigns and propositions were received from quite a number of the parties, and sub-\\nmitted to Mr. Paxton. The result was, the selection of the design and estimates\\nof the present chaste and exquisitely beautiful object which is mostly a product\\nof American ingenuity, taste and culture. On the 9th day of November, 1878,\\nthis structure was inaugurated as the property of the city, by a deed of gift for all\\ntime. It was gladly accepted, and honors were offered to the distinguished gen-\\ntleman by a public opening of the fountain on that day. Business for the time\\nwas mostly suspended on the afternoon alluded to. There was an immense throng\\nto hear the speaking, c. The State and city authorities, and quite a number of\\ndistinguished persons from abroad were present. After the assemblage was or-\\nganized, a magnificent speech was delivered to the vast audience by the orator of\\nthe day Hon. J. H. Good. A selected band of some of the most accomplished\\nvocalists of the city then delivered exquisite selections of music. These were fol-\\nlowed by a beautiful original poem, written expressly for the occasion by Mr. Win.\\nLeighton, Jr.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 author of The Sons op Godwin, At the Court of King Ed-\\nwin, Change or the Whisper of the Sphynx, c.\\nAfter the exercises were over the usual benediction was pronounced, and the\\ncrowd dispursed to their homes. We will conclude our article by saying that the\\ndonor of this artistic beautiful, and classic gift has clothed himself with a pan-\\noply of honor that far surpasses that attained by public men generally, as their\\nsacrifices are mostly made with a view to ultimate gain or preferment. The\\nmagnificent gift of James W. Paxton, Esq., was as disinterested as graceful, and\\nstamped him at once as one of nature s noblemen.\\n*s", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "A^56 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. J\\nWHEELING S NEWSPAPERS.\\nTHE DAILY REGISTER.\\nTins admirable Democratic paper represents in an able manner the party of\\nwhich it is the exponent. It was started in 1861 and is owned by Lewis Baker\\nCo., and edited by Lewis Baker, Esq.. who both as a political and general\\nwriter wields a trenchant and able pen. Some few years, we believe, after it\\nstarted it met with reverses which were baffled with some difficulty, but the\\nable management of Mr. Baker, coupled with his merited influence with his\\nparty, rescued it from all trouble. It is a spirited sheet, interesting not only\\nas a political paper, but from the judicious general extracts and useful infor-\\nmation, making it also a valuable family paper. It is, we might say, in its press\\nwork and general execution, perfectly conducted. It is in all respects an able\\npaper, and faithfully represents the business and general interest of the public.\\nTHE INTELLIGENCER.\\nThis is the other political paper of the city: representing the Republican side\\nin politics. It is owned and edited by Messrs. Frew Campbell, and is cred-\\nitably conducted. Its reputation in the State among the adherents of the party\\nit represents is very strong. Mr. Campbell, the editor, is a graceful writer and\\nstands high with his party friends.\\nTHE SUNDAY LEADER.\\nThis is one of the two Sunday papers published in the city, and it occupies a\\ndeservedly high position among all classes. It is independent in politics and\\nis fearlessly conducted, sparing the faults and shortcomings of none, when it\\nsees occasion to call public attention to them. It is remarkably well conducted,\\nand receives a large share of public patronage. In the gathering and collating\\nof interesting news and useful information it has no superior. Its miscella-\\nneous reading for families cannot be surpassed in any city in the country. It\\nis specially valuable to business on account of its general circulation, reaching\\nthe business man, the farmer, the artisan, and an eagerly welcomed guest in the\\nfamily cirel-e. Mr. C. C. Johnson, the editor and proprietor, is an accomplished\\ngentleman in his profession, specially qualified for the task he has undertaken\\nof issuing a paper for general reading, regardless of politics or religion.\\nTHE NEWS-LETTER.\\nThis is line of the papers issued on Sunday. It is independent in every respect,\\nand aims to inspire confidence by an honest and fearless course. Its management\\nis in able hands, and the paper lias achieved the respect of the community. Ably\\nconducted in all its editorial departments: remarkable for the interesting general\\nreading, it lias become an institution of the city. It is especially noteworthy for\\nits attention to lodge news\u00e2\u0080\u0094 making itself a regular journal for the di fit rent orders\\nand societies. It is as well an interesting family paper, its extracts and se-\\nlections specially adopting it as such. It was founded November 14, 1878, by a\\nco-operative company of eleven persons, with J. H McFall as business manager,\\nunder the firm name of News-Letter Co. About January 1st, 1879. it changed\\nhands and is now owned by Messrs. Stull, Robertson Meek. Its success is evi-\\ndenced by its rapidly enlarging subscription and gives proof in every way of being\\nsuccessful.\\nTHE SATURDAY EVENING JOURNAL.\\nThis paper was started in August of this year by Messrs. Halstead Grubb, in-\\ntending to fill a long felt want, a Saturday evening journal, a paper for the work-\\ningman as well as merchant, a paper for Saturday evening reading. They have\\nsucceeded in making it a newsy, readable paper, admirably gotten up in all its\\ndepartments. Its niiseellaneous extracts are well selected making it a valuable\\nfamily paper. As an advertising medium it should be particularly valuable,\\nreaching its readers at the end of the weeks work.\\nTHE DEUTSCHE ZE1TUNG.\\nThis German paper is owned and edited by Mr. L. Colmar is published weekly.\\nThe firm was formerly Guttenburg Colmar. This is quite a sprightly sheet, and\\nfrom information we have gathered, is very successful in catering to the tastes of\\nour German citizens. It has the reputation of being well conducted, of being a\\nvery interesting journal. It is ably edited and its news and miscellaneous selec-\\ntions have given it quite a circulation. It is the only German paper in the city.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "s\\nTO THE BUSINESS MEN OF WEST VIR INIA\\nAND THE WESTERN STATES.\\nThe publishers wish to call the attention of the country merchants and traders\\nthroughout West Virginia and the West to the brief notices in this work, repre-\\nsenting, us they do, the leading business nouses of the city, the manufacturing\\nfirms, and many of the leading professions. Each in its particular branch offers\\ninducements, while the transportational advantages of Wheeling for shipments\\nare unexcelled. The firms here represented have toiled energetically through\\nlong years, at last achieving success and fortune, and consequently fully under-\\nstand the wants and needs of the country whose trade they desire.\\nWM. H. ROBINSON,\\nPaints, Oils, Glass, Sash, Doors, c.\\nThis is one of the pioneer establishments of Wheeling, and one that is deserv-\\ning of extended mention in a work professing to give an adequate display of the\\nmanufacturing and commercial advantages of tin- Nail City.\\nThe above business was started by S. G. Robinson, Esq., in 1836. He is the\\nfather of the present owner, and is still living at the age of seventy-eight years.\\nMany years ago Mr, Robinson came to this city from the eastern shore of Mary-\\nland. His capital was quite limited, so far as cash was concerned; but he pos-\\nsessed what was almost as good, viz energy and business tact, and with this stock\\nin trade he commenced business. For some years he carried on his store on Mar-\\nket street, near the upper end of the market house, Second Ward. The rapid in-\\ncrease in his business, however, compelled him to remove to Main street near\\nUnion (Eleventh). Here he remained for some years, when be was again com-\\npelled to remove to still larger quarters to accommodate his increasing trade, In\\n1850 he removed to No. 1223 Main street, where the business is still carried on as\\nabove.\\nSome year ago he purchased the Window Glass Works of this city, and they\\nwere for a series of years successfully operated by Mr. Robinson and his sons, and\\nthe quality of the glass made enabled them to compete with eastern manu-\\nfacturers.\\nIn 1862 the founder of this large establishment becoming too old for an active\\nbusiness life, the store passed into the hands of his son, W. H. Robinson, who\\ngave the business his strict personal attention. Through all these years I panic,\\nthis store has continued on in its career of success, and t -day stands a monument of\\nS", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "L. S. DELAPLAIN CO.\\nWholesale Dry Goods and Notions, JMo. 1302 Main Street.\\nIn recording any adequate history of the industries of Wheeling, and the pro-\\ngress made during the last quarter of a century in commercial and manufacturing\\nimportance, it would render our work incomplete to omit a description of the\\nhouse of L. S. Delaplain Co. Of the houses engaged in the Wholesale Dry\\nGoodstrade, it is perfectly safe to assert that none in this section occupy a position\\nmore entitled to consideration than this establishment, both with reference to the\\nhigh commercial standard upon which its operations are conducted, the ex-\\ntent of the business transacted and influence it has won. Established in 184 by\\nTallant Delaplain, this house has always held a promiuent place in the Dry\\nGoods trade through all the changes incidental to a business career covering a\\nperiod of more than a quarter of a century. From its first inception and title,\\nalter a continuance of some years the house became L. S. Delaplain Son, Mr.\\nTallant withdrawing. Continuing under this firm title for another period, the firm\\nagain changed to I.. S.Delablain Co. .Mr. Robert M. Delaplain retiring. The\\npresent members of the linn are L. S. Delaplain, Hullihen Ojuarrier and Joseph\\nS. Gibbs. Through all these changes the characteristics exhibited by its founder\\nand present senior member have passed down, gaining some added value rather\\nthan losing ability with each successive change making more prominent, if pos-\\nsible, the honorable, enlightened and enterprising policy for which the house was\\nalways conspicuous. Mr. Delaplain may justly be regarded as the pioneer in the\\nJobbing Dry Goods trade in this section, being the first to establish a house of this\\nkind. He presents a striking example of those high-toned commercial attributes,\\nand possesses not only marked talents as a business man, but that high sense of rec-\\ntitude that lias made him the exemplar of the best commercial class of Wheeling.\\nWith such an established reputation, it is no matter of surprise that the house has\\nalways been a favorite one, appropriating a very large share of the trade and afford-\\ning buyers certain advantages the result of long connection with the most extensive\\nmanufactories in the country that cannot be duplicated by any concern in this State\\nThis istabUshment is not only the largest in West Virginia, but decidedly the most\\n_\\nXjT 5S THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X\\nindustry, and reaches out through Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia for its\\ntrade, equally able to compete with eastern houses on account of liberal arrange-\\nments made with manufacturers of goods which he handles, and he handles\\nnone but those that have stood the test in years gone by. The names of the fol-\\nlowing manufacturers carry all the recommendations that the carpenters, builders,\\npainters and others require\\nAnchor White Lead Company, manufacturers of Pure White Lead; Richmond\\nMetallic Paint; Patent Borate of Zinc Kalsomine; this superb article far sur-\\npasses every other preparation of Kalsomine. it is prepared with great care and\\nonly of the finostand purest material, has very superior body and covering prop-\\nerties, and, as its name indicates, is composed in large part of French Zinc is\\nvery finely pulverized, and readily mixed by the most inexperienced person. Will\\nnot rub oil or scale. It is prepared in brilliant white, and in eighteen elegant\\nand stylish tints. No poisonous matters enter into their composition.\\nWalters Fielding s English and American Artists Colors in tubes, and French\\nPermanent Green, American, French and English Polished Plate Glass. All\\nkinds of Colored, Enameled and Figured Glass for side lights and transoms,\\nchurches and public halls. Patent Sash Weights of all sizes.\\nD. Rosenburg Sons Standard Ebuse Painters Varnishes and Carriage Var-\\nnishes. C. T. Reynolds Co. s Pure Oil Colors, Ac. Fitton, Pan Sibley s Per-\\nfectly Pure Tinted Lead. John L. Whiting s Patent Brushes of all kinds.\\nThe above is a list of a few of the manufactures which Mr. Robinson represents\\nin this city.\\nThe above notice will scarcely give the reader an idea of the magnitude of this\\nlarge establishment, with goods piled to the very ceilings. Enough has been said.\\nhowever, to convince our readers that this is the place to buy the articles above\\nmentioned, and if you would be further instructed send for his catalogue and price\\nlist.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Jv^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 5VTKs\\\\\\nextensive between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, carrying a stock of from $125. to\\n$150,000, and transacting a business closely approximating a half million dollars per\\nycai-. The facilities, as far as regards the premises occupied by the firm, arc all thai\\ncould be desired, being ample, commodious and eligibly situated in a large three-\\nstory brick building, one hundred and twenty-five by twenty-five feet, on Main street,\\nthe main business thoroughfare of the city. I fere may be found a lull ami completeas-\\nsortmenl of Staph and Fancj Dry Goods, foreign and domestic, embracing a wide\\nrange in Textile Fabrics and Notions, affording a selection rarely attainabL tside\\nthe large Eastern cities, with a perfectly comprehenisve knowledge of the business\\nand a nice discrimination as to the exact requirements of the trade. Mr. Delaplain\\nhas been called on by his fellow-citizens, from their reaped for his abilities and ti\\nrity, to serve them in positions of honor and trust, having been Vice President of the\\nExchange Hank. Vice President, of the Benwood Iron Works, President Citizens 1 [n-\\nsurance Company, Member of the City Council, c. Mr. Delaplain and Mr. Gibbs\\nare natives of Delaware Mr. Quarrier of Wheeling. Recommending this house to\\nthe public, ami directing attention to the manner in which it is conducted and lie\\namplitude of its resources, and its position at the head in its line, it commands the\\nrespect of the community.\\nTHOS. HUGHES CO.,\\n1211 Market Street.\\nThis time-honored and popular clothing house was established as early as the\\nyear 1840. For many years the large wareroom, corner of Water and Twelfth\\nstreet.-, was used lor the prosecution of their trade, on account of it favorable lo-\\ncation with reference to the river patronage which was quite large and from the\\nfact, that till within the last few years it was quite as well calculated for the city\\ntrade as any other locality would have been at that time. There having been,\\nhowever, so many handsome buildings lately erected in the city induced the pro-\\nprietors to rent the present splendid storeroom on Market street. This room pos-\\nsesses facilities for their present city trade superior to those offered by their late\\nstoreroom on Water street. They knew that their river patronage would follow\\nthem to their new premises, and even a greater distance if necessary. The change\\nof locality was a fortunate one, as the proprietors assure us that they are now do-\\ning a heavier general trade than ever was done by the firm in the past. To give\\nthe reader some idea of its magnitude we would state that the proprietors receive\\norders from distant points, even as far south as the arolinas. Their trade is quite\\nlarge in the States of West Virginia. Maryland. Ohio and Pennsylvania. Sur-\\nprising a- it may seem, large orders are received from Baltimore, Cumberland,\\nPittsburgh and other cities, noted for their stylish manner of making clothing.\\nThis, of itself, is a strong endorsement of the superior style and quality of g\\nkept by these gentlemen -also of the fashionable and elegant manner in which\\nthey make them up. This firm, however, has. from time immemorial, been noted\\nfor keeping the finest goods that could be obtained from the eastern importers, and\\nequally so for their taste in making selections as to patterns.\\nThe quality of trimmings used in making garments is an important factor, for\\nif inferior trimmings are used for the purpose, ;i shabby and unserviceable garment\\ni- the result. Messrs. Hughes Co. use none hut the very best of these indispen-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2sible essentials for a handsome suit of clothes. This fact, combined with their\\nstylish manner of designing, cutting and the excellent workmanship put on gar-\\nment-, secures the permanent trade of all old patrons of the house, and constantly\\nattracts that of new customers to this magnificent establishment. The regular cut-\\nters of this house are Messrs. Wheeler and La kin, although at time- an additional\\ncutter is required. To enter into an extended eulogy of these accomplished ar-\\ntists wouldseem to he a work of supererogation, as it is well known that tiny stand\\nin the front rank of the best designers and cutter- of clothing for gentlemen and\\nyouths, that are known to the trade, either in the East. West, North or South.\\n.Misfits are quite common in some tailoring establishments. The superior qualifi-\\ncations of Messrs. Wheeler and I. akin ai-e, however, an ample guarantee against\\nfailure in this respect. These gentlemen could offer no excuse for a defect of this\\nkind, as their experience ha- been a- varied and comprehensive as that of the i\\neminent artists in the business, either at home or abroad. It is well known that", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "j^ 60 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nthere has been, in the last few years, a great reduction in the price of all goods,\\nboth of foreign and domestic manufacture. This agreeable fact enables Messrs.\\nHughes Co\u00c2\u00b0 to furnish their customers suits at nearly one-half of the price that\\nthey cost but a few years ago. A suit of clothes that would have then been worth\\nabout $40.00 or $45.00 can now be obtained of these gentlemen at from $25.00 to\\n$98 00 This house, though doing a heavy business in fine goods, keep a complete\\nassortment of cheaper fabrics for those who desire tlem. Whether the article de-\\nsired be fine and costly, or of a lower priced quality, you can obtain them at this\\nhouse in endless variety, and at the very lowest margins of profit to the proprietors.\\nThe individual members of this firm are Thos. Hughes, J. Elwood Hughes\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uid \\\\ndrew M. Hamilton. The senior member of the firm spends much\\nof his time in the East buying goods for the house. We would conclude our ar-\\nticle by observing, that the room in which they do business is of marvellous capac-\\nity and beauty.\\n1.. C. REED.\\nC. E. BAILEY. W.N. LINCH.\\nL C. REED CO.,\\nFashionable Merchant Tailors.\\nAt No. 29 Twelth street. This firm, from its inception, has given entire sat-\\nisfaction to its numerous patrons, and attracted much favor and patronage from\\npersons who have, hitherto had a particular place at which to leave their orders\\nfor clothing. Fully appreciating this flattering compliment, the proprietors de-\\ntermined to leave nothing undone to meet the growing requirements of their\\nt rade Knowing t hat a first class artist in the Cutting Department is of the most\\nimportant elements of success, they determined at once to securetheservic.es in\\nthis department of an artist who would be likely to command a trade by virtue of\\nhis superior skill in the difficulfcart of cutting garments. Being aware that some\\nof tli e best talent in the country\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in this line\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is established at the National\\nCapital, and in other eastern cities, they determined to secure the services of a\\nmaster in this art. Overtures were made to one of the most celebrated Cutters\\nknown in the east Mr. Cuas. Parmer- who, after some negotiation was indu-\\nced to accede to the flattering oilers of Messrs. Reed Co. This gentleman\\nhad been in the employ of the bouse of Mr. Geo. B. Keene, one of the most\\nfashionable establishments in Washington City, and has certainly no equal in\\nWheeling as a scientific designer of garments. Being now better prepared\\nthan ever to meet the wants of the trade- both as to stock of goods and a supe-\\nrior force of workmen they hope to please their trade more fully than ever,\\nthis with them being an important consideration for if a customer is well sat-\\nisfied his patronage may be permanently depended on. What has been said by\\nthe eminent John Ruskin in relation to art painting, c, will apply with equal\\nforce to Dress, for there is nothing that tells more forcibly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for or against us\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthan the kind of taste we display in the style and fashion of the apparel we\\nwear. To dress well it is not necessary to.be a fop a fop is far from be-\\ning a well dressed man,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 indeed we know of no more pitiful object than a\\nfop except it be a sloven, for either of them excite our pity, if not dis-\\ngust thev are fair specimens of bodies inhabited by disordered minds. A well\\ndressed man shows in bis costume a commendable regard for the exactions of\\ngenteel society, and impresses the reflecting part of the community at once\\nwith the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2entility of his appearance. Elegance of style, is, if may be said, a\\npassport fo good society. Harmony and Repose are considered to be the cardi-\\nnal elements of Architecture so, in like manner, are they the pervading\\nfeatures of symmetrical costume. Reader, do you see that ill-dressed fellow on\\nthe opposite side of the street\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that man with his pantaloons rolled up at the\\nbottom and the eull sof bis coal turned up, whose vest fits him sotightthat be\\nisnearlv out of breath, with a face as red as a beet, and has a crowd following\\nOur wrath warms within us when we think of the shabby practices such\\nimpostors resort to, to get rid of the results of their ignorance in a branch of\\ntrade for which they never were designed. We feel like exclaiming with\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2CT THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. G1^5\\\\\\nEmilia, in the play of Othello, when she invokes Heaven to put in every honest\\nhanda whip to lash tlie rascal naked through the world. The ill-fitting suit of poor\\nStubbs gives the lie with some emphasis to the familiar lines of the poet, Man\\nwants but little here below, nor wants that little long, evidently Snip Co. did\\nnot share his opinion, or they would not have been so prodigal of their goods\\nin making the legs of the pantaloons and sleeves of the coal of such a super-\\nfluous size. If such a miserable suit could by any possibility be gotten up by\\nL. Heed Co., they would rather sink their whole stock than permit the\\ncustomer to stalk around advertising them in the manner that Stubb is doing\\nfor Snip Co., for as Hamlet says though it make the unskilful laugh, it can-\\nnot but make the judicious grieve. .Messrs. Reed Co. s establishment is a\\nlarge three story building, which is stocked with a full and varied assortment\\nof Foreign and Domestic fabrics of the latest designs of choice, fashionable and\\ndesirable styles, goods that cannot fail to please the most fastidious tastes.\\nVisiting this resort of fashion lately, the proprietors politely proposed to show\\nus through; we at first declined\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for what right has a poor, half-starved edi-\\ntor, who hardly knows where his next market money is to come from to be put\\nto the torture of a temptation, which might lead to theft on his part of some of\\ntheir beautiful goods, had he an opportunity. But as these gentlemen would\\ninsist on showing us through, we permitted them to do so, observing at the\\ntime that they kepta sharp look out on our movements during the operation.\\nWe saw so much to bewilder us that we can oniy say that their stock is cer-\\ntainly one of the best that was ever brought to Wheeling. So confused were\\nwe with the variety, elegance, and splendor of their goods, that a great deal of\\nthe result of our visit must remain untold. Hut we still remember seeing an\\nendless line of English, French and American Broadcloths, Cassimeres, Mel-\\ntons and Worsted Goods, which were supplemented by a full variety of fancy\\narticles for gentlemen s wear, such as Diagonals, Tweeds, and every other nov-\\nelty usually found in a first class store of the kind. With an abundance of\\ncapital, and a stock replete with the elegancies of the trade, and a superior de-\\nsigner of garments in the cutting department, they feel confident of their abil-\\nity to suit every taste, both as to style, cut, and price.\\nGEO. W. JOHNSON,\\nCopper, Tin and Sheetiron Ware, 1210 Main Street.\\nThe above is one of the pioneer firms of this city, and one that is deserving of\\nmore than a passing notice in a work professing to give an adequate display of the\\nbusiness advantages of Wheeling.\\nThe business was originally founded in L833 by the present owner with a cash\\ncapital of the most meagre dimensions, hut with a large amount of energy and ex-\\necutive ability which made the business a success from its inception, and is now\\nsteadily increasing.\\nFor a, number of years the business was carried on on Market streel above I nion\\nmow Eleventh), but the rapidly increasing trade necessitated a removal into\\nlarger and more commodious quarters at No. 1210 Main street. The premises\\nnow occupied is a large three story brick building 20x100 feet. The upper floors\\nof which are used for manufacturing and the lower one as a store or salesroom.\\nBesides the manufacture of Copper. Tin and Sheetiron ware. There will also\\nbe found a full and complete stock of japanned and house furnishing hardware anil\\ntinners stock.\\nAbout $5,000.00 worth of stock is carried and an annual business^ oi about\\n$3,500.00 scattered through Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, besides a. fail-\\namount of local trade.\\nTwelve skilled workmen are constantly employed in the manufacturing depart-\\nment which requires an annual outlay of several thousand dollars.\\nW. D. Johnson is the head salesman in the store and has won for himself an\\narmy of friends, because of his gentlemanly bearing and honest dealings with cus-\\ntomers. Mr. G. W. Merchant has charge of the hooks.\\nThe proprietor, G. W. Johnson, has been long identified with the business inter-\\nests of Wheeling. He was born in Pittsburgh on the 22d day of February, 181 1", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "JcP 62 THE INDUSTKIES OF WHEELING.\\nand removed to this city when he was quite young. He is a gentleman of extended\\nexperience in his line of business and his superior facilities for doing his work\\nquick, and at the same time good, enables him to rival all competition.\\nHARPER RBO.,\\nWholesale and Retail Hats and Caps, 1101 and 1221 Main Street.\\nAway back in the pioneer days of Wheeling the above business was establish-\\ned by Mr. S. D. Harper with a cash capital of one hundred dollars, but with an\\nunlimited amount of energy and business knowledge. For a uumberof years\\nthe business was successfully carried on by its founder, and from its inception\\nproved to be a success steadily and gradually increasing.\\nAt the decease of Mr. S. D. Harper, in 1858, the business passed into the\\nhands of his sons, the presents owners, who, being endowed with their father s\\nspirit of industry, have kept the business moving forward until now they have\\ntwo stores, viz wholesale and retail. The wholesale store is located at 122]\\n.Main street, in a large three storv brick building 22x90 feet, and is thoroughly\\nstocked with all the latest styles of Hats and Caps. The retail store is at 1101\\nMain street and is also a large building 20x60 feet, where also will be found a\\nlarge and varied assortment of Hats and Caps. An average stock of about\\n$30,000.00 is carried in both stores, and a business of $50,000.00 per annum.\\nFive assistants are employed as follows: E. H. Dick, bookkeeper G. B.\\nTurner, W. C. Young, G. A. Beuter and C. A. Reed, salesmen.\\nThe trade of this house extends throughout Western Pennsylvania, Eastern\\nOhio and West Virginia.\\nThe proprietor is a native of this city, having been born here in 1834.\\nHe has all his life been devoted to the business interests of this city, and has\\nwon for himself a reputation for honest and upright dealings with his cus-\\ntomers.\\nThere are few business houses in this or any other city that can show such a\\nsuccessful business record as ,i the above. Starting with a capital of $100.00\\nand after weathering the storms and adversities of almost half a century, now\\nstand a monument of industry and energy. This house is truly deserving oi\\nthe succes thev have attained.\\nG. E. JACOBS,\\nWholesale and Retail 99c Store, Manufacturer of Picture Frames, c.\\nThis house was first opened by D. W. Lovell Co., in 1877, who sold out in a\\nshort time to the present proprietor This is the first store of the kind thai ever\\nwas in Wheeling in this particular line of trade. The proprietor now occupies\\nthe large four-story building on the west side of Main street, No 1 113. It is 22ft.\\nfront by 138 ft. deep, and one of the largest rooms in the city. Among his stock\\nmay be found fancy and staple goods in great variety and quantity. Mr. Jacobs\\nassur.:- his customers that they can invariably save from twenty-live to fifty per\\ncent, by purchasing goods from him at the reliable 99c Store. He wishes all to\\ncall and be convinced that he makes no idle boast in this matter. Many people\\nare disposed to question the fairness of dealing at stores of this kind. Why\\nshould anything about it be unfair? Every article is displayed thai is quoted at\\n99 cents. You do not need to buy it if you think it dear. No advantage what-\\never is taken of the customer- nor can be. The case stands thus: The goods are\\nfor sale and belong to Mr. Jacobs, and your money belongs to you if you prefer\\nan article that he offers you for 99 cents to !li it mrimmt of money, you buy it, and\\nthere is the end of it. Nothing can be fairer, and to show you that lie uives you\\neven more than the value of your money, we will ask, how does it come that so\\nmany go then and purchase and never wish to exchange what they have bought,\\nlike they often do at other stores? Why, it is because they are pleased with their\\nbargain, and know that they got more for cents than they can elsewhere.\\nDealers and others desiring to buy at wholesale should not fail to call and get\\nMr. Jacobs prices before purchasing elsewhere. Even if you do not purchase, it\\nwill afford Mr. Jacobs pleasure in showing you through his mammoth store. He i\\n_.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OK WIIKELING.\\n63^5\\nwill have in stock the Largest selection of holiday goods in the city to choose from\\nof all styles and designs for both young and old.\\nCHANDLER HALDEMAN,\\nManufacturers of Smith, Haldeman Chandler s Combined Cap and Anchor\\nIron Roofing Patented May 9, 1876. The above engraving is illustrative\\nof the character of their work.\\nThese gentlemen are located at No. 1116 Water street. This is a new enter-\\nprise in Wheeling, indeed it is a novelty, and a very important one to the peo-\\nple every where. It simply puts a question to every one, as to whether, in get-\\nting a new roof, a durable roof is not preferable to one that is perishable and\\nalmost always out of order. We all know what troublesome and vexatious\\nthings shingle roofs are how liable they are to take fire. In times gone by\\nthe tin roof has been adopted as preferable to the shingle roof on this account,\\nand also for its admitted durability over one made of shingles. Admitting\\nthat a roof made of tin is better than one made of wood, is, when carried to its\\nsequence, the strongest argument in favor of Messrs. Chandler Haldeman s\\niron roof that can be offered for as the thickness of sheet iron is in proportion\\nto tin just in the same proportion is a roof made of thick sheet iron superior\\nto any roof that can be made of so thin a material as tin. Any one possessing\\nthe least judgment, we think, would readily admit this; the question of course\\nis one of cost. The proprietors assure the public in their circulars, that the\\ncost of one of these dui able roofs is even less than one of tin. As to the slate\\nroofs, they are expensive and troublesome on account of the quality of the\\nstone from which slate is made. In Europe, where slate roofing is much in\\nvogue, the slates are made of a much better and more durable article of stone\\nthan they have hitherto been made of in this country. These gentlemen have\\ntheir manufactory on Water street, in a building 24 by 136 feet, where they\\nsell their work as fast as they can turn it out. It is, as we said before, anew\\nenterprise, but it is bound to bring an enormous trade to the proprietors.\\nEverything is in its favor, as to durability and economy, and the very best\\nthing about it is, that not the least objection can be urged against ii in an\\\\ re-\\nspect. They assure us that they receive orders from all parts of the country,\\nwhich we do not wonder at.\\nThese gentlemen take pleasure in referring to the following persons who are\\nusing their roofing: Taylor Temple, Hanoverton, O.; Martin Fox, Hanover-\\nton, O.; Col. Pearce, Cadiz, 0.; Martin Shively, Onedia, 0.; D. McGarry Co.,", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "/VX64 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nSalineville, 0.: Mizer Co., Paris, O.; Charles Hagan, Dungannon, O.; Conrad\\nMyer, Barnesville, O.; Luther Moses, Cleveland, O.; H. Bowley, Cleveland, O.;\\nJohn Grove, Youngstown, O.; Albert Crook, Augusta. 0.; George Fryfogle,\\nNorth Georgetown, 0.; William Noble, Harlem Springs, O.; A. A. Fawcett, Kill-\\ngore, 0.; M. E. Church. Washington, Pa.; Jackson Craskey, Jefferson, 0.; S. J.\\nHooper, East Springfield, Dr. Stockin, Carrollton, 0.; Hiram Swartz, Lone\\nPine, Pa.; Phillip Done, Indianapolis, [nd.; Henry Craven, Pendleton, Ind.;\\n11. 11. Howard, Greenfield, Ind.; R. R. Hayes, Warrington, Ind.; George Bax-\\nter, Fairview, West Va.; P. Stevenson, Coshocton, O.; Smith, Johnson Bros.\\nCo., Greenfield, Ind.; L. M. Pierce, Hagarstovvn, Ind.; L. J. Ruth, Corrinne,\\nUtah; Jas. L. Howley, M. R. Iiobbs, Henry Mertz, C. H. Booth Son, James\\nR. Acker, II. S. White, Whitaker Iron Co. and John Gibson, Wheeling, VV. Va.\\nJ. BERGER BRO.,\\nLeather, Shoe, bindings, Tannery, Supplies, c\\nThis establishment is situated at No. L032 Main street, corner Market alley, and\\nwas founded originally by Jacob Berger father of the present proprietors, on the\\nfirstof July, 1849. In the fall of the same year the linn was changed to that of\\nBerger Hoffman, which continued until the death of Mr. Jacob Berger, fc r.,\\nApril 25, 1867, and was continued under the the same firm name Mr. Jacob Ber-\\nger of the present firm assuming his father s place. In April, 1877, the firm became\\n.1. Berger Bro. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Mr. Huffman retiring who carry on the business more extensive-\\nly than formerly. The building in which the linn transact its business is a three\\nstory one, 110 feet long by a frontage of L 2 feet. The individual members of the\\nlinn are Jacob and Charles E. Berger, gentlemen who have put in nearly a life-\\ntime in the business, and in consequence of this may be presumed to possess quali-\\nties for the trade of no common order. Indeed, the amount of business done by\\nthem is asufficient guarantee of this were any wanted. The amount of invested\\ncapital is $30,000.00, upon which an annual trade of $110 000.00 is realized. It is by\\nall odds the largest enterprise of the kind in Wheeling. Bothof these gentlemen are\\nnatives of this city, and have seen the business originate with their father nearly\\n;i^ generation ago, and advance step by step to its present flattering magnitude.\\nThey are both of them practical business men, and have the concern entirely un-\\nder their control even to its simplest details. They have a large home and for-\\neign market their sales extending through West Virginia, Maryland, Southern\\nPennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.\\nPLATOFFZANE,\\nReal Estate Agent No. 35 12th Street, Franklin Insurance Building.\\nThis gentleman will be found at the above location, where he has opened an\\nollice and where he does a general real estate, collection and broker business.\\nAlthough but recently starting in his present business, Mr. Zane s genial qual-\\nities, known integrity, ability and experience in the business of his choice, has\\nalready secured him a large business. Mr. Zane is a native of Wheeling and\\nwell acquainted with the valueof real estate in this city. Mr. Zane has taken\\ncharge of several of the large estates, representing in the aggregate, close on to\\na halt million of dollars, and his ability and energy have been manifested in an\\neminent degree in placing and keeping the affairs of these large estates in per-\\nfect order. He is an active, energetic and reliable young man. In addition to\\nrenting property in all parts of the country and city, Mr. Zane devotes special\\nattention to the management of estates and collecting rents, paying taxes for\\nnon-residents, placing insurance in reliable companies at advantageous rates,\\nand every description of the real estate and general agency business. He has\\nin every position occupied by him proven to be a genial, affable, courteous gen-\\ntleman ol unblemished character, undoubted ability and irreproachable repu-\\ntation. Mr. Zane solicits a share of the public patronage, confident that he\\ncan give entire satisfaction.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "J^P THE INDUSTRIES OP WHEELING. 65^5^\\nWHEELING HINGE COMPANY,\\nManufacturers of Strap and T Hinges, Butt Hinges of all kinds, Wrought\\nGoods, Washers, c, c\\nThe manufactory is situated above Chapline street, near the creek, and cov\\nof ground 376 feet long by L32 feel wide, and employs one hundred and forty hi\\nat an expense of $36,000 per month. This business is, although a novelty, cue of the\\nmost extensive enterprises in the city, and only second in size to any of the kind in\\nthe United States. The officials of the linn are A. G. Robinson, President; L. E.\\nHanson, Vice President and Manager, and David Baird, bookkeeper. It was started\\nin L865, with a capital of $50,000, which is now increased to $110,000. They do an\\nenormous business, surprisinglj so, when it is considered that it was at first\\ntain experiment. Their sales annually amount to over $200,000! Tins is\\nbeyond a question, and when the present dull times have passed away, or improved\\nsomewhat, the company have every confidence that their business in the near future\\nwill surpass by far anything that their books have hitherto shown. It is very certain\\nthat the commodities which they manufacture have a sure hold on such trade a\\nneed them. Thi ughi any u ipl at fancy figun\\nare ahvavs in possession of Large amounts of orders ahead. They have no\\nmuch to do as the capacity of their works will turn out\u00e2\u0080\u0094 even in these dull ti\\nTheir business is large at home, but outside orders come from the British domini\\non this continent, from California, the northwestern States, the East, New Orleans\\nand the Gulf coast\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in fact, it may be said their trade permeates the whole con\\nThis certainly is one of Wheeling s most magnificent and profitable enterprises, and\\npoints plainly to a solid, enduring and increasing prosperity for the fortunate proprie-\\ntors. Should their trade increase, which doubtless in the future it will, an enlarge-\\nment of the present large works must necessarily follow.\\nCENTRAL GLASS COMPANY,\\nManufacturers of Tableware, Bar and Lamp Goods, No. 1501 McColloch St.\\nOf the many business enterprises contributing to the credit of Wheeling s fame as a\\nmanufacturing and business center, there is undoubtedly no one single establishment\\nof any kind that has, by its capable management, its evidence of practical skilled\\nwork. done more to bring about this result than the Central Glass Company. The\\nmany improvements that have been made in the manufacture of Glass and Gla\\nduring the past fifteen or twenty years, have nowhere been so pronounced as in\\nWheeling. The fact has been fully established that our city produces goods i\\nmaterial, not only superior in quality, but of such marked excellence and beauty of\\ndesign as to outrank all competition in the United States. The Central Glass Corn-\\nhas taken the lead in adopting every improvement, and must be ranked as the\\nmost prominent establishment of its kind in this section of the country. This widely\\nknown house was established on the co-operative plan in the spring of 1863, with a\\ncapital Of $5,000. Three years later they bought the ground and buildings of the\\nEast Wheeling Distillery and Pork House and remodeled them for the purp\\nmanufacturing Glass* and Glassware. In L867 they applied for a charter, havi\\ntermined to conduct their business as a joint stock company. The capital stock was\\nincreased to $80,000, from the original amount of $5,000. One feature of their rules\\nof government was adopted at this time, that they reserved the right of buying and\\ncanceling all tin shares that might be offered for sale by its individual mi\\nWorking under this law -the original bit shares have been reduced to less than one-\\nhalf. Several years ago the capital stock was again increased to the amount of $260,000,\\nunder which amount they are now working. As far as the facilities for manuf acturing\\nglassware are concerned, this house is supplied with every advantage conducive to a\\nlarge and choice product, and they have the gratifying knowledge that lie- J\\npersonal attention, energy and enterprise have enabled them to reach tin goal i f their\\nambition\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fixed when they first started -of making their establishment one of the\\nlargest and most complete Glass factories in the United States. The plant is an ex-\\ntensive one, and is generally acknowl be the most extensive and practically\\narranged establishment in the country. Up to the year 1872 they operal\\nes; during that year they added another, making three: they also ad-\\nnecessary out-buildings required by their increased capacity. On the west\\nMcColloch street is situated their elegantly arranged two-story warehouse, 287x70\\nff 8", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "/C^G6 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. ^Ct\\\\\\nii! which are the offices, selecting and packing rooms; the packing room is\\n65x84 feet. These buildings are especially arranged for their business, and are the\\nmost perfect and extensive in then details and facilities of any establishment in the\\nUnited States, liotli of these buildings are connected with the main factory on the\\neast side of the street by an elevated bridge, upon which is laid a narrow-guage track.\\nA steam elevator hoists the glass in open hand-boxes from the factory floor to the\\nbridge level, which is the same as the floor of the selecting and packing rooms. The\\nmam factory contains the following departments Mould and machine shops, cutting\\nshop, pot-making rooms, Blacksmith and carpenter shops, engine house, coke ovens,\\nmixing room and six annealing ovens. They employ in the transaction of their busi-\\nness an average force of 330 hands the weekly pay-roll amounting to $3,300. In\\nconnection with then* works they own a coal held of fifty acres.\\nThe trade of this house amounts to $300,000 per year and is increasing rapidly, and\\nextends not only over the whole Union, but reaches the Canadas, West Indies, South\\nAmerica and Europe. Their hitherto large trade with Europe will be reduced by the\\nnew tariff of the German government, which goes into force in January, 1880. Mr.\\nJohn Oesterhng, the President of the Company and one of its founders, is well\\nknown in the community as an enterprising, energetic man. of positive business abili-\\nties. His capacity for business has been recognized by his fellow-citizens he having\\nbeen called on by them to serve in positions of honor and trust being President of\\nthe German Insurance Company, Director of the German Bank and at one time a\\nMember of the City Council. Under his direction the business policy of the Central\\nGlass Company is honorable, liberal and progressive in every res]iect, and for these\\nhigh characteristics he has attained a position at once creditable and substantial, plac-\\ning his house in a position, throTigh his policy, entitling it to the very highest com-\\nmercial respect and the consideration of the public.\\nGEO. R. TAYLOR,\\nRetail Dry Goods, No. 1150 Main Street.\\nThere are few men now engaged in commercial pursuits in this city who have been\\nlonger associated with its business interests than Geo. K. Taylor. Coming to Wheel-\\ning in 1844 from Frostburg, Maryland, Mr. Taylor connected himself with the house\\nof Marsh .V- Bro., the house becoming Marsh, Taylor Marsh, a house which from\\nits inception has always ranked first, both as to the amount of business done, amount\\nof stock carried and the quality of the goods carried in stock. The Messrs. Marsh\\nretiring, Mr. Taylor became sole proprietor. Mr. Taylor occupies one of the most\\nelegant buildings used for business purposes in the city. It is a three-story brick,\\nwith an ornamental front, 132 feet deep and 21 feet wide, built by himself in\\nL8GG. So large has Mr. Taylor s business grown in the last twenty years, that the\\nthree immense floors in this building are scarcely adequate to accommodate the stock\\nnecessarily carried to supply his custom his stock varying from $50,000 to $75,000.\\nThere are several departments connected with Mr. Taylor s establishment, each under\\nhis admirable, systematic and attentive management, occupying their proper locations.\\nMr. Taylor makes a specialty of first class foreign goods, and from his long acquaint-\\nance with the business and experience, he has acquired a judgment and reputation\\nwhich few enjoy, and he presents a notable example of what a life-time of ^honorable\\ndealing, industrious habits and careful business diligence wiU accomplish. His store,\\nwhich is one of the largest, is stocked with one of the most carefully selected and com-\\nplete lines of Dry Goods to be found in the West, both in Foreign and Domestic styles,\\nand probably the finest and most approved makes of Foreign fabrics in this section\\nwill be found in his stock. His corps of assistants are courteous, accommodating\\ngentlemen, ready and anxious to please, eager to spare no pains to gratify the tastes of\\nall customers. It is hardly necessary to state in conclusion that such establishments\\nas this have great weight and influence in making up a city, adding to her prosperity\\nand invaluable reputation for energy and progress. Mr. Taylor is conscientious and\\nthorough in his business, two most admirable traits, from which has largely proceeded his\\nsuccess in life. His is beyond cavil. one of the representative enterprises of Wheeling,\\nwell worthy of all the commendation we can give.\\nWM. A. MANLY,\\nManufacturer of Shirts and Underwear, 1321 1323 Market St-, second floor.\\nA want long needed and desired has been satistied bv the advent of Mr. Manly\\n8 s", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": ",^P THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. til^Zt\\\\\\nin tliis city, and the establishment of his meritorious shiri and underwear factory.\\nNo one can bo well appreciate the value of Mr. Manly s enterprise as the many\\nsufferersof the vexatious and temper trying inflictions of ill fitting shirta Tin r\\nis in truth, nothing so well calculated to mar the serenity of a man s disposition and\\ntemper as the badly made and badly fitting shirt and he is not alone the victim of\\nthis peace destroyer but his friends, his whole family should he be blessed with\\none, feel the noxious presence and had effect of this disturbing affliction. Mr.\\nManly comes then as a harbinger of peace, a foe to bad temper and a blessing to\\nthe average man. His make of shirts, each and every one not only cut by himself,\\nbut receiving his personal supervision while being made, are marvels of good tits.\\nMr. Manly learned his business in Akron, Ohio, where he also carried on business\\nfor several years, lie came to Wheeling in March, 1S7S, and established himself at\\nhis present place of business. He has already established a good and increasing\\ntrade, and if merit and a clear understanding of business deserve sucess Mr. Manly\\nis surely entitled to it. Hemakesthe Diamond Shirt a trade mark or name of\\nhis own origination.\\nPARSONS.\\nHere is a name that is known far and wide, indeed it is not necessary to even give\\nthe initials of his full christian name, nor his line of business, nor even the number of\\nhis establishment to the citizens of Wheeling, but for the benefit of those who do not\\nknow him. and surely they must be few. we will do so as to his business and place 1\\ndoing it. Be is one of the most foremost Photographers of the day. and does his su-\\nperb works of art in the upper rooms of the buildings known as McLain s Block.\\nEntrance on Market street. He is the successor of A. C. Partridge, who started the\\nDaguerreotype business in this city in 1 849, with whom the writer of this was person-\\nally familiar, and who was thought to have made all the improvement in this particu-\\nlar line of art that was attainable by mortal skill. However, time works wonders.\\nThe writer has a likeness of himself taken by Partridge, and need he say that since he\\nhas seen the improvements in this beautiful art subsequent to that time, he has. in the\\nPinaforean language of the day, hardly ever looked at his likeness taken in the\\nolden time. Parsons work is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. His business\\nhas increased 1,000 per cent, since lie came to Wheeling. The size of his establish-\\nment may be easily conceived, by simply stating that the aggregate flooring of the\\nsame comprises an area of 2,000 square feet. There are four departments, in which\\nsix operatives are employed. He authorizes us to say that he would not fear to com-\\npare his work with that of the most celebrated in the eastern cities. We should be\\ndisposed to call him a bold man had we been a stranger to his work, but having seen\\nit, we think the gentleman would run but little risk, if any, by such comparison. His\\ntrade, like his name, extends far and wide. He first opened business in New York\\nState. Read the following graceful tribute from another pen\\nTHE UPPEli TEN.\\n117 IF Failed to StaU Elsewhere.\\nIn our report of the levee given by the President of the Wheeling Female College,\\nwe failed to mention an object, which among the numerous adornments of the recep-\\ntion room attracted most attention. We refer to the frame which stood on aneasel in\\nlln southeast corner of the room, surmounted by an exquisite bouquet of flowers,\\nl inin g the photographs of The Upper Ten. The frame was of a Grecian pat-\\ntern, square, with oval centre, heavily beveled and embellished with gold. A silk\\nvelvet mat contained the pictures of the graduates, and the style of the whole affair\\nwas never before equaled. For the past three years the celebrated photographer,\\nParsons, has been making the class pictures, and each succeeding collection out-\\nrivals its predecessors. Those who were present at the levee and saw this masterpiece\\nof beauty will agree with us when we say that in or out of Wheeling no better 0]\\nwork is turned out than now emanates from Parsons popular gallery. They all go\\nto him, is a trite expression in this city, and he has earned his large patronage by\\nhard and faithful study, and the application of such knowledge to the practice of his\\nprofession. Parsons employs no operator, but personally makes all sittings.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Jv^68 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X\\nJOHNC. MILLER SON,\\nWholesale and Retail Dry Goods and Groceries.\\nThe above store is situated at Nos. 2837 and 2339 Chapline Street, Center Wheel\\ning. The business was commenced in L860 by Mr. John C. Miller, on a capital of\\n$3,000, which was the Eoundation of a trade thai lias increased five times in volume\\nsince it was first begun. On the first of July of the present year, Mr. Miller asso\\ndated his sun. Charles R., as a partner under the firm name as above. The capital\\nnow i $4, 000, upon the basis of which a trade is done of $20,000. Here\\nare two storerooms. 20x81 and L8x81, in which are employed three assistants. The\\nGrocery Department is under the supervision of Chas. 11. Miller, and is well stocked\\nwith a full line of Foreign and Domestic Groceries. They are always fresh, and are\\nsold at prices that are as low as the lowest. Mr. Miller is a polite, gentleman and has\\na host of friends in this city. The Dry Goods Department is in charge of the senior\\npartner, John C. Miller. Here you can find anthing you wish, from the finest im-\\nported fabrics to the cheapest Domestic Cottons, and at the lowest prices in this city.\\nWe would advise our readers to give this house a call, and get value received for their\\nmoney.\\nMr! -T. C. Miller was born in Pennsylvania in 1832, and came to this county in 1844,\\nand to this city in 18. o. He has been a member of the City Council two years, and\\nis now a prominent member of the Board of Education, and has served in the same\\ncapacity for six years. His trade in the city is a large and lucrative one. It also ex-\\ntends to quite a distance abroad, although the largest part of his country patronage\\ncomes from Ohio and Marshall counties in this State. He has both of his large 1 1\\nis well stocked with a full variety of goods, such as are always to be found in a.\\nfirst class Dry Goods and Grocery Store. These goods he offers either in large or\\nsmall quantities, at such figures that you will be sure to find it to your interest to buy\\nof him, should you give him a call.\\nJ. S. RHODES CO.,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fine and Staple\\nGoods, Main Street east side, just above the Echange Bank, at Nos. 1152\\nand 1154.\\nIn L839, the seinor member of this firm was a clerk for Jacob Senseney, Esq., in\\nthe same line of business. By application and upright conduct was taken into part-\\nnership by Mr. Senseney in 184:;, hecontinued with Mr. S. until 1848 when he com-\\nmenced business for himself witlKmt capital, in the room now occupied by Logan,\\nList Co. on bridge corner, staid there for several years, but believing he could hw-\\nprove his business, he removed to the large room corner Main and Fourteenth streets,\\nremained there for six years and removed to one of the rooms in the block which he\\nnow occupies. He has been in business long enough to make himself, if so disposed,\\nnot dependent on selling dry goods, or anything else for that matter, and some men.\\ninstead of opening a second store, would have retired from the business altogether.\\nand i QJoyed the handsome competency which he i without any further solici-\\ntude as to future business enterprises. Our friend Rhodes, however, did not take\\nthis matter. Not satisfied with doing one of the most extensive and fash-\\nionable businesses in the city, he has made a vigorous effort to double it if possible.\\nThe firm have rented the adjoining room and remodeled it. and have made several\\nopenings from one room to another, so that although it posse ses two large three\\nstory fronts, yet it is to all intents and purposes, as at present arranged but one store\\nand a mammoth one it is. The premises are forty-four feet front by one hundred\\nfeel deep. There are sixteen employes in the establishment, who collectively receive\\none hundred ami thirty-five dollars weekly for their services. The individual mem-\\nbers of the firm are Jacob S. Rhodes, P. M. and W. S. Rhodes. The senior partner\\nwas born in Frederick county, Virginia. The junior partners were born in Wheeling.\\nThere is no question that this large establishment leads everything of the kind in the\\ncity. They were very fortunate in opening^ the new room where goods were to be had\\nat very low figures. They made almost the profits of a years business by this opera-\\ndone. They are all polite gentlemen, and should you send your child there for\\nanything, it can lmy it as low as you could yourself. Good goods, large sales and\\nsmall profits is their motto.\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "J^P THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. OoX^\\nHANDLAN, RATCLIFFE CO.,\\nDealers in Dry Goods, Groceries. Notions, c, Corner Thirty-sixth and\\nJacob Streets. South Wheeling.\\nThis business was originally started in August, 1853, on a small capital by other\\nparties. The present firm succeeded tl Id one in I8 ;r and pul in additional capi\\nlal. which with the original investment, has increased to $20,000, upon whir!, thej do\\na trade of from $30,000 to $40,000 annually. This business is conducted in two\\nbuildings, sK) bj LOO feel in the aggregate, and requires the services of four hands to\\nconduct it. The trade of this establishment is very extensive, and constant. The\\nstore being the largest one in the Eighth ward, and the ward being the largest ward of\\nthe city, it may be inferred that this establishment gets a large amount of the trade of\\nthis locality, as thej keep a first class store in every respect. Von can get everything\\nIroni M,ssVs. Eandlan, Ratcliffe Co. that you can gel at an uptown store, just us\\ngood and quite as cheap, from a fine dress down to a row of pins in the dry goods\\nline: and in the grocery line you can be furnished with all that is required for the\\ntable, or for household purposes, from a ban-el of Hour down to a bos of blacking. It\\nis an enterprising concern, and noted for low prices for everything sold over the\\ncounter.\\nJ0KNW. McNELL CO.,\\nImporters and Wholesale Dealers in China, Glass and Queensware; No.\\n1415 Main and No. 1414 South Streets Successors to Jno. W. McNeil, Sr.\\nThis is an old house, it was first established by the latter party mow deceased) in\\nis:. -j. it is one of the staunchest business houses in the city. The business is carried\\non in a fine two story building twenty-three feet front by one hundred and thirty-five\\nfeet deep the rear fronting on South street just facing the Baltimore Ohio R. R.\\nfreight depot, thus having faculties for shipment possessed by but few houses in busi-\\nness in Wheeling. This house carries an enormous stock of the wares alluded to he-\\nfore, which it is prepared to job to city dealers, or country merchants at Eastern quo-\\ntations. It ships goods in hulk to Eastern Ohio, Southern Pennsylvania, Maryland,\\nand pretty generally through West Virginia.\\nBeing importers, they of course cam. and do sell at close figures: in consequence of\\nwhich it is easy forthem to command andholdavery heavy jobbing trade. The old\\nhouse of Jno. McNeil, Sr.. was a synonym for honor and fair dealing this laid the\\nbroad and. deep foundation for an extensive trade. The traditions of the house have\\nbeen well sustained by the present firm. This has brought them to the reward that\\nfidelity ings success. The present house is doing a much larger business\\nthan ever the old house did. Messrs. McNeil V Co. are painstaking, energetic and\\nwell enterprising business men. and well deserved that success that has attended them\\nin the past, and further succcess in the future.\\nFRED. HOFFMAN,\\nManufacturer and Dealer in Furniture, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nProminent among the manufacturing and business interests of Bellaire, ami one\\nthat is deserving of more than a passing notice in a work devoted to a proper display\\nof the manufacturing and commercial advantages is the furniture establishment of\\nFred. Hoffman. Originally founded by Arbenz and Hoffman it has been a success\\nsince its very inception, and since the withdrawal of Mr. Arbenz from the firm it has\\nkept its standard of excellence under the verj able management of the present owner.\\nBesides the manufacture of furniture he keeps on hand a largeand varied supply of\\nWindow Shades. Ac. There is also connected with the above establishment an under-\\ntaking department where such work will be promptly and properly attended to.\\nThe above establishment is situated at No. 233 Union street and is a large two story\\nbuilding 20x80 feet wide, stocked with goods worth from three to five thousand dol-\\nlars according to the season. The trade, which extends all over Belmont county, will\\nit little sum of $10,000.00 per annum and is rapidly increasing. Mr.\\nHoffman was formerly a native of Monroe county, but came to Bellaire in L8(ii) to\\nembark in business for himself, and by the strictest integrity, perseverence and atten-\\ntion to business he has won the esteem and confidence of all who have had dealings\\nwith him. We can heartily recommend this establishment to our subscribers.\\n__:", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "XjP 70 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. h5\\\\\\nTHE HOWE MACHINE CO.\\nSewing Machines, Wo. 55 Twelfth Street.\\nThere is nothing goes so far in these days of progress and labor-saving improve-\\nments as the Sewing Machine. Nothing that so completes the makeup of family con-\\nveniences. It is evident that an article coming before the public for its patronage\\nmust possess intrinsic qualities recommending its adoption, before it can command the\\nattention and good will of the capricious customer. Such a machine the Howe Com-\\npany claim they manufacture, and judging from their success not only in this, but in\\nall parts of the country they have established a just right to the claim their sales\\nreaching 1800 per year. Elias Howe was the inventor of the sewing machine, proba-\\nbly one of the greatest inventions of the age, and from him the machine takes its\\nname. The present company was incorporated in L871, with a capital of $2,000,000.\\nThis machine, although nearly perfect before, has been greatly improved during 1N7\\nuntil now it is the easiest, lightest and most noiseless running machine in the world.\\nThe production of natural genius and mechanical skill, linked with such symmetry as\\nto furnish a sewing machine that is absolutely perfect in every part, satisfactorily till-\\ning all the requisite points that could be conceived by the most captious mind. Mr.\\nE. L. Hose, the manager, came to this city from New York, and took charge of the\\noffice in IS 76, and since his advent here the business of this agency has increased fully\\nloo per cent., and is still under his capable management, steadily increasing. There\\nare branch offices of this agency, in Parkersburg, conducted by Mr. H. J. Hilder-\\nbrand; in Grafton, conducted by Mr. J. H. Kidwell, and in Bellaire, by Mr. J. H.\\nMcParland. Besides these there are twenty agencies and thirty-four agents. In the\\nWheeling office Mr. J. H. Rose is city manager; 1 Mr. A. Donel. bookkeeper; Mr. J.\\nL. Ballard, Adjuster; J. Bigelow, F. Basnett and O. P. Turvey, collectors; Miss S.\\nHartstein, saleslady. They carry about $10,000 in stock, and the monthly pay roll\\namounts to $785. The trade of this office extends through the northern part of West\\nVirginia and eastern Ohio. The office is centrally located at No. 55 Twelfth street, in\\nWashington Hall building, one of the best locations in the city. The office is proba-\\nbly the finest furnished office in the State. This machine ranks as one of the most\\nsuccessful of American achievements, and has silently but surely ingratiated itself\\nupon a basis of actual merit, into the favor of the people, who are never slow to ap-\\npreciate the advantages possessed by another. Constructed upon simple, not intri-\\ncate principles, and accurate ideas of mechanism, it enables the operator to produce\\nrapidly and perfectly stitched pieces of work with the least possible power and no\\nFrom one end of the country to the other, the Howe is considered a family blessing.-\\nPHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY,\\nF. W. Plummer, Photographer and Dealer in Picture Frames, Photographs\\nAlbums, Stereoscopic Views, c-, Hornbr,ook s Hall, No. 1138 Main Street,\\neast side.\\nThis gentleman has a capital of $2,000.00 invested in this important trade, upon\\nwhich he does a business of $5,000,00 annually: He has lived in Wheeling for over\\ntwenty years, and since 177. he has been carrying on the taking of likenesses in col-\\nored and piain photographs, in which he has met with commensurate success, and given\\nthe most unqualified satisfaction to his numerous patrons in the city and those from\\nabroad. His room is unquestionably one of the most spacious in Wheeling, being\\none hundred and fifty feet long by twenty feet wide. Mr. Plummer is a Virginian by\\nbirth. He is an adept at getting a good pose of a sitter, which is a consideration of\\nthefi rst msequence, for what spoils an otherwise good picture more than to see the sul\\njectof it in an awkward position apparently uneasy and looking at you with a va-\\ncant stave as if he was a lunatic, or half witted at best? How many of such monstrosi-\\nties are turned out by incompetent artists. There is a charming air of ease expressed\\non every likeness that this gentleman suffers to go out of his celebrated establishment.\\nEven children of tender years, so difficult to take on account of their restlessnesi\\nnot at all unmanageable by Mr. Plummer. He will get you as good a likeness of\\nyour child as of yourself Reflect for a moment. Have you not one, or more of\\nchildren whose likeness have never been taken? You do not know how long\\nprecious trusts will be spared to you. This being the case go to Mr. Plummer by all\\nmeans, and at once, and secure their pictures while you have a favorable opportunity.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "*a\\ny THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 71\\nWM. HARE,\\nPractical Plumber, Gas and Steam Fitter.\\nMr. Hare is also a dealer in Lead, Iron and Drain Pipe; Brass Goods, Steam and\\nWater l-uages, Pumps and Gas fixtures. The finest assortment of Chandeliers and\\nFancy (Holies in the city kepi constantly on hand, at No. Twelfth street. This is\\nthe oldest establishment, and perhaps the largest of the kind in the city. We doubt\\nif a street in the city ean lie named which is traversed by either gas or water mains,\\nin which Mr. I [are has not left some mementos of his notable skill as a workman, in\\nthe way of making attachments to either or both, by piping for tenements, stores, or\\nmanufactories. We say this, having some knowledge of the nature of his business\\nfor the last twenty odd years. Ife is admitted to lie a master workman by the public\\ngenerally, and even by rivals in business. He is one of the most unobtrusive of men,\\nand so modest is he. in bis general demeanor, that, by theobserver, he would be more\\nlikely taken for one of his own journeymen when at work, than the proprietor of tin\\njob. He employs ten hands in his business, to whom he gives constant employment.\\nMr. Hare does a very large outside street and house business, besides keepings large\\nthree story store stocked from top to bottom with a very large and magnificent stock\\nof goods appertaining to his line of business. His present store is a new and costly\\nmodern edifice, which he put up some years ago on a lot owned by himself His\\nwork always gives satisfaction, which is the key to the great ami never varying pros-\\nperity that has followed him so many years.\\nNESBITT SON,\\nCopper, Tin and Sheetiron Ware, No. 1040 Market Street.\\nThis enterprising firm is composed of Messrs. W. J. Nesbitt and Win. Nesbitt.\\nTheir establishment was started in July. 1879, and is of course as yet in its infancy.\\nbut if careful business habits, prudent management, workmanlike devotion to their\\noccupation are indicative of success, they surely deserve it. They occupy already a\\nrespectable position among our business houses. They deal in all kinds of Copper,\\nTin and Sheetiron ware. Stoves. Grates. Fenders. Ac. They employ three hands\\nand are practical workmen, and anything in their line entrusted tothem receives their\\npersonal attention.\\nM. MARSH S0N,\\nNo. 1202 Water Street, Wheeling.\\nManufacturers of Fine and Common Cigars, and Dealers in Tobacco and all hinds of\\nSmokers Materials. Mr. Marsh. Sr. was born in Smithfield. Ohio, and the son was\\nborn in Wheeling. The father came to Wheeling at a very early period. Sometime\\nafter this, as far back as the year 1840 he commenced the Tobacco and Cigar busi-\\nness in a small way. which lias increased to its present large dimensions. The repu-\\ntation of Wheeling Stogies and Tips is co-extensive w r ith the nation, and none are\\nmore celebrated than those which are manufactured by this enterprising firm. The\\nsenior partner assures us that he ships goods, from time to time, to every State in the\\nUnion. He is admirably located for the steamboat trade, which business he does the\\ngreatest proportion of from the fact that \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Marsh s Cigars are well known by river\\nmen from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in fact on all the Western wafers. They em-\\nploy a great many hands, and are very exacting as to the quality of work turned out.\\nThere are but few smokers who have not noticed the extremely small cigars\\nespecially Stogies and Tips that some dealers make, and sell to their customers.\\nThe trick may easily be seen through, and most generally is. by the customer, who\\nis not apt to deal long, however, where they practice such an impudent piece of im-\\nposture. This practice is not permitted at Marsh A Son s every cigar is well made.\\nof first -class tobacco, and of full length and thickness, whether it be a fine cigar or a\\ncommon one. the proprietors knowing that it would just be as proper for a grocer to\\ngive short weight, or a dry goods merchant to give defective measure, as it is in the\\ncigar dealer to make a smaller cigar than the well-known standard sized article. -Ad-\\nherence to the honorable practice of making a full sized cigar, and of good tobacco\\nis one of the keys to these gentlemen s success in business.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "J^p72 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X\\nW. S HUTCHINS,\\nDealer in Artists Materials, Pianos and Organs, No. 1321 Market Street.\\nA store devoted to the cultivation of line arts and their dissemination is well worthy\\nof a place in this work. In 1875, Mr. Hutchins started his business with a capital of\\n$900.00, and by strict attention to his business early and late, with a correct and ar-\\ntistic knowledge of the goods he handles, it is no wonder that success has crowned his\\nefforts, and his business is large and growing. Excellence in any department or\\nbranch of trade always meets with public confidence and insures sueeess. Mr.\\nHutchins keeps a large and carefully selected supply of artists materials, fine engrav-\\nings, Chromos, Frames and Mouldings, Wax Flower Goods and Glass Shades of var-\\nious shapes and sizes. He also deals in Pianos, organs, all styles of Musical Instru-\\nments, Sheet Music, Music Books. Mr. Hutchins is a remarkably fine judge of musical\\ninstruments. Any one wanting a piano or organ pre-eminent for purity and sweetness\\nof tone, elegance and durability of workmanship can entrust his order to Mr. Hutchins\\nwith perfect reliance on his ski! and ability to furnish them, be they either skilful ar-\\ntists or beginners., Mr. Hutchins deals largely in sheet music and any piece of music\\npublished can be found in his establishment. Having a highly cultivated artistic taste\\nMr. Hutchins selections of engravings arc unusually meritorous, and well worthy of\\nexamination. All goods in his line, found in his stock, can be relied on as being of\\nI he first quality and tines! workmanship.\\nC. E. BULGER,\\nTobacconist.\\nThere are few things more gratefully thought of by men generally, than the con-\\ntributor to their personal comfort and enjoyment and who fills this place better than\\nthe manufacturer and vendor of a good, well-flavored cigar, or chew of rich, juicy\\ntobacco? Such a mail deserves and possesses the esteem and goodwill of all lovers\\nof the weed luxurious. Mr. Chas. E. Bulger is well and favorably known to all the\\ncitizens of Wheeling, having lived here since 183 He was born in the town of\\nWinchester, -Va. Mr. Bulger started the Tobacco business in its various branches in\\nL870, and he has by his careful attention to the manufacture of Bulger s Tips and\\nStogies, composed of nothing but the very best leaf, both wrappers and fillers, built\\nhimself up a trade excelled by very few, his brand of cigars being very popular in\\nthe towns along the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, as well as in this city. He employs\\nfive hands all competent workmen, and turns out a very superior article of cigars.\\nHe also keeps in stock all the choicest and best brands of Smoking and Chewing\\nTobacco, and has displayed wry fine judgment in the selection and grading of Leaf\\nTobacco. His place of business is at No. 111 Market street, and his factory is\\nistered No. L80. Those fond of a [aire article in his line can not fail in being suited\\nat his establishment.\\nCHAS. MOENKEMOELLER,\\nDruggist.\\nMr. Moenkemoeller is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacj Dealer in\\nDrugs, Chemicals, Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, Fancy Articles. Ac He also keeps a\\nlarge assortment of Trusses and Shoulder braces. Prescriptions carefully compoundi d\\nat all hour! at the Central Drug Store, No. 216-1 .Main Street, corner of Twenty-second,\\nCenter Wheeling. Air. Moenkemoeller, about a year since, started this business.\\nwhich thus far has met his most sanguine expectations. If you are afflicted with\\nHernia, or as it is often called. Rupture, by all means call on the proprietor and he\\nwill tell you at once what kind of a Truss is required. So with reference to Shoulder\\nbraces. There are many dealers who have full lines of such goods, but having no\\nprofessional experience, have no judgment whatever in knowing what kind of an ap\\npliance the sufferer should wear, and he is allowed to adjust such things to suit him-\\nself. This should not be the case a person in need of anything of the kind is also\\nin need of some skilled person to fit him with articles of this kind scientifically for\\nit may be presumed, that a man educated to the business is. above all others, the one\\nwho should know best what kind of support the sufferer needs. This Drug Store is\\npre-eminently the place for this branch of the business. The prescription dej\\nment is one of the leading features in this store, and our German citizens will always\\nfind this the leading place to buy Drugs, c. All of the clerks as well as the proprie-\\ntor speak the German language. The advantage can easily be seen.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n73^5\\nALEX. T.YOUNG,\\nDruggist and Pharmaceutist.\\nA neat attractive drug store where persons in quest of medicines or in want of deli-\\ncately compounded articles of perfumery and toilet necessaries can have their errands\\nattended to by polite and obliging clerks, prompt and reliable in their dispensations,\\nis a boon of mercy to any neighborhood, and cause of gratulation and pride to the\\ncity. Such an establishment is that of Mr. AlevT. Young in an eminent degree. Mr.\\nYoung is a native of Wheeling, to the manor born and bred, he studied the rudiments\\nof his profession with the well-known Pharmacist E. Booking, completing his educa-\\ntion and graduating in pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He started a well\\nequiped and furnished store for himself in August, L875, with a capital $1,500.00.\\nHe occupies the building on the corner of Jacob and Sixteenth streets. Ea\\nLag, the onlv reliable and first-class store in that part of the city. He aims to k ep\\nnone but pure, fresh drugs and chemicals, purchased from houses of long establi\\nreputation and standing. To have a prescription of great particularity, skillfully and\\ncarefully compounded, is a matter of vital importance not only to the patient and his\\nfriends, but also to the physician prescribing. This Mr. Young, with pardonable pride\\nprofesses to he able to accomplish to the most entire satisfaction of all entrusting him\\nwith their orders. His increasing diligence, unwearying care in tilling his orders\\nhas gained him an enviable reputation and increased his business to more than double\\nhis original investment. He finds employment for three hands, and certainly keeps\\na drug store which is a model one and the equal of any in the State.\\nCHRIS. SIEBKE.\\nDealer in Imported Cigars and Liquors and Bottler of Beer, 1331 Market\\nand 37 Fourteenth Streets.\\nExcellence of reputation and business capacity are note-worthy traits of character\\ndeserving and receiving commendation in every well ordered community and es-\\npecially is this the case when found combined with inventive\\ngenius! Mr. Siebke was born in 1S47. came to this country\\nin 1864, and to Wheeling in 1866. He began his business\\nlife in ISC with a moderate capital, wdiich business push and\\nmanagement have largely increased his trade now amount-\\ning to some $65,000 per year. In May. 1874, Mr. Siebke in-\\naugurated his bottling establishment, the first in the State.\\nIn the three departments of his business Mr. Siebke displays\\na zealous determination to stand at the head, giving close,\\nunremitting attention to all. Nowhere in the city can the\\nsmoker find a better or more moderate priced Cigar. His\\nliquor department it is almost unnecessary to mention, so well\\nis his unapproachable reputation in this business known. It\\nmay be safely asserted that in no place in these United States\\ncaii a person go with any surer confidence, to get pure, unad tilter-\\nated liquors of the best brands and character. Mr. Siebke\\nsells no slops or poisons. His Bottling Department evinces\\nthe same care and decided standard of excellence. This has\\nbecome a necessity in the city and State\u00e2\u0080\u0094 his sales amounting\\nto 50,000 dozen bottles per year. Siebke s Bottled Lager will\\nbe found in most of the houses in the city, the harmless\\nLager being a welcome friend to both sexes and all ages.\\nMr. Siebke employs nine hands, his pay-roll being $4,000 per\\nyear. Mr. Siebke is his own superintendent Mr. W. 1\\nEnglish the bookkeeper! This establishment will compare favorably with any\\ncountry: his trade extends through Ohio, Maryland. Pennsylvania and West Yir\\nMr. Siebke has been in other branches of business\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in life insurance and other\\ncies, and Secretary of the Nail City Brewery. His inventive genius is shown in his\\nPatenl Rein Holder and Elevator. This device is of incalculable value to all\\ndrivers. Every one knows the annoyance resulting from having the tail of the\\nconstantly tin own over the reins, the necessary jerking and pulling to d\\nand in ease of a timid or fractious horse an exceedingly dangerous occurrence. Mr.\\nSiebke s device effectually prevents this, is no trouble t the driver and is one of the\\nbest of modern safe-guards.\\n10", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Jor 74 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X y\\nE. BALL CO.,\\nManufacturers and Dealers in Boots and Shoes.\\nThis firm is composed of E. Ball and W. Johnson, who are successors to Enoch\\nBall. Established in 1852. Warerooms No. 1039 Main street; 22 feet front by 60\\nfeet deep three stories high. This is one of the most extensive establishments in the\\ncity. For the purposes of their business being manufacturers as well as dealers\\nthey are compelled to use every square foot of their building (which is the property\\nof Mr. Ball personally.) Their trade is enormous; extends a distance into Ohio,\\nPennsylvania, and is quite large in the State of West Virginia. Their city trade, it is\\nquite safe to say, is larger by far than that of the average dealer. They are both\\nworkingmen. No drones are tolerated in this go ahead establishment. No hands in\\nthis boot and shoe house work harder than the proprietors themselves. This house is\\nunlimited as to lines of goods. The proprietors can suit you in either the very finest\\nof goods, or those of a more economical character. They can furnish you with the\\nfinest shoe for your wife or your daughters, and give them comfortable lilting shoes at\\nthat. They can also furnish small childrens work in endless variety. Should you de-\\nsire an easy and elegant boot for yourself, they have it. Slippers and the like, in all\\ndesigns, arc always kept in stock. There is nothing in the way of footwear that they\\ndo not keep. Remember at the same time, that they make a great portion of their\\nwork themselves, and the residue is made to their own especial order in the eastern\\ncities. When they go east, they do not examine every cheap John s shop to see\\nwhere they can get the cheapest shoes. They seek to get the best work, and paying\\ncash for it, they can afford to sell such work as low as those who deal in an infeiior\\nline of goods. They have recently opened a branch store on Washington street, two\\ndoors above Long s hardware store, Martin s Ferry, Ohio.\\nI. BLUM BRO.\\nThis firm is composed of I. Blum and G. Blum, wholesale and retail dealers in Dry\\nGoods and Notions; manufacturers of Ladies Cloaks and Srdts, No. 110+ Main street.\\nThis establishment is a large three story building. 24 feet front by 90 feet deep. It\\nhas its manufacturing department in Philadelphia, where most of the ladies cloaks\\nand suits arc made. Then- trade in this line being constant and large, a certain pro-\\nportion of it is made in Wheeling, especially when the order is one that will admit of\\nno delay. The amount of manufactured goods which this house makes is surprising,\\nand when taken in connection with the enormous sales of piece goods, and other fab-\\nrics, it demonstrates at once that a great amount of administrative ability must be re-\\nquired to keep such a multiform and complicated business in operation without even\\na jar. or the least sign of confusion in the smallest of its details. The Messrs. Blum\\ncommenced this business several years ago. on a more limited scale than at present,\\nbut by assiduousness and enterprise, built their trade up to its present extensive vol-\\nume. It is now one of the largest and most fashionable business houses in the city.\\nThe patronage of this house is still on the increase, as it is one of the most liberal\\nhouses in the trade. If you want good goods, at low figures, here they can be had.\\nShould yon want common goods, or those of even the very finest quality, they are to\\nbe had of Messrs. Blum Bro. in endless variety, and at such favorable figures, that\\nwhen you have once purchased, their store will be ever after the place, and the onh\\nplace where you will deal, as they are proverbially at the bottom of the market.\\nG. G. ROTH,\\nDry Goods, Carpets, c\\nThere is no business in which a man has greater room for a display of sound judg-\\nment and keen discriminating taste than the dry goods business. So many different\\nideas to suit, so various and multiform the fancies to cater to. Mr. Roth has shown\\nhis capability to undertake this responsible task, and his adaptability to the business of\\nhis choice. Mr. Roth was bom in this city, and here learned and acquired all of his\\nknowledge of business, which has made him so successftil and reliable in his line. He\\nwas formerly of the firm of Sitler Roth, but commenced doing business for himself\\nin 1876. His place of business is at No. 2100 Main street, Centre Wheeling. He em-\\nploys live hands and does a large and steadily increasing business. His business\\namounts to some $28,000.00 per annum, and his trade is both in city and country.\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "i in: industries OF wiikkunm;. 75\\n*a\\nSINGER SEWING MACHINE MANUFACTURING CO.\\nOffice in Wheeling\u00e2\u0080\u0094 No. 1301 Market Street, west side.\\nTins office controls the sales of six counties and has forty-three persons in its em-\\nploy. The following is a list of the persons engaged in the City Agency: W. W.\\nMcFarland, General Manager F. E. McFarland, Manager for the City Office F. E.\\nWeir, Bookkeeper; S. E. McFarland, Office Lady; C. T. Sturgiss, Collector; E.\\nMeise, Adjuster; Messrs. E. R. Brooks, D. W. Bell and Theo. Campbell are the Mana-\\ngers of the Branch Offices of the Wheeling Agency. There are thirty-four traveling\\nsalesmen. The Wheeling Agency controls the district which is embraced b\\\\ the fol-\\nlowing counties Ohio, Marshall and Wetzel, of West Virginia; Belmont, Monroe\\nand Guernsey, of the State of Ohio: and parts of Green and Washington counties of\\nthe State of Pennsylvania.\\nThe Singer Sewing Machine always a great favorite with the public has been\\nvastly improved during the last two years; it now runs noiselessly, and will do a: much\\nwider range of work than hitherto celebrated as it was, even then, for its superior\\ncapacity. This machine is sold every place where civilized society has an existence\\nall over the old world as well as the new. To give the reader an idea of the stupen-\\ndous extent of the business done in these machines, we would state, that in L878\\nthere were no less than 356,432 of them sold! The proprietors assure us that, three-\\nfourths of all the Sewing Machines sold in the world are. those made by the Singer\\nManufacturing Company and furthermore, that they have taken the first prize more\\nthan two hundred times over all competitors! The finish and adjustment of these\\nMachines is simply perfect; they are the nr plus ultra of elaborate and delicate\\nmechanism. So complete are they in all their appointments for family use, that a\\ndemand has arisen for an extension of the principles involved in the construction of\\nthis machine, to a machine which would do heavy work. This demand has been met\\nby the introduction of the Medium Machine, and still more, recently by the cele-\\nbrated No. I. a still heavier machine. The No. i Arm Machine is admirably adapted\\nfor the use of shoemakers. c. Would our space warrant us in so doing, we could\\ntill pages with reference to the peculiarities and excellencies of this machine, but we\\nmust content ourselves with saying that it is a wonder, when considered as a piece of\\nwork illustrative of the invention of man. The proprietors inform the public that,\\nthey make a specialty of repairs on all kinds of machine s, and keep a full supply of\\nsmall articles which are in constant demand, for the use of those who desire them,\\nsuch as needles, oils, attachments, linen, cotton and twist. Arc. Old machines of all\\nkinds taken in part pay for any of their new ones, and all styles sold on easy monthly\\npayments, with a liberal discount for cash sales. The public is especially cautioned\\nto beware of the spurious imitation of our machine, commonly represented as the\\nStewart Singer, it being a cheap clap-trap, sold under the fraudulent misrepresent-\\nation that it is manufactured by the Singer Manufacturing Company. The fact that\\nthe Singer is the onby machine counterfeited argues that it is the only one worthy of\\nimitation gold being often counterfeited, brass never.\\nThe sales of the Singer Machine in the six counties controlled by Wheeling office\\nalone will aggregate fully 2,000 per year, which is fully double the sales by our prin-\\ncipal competitor, and fully equal to the combined sales of all our competitors, as the\\nshowing made by them is based on the sales of a territory from five to ten times as\\nlarge as that controlled by us, several of them working the full State of West Vir-\\nginia and parts of Ohio.\\nWHEELING IRON AND NAIL COMPANY,\\nTop Mill.\\nThere is nothing that has contributed so greatly to the growth and prosperity, the\\ndevelopement Of the industries and manufacturing resources and facilities of Wheel-\\ning as the iron works. Prominent among these is the Wheeling Iron and Nail Company\\nor Top Mill. The origin of this mill was with one of the Shoenberger family,\\nfamous for years in connection with the iron trade, and was then known as the Mis-\\nsouri Iron Works. It was the lirsf mill built in orabout Wheeling for the manufacture\\nof merchant iron and nails and was built on the ground owned by the present com-\\npany. The original mill belonging to this company was burned September 1871,\\nand the present mill was built entirely new in 1872, the blast romance in L873. That\\nthis establishment is capable of doing and does do an immense business, rendering^ one", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "JcX 76 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. ^0\\\\\\nof the most important factors in the commercial interests of Wheeling may be in-\\nferred from a short description of its features for doing business. The company own\\nabout forty-three acres of surface land and one hundred and fourteen acres\\nof coal partly underlying another tract. The forge, mill and nail fac-\\ntory, with uecessary adjuncts, occupy six large buildings, every department be-\\ning models of their kind, furnished with the most improved machinery and facilities\\nfor manufacturing their specialties. The nail factory being especially worthy of note,\\nit is a brick building being probably better adapted for the purpose than most other\\nconcerns in its facilities and construction, being supplied with every possible improve-\\nment and adjunct, both for convenience and the comfort of the employees. In the\\nforge there are twenty-six boiling and heating furnaces and two trains of rolls. In the\\nnail factory there are one hundred and six nail machines and two blueing furnaces.\\nThere are three buildings connected with the blast furnace. The furnace is built after\\nthe most approved plan both in construction ami appliances, having been supervised\\nby Win. Tait, who also built the Lucy Furnace of Pittsburgh and the Belmont of this\\ncity. The hot stoves are of the best known pattern and the engine of the celebrated\\nTotten Co. make. The hoist is of the well known Otis Co. s patent. This com-\\npany have their own water works for supplying their works. They have in all seven\\nengines and fifteen boilers, three engines and nine boilers connected with the mill and\\nfactory and four engines, and six boilers at the furnace. In their six departments\\nthey employ about seven hundred and fifty hands, the average monthly pay amount-\\ning to $25,000.00. The present corps of officers are Jno. P. Gilchrist, president; C.\\nD. Hubbard, secretary: W. 0. Brockunier and C. W. Eoff, Clerks, _ and C. P. Hub-\\nbard, salesman. The capital stock of the company is $489,424.00. The amount of\\nbusiness per annum approximating $1,000,000.00. This establishment will compare\\nfavorably with any similar concern in the United States both as to quantity and qual-\\nity of their products. Their annual out put is about 25, 000 tons of pig iron and\\n250,000 kegs of nails and spikes. Then trade extends all over the United States, the\\nprincipal centres or distributing points are New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Mem-\\nphis. In this connection we might remark that the secretary of the company, Mr. C.\\nD. Hubbard served with distinction in the thirty-ninth and fortieth Congresses, being\\nthe member from this district.\\nHOWARD BROS. CO.,\\nPatent Solicitors and Counsellors in Patent Causes, 1207 Main Street.\\nS. M. Howard architect and E. B. Howard mechanical engineer. Represented at\\n^Vasllmgton City by the Hon. Ellis Spear, late Commissioner of Patents.\\n...-_. These gentlemen have over $7,000.00 invested in\\nie*o /Vf. tfQfflJkJR.Lt. valid patents. They are the patentees and manufac-\\nvtvtN^jMm turers of the \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Howard Rotary Nail Picker. and the\\nPerpetual Calendar Ink Stand, also of the Glass\\nDome Sky Light, and several other valuable in-\\nventions which they will soon present to the public.\\nThe rotary nail picker is used at the Labelle\\nand the Benwood iron mills. This firm are the\\nproprietors of the Inventors Library, free to all,\\ncontaining a complete file of American patents\\nfTi v T lj{ JtHj iTT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 from 17!H) to date, commissioner and Supreme\\nCourt decisions, works on mechanical movements, c, c.\\nS. M. Howard is an architect of great experience, well schooled in design as the\\nmany specimens of his skill, such as the People s Bank building, amply testify. He\\nis also notary public\\nE. B. Howard is a practical steam engineer of twenty-five years experience and\\nthis department his special attention. The respective qualifications of these\\ngentlemen admirably adapt them for the prosecution of the patent business.\\nThis combination of practical knowledge places the firm at the head of the profes-\\nsion, and is of incalculable value to inventors, in the preparation of patent applications\\nand their successful prosecution before the various departments of the patent office.\\nIf you are interested in new inventions, call and see this firm, although they adver-\\ntise No cheap work, cheap prices, or extra charges, yet you will find their terms as\\nreasonable as any first-class reliable attorneys in the patent business.\\nfo ft", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Jc^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 1TXS\\\\\\nCHAS. E. DWIGHT,\\nAnalytical Chemist and Druggist, Cor. 24th and Chapline Streets.\\nProfessor Dwigkt has become favorably known to the citizens of Wheeling and\\nvicinity by his invention of an extremely useful and long desired preparation, for the\\npreservation of dead bodies and disinfecting purposes generally, known as Dwight s\\nKreassoter. Very few persons are unaware of the extreme difficulty attending the\\nkeeping of the bodies of dead friends and relations, especially during hot weather,\\nuntil a sufficiently respectful time has elapsed for consigning them to the grave.\\nThe Kreassoter performs this duty, effectively preserving or embalming bodies for any\\nreasonable period. It is also valuable for removing foul odors and gases from privy-\\nvaults, sewers and cess-pools, or any place becoming foul from tilth or stagnation.\\nProfessor Dwight is a chemist of unusual ability, having had opportunities for obser-\\nvation and experience, for unrestrained experimentation, and for testing the value of\\noriginal operations, which few in his profession have secured. His rare capacity for\\ndiscriminating analyses and sound, scientific deductions, have been abundantly proven\\nby his work for the several blast furnaces in this vicinity, his worth to them being in-\\nestimable. His merit consists in being a thoroughly honest, capable and able special-\\nist, of excellent training and experience. Professor Dwight was born in Somers,\\ni oim., in 1849, came to Wheeling in 1870, and siicceeded to a business started in 1867\\nby Ed. Booking, Esq. He had previously been in the drug business in Greenville,\\nPa. His stock is ample, and having the benefit derived from Ms own chemical knowl-\\nedge, of the purest and best known quality. He has his two departments, drug store\\nand Laboratory, hi the same building giving personal attention to both. His busi-\\nness amounts to.some $5,000.00 annually, and extends through this State and Ohio.\\nProfessor Dwight has also a national reputation as a marksman, being a member of\\nthe American Long Kange Rifle Team, carrying off, in 187s, several prizes.\\nH. Z. SHRIVER,\\nWholesale Dealer in Paper and Printer s Supplies, No. 1211 Main Street.\\nThis business was started by Mr. Shriver in 1878, and of course is but a new enter-\\nprise. This trade has never been prosecuted with any particular energy in Wheeling\\nas a business, apart from other branches of trade. Mr. Shriver. seeing this to be the\\ncase, and being desirous of going into some business, concluded that this con-\\ndition of affairs afforded an opportunity for the opening of a wholesale paper house\\nwhich should contain a stock of these staple articles, knowing that the demand for\\nthem was large and constant. He therefore rented the spacious room which he now\\noccupies and stocked it with a very heavy stock of goods, such as would suit the\\nmarket. With the assistance of the tested experience of Mr. R. J. Bullard, jr., he\\nis confident he is able to discount any bill in this line purchased iu the East. Having\\nabundance of capital he can supply goods in any quantity desired. This feature alom\\nputs any dealer who observes it hi the foreground in purchasing goods. With the de-\\ntermination that the proprietor started out with, he cannot fail to do a first-class busi-\\nness with close buyers, as his prices are as low as the manufacturers. Mr. Shriver is\\ndesirous of selling to the close cash trade, which will discover its true interest by deal-\\ning with him.\\nWM. A. WILSON. H. H. DTJNLEVY.\\nWILSON DUNLEVY,\\nFactory on the Biver Bank, foot of Sixth Street. Office, 1215 Main Street.\\nManufacturers of Nail Kegs, Flour, Apple, Glass and Half Barrels. Sole owners\\nof Dunlevy s Patent Crozinu and Chamfering Machine.\\nThis establishment was started by William P. Wilson, W. II. Dunlevy and T.\\nWheeler in 1867, with a capital of $8,000.00. Win. P. Wilson was the father of the\\nsenior member in the present firm, and was a gentleman much respected by all who\\nknew him. He was several times a member of the City Council, and was a gentle-\\nman of much public spirit. He was noted for the interest that he took in all matters\\npertaining to the welfare of Wheeling, when anything seemed to threaten the same.\\nThe son has also been a member of the City Council, and has shown much ability in\\nmunicipal affairs. Their present capital is $15,000.00 stock $6,000.00. They do a\\nbusiness of $70,000.00 annually. They have twelve buildings in the First Ward, be-\\nsides five acres of land. They have also a branch of their business in operation at", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "rw-\\nr*JT 78 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nBenwood, four miles below the city. Their pay-roll is $3,200.00 per mouth, which\\nis distributed among one hundred workmen. Their works are propelled by two steam\\nengines of forty and thirty horse-power respectively. Their trade extends through\\nWist Virginia and the territory of adjacent States. They claim a peculiar merit for\\ntheir Patent Ceozing and Chameeking Machine, and that it excels anything hith-\\nerto invented for the same purpose. These gentlemen are both workingmen,\\nalthough men of extensive capital. They have both been bred in the school of hon-\\nest labor, by parents who were both notorious for their industrious habits. They\\ngive their undivided attention to the intelligent prosecution of their business, and it\\nmoves along with the precision and regularity of clock-work. There is not, it would\\nbe safe to say, an establishment in the country managed with more system than is the\\nFactory of Messrs. Wilson Dunlevy the result of this is that the concern is popu-\\nlar and never languishes for want of patronage. As to prices they are as low as\\nfchey can be for good work.\\nHANES, WILSON CO.,\\nSupply Depot, No. 1215 Main Street\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Planing Mill, Main Street. First Ward.\\nHouse and Steamboat Joiners: Planing Mills and Lumber Yards. Manu-\\nfacturers of Doors, Sash, Shutters, c, and dealers in Painters and Builders\\nSupplies. This establishment was originally started in 1850, by Messrs. Hanes\\nBeam, on a small capital not over $5 000 which has been augmented to\\n$75,000 by the introduction of additional partners and capital. The present\\namount of stock on hand is about $30,000. An annual business of $100,000 is\\n(lone by this energetic firm. The Planing Mill is on Main Street, First Ward,\\nand has a frontage of 100 feet, and runs back a distance of about 60 feet. The\\nentire premises, including stock shed, occupy about four lots of ground; the\\nfirm has three acres of ground on the opposite side of street, used for piling and\\ndrying their large stock of lumber. There are five departments in this exten-\\nsive factory, and a sufficient number of workmen employed in the same to re-\\nquire for their labor over $2,000 per month. The entire establishment, taken\\nin the aggregate, is claimed to be the largest in the State. The trade of this\\nfirm extends pretty much through the interior of the State, and penetrates\\nquite a distance into Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and Maryland. Their busi-\\nness, as will have been observed at the beginning of this article, includes Steam-\\nboat joining this is a very important branch of their trade. The senior part-\\nner, Mr. Hanes, has been in this line of trade for a long series of years, and in\\nconnection with his partners, still pushes it with the same vigor, if not more,\\nthan previously. The individual members of the firm are Clark Hanes, W. A.\\nWilson and J. E. Hanes, each of whom have, at times, been members of the\\nCity Council. S. D. Tippett is the bookkeeper, and W. S. Tippett and W. H.\\nChapman are the salesmen of the concern. In addition to the foregoing, it\\nmay be observed, that the firm have an establishment at 1215 Main street, west\\nside, in which the office is situated. This building fronts 18 feet on Main street,\\nrunning back 100 feet. It is a handsome four story brick structure, most ad-\\nmirably adapted to their business. Here all kinds of supplies are kept in stock\\nready for delivery, Glazed S\u00c2\u00absh, Window and Plate Glass. Painters and Build-\\ners Supplies may be had in endless variety. A full stock of Paints, Cement,\\nLime, Plaster of Paris, c, always on band. In fact the entire line of goods in\\nwhich these gentlemen deal it would be as useless as it would be tedious to the\\nreader to enumerate here. Call and get one of their Catalogues, which contain\\na detailed list of all articles in which they deal.\\nCOX, DICKEL VANCE,\\nBoilers and Sheet Iron Workers.\\nThe above works are situated on the corner of Market and Eighteenth\\nstreets, and covets an area of about one acre of ground. They employ quite a\\nlarge number of skilled workmen. The works are provided with an eighty\\nhorse power engine and works night and day. The machinery, from top to\\nbottom, is of the very latest pattern, in fact their appliances in the conduct of\\n_J3", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE INDI STKIKS OF WURKLTNG.\\n79^\\ntheir businesss are all of the very best quality for turning out good work, and\\nturning it out expediently. To show the quality of their work, we call atten-\\ntion to the extract below. The Riverside Mill, alluded to in the quotation, is\\nbelieved to be the largest iron works in the United States. An establishment\\nlike this it may be presumed would have its work done by the very best of\\nworkmen, and no other. Cox, Dickel Vance have the very cream of the bus-\\ninessin large orders in their line. Their trade extends wherever boilers and\\nmarine and stationary engines are used in the city or adjacent territory. With\\nan undaunted energy and ample capital they have gone into operation, tilling\\nvast and lucrative orders. They thoroughly understand their business and\\npush it to its utmost capacity.\\nThere is no firm, we venture the assertion, in the West, that retains the\\nconfidence of its patrons more fully than Cox, Dickel Vance, which is evi-\\ndenced by the fact that they have a large and increasing trade in numerous\\nStates, especially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The numerous\\nblast furnaces and nulls in this city have all been frunisbed by these works, and\\nin every case the work hasgiven entire satisfaction. Even now in the midst of a\\ngreat depression in business pursuits of all kinds, the yards, yard rooms, black-\\nsmith shops, machinery rooms, c about the premises resound with the heavy\\nstrokes of the hammer, and a large force of men can be seen daily, Hitting to\\nand fro, intent upon their work, noting and seeing but little that is going on in\\nthe outside world. All work done is guaranteed, and the material used is the\\nbest quality of hammered Sligo charcoal blume iron that can be obtained in\\nthe Pittsburgh market. No expense is spared to make perfect work, and tin\\nquality of iron used is a suliicient guarantee that the patrons receive A No. 1\\nmaterial in all work done. To say that Wheeling feels proud of this establish-\\nment, does not express the verdict. It is looked upon as indispensible, and\\none of the growing institutions whose industries will, in the future, assume\\nsuch gigantic proportions as to be unimaginable at present, the products of\\nwhich will find their way to the remotest part of the Union. Any communi-\\ncations addressed to this firm should be forwarded to Cox, Dickel Vance,\\nBoiler and Sheet Iron Works, corner of Market and Eighteenth streets. Wheel-\\ning, West Va.\\nMUHN BRANDFASS.\\nManufacturers of Havana, Seed Tips and Stogie Cigars, I 321 Main Street.\\nAn establishment of any class, whose proprietors make its reputation not\\nonly a labor of love and pride, but zealously guard and preserve that reputa-\\n^s=s=e- Ei tation when gained, are a\\ncredit and honor to any city.\\nTo such a firm we now desire\\nto call the attention of our\\nreaders Messrs. Peter Mnhn\\nand has. Brandfass com-\\npose the firm. They started\\nin business in L874, with a de-\\ntermination to be excelled by\\nno firm in the same trade, and\\nhave spared no exertion or\\nexpense to achieve their pur-\\npose, working steadily and un-\\nwaveringly towards that end,\\nthey hear today an enviable\\nreputation for square dealing\\nand the excellent unvarying\\nquality of their goods. The\\ndevotee to the soothing, calming weed, will find in either their Little Havanas,\\nHavana Tips or Seed Stogies a most delightful and cheap cigar, well made, and\\nof selected old qualitv stock There can be nothing more exasperating to the\\nsmoker than badly made, badly drawing cigars, pulling their jaws and temper\\nJS", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "/C^80 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. Xv^\\nout of shape at the same time. These gentlemen boast of the make of their\\ngoods, both as to quality of leaf and construction of cigar. They employ only\\ncompetent and careful workmen, fully equal to their work. There are no bet-\\nter judges of leaf tobacco in this market than Muhn Brandfass.\\nThey keep a full stock of chewing and smoking tobaccos of favorite brands,\\nand a large line of smokers articles, pipes, stems, c, c.\\nZINK MOREHEAdT\\nWholesale and Retail Dealers in Carpets, Furniture, Oil Cloths, Upholstering,\\nWindow Shades, c, Wo. 1117 Main Street.\\nSpecial attention given to undertaking. The building in which these gentlemen\\ntransact their business is a four-story one. having a frontage of twenty-five feet by a\\ndepth of one hundred and fifty. The proprietors have succeeded to the trade of A.\\nK. Morehead A- Co., who succeeded to the business of Hubbard Co. The latter\\ncommenced business in 1866 on a small capital compared with that of the present\\nfirm. Mr. Zink has been a resident of the city for over thirty years, having origi-\\nnally come from Wellsburg, Brooke county, in this State. Mr. Morehead was a res-\\nident of Cincinnati until about seven years ago, when he came to Wheeling to embark\\nin some kind of business. From a small trade in the commencement, they are now\\ndoing a very large one especially in the niore elegant and fashionable hue. Tins\\ncannot be accounted for on any other theory than a good stock, business assiduity and\\nlow prices, as a new house always has difficulties to encounter which old ones are com-\\nparatively exempt from. If the before mentioned requisites are not cultivated by\\npersons newly embarking in the business, their success is always doubtful. Should\\nyou wish au elegant Sofa, Tete-a-Tete, Bureau, Wardrobe, Divan. Bedsteads, Chairs.\\nCarpets, Oil Cloth, or anything else in their line, you can easily be suited in this\\nestablishment, both as to prices and quality of goods. Particular attention paid to\\nwants of custo mers in the way of repairs on anything in the trade.\\nCHRIST. BEHRENS. H. C. TJLRICH.\\nBEHRENS CO.,\\nGroceries, Produce, c, 1310 Market and 3601 Jacob Streets.\\nThese gentlemen employ collectively at the two stores six hands; the firm deals in\\nalmost everything in the grocery line. They keep a full and very large stock of plain\\ngoods, among which may be found the finest brands of flour and the freshest article\\nof Hams, Breakfast Bacon and Dried Beef, that comes to this market. Their line of\\nFancy Groceries is as extensive as it is varied all kinds of goods tempting to the\\npalate of the epicure may be seen on their well stocked shelves among these goods\\nmay be found Canned Fruits of all kinds, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches c, you\\nwill find Pickles, both foreign and domestic, in such variety that you can not fail to\\nget what you want in this line, and at such low figures that it is a waste of time in\\nyou to attempt to make your own pickles for when done you cannot produce such an\\narticle as they can sell you for a mere trifle: (vanned Meats of all kinds are also to be\\nhad, which often save much work at home when but a light dinner or lunch is to be\\npreferred. These canned goods are all wan-anted sound and fresh, as they are her-\\nmetically sealed, and will keep for years. The stock of Teas, Coffee, Sugars. Spices,\\nand the like is from the best markets in the East. To enumerate all the different\\nkinds of goods that these gentlemen deal in, woidd be almost comparatively speaking\\nan endless job. Their Market street store is one of the handsomest stores in the city;\\nit is magnificently attractive on the outside, considered as a store front, and the ap-\\npointments inside are equally so. It is a large three story brick building, and every\\nstory is used for storing their immense stock. They have a large and handsome ele-\\nvator ascending from the ground floor to the roof. They have also lately constructed\\na telephone from the store on Market street to the one on Jacob street. The Messrs.\\nBehrens Co. in their market street store do a large wholesale and retail trade: their\\ngoods which are all fresh and new. will, we guarantee, prove satisfactory to any one\\npurchasing from them. They have polite salesmen to attend on you. A large capital is\\ninvested on which they do a business running into many thousands of dollars annual-\\nly. All orders sent to the firm of Behrens Co. will receive prompt attention, and\\ncountry dealers cannot do better than by calling on them when in the city. We take\\npleasure in offering this voluntary sketch of this house, and if our readers will visit\\nthis establishment they will see words cannot do justice to the enterprise of Messrs.\\nBehrens Co. The junior member of this firm, Mr. H. C. Ulrich, has served as a\\nmember of the city Council.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "/\u00c2\u00a3r THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 8lX5\\nHARBOUR DITTMAN,\\nDealers in Carpets, Oil Cloths, Window Shades, c,, No. 1059 Main Street.\\nThis, we believe is one of the oldest business houses in the city, dating as far back\\nas L840. Joseph Harbour started this house inthat year on a capital of $55,000.00,\\nwhich by good management on his part, From year to year, was so productive as to\\nbring him quite a competency while he was even yet but in the prime of life, and al\\nhis decease (which* occurred several years ago) he had become quite wealthy. Mrs.\\nHarbour, bis widow, and \\\\V. Dittman, still uphold the business reputation of\\nthe house. Mr. Dittman is a Baltimore gentleman, and possessed of abilities as a\\nbuyer and also salesman for the house, of a very superior order. He has few equals\\nin ilns respect. Be has been in this house in the capacity of clerk al one time, and\\npartner since, for a term of quite twenty years. He has the entire management of\\nthe business, and it prospers under his able supervision. The first floor of this mag-\\nnificent store is tilled from top to bottom with the choicest fabrics in the way of fine\\nCarpets, Oil Cloths, Wall Papers, Ac, in such variety as almost to bewilder the be-\\nholder. The loom is one hundred and twenty-five feet long, and is certainly one of\\nthe finest in the city and admirably adopted to their business. The salesmen of the\\nhouse are indefatigable in their exertions to please the public. Few customers seek\\nfor anything in their well assorted stock that do not find what they want. The prices\\nat this house are proverbally low, fair and square dealing no jockeying is their\\nmotto, but one price asked, and that the very lowest. No house in the town possesses\\nfacilities for trade superior to this old and favorably known establishment.\\nmTrothT\\nDealer in Dry Goods, Groceries and Notions, No. 3801 Jacob Street, South\\nWheeling.\\nThe proprietor of this enterprise is an experienced business man. having had the\\nadvantage of a period of thirty-one years in handling merchandise, which he has\\nhandled so well that the citizens of the ward concluded he would make a good T\\nurer for the ward, and made him such. He has been a member of the City Council\\nand also one of the County Board of Commissioners. He commenced business in\\n1848 on a very small capital, which by tact and good management he has handled in\\nsuch a manner as to yield him a fair income, sufficient to enable him to become a\\nlarge property holder\u00e2\u0080\u0094 owning as he does five lots of ground, upon each of which is\\nbuilt a house. He has done all this, besides adding largely to his stock of merchan-\\ndise. This shows a very notable instance of what rectitude of conduct, and honora-\\nble and straight forward dealing will do. when it is adhered to closely by a merchant.\\nThere are many merchants in the country who have broken up half a dozen of times\\nin the same period, and to-day are not worth a cent, who, not satisfied with a moder-\\nate business at first, have plunged headlong in debt to get along more rapidly, and\\nseemed to trust to luck for the future. Not so with Mr. Eoth he knew\\nthai luck is a very good thing, if in one s favor! but when it brings calamity it is\\nthe reverse. He did not trust to this uncertain thing, but pursued an even line of\\ncommendable conduct, and reaped the reward that always follows such. He keeps a\\nline stock of goods, which he is pleased to show to his customers, and will sell as low\\nas anybody.\\nW. C. HANDLAN CO.,\\nPork Packers and Wholesale Dealers in Flour, Oils and Cheese, -Corner\\nSixteenth and Chapline Streets.\\nThis firm succeeded the well-known firm of Handlan. Jordan A Co. in 1873. Tie-\\ncapital employed is quite heavy. $10,000 being the lowest amount invested at any one\\nperiod of time, on which a business of nearly 10,000 is done, per annum. The estab-\\nlismeiit is I l-x87 feet, and has a very large capacity. The trade of this firm is large\\nin the city, and is quite extensive in the adjoining States, and points still more remote.\\nThe individual members of the firm are W m. Handlan and John H. Handlan.\\nThe latter is a native of Pennsylvania, and came to this city when quite young, and is\\none of the most respected business men of the place. William Handlan has been\\nidentified with the municipal interests of the city in a representative capacity in\\nvarious channels of the same, for quite a number of years. He is an important eli\\nmen! in the public affairs of Wheeling, both financially and politically. He is at", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "X^82 THE INDUSTRI CS OK WHEELING. 5\\\\\\npresent the Treasurer of the Ohio Valley Protective Union, Vice President of the\\n-Etna Insurance Company, and is a member of the Second Branch of the City Coun-\\ncil. He is, perhaps, as well aud favorably known to the citizens of Wheeling as any\\nother person in the city. He is also a very influential and prominent politician, which\\nphase of character, however, he never suffers to antagonize his usefulness in business,\\nin which capacity he has no superior.\\nCARL WILHELM,\\nNo 39 Twelfth Street.\\nMr. Wilhelm is a Practical Upholsterer and Decorator, and Manufacturer of all\\nkinds of Parlor and Chamber Suits, Spring Mattresses, Lambrequins and Window\\nShades. This gentleman has but recently opened business in his present stand, and\\nhis great success is a matter of almost astonishment to himself. He has been but a\\nfew months in business, yet he has built himself irp a very large trade, quite as exten-\\nsive as that of some dealers who have been long established in the trade. Coming\\nfrom the east right from one of the most cebebrated manufacturies in New York, it\\nmay be presumed that he is a master of all the various branches of his trade. He ap-\\npears to be quite familiar with what the sharpest kind of competition demands of a\\nman in business, and is prepared to comply with its most exacting requirements. If\\nyou visit Mr. Wilhelm s store and converse with him a moment or two, you will im-\\nmediately draw the conclusion that you stand in the presence of one who is far from\\nbeing a novice in the line of business in which he is engaged. He speaks by the\\ncard about everything pertaining to his trade. He makes everything to order, which\\nis at once a guarantee of good and substantial work. His work is not merely made to\\nseU it is made both to sell and give entire satisfaction to his patrons. He will exe-\\ncute orders for repairing anything in his line, and the same will be promptly, neatly.\\nsubstantially and cheaply done.\\nA. C. EGERTER CO.\\nNos. 1425 Main Street and 420 South Street.\\nWholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants for the sale of Flour. Grain, Seeds,\\nBacon, Lard, Cheese, Eggs, Butter, Green and Di ied Fruit, and all kinds of country\\nProduce, together with a full line of staple Groceries, Nos. 142 Main street and 1 li o\\nSouth street. This large enterprise is the outgrowth of a much smaller one in years\\ngone by, kept by Hess Egerter, at the corner of Eleventh and Market streets, ami\\nstarted in 1868. The individual members of the present firm are A. C. Egerter, Geo.\\nBeck and Geo. A. Wells, the latter of whom is the bookkeeper. The room in which\\nthis noted firm does business in, is three stories high, with a frontage of l l feet by\\n135 feet in depth. Their capital invested is quite $30,000, upon the liasis of which,\\nthey do an annual business of $200,000! The senior member of this firm is a native\\nof Switzerland, but came to Wheeling in 184 He has been a member of the City\\nCouncil for several years, and is at present one of the Board of Directors of the Ger-\\nman Insurance Company, of Wheeling. From a small beginning, the senior partner,\\nby shrewd business qualifications has established one of the largest wholesale Grocery\\nand Commission businesses in the city and in the State. This is a first class whole-\\nsale house, at which either city dealers or those from abroad may purchase almost an\\nendless vaiiety of supplies in the way of Groceries, Grain or Produce, and at such\\nfigures as will be quite satisfactory to the buyer. Persons from abroad who desire to\\nsell or make consignments on commission, will be as liberally dealt with through the\\nmails, as if they were here in person to negotiate for the same. These gentlemen\\nalways, from day to day, have the latest dispatches as to the state of the markets, and\\ncan answer inquiries in regard to the same at any hour of the day. Particidar atten-\\ntion given to consignments and prompt returns.\\nJOSEPH GRAVES,\\nDealer in Books, Stationery, Wall Papers, Children s Carriages and Toys.\\nThis gentleman commenced business in 18S2 in Center Wheeling, in the basement\\nof the present residence of Wm. H. Hearne, Esq. and later on he removed to the\\nnortheast corner of Twenty-second and Main Streets, and still later ventured up to\\nTwelfth Street, No. 2G, where he may now be found. Mr. Graves commenced busi-", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "/C^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 83^S\\nness cu little or no capital, but by industry and perseverance has built up quite a large\\ntrade. Ee came to Wheeling in 1838 from the State of Ohio. Belmont County, where\\nbe was born. Mr. Graves is one of the most unobtrusive of men. and has been a\\nVery true servant to the interests of tlie public, which fact has promoted his own interest\\naccordingly. He has made some money in the business to which lie has been so long\\ndevoted with such constant regularity during the last twenty^eight years, lie has a\\nvery attractive store \u00e2\u0080\u00a2_ feet front by so feet deep, three-stories high, which is full of\\nvery choice goods. He employs three assistants, but is a very industrious worker\\nhimself. GrO in when you will, he has always something on hand to keep htm busy.\\nHis average capital is S\u00c2\u00a7~ ,000, which he handles in his business with remarkable judg-\\nment and tact. If is sales are about \u00c2\u00a715,000 per annum. He is one of the largest dealers\\nin Wall Paper in the State. Call and see Mr. Craves and he will be sure to suit you in\\nany article of goods, from a Family Bible down to a Primer. He sells low. and al-\\nways gives his customers the advantage of any bargains which he may pick up in tin-\\neast and he often secures such- and tints saves the purchaser s pocket.\\nJ. B, SHEPPARD,\\nWholesale and Eetail Manufacturer of Paddles, Harness, Trunks, Valises, c.,\\nNo. 1073, Cor. Main and Eleventh Streets.\\nHere may be found an extensive and assortment of all articles in the above line\\nalso a full stock of smaller articles pertaining to this branch of business. Particular\\nattention given to the proper adjusting of new harness for nothing can be so pro-\\nvoking or trying to the patience of any man who has a good horse, as to have his har-\\nness-maker make a new set of the same, and make them lit badly, and insist they are\\nall right. Now. there are many just such botches in this business as there are in\\nall others. To allow your horse to be treated this way is worse than to allow your\\nboot maker to insist that the pinching boots which he has just finished for you are ah\\nright. In this latter case you can give him the reproof that he deserves, and leave\\nthe boots with him but to allow your horse, who cannot speak for himself and de-\\npends on your humanity in the matter, to be punished by a bad fitting set of harness,\\nor more particularly a collar, is the very refinement of cruelty on your part. Mr.\\nSheppard will guarantee you satisfaction in this respect. He has been in the business\\nfor a long time and is a complete master of it. Mr. Sheppard commenced Irs busi-\\nness in Philadelphia in 1836 and continued until 1848, when he came to this city\\nwhere he has since been busily engaged in the manufacture of all articles connected\\nwith his trade. He keeps on hand at all times a full line of the above enumerated\\ngoods which he sells at prices as low as the common factory work which is now Hood-\\ning the country. Mr. Sheppard is known as a man of the strictest integrity and bus-\\niness tact, and it will pay our readers to give him a call when they want anything in\\nhis line.\\nT. C. MOFFAT,\\nMerchant Tailor, 27 Twelfth Street.\\nNext door to the Exchange Bank on Twelfth street side of the building is one of\\nthe finest emporiums for gentlemen s costumes to be found in either this or any other\\ncity west of the Allegheny mountains. We know whereof we speak\u00e2\u0080\u0094 we mean the\\nmerchant tailoring add gentlemen s furnishing goods establishment of T. C. Moffat,\\nsuccessor to the late John H. Stallman A: Co.. a firm of which Mr. Moffat was the jun-\\nior member. The former firm was one of but limited capital however. The present\\nfirm employs more capital and does a business of quite $50,000.00 per annum. The bus-\\niness is conducted in a large three story building, twenty-four feet front by sixty (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ft\\ndepth. andisatNo. l 7. Twelfth street. Mr. M. employs thirty hands, and pays weekly\\nto them $5225.00 for the excellent work which they turnout. He is however, quite\\nstrict with them as to the character of their work, and this perhaps accounts for the\\nconscientious, painstaking endeavors of these employes knowing that inferior, or\\nslighted work would not be received at his hands. He pays them good prices for\\ntheir work, and they, knowing him to be rigorous as to his work, give him perhaps,\\nbetter jobs than it is the good fortune of any other similar establishment to obtain\\nthat does not exact the same conditions. His stock comprises everything in the line\\nof foreign and domestic goods for gentlemen s wear. Walking pasi there the other\\nft", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Jjvp 84: THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nday we observed several gentlemen come out newly apparelled from head to foot.\\nStruck with astonishment, we stopped and mused at the elegance of these gentlemen s\\ncostumes: every article of clothing forming part of the suits of these gentlemen seemed\\nto speak as plain as words could speak, that it was designed by a master of this diffi-\\ncult art, and the whole rig seemed to add a wonderful grace to the wearers. Had\\nthe crazy Ophelia seen these well dressed gentlemen, she would have hesitated some-\\nwhat in the tine compliment she pays Hamlet when she exclaims, (speaking of him)\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The glass of fashion and the mould of form: because, no matter how neat Hamlet\\nmight have looked, he certainly was not better dressed than these Americans were.\\nMr. Moffat tirst came to Wheeling in ISC.\\nHEBRANK BROTHER,\\nDealers in American and Foreign Watches, c,Wo. 1317 Market Street.\\nThese gentlemen. Andrew and BenedicK Hebrank, commenced business in Wheel-\\ning about twelve years ago, and both of them being practical watchmakers and silver-\\nsmiths, they were not long in establishing a profitable and enduring share of patron-\\nage They commenced on a somewhat smaller scale than they conduct busim ss at\\npresent. By close attention to it. and turning out good work, their establishment has\\nbecome quite favorably known to the public. When you have a valuable watch, and\\nit stands in need of repairs that may require the most consummate skill to put it in\\ncomplete order, you naturally wish to leave it at a place where they thoroughly un-\\nderstand their business, as it is well known that there are many persons who keep\\njewelry stores who personally know little or nothing about the intricate mechanism of\\na watch, and entrust the repair of the same to a workman in the store who may know\\nhow to clean a watch, or do elementary work on the same, but who is at fault on a\\nmore elaborate job: too often your timepiece comes from his hands with but little im-\\nprovement, and sometimes with actual detriment. This is unfortunate, and to be\\navoided if possible. The head, or heads of a concern like the one we are speaking of\\nshould thoroughly understand the structure of a watch, and entrust it to none but an\\nexpert in the busines s. if he has not time to do it himself, which is sometimes the\\ncase Messrs. Hebrank Bros, personally attend to this branch of the trade, and you\\ncan rely on them for good work. Their stock of Watches. Clocks. Jewelry, and the\\nlike is of the most approved and reliable kinds in the market. If you wish anything\\nin their line you will invariably find goods to be what they arc represented.\\ntTh. higgins.\\nPhotograph Gallery. No. 42 Twelfth Street.\\nAbility in whatever pursuit found, whether artistic or commercial, always attracts\\nattention, and is its own best recommendation. In the rapid progress of modem re-\\nsearch, few professions have received greater accessions of improvements than Photo-\\ngraphy. In the great accumulation of styles, careful sifting and judgment has been\\nrequired in order to discard the worthless and trivial, and select the meritorious. Mr.\\nHiggins is an example of a painstaking, thorough artist. A visit to his parlors will\\namply repay the lover of the beautiful and artistic. All styles of pictures will be\\nfound there in all popular styles, card, cabinet, etc. But it is to the neverfading Car-\\nPhotograph we desire to call attention. For beauty of finish, fidelity to nature\\nperfection of detail, it certainly exceeds anything in the Photographic style we have\\nOne can scarcely realize in looking at these portraits, that they are not\\nliving steel engravings of the most excellent design every little detail, the least figure\\nI erj hair, even the faint, fleeting smile, are here drawn out aud depicted\\nwonderfully true to nature. An inspection of these Carbon Photographs alone will\\nrepay a visit to the gallery. Mr. Higgins is the only photographer in Wheeling mak-\\ning tin- Carbon Picture. Mr. Higgins commenced business in 18(53, with a small\\ncapital: steady application to his profession, cultivating the approbation of his\\npatrons and availing himself of every improvement in instruments and designs worthy\\nof adoption, have enabled him to build up and control a business second to none in\\nthis section of the country. His assistants are fully competent, careful persons\\nevery way capable of pleasing customers, and all work entrusted to him receives his\\npersonal supervision. His work in all styles is unsurpassed, not only in this section.\\nbut in any part of the United States. Mr. Higgins takes Crayon Portraits also in a\\nchaste, faithful style, and keeps a well selected stock of Photographic Goods, such as\\nFrames, Mountings, c.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": ",Cp THE INDUSTRIES OP WHEELING. 85^2^\\nLEWIS BAKER CO.,\\nJob Printers, Book Binders and Publishers of the Daily. Tri-Wcekly and\\nWeekly Register.\\nThis concern was established in July, L863, and by the pluck, enterprise and per-\\nseverance of its proprietors, lias become the leading printing works in the State.\\nNo city in the I nited States, of the population of Wheeling, lias a more ably ciin\\nducted journal than has Wheeling, in the Register, nor one whose typographical ap-\\npearance shows greater taste. The tone of the paper is vigorous, pure ami healthful.\\nTo the discussion of public questions it brings ability, of a high order, scholarship\\nand candor. In the gathering up of news, it is enterprising hut discriminating. The\\nproprietors make a specialty of reporting in a clear and complete manner, the import\\nant sayings anil doings at all public gatherings within the circle of its field, without\\nregard to politics or belief s.\\nThe jobbing department of the Registeb is one of the most complete in the\\ncountry, and its patronage is such as to frequently tax its facilities to their ut si\\ncapacity night and day for weeks in succession. It is under the immediate skillful\\nmanagement of Mr. Wm. .1. Johnston, tin- junior partner of the concern, one of the\\nmost indefatigable and experienced workmen of the country. The Register Boob\\nBindery is also a very complete and well conducted department of the establishment.\\nAll kinds of work for public officers, bankers, merchants, ami business men generally,\\nis gotten up here in superior style and in the promptest manner.\\nGREER LAIN^ t\\nHardware, 1214 and 1216 Main Street.\\nThis eminent house is one of the most prominent as well as one of the oldest in\\nthe city\u00e2\u0080\u0094 dating away back to 1850, when the firm name was Anderson Laing, it\\njustly takes rank as one of the pioneer establishments of this community. In 1856\\nthe firm was changed to its present title. Mr. Greer becoming a member, he having\\npreviously been a member of the firm of Ottit Greer. This establishment is one de-\\nserving of more than a passing notice in a work devoted to illustrating the commer-\\ncial and manufacturing interests of Wheeling. The business of this house is con-\\nducted on the very highest principles of commercial integrity, with energy, ability\\nand knowledge acquired by years of familiarity with their business. Thoroughly\\nposted in all the departments of their trade, with a corps of experienced and capable\\nassistants, genial in business transactions, they have justly assumed a prominent posi-\\ntion in the commercial affairs of the city. There are few businesses which have giv-\\nen greater prestige and reputation to Wheeling than her hardware houses, forming as\\nthey do. such an important feature in her trade. The present firm is composed of\\nMessrs. Jacob R. Greer, Alex. Laing. Wm. Cruickshank and D. B. Mcllwaine. They\\noccupy two elegant four-story, cut stone front, buildings on Main Street, and employ\\nfifteen hands. Their trade extends through West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland.\\nSuch houses give zest and tone to the business reputation of any community, ami we\\ngladly give I hem a space in our work.\\nSPEYER BROS.,\\nImporters and Jobbers of Millinery and Straw Goods, 1158 Main Street.\\nWe desire to draw the attention of our many readers to the superiority and excel-\\nlent business capability of this house. As compact and comprehensive in its details\\nas any house iii the city, it merits more than a passing notice. It must he freelj\\nacknowledged that their gratifying success is due to their admirable management and\\ncompetent thoroughness of their staff. Some sixteen years in business, they have\\nacquired a business built on as solid a foundation as the mighty hills surrounding us.\\nThe gentlemen composing the firm were both born in Hartford, Connecticut. Mr.\\nII. Speyer. the senior, in 1849, and Mr. James Speyer in L851. Thej caine to Wheel-\\nin L870, and in September, L870, started business. They wholesale and retail\\nMillinery Notions of all kinds, manufacture and trim Hats, and do a General Jobbing\\nMillinery Trade. All the specialties of their business are in the hands of skillful,\\ntrained employes; and the work turned out by them is of a superior standard of ex-\\ncellence. They employ ten hand-,, and give personal supervision to all work given\\nthem. Their trade extends through eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West\\nVirginia, and is increasing daily. A first class house in every particular.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "5 8e\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OK WHEELING,\\nW\\nWILLIAM H. SHEIB.\\nPianos, Organs, Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise, Washington Hall,\\nTwelfth Street.\\nThis house was established in 1836 by James Mellor, a relative of the present pro-\\nprietor, who succeeded the Mellors in 1866. During the continuance of this house,\\nthe music business has very largely in-\\ncreased, and Mr. Sheib has been one of\\nthe most enterprising persons ever en-\\ngaged in selling Pianos and Organs in\\nthis section. His trade is very large,\\nand besides being the agent tor the Haz-\\nelton and Weber Pianos, known as the\\nbest, he is largely interested in the man-\\nufacture of the Broadwood Pianos, good\\nand reliable instruments at a very low\\nprice. Dealing in the Mason Hamlin\\nOrgans. Mr. Sheib makes a specialty of\\nthe Ohio Valley Organs, which, for qual-\\nity of tone and durability as well as\\nbeauty, are not excelled by any. The\\nSheet music*business is an extensive item in the trade of this store. Mr. Sheib being\\nan extensive musical publisher, and also proprietor of Sheib s Musical Journal, a pub-\\nlication of great value to musical people. A very extensive assortment of small musi-\\ncal instruments, such as Violins. Guitars. Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Clarionets, etc., will\\nbe found here together with the best qualities of strings and trimmings for all instru-\\nments. Altogether Mr. Sheib offers superior advantages to music buyers, and thediffer-\\nentgrades of instruments kept willenablethe most fastidious taste orthemost moderate\\nexpectation to be gratified at the lowest market price. The storeroom under Wash-\\nington Hall, is a spacious and very handsome one. and has been specially arranged for\\nthe business. Mr. Sheib is a native of Pittsburgh. Penua. and is imbued with the\\nactive business qualifications for which Pittsburgh is celebrated.\\nL.H. HEMLBRIGHT.\\nManufacturer and Dealer in Cigars, Tobacco, \u00c2\u00a3c.\\nThis store is situated at No. 1323 Market street, and represents one of the oldest\\nestablishment of the kind in the city, and indeed in the State, as it was originally start-\\ned by C. A. Helmbright three years ago. This manufactory is conducted in a large\\nroom, which is quite one hundred feet deep, and has a frontage of about sixteen. The\\nfront part of the room is used for the sales department, and is heavily stocked with\\nforeign and domestic goods, among which may be found the finest brands of Cigars,\\nTobacco and Snuff and an endless variety of smokers goods. The rear part of the\\nroom is used as a, factory, and employs quite a number of hands. The famous Tips\\nand Stogies made at this establishment are not surpassed by any made in the United\\nStates. Heluibright s Tips and Stogies forma very prominent feature in a smokers\\nchatcehism, and are rapidly sold to connoiseurs in smoking. The liner qualities of\\ncigars, however, form a very prominent feature in the business of this enterprising\\nhouse. The proprietor is himself a very superior judge of tobaccos and cigars this\\nof itself is a substantial guarantee of the quality of goods at this house. We mention\\nthis peculiar feature with some emphasis, as it often occurs that persons venture into\\nthis business who are not practical tobacconists, and who may readily be supposed are\\nnot those who would always be sure of purchasing goods intelligently, and in conse-\\nquence of which would be as likely to be deceived in the purchase of goods as his\\ncustomers would be in buying them again from him.\\nTHE GERMAN INSURANCE CO..\\nFourteenth Street. Opera House Building.\\nOne of the great necessities of the day is the existence of tire insurance companies\\nin which the public can place implicit reliance, not only as regards their solvency and\\nconservative mauner of doing business, but as to their reputation for treatment of insur-\\ners. The German Insurance Company ranks pre-eminentin this community for fair. just.\\nimpartial and liberal cousiderat on for its patrons. Its business management is in the\\nhands of honest capable painstaking men, careful and cautious in taking risks. There is", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "J^P THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 87H\\nno illiberality in its settlements. Its investments are among the best in the city and an\\nusual experience and business tad have characterized its history. It was incorpora\\ntedMaj l I. I8fi7, and has a cash capital of $100,000.00. Its a $156,820.00.\\nLiabilities $23,039.99, leaving a surplus of $133,780.01. The business of the com-\\npany reaches through Ohio and West Virginia. Since their start the company have\\npaid losses to the ainouiit ol over $100,000.00. The handsome showing of assets\\nabove given are a sufficient indication of the business management of its affairs. The\\nofficers of the company at the present time are John Oesterling, President; Augustus\\nPollack. Vice President; Anton Eteymann, Treasurer Fidelius Riester, Secretary; W.\\nS. Foose, Assistant Secretary. The Directors are Messrs. Jno. Oesterling, Augustus\\nPollack, Anton Reymann, Phil Schuehle, August Rolf, Wm. F. Stifel, Frank A.\\nWoeber, A. C. Egerter and Fred Schenck. All prominent business men, charact rized\\nby their ability and success in life, and all connected withsome of the most important\\nand successful commercial ami manufacturing establishments in Wheeling. The\\ncompany is deservedly a favorite one and its business is ye arly i ncreasing.\\nmTsonnebornT^\\nClothing and Gents Furnishing Goods\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bellaire, Ohio.\\nIn giving a detailed account of the business advantages of a city, it is always neces-\\nsary to select the best and solidest houses, who are known to do business on the\\nsquare and on strict business principles, and those who carry a stock large enough to\\nsuit every buyer. The house which heads this article is one that we think is deserv-\\ning of more than a passing notice in these pages, and we cordially extend to Mr. Son-\\nneborn a hearty welcome to rank among the solid business concerns of Bellaire. The\\nabove house was founded by the present owner in 1877 with a small capital which has\\nsteadily increased until now be does a retail and jobbing trade of many thousands of\\ndollars annually. The store is situated on Union street, and occupies two large and\\nwell-ventilated rooms, each 20x60 feet, and crammed full of Clothing, Gents Fur-\\nnishing Goods, Hats and Caps, etc. Wm. McGee, John McGee and Chas. Palls are\\nemployed to attend to the wants of the many customers who throng this Temple of\\nFashion. The trade of this house is located in the city and in the counties surround-\\ning. Mr. Sonneborn was born in Cumberland, Maryland, where he lived for a num-\\nber of years, when he removed to Wheeling and commenced his business study. In\\nthe fall of 1877 he removed to Bellaire, where he started his present business, besides\\nbuilding up a large and lucrative trade he has established a highly cultivated aquaint-\\nance, and is noted for his liberality. We take pleasure in giving this voluntary sketch\\nof this house, and if the reader will visit the establishment we are sure he will verify\\nour statements, both of the business and its proprietor.\\nEXCELSIOR MACHINE SHOP.\\nCor. Chapline and Eighteenth Streets-\\nH. W. Redman. Geo. G. McKown and W. J. Hamilton, under firm name of Red-\\nman Co.. General Machinists, and Manufacturers of Marine and Stationary Engines,\\nbrass and Babbitt Castings and .lob Work.\\nIt was Martin Redman A- Co. who were quite celebrated as machinists\u00e2\u0080\u0094 who gave\\nthis establishment the firm reputation the concern enjoyed prior to the succession of\\nthe present company, which reputation, however, the company are determined to\\nmaintain, if not surpass in the future, by the excellent character of their work. They\\nemploy from twelve to fifteen hands. to whom they pay weekly from $125.00 to\\n$150.00, according to number employed. This manufactory does a trade of about\\n$25,000.00 annually. Air. E. M. Brown is the principal bookkeeper, EL W. Redman\\nattends, in an official capacity, to all branches of the business. Their works will\\ncompare favorably with any other concern of a similar character in the city or the sur-\\nrounding States. They in-. noted for the exquisite finish given to all machinery\\nwhich they turn out and so prompt are they in their business, that when they prom-\\nise a job to lie done on a certain date, it is always ready for the person or persons for\\nwhom it is made, according to contract. This punctuality on their part, together\\nwith the superior character of their work, always ensures them plenty of orders.\\nThey introduce all of the most approved modern improvements in the steam engines\\nwhich they turn out of their extensive works. When time develops fresh inventions,\\nfor introduction into the manufacture of this kind of work, they are not slow in avail-\\ning themselves of their usefulness. In fact, they keep abreast with the times in\\nmechanism.\\nS", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "S 8\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nJOHN FRIEDEL,\\nWholesale and Retail China, Glass and Queensware, 1130 Main Street.\\nWe feel fully justisfied in stating, that taken all together, this establishment is one\\none of the most important and creditable in the city. We have examined it with\\nsome cave, and are very much\\npleased that we can pronounce if\\na reliable, comprehensive, first-\\nclass enterprise this is true not\\nonly as regards any one branch\\nor class of his business, Imt strict-\\nly so as to every part. An es-\\ntablishment of this kind is a vital\\nnecessity in any city, but it is al-\\nso essentiaUy important that it\\nbe well conducted. This, Mr.\\nFriedel does in a thorough,\\nhonest, capable and competent\\nmanner. His opportunities for\\ngaining an insight into the business have been ample, giving him that full experience and\\nvaluable observation which are so essential to the success of any business man. Mr.\\nFriedel was born in Monroe county, Ohio. He was with A. Pollack from 1862 to\\nL866, and after that, until he started for himself, with the old and widely known firm\\nof J. L. Hobbs, Son Co. In IS?:!, in connection with Mr. F. Schwertfeger, he es-\\ntablished the present concern. Mr. Schwertfeger afterwards retiring. He occupies a\\nhandsome building on Main street and employs four hands. His trade extends through\\nOhio. Southern Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He keeps constantly on hand a\\nwell selected assortment of goods consisting in part of white and decorated China and\\nGlassware, Lamps, and Lamp Goods, Chandeliers from the modest one light to the\\nelegant and costly ten light. Willowware, Fancy Tinware, Table Cutlery. Vases.\\nLooking Glasses, and a large and carefully assorted stock of all styles and designs of\\nplain and decorative Wall Paper.\\nL V. BLOND,\\nDealer in Boots and Shoes, No. 1135 Main Street.\\nAmong the many industries that have tended to extend and enlarge the commercial\\nimportance of Wheeling and a description of which this work is designed, there is\\nscarcely any class of business enterprises outside of the great iron and glass trade\\nwhich deserves more liberal notice than the general boot and shoe trade. So great is\\nis the competition that great energy and enterprise are essential to success and in this\\nconnection we desire to call attention to the excellent and superior stock of Mr. Louis\\nV. Blond. This business was started by the present propr-ietor, Mr. Blond, in a mod\\neiate way in 1805. Managed with great skill and business ability, the trade of this\\nhouse lias increased until his business is second to none in the city, and no house re-\\nceives a more liberal patronage from country purchasers. lie occupies a handsome\\nthree story brick building on Main street, the principal thoroughfare of the city, em-\\nploying two hands in the transaction of his business. He carries a full and complete\\nstock of Ladies. Gentleniens. Misses and hildrens Boots and Shoes of the best grades\\nmanufactured, selected expressly for this market. His stock of women s wear is from\\nthe most celebrated makers in tlie country. He handles the goods of the celebrated\\nhouse of Reynolds Bros, and Striply Co. His trade is both in the city and sur-\\nrounding country. A conservator of the general thrift of the community and foster\\ning the best interests of the highly important branch of manufacture in which he is\\nengaged by the very superior excellence of his stock, the house of L. V. Cloud is\\nthe object of respect and honorable estimation in this city.\\nS. BAER SON,\\nWholesale Grocers and I lour House, Nos. 1312 and 1314 Main Street\\nA. striking example of progress and of what energy, knowledge of business and fair\\ndealing may accomplish is afforded by the history of this well known house which lias\\nbecome one of the business landmarks of the city. One of the most extensive and", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Jcr THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 89 S\\\\\\nprominent grocery establishments in the citj is thai of Messrs. S. Baer Son. This\\nbouse was started in L864, by Simon Baer, the present senior member of the firm,\\nand it lias always maintained a high position, acquiring from year to year a larger trade\\nand more available facilities. The present members of the firm are Simon Baer and\\nBenjamin Baer. They occupj the entire three story double warehouse 14x120 feet,\\nThe Double Yellow Front at Nos. 1312 and Kill Main street, carrying a full and\\ncomplete stock of groceries, Flours. Teas, Sugars, Coffees, Spices and in fad every\\narticle usually found in a first-class, well regulated establishment, varying from\\n000.00 to $50,000.00. Their annual trade will reacb as high as $450,000.00. Thej\\nmake a specialty of Roasted Coffee and Flours. Their own brand of Ceylon Boasted\\nCoffee. roasted by a special process of their own at their own coffee roasting estab-\\nlishment, enjoys a high reputation, and has become a favorite. Their brands of Flour.\\nAller Beste and Invincible, have no superiors and few equals in this market.\\nBoth members of the firm devote their personal attention to the business, and under\\ntheir control and management their business has grown until at this time there is no\\nlarger establishment of the kind or one doing a more extensive business in the State.\\nThe several departments are managed with systematic skill and ability, requiring the\\nservices of sixteen assistants and two fine double teams in constant use delivering\\ngoods to their various customers in thecityand to the rail road depots. They transact a\\nlarge local trade and have an extensive trade throughout West Vh ginia, Western\\nPennsylvania. Eastern Ohio and Maryland. Both of the Messrs. Baer were horn in\\nGei inany. The ample measure of success attendant upon theefforts of this house has\\nbeen largely due to the enterprising, honorable and liberal policy that has always\\ncharacterized its business transactions, and it is just to say that no firm in the city has\\nachieved a higher reputation for these qualities and for mercantile integrity than the\\nfirm of S. Baer Son.\\n.TNO. BELTZ. JXO. FLADING.\\nBELTZ FLADING,\\nSteam Planing Mill, Centre Wheeling, Manufacturers- of Sash, Doors, Shut-\\nters, Lumber, c.\\nThese gentlemen are the immediate successors of Salisbury Flading A Co.. who be-\\ngan business with a capital of $4,500.00. The present firm have a capital of $16,000.00.\\nTheir present stock on hand is $9,000.00. They do a business of $35,000.00 per an-\\nnum: employ thirteen hands. The factory is a 70\\\\7 l feet three story building.\\nEverything pertaining to the business is after the most modern improve-\\nments and is driven by an engine of sixty horse power. The establishment is equal,\\nas to the working capacity to anything in tin 3 neighborhood. The establishment is\\nconstantly kept running, as they have always a large mass of orders ahead. The sen-\\nior member of the firm was born in Wheeling, and lias been honored by the city in\\nwhich In- was born, by having been called to serve two successsve terms in its mu-\\nnicipal councils. The junior member, Mr. Flading, came from Germany in 1848.\\nMr. Wm. Huggins is the salesman for this enterprising firm. -Whim we look back at\\nthe time when there was no planing mills, and consider the slow process for making\\neverything in wood by hand, how tedious the whole thing looks! A carpenter that\\ncould then make two or three doors, and a half do/en pairs of sash, and a couple of\\nparlor mantle pieces was thought to have done a splendid week or ten days work, and\\nso he had, but now presto how changed! everything is done by machinery. The\\ncarpenter still has his vocation, he is the intellectual power that instructs the machin-\\nery as to its duty, and it. like a faithful servant, obeys the dictum of its master.\\nEverything goes like clockwork, and the work that is so rapidly made is equal in finish\\nto work made by hand. So much for invention.\\nCUMMINS WOODS,\\nImporters and Dealers in Table Glass Ware, Queensware, China and Stone\\nware, No. 1142 Main Street, Successors to Winship, Woods Co.\\nThis house, though not an old establishment, has allthe energy and vim of one that has\\nbeen long in the trade. Their room is one of the largest in the city: it is twenty feet front\\nby one hundred and thirty feet in depth, and is packedfrom ceilingto floor with stock.\\nTheir trade is both wholesale and retail. The latter, however, receives their greatest\\nattention, as it should do, as their stock is mostly of a finer order of goods than the\\nwholesale trade generally desires. They make exquisitely fine goods a specialty.\\nThe wholesale department, however, is quite ample, and country merchants can be\\n_ J! _ JS", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "/C^90 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. ^Ct\\\\\\nsupplied with anything desired at quite as low figures as can be named by any house\\nnot containing snch an elaborate display of the more costlier lines of fine and elegant\\ngoods. Here may be f oimd the most elegant lines of China-ware fresh from the Em-\\npire of the Sim, and if a cup of tea be the thing almost approaching to nectar\\nthat the ladies say it is, how much more attractive must it be when opulance can af-\\nford to drink it from the flowery land where the exquisite plant is grown How-\\never, a cup of good tea is good enough drank from plainer ware to be sure it is\\nsay you. Seriously, these gentlemen have every thing that is nsnally kept in their\\nline in first-class stores, from the most costly article di virtu down to the cheapest\\ntrifle in the shape of a child s toy. Both of these gentlemen were born in Wheeling\\nsince 1850, and of course are yomig men, and are both workmen about their store; not\\ndisposed to let the grass \u00c2\u00abrow under their feet, as is the case with so many young\\nmen established in a trade like the already fine trade of Messrs. Cummins Woods.\\nTheir business is notably a city trade, and yet their sales to the adjacent States and\\nthe interior of West Virginia is quite extensive; indeed, whether at home or abroad,\\nwhen anything fine and good is wanted, the names of Cummins Woods are synon-\\nymous with good goods and low piices.\\nCONRAD L0NG~\\nManufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware, Martin s Ferry, Ohio.\\nHe also deals in Stoves, Hardware, Glassware, Lamps, Lanterns, Wooden ware,\\nHobby Horses, Wagons, Toys also House Furnishing Goods. All of the above are\\nkept in endless variety. This gentleman commenced business in 18. 8 with a very\\nsmall capital, which he has increased to its present ample volume. He has now a\\nstock of about $5,000.00, on which he realizes an annual trade of not less than\\n$12,000.00, but hopes in the future, by attention to the wants of his customers, to\\ngreatly exceed even this flattering amount of trade. His store room and workshops\\nare quite large, being forty feet by ninety-four. Mr. Long is a German by birth,\\nand the foregoing shows by his humble beginning and subsequent praiseworthy suc-\\ncess, what may be done when there is a determination to succeed. This has been\\nfinely illustrated in his painstaking efforts to make his business what it is to-day, com-\\npared with what it was when he first opened out in Martin s Ferry. The Germans as\\na race, are notorious for their industry in any branch of business, and Mr. Long has\\nshown himself, by his success, to be eminently a creditable representative of that en\\nterprising race of people. Such energy and determination seldom fail to reward the\\nefforts of those possessing them with the success which most always follows them, no\\nmatter by whom they are possessed. Anything in Mr. L. s store can be purchased at\\nMs ware room as cheap as it can be had in Wheeling or elsewhere. He is always at\\nyour service for all kinds of work that may be wanted in his line, or to sell you any\\nkind of goods in stock.\\nJOHN K. HALL,\\nManufacturer of Saddles, Harness, Trunks, c, No. 1133 Main Street, Wheeling.\\nThe special branch of manufacturing industry carried on by Mr. Hall is one of much\\nimportance, and withal so conducive to the wants and necessities of the general public\\nas to be deserving of special mention in this work. This business was established in\\n1855 by Mr. Hall in a small way, and with limited capital. Mr. Hall having come to\\nWheeling in 1844, a small boy, and learned his business as a saddler with John Knote.\\nBy strict attention to business and the uniform excellence and superior quality of all\\nhis work, his trade has steadily increased until it is now probably the largest estab-\\nlishment of the kind in the State. Mr. Hall makes a specialty of manufacturing\\ncollars of all kinds, and in this branch of his trade does a very large jobbing business.\\nHe occupies the large three-story building, at 1133 Main street, employing a large\\nnumber of hands in his three departments, manufacturing and carrying a full and\\ncomplete stock of Saddles, Harness, Collars, Bridles, Whips, Trunks of all kinds and\\ngrades, from the elegant and costly to the plain and cheaper. Mr. Hall is a thoroughly\\ncompetent and practical saddler, giving personal supervision to all work done in his\\nhouse. His trade extends through West Virginia, Eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania.\\nMr. Hall has been called on several times to serve his fellow-citizens in a public\\ncapacity, he having been a Member of Council for twelve years, and President of the\\nBoard of Education for eight years.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "A THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 91Xy\\\\\\nR. J. SMYTH,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in Plain and Fancy Groceries, corner Market\\nFourteenth Streets.\\nThis is one of the most comprehensive and finely established stores for family sup-\\nplies that can be found in the oily. It was reserved for Mr. Smyth to be the pi\\nin establishing the first complete, first -lass family grocery thai Wheeling ran boast of\\nnot denying that then arc many other good grocery stores beside this one, but\\nthere are few, if any. thai contain such an ample, fresh and varied stock. The room\\nis one of the largest and best known stands in the city, and is frequented by patrons\\nfrom all directions. One reason for this is, the proprietor is always a1 the bottom of\\nthe market in his prices for goods another is. that he is an expert in his business,\\nand handles nothing but first class goods. He is always abreast with the times.\\nWhenever any novelty of decided merit is introducted to the trade, Mr. Smyth is al-\\nmost sure to be the first to place it in stock and introduce it to the citizens of Wheel-\\ning. An enumeration of but a tithe of the immense catalogue of groceries; aud the\\nlike in which the proprietor deals, would be a task of considerable magnitude, from\\nwhich we shall refrain, but will nevertheless observe that Mr. Smyth s store is partic-\\nularly uoted for the supei-ior puality of its staple articles, such as Teas, Coffees,\\nSugars, Flour, Hams, Bacon, Dried Meats, Cheese, and the like. These are leading\\narticles in the trade, and pay but a small margin of profit, but the proprietor makes\\nit a point to take the lead in handling none but the very cream of goods pertaining to\\nthis department of the business. The same, however, may be said of the other\\nfeatures of his trade. He always keeps the best.\\nG. w. tiemanT^\\nManufacturer and Dealer in Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers Articles, e No\\n1003 Main Street.\\nJust south of the suspension bridge will be found this manufactory. It has been\\nin operation scarcely two years, and is uow one of the most notable resorts for Cigars,\\nTobacco and Snuff, that there is in the city. The business is conducted in a some-\\nwhat small room which, however, is tested to its utmost capacity by the very large\\nand steadily increasing business of the concern. The proprietor gives it the name of\\nthe Cirgar Parlor. It is a parlor indeed; everything is as neat aud attractive as a\\nwell appointed parlor in one s own house. It is stocked from top to bottom with the\\nfinest foreign aud domestic Cigars, Tobaccos and Snuff\u00e2\u0080\u0094 thus presenting an agreeable\\ncontrast to many other establishments which are carried on in large, dingy rooms,\\ncontaining just stock enough to redeem them from the charge of beiue- empty, and\\nwithout which the observer would be more likely to infer that they were for Vent,\\nrather than occupied for any legitimate business purpose. There is nothing more\\ntrue than the assertion that a small room well filled with goods is more attractive to\\nthe beholder than a room that contains little or nothing, but depends on its size to\\nimpress the observer with an appearance of business. Men are usually not caughl\\nwith such chaff, however business is business and speaks for itself, wherever done\\nand this is precisely the case at Tieniau s Cigar Parlor, as the constant stream of\\npatronage which it enjoys fully attests. All kinds of Smokers Goods are here in\\nendless variety.\\naTwTpaull\\nLate A. W. Paull Bro.\\nThis establishment is the representative of the Wall Paper, Book and Stationery\\nhouse of J. C. Orr Co., a firm that existed many years back in the past, and laid\\nthe foundation of the present heavy and peculiar line of trade of the proprietor. We\\nuse the word peculiar with some emphasis from the fact that Mr. Paull deals in\\nwallpapers, decorations, and everything pertaining to the trade to the exclusion of\\neverything else foreign to it. It is peculiar, from the fad that it is thi tiiM instance\\nof the kind iu Wheeling, where an establishment has been successfully carried on in a\\nline of such goods, separate and distinct from everything else of an i s ting nature in-\\ntended to help to make business pay. as is often the case win fto not enter\\nlargely in any one particular branch of business. Such dealers generally do a mixed\\ntrade, and too often make a miscellaneous display of goods which an- of a character en-\\ntirely foreign to each other. In such eases the large wholesale dealer, when he wishes\\nto purchase merely one hue of goods, and of that largely, can neither get the", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": ",Cp92 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. x5\\nquantity he may want nor sufficient variety of the same, nor as close quotations of\\nfigures, as when the article he desires is dealt in exclusively. Wheeling having made\\nsuch rapid strides during the last 1 ew years, caused Mr. Paull sometime since, to\\nshape his business so as to conform to the new order of things. Beinga shrewd busi-\\nness man and possessed of niueli foresight as to the future, he at once went to work\\nand disposed of everything nor pertaining to an exclusively Wall Paper trade, and in\\naddition to that invested quite heavily in increasing his stock of goods to a point, that\\nhe is able to sell to country jobbers goods quite as low as they can purchase them in\\nEastern cities, thus saving dealers the carriage. By this step he has inaugurated suc-\\ncessfully the first exclusively Wall Paper and Decoration store in the State of West\\nVirginia. He keeps a full and very large assortment of goods suitable for jobbing de-\\nmands, and an endless variety of Foreign and Domestic Wall Papers and Decorations\\nfor the retail trade, which are of the most elaborate designs and elegance as to style\\nand finish. All kinds of Gold and Velvet goods may also be found at this elegant\\nstore. These goods cannot fail to please the most fastidious tastes, as they are attrac-\\ntive and superb. Mr. Paull s trade is very large in the city and State, and extends\\nquite a distance in the surrounding States. A list of some of the most artistic and su-\\nperbly finished jobs which the proprietor has put up in Wheeling and elsewhere,\\nwould make this article require more space than we can spare, but we refer the reader\\nto Mr. Paull himself, who will, if desired, show him some of the best work of the\\nkind ever put up in Wheeling, at various public halls, residences, c. and more of it\\nthan has ever been done by any other dealer in the city. There is a familiar saving,\\nthat actions speak louder than words. This aphorism is well illustrated by the fact\\nthat Mr. Paull s name is a synonym for good work, and is indentified with a great\\nmajority of the finest, largest and most notable jobs in the city and surrounding vicin-\\nage. The reader must not infer from the foregoing that Mr. Paull deals only in fine\\ngoods. He keeps a full variety of low priced goods to meet the requirements of the\\ntimes. Wall paper may be had as low as 4 cents per roll, and of an honest length for\\nsuch a quality of goods. It may be important here to say, that Mr. Paull has apprised\\nus that there are unscrupulous manufacturers who send out agents who offer to sell\\nwhat is called short length goods, for a price as the reader can easily imagine,\\nnominally quite low. Their goods, are bought, quite frequently, aU over the coun-\\ntry, and sold for regidar goods, and the customer finds out too late that they are not\\nso long as the goods he formerly bought. Mr. Paull assures us that all goods that he\\nsells are of the standard length, and that he warrants them as such. The strongest\\nproof that the proprietor, in his prices, is at the bottom of the market, may be inferred\\nfrom the fact that the New McLure House has recently been freshly papered with\\nwall paper from this establishment. This house of itself is large enough to require\\nquite a moderate stock of wall paper tore-paper it as it is one of the largest buildings\\nin the West. Mr. Paull has a competent corps of artists for making designs and esti-\\nmates for work of all kinds pertaining to the business, and if you prefer him to attend\\nto it, he will have any work yon may desire promptly executed and in the most ap-\\nproved style.\\nLOGAN, LIST CO.,\\nDruggists and^Manufacturers of Excelsior Baking Powder, Bridge Corner.\\nAmong the solid, substantial establishments of Wheeling, which have given hersuch\\nan enviable reputation abroad, none rank higher for business sagacity, thrift and well\\ndirected energy than the firm of Logan, List Co. Through unwearying energy\\nwhich always invites trade, they now occupy a position second to none among their\\ncompetitors. An existence of over thirty years in our city, entitles this firm to\\nthe claim of being one of the pioneer institutions of Wheeling in their line. This house\\nwas established in 1850 by Messrs. T. II. Logan Co., and since its start it has occu-\\npied a prominent position among our commercial enterprises. They occupy a build-\\ning on one of the most valuable corners in the city, 80x100 feet, three stories high.\\nThey employ twelve hands in the prosecrition of their business. The members of the firm\\nare Messrs. T. H. Logan, R. H. List and C. D. Hubbard. This firm makes a specialty\\nof manufacturing the Excelsior Baking Powder. In these days of wholesale adultera-\\ntion, when the most important articles of family consumption are deterioated by the\\nadmixture of cheap substitutes, it is essentially our duty to be careful in the purchas-\\ning of all supplies entering into the culinary department of our households.\\nBaking powder is one of the most important of these, and probably the one most fre-\\n__", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "j\u00c2\u00a7P THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 93^3^\\nquently adulterated. In fact it has been a question in si of the larger cities\\nwhether a pure article could be procured. Unfortunately some of the ingredients in\\nthese sham baking powders arc extremely prejudicial to health, rendering caution the\\nmore necessary. The Excelsior Baking Powder can be implicitly relied on as being\\nperfectly pure, and composed of the very besl quality of proper ingredients. Aside\\nfrom the many analyses showing the purity of this article, the guarantee of the firm\\nalone renders it worthy of confidence. Their store is well stocked with pure drugs,\\nand their prescription department is in careful, competent hands, receiving special\\nattention, and prompt access can be had by day or night. All popular and desir-\\nable patent medicines and specifics are kept in stock, and they manufacture the\\nchoicest tinctures, fluid extracts and syrups, besides keeping a Large variety of drug-\\ngists sundries, perfumeries, toilet extracts, Ac Their trade extends through Eastern\\nOhio, Western Pennsylvania, Western Maryland and West Virginia. Messrs. List\\nand Hubbard are natives of Wheeling. Mr. Logan of Washington, Penna. Messrs.\\nLogan and Hubbard have been distinguished by their fellow citizens by being called\\non to serve them in public affairs. Dr. Logan having been chosen as one of the rep-\\nresentatives from this district in the present Legislature he is also one of the must\\nprominent members of the Council, being president of the Second Branch, besides\\nserving in other positions of trust and confidence. Mr. Hubbard was member from\\nthis district of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congress. He is now secretary of the\\nWheeling Iron and Nail Company.\\nC. W. SEABRIGHT^\\nMerchant Tailor, No 2201 cor. of Main and Twenty-Second Streets.\\nMr. C. W. Seabright, the proprietor of this establishment, was born in Brunswick.\\nGermany in 1836. He was a mail carrier in the government service in his native\\ncountry for four years before corning to this country, early in life displaying qualities\\nand a disposition fitting him for places of trust and confidence. He came to this city\\nin the year 1849, and for twenty -one years occupied a prominent and responsible posi-\\ntion with the old and widely known firm of Thos. Hughes Co. He commenced\\nbusiness for himself in 1871, being in every possible way, from his wide and extensive\\nacquaintance and perfect familiarity with his business, especially fitted to establish\\nand build up a successful business. Mr. Seabright s long association with the customs\\nand tastes of Wheeling and vicinity has given him a knowledge of the requirements\\nand necessities of the trade, which would take an ordinaryman a life time to acquire.\\nHis acquaintance with the trade and connection with it, extending over a period of\\nthirty years: his constant supervision of his business, care in the employment of none\\nbut the best workmen, and frequent replenishing of his stock, has made his estab-\\nlishment the emporium of fashion of the city. He carries stock constantly of the\\nbest and finest fabrics to the amount of fully *lo.ni o. and does a business approxi-\\nmating $50,000 per annum. He pays particular attention also to his selection of\\nGent s Furmshing goods, and probably the finest of goods in that line, and the greatest\\nvariety in the State can be found in his store. No change having taken place for\\nyears in the personnel of this establishment, it possesses thorough, well tried ex-\\nperience, studiousness and steadiness in its working force the great qualifications ot\\nsafety and competency for the getting up and finishing of well-fitting clothes. His\\nprices are low, but he has not lowered his high standard of excellence, and he has\\nnever done any but a first-class tailoring trade. There is nothing too tine or too good to\\noffer his customers, and his stock is selected from the choicest foreign and domestic\\nmanufactures. His cutters are competent and tasteful, his journeymen are picked\\nmen. and his own supervision constant and exact. He uses the most costly materials,\\nand employs as much skill and taste as any other house in the State. The best evi-\\ndence of liis success and prosperity is the uniform excellence of his tits and the last-\\ning satisfaction of his numerous customers. His pay-roll amounts to $300.00 per\\nweek, and he employs generally thirty hands.\\nmaxtollXTsham,\\nWholesale Grocers, No. 1308 Main Street.\\nAmong the many branches of business in our city, tew can compare in importance\\nand magnitude with the grocery business, and no house in our city in this trade out-\\nranks the firm of Maxwell A: Isham. This house was established away back in the\\nyear L858, when it was known tinder the firm title of Maxwell. Campbell A Tingle;", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "/Cr 94 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. S5\\\\\\nin L870 succeeded by Tingle Isbiiin. and in L876 the firm became Maxwell Isham,\\nand it is therefore one of the oldest firms in the city. This house is one of the sub-\\nstantial concerns of Wheeling, and it has built up a large and increasing trade through\\nthe legitimate channels of commerce. They have succeeded by actual merit and con-\\ntinual fair dealing through a long series of years, until now their reputation is estab-\\nlished on a firm basis among the permanent and solid business of the Nail City. They\\nare both men of large business abilities and experience, and manage then- trade with\\nconsummate skill. Mr. Isham, the junior member is a young and active man, well\\nknown in business circles, and a gentleman of sterbng worth. Mr. Maxwell is an old\\nresident of the city, who has been for years engaged in his present business, and\\nclosely identified with the commercial interests of Wheeling, holding many positions\\nof public trust and confidence. They do a large trade in Pennsylvania, West Vir-\\nginia and Ohio, employing an efficient corps of salesmen and other employes, who\\nare able men of capacity, kept busy with their duties in this well ordered house. A\\nlarge and complete stock of all goods in their line is carried the year round, and a\\nheavy annual business is transacted. All orders sent to this firm, will receive prompt\\nattention, and country dealers cannot do better than to call upon them, where they\\nwill find the most complete stock of groceries in Wheeling. We heartily commend\\nthis house, and purchasers visiting them we feel sure, will endorse our representations\\nof the proprietors and their stock.\\nJohn Knote. T. T. Hutchisson.\\nKNOTE HUTCHISSON,\\nImporters and Dealers in Saddles Hardware and Coach Trimmings, 1049\\nMain Street.\\nThis establishment was begun in 1833, by John Knote, Esq. It was then devoted\\nto the wholesale manufacture of Saddles, Trunks and Harness. This house is one of\\nthe connecting links between the good old times of stages and road wagons, and mod-\\nern progress and railroads. It has with a steady enterprise kept abreast with the\\ntimes in improvements. Mr. Knote was born in Lancaster county. Penna., in Feb-\\nruary, 1807. He has presided over this establishment forty-six years, until he has\\nliterally grown gray in harness. During these years he has maintained a reputa-\\ntion for excellence of stock, honest dealing and liberality.\\nIn 1848, Mr. Knote changed his business from manufacturing, to the sale of sad-\\ndlers hardware and carriage makers goods. This was the first establishment keeping\\na general stock of carriage makers goods in the section now called West Virginia.\\nMr. Hutchisson was born in Adams county, Penna., August 24, 1827. He came to\\nWheeling in 1*17, entered Mr. Knote s employ at that time, and has been connected\\nwith the establishment ever since. He became a member of the firm in 1860.\\nThis house lias always possessed the respect and good will of the citizens, and is a\\nland mark in Wheeling. Mr. Knote has not only served his fellow citizens faithfully\\nin his business capacity, but he has been called upon several times to serve thou in\\npublic affairs, having been a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1850-51,\\nand in the Legislature in 1860-61. These positions he filled with respectable ability.\\nThe business of Messrs. K. H is conducted with ample capital. All desirable goods\\nin their line may be found in this time-honored establishment. Any article purchased\\nhere can be implicitly relied upon as being the best of its kind.\\nWM. McMASTERS^\\nDruggist, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nProminent among the commercial industries, of Bellaire, is the house which heads\\nthis article. Foundedhi L871, by the present proprietor, it has had a career of marked\\nsuccess since its inception, and now ranks among the most solid firms of that city.\\nThe store is situated at No. 117 Belmont street, and occupies a building thirty-four\\nfeet front by fifty-five feet in depth, in which is a large stock of Drugs, Medicines,\\nTaints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, besides an elegant stock of Perfumeries, and Fine Toilet\\nSoaps. The stock carried will average about #4, on which a business of from\\n$6,000.00 to $10,000.00 per annum is done. There are employed a bookkeeper and\\ntwo prescription clerks, who are thoroughly familiar with the business and can safely\\nbe entrusted to prepare any medicine the physicians may prescribe. The proprietor,\\nWm. McMasters, was horn in Belmont county, Ohio, and is therefore a native of the\\ncounty in which he now lives.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Jc^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 95XV\\\\\\nD. GUNDLING CO.\\nStar Clothing House, No. 36 Twelfth Street.\\nTins is comparatively a new enterprise not being much over a year old. The\\nproprietors showed a great deal of business nerve to embarfe in this business when\\nthey did, us this isjme of the must over-done branches of trad. thai is prosecuted in\\nWl ling. Thej were shrewd enough to\\ndiscover, however, thai where so much\\nis sold of mi inferior quality, and repre-\\nsented as first-class goods by mercenary\\ndealers, there was ample room tor a first-\\nclass establishment in this line of busi-\\nness, and that its ultimate success only\\ndepended on good reliable goods, at just\\nsuch prices as misrepresentation and dis-\\nhonorable dealing was getting for the\\ncomparatively worthless trash daily dis-\\nposed of by these unscrupulous venders of\\nimprovised clothing. Something less than\\na year ago they rented that splendid room\\nin McLain s Block, No. 36 Twelfth street,\\nand stocked it with heavy invoices of\\ngoods pertaining to the Clothing trade\\nfrom the most reliable manufacturers\\nin the Eastern cities. They then com-\\nmenced a liberal system of advertising, and by putting the very lowest prices to\\ntheir goods, they started on a business career which has increased from day to day.\\nuntil this store is now one of the leading clothing emporiums of the city of Wheel-\\ning. They warrant all goods sold by them to be of the best manufacture known to\\nthe trade in fact equal to custom wokk, and at about half the price thai is asked\\nfor the latter by those who pay fancy salaries and exorbitant rents. The business of\\nthis house is now on a solid and durable foundation, and yields a handsome margin of\\nprofit. (io past this store when you will, either early or late, you will always see the\\nStab Clothim; House thronged with customers.\\nJOHN BUTTERFIELD,\\nMalster and Dealer in Hops, Barley and Rye, Cor. 22d and Water Sts.\\nThis business was tirst started by the proprietor in L863, as the principal partner of\\nButterfield Co.. It was carried on in this name in the building known as the Old\\nAtheneuni, corner Sixteenth and Market streets. Some years after that, the struc-\\nture was burned to the ground. The firm was then dissolved, and afterwards became,\\nin L873, John Butterfield. Mr. Butterfield then took the present large establish-\\nment for the prosecution of his extensive and constantly increasing business. One\\nsingle department of this large concern has a capacity for malting 55,000 bushels of\\nbarley per season. The entire premises occupy three lots of ground which, in the\\naggregate, measure 366 ft. deep by Li)8 front. Eighl hands are employed in this\\nenterprise. The works are propelled by steam, and arc by all odds the largest in the\\nState of West Virginia, and will compare favorably with any of the kind in the\\ncountry. Mr. Butterfield is a native of England, from whence he came nearly a half\\nof a century ago: he was of course quite young when he came to the United States.\\nHe is an expert in the malting business, and is at the present time the senior member\\nof the noted house of Butterfield Co., Baltimore, Md. Their establishment in\\nthe East is known as the Baltimore Brewery, where a very superior article of XX\\nAle, Porter and Brown Stout are produced, which have become quite celebrated.\\nboth East and West. Parties desiring anything of the kind can be supplied by order-\\ning from Butterfield fc Co., No. 113 Hanover street, Baltimore, Md. The trade of\\nthe Wheeling house extends through West Virginia. Maryland. Ohio and Pennsylva-\\nnia. Mr. Butterfield has quite a heavy .capital invested, and deals quite extensively\\nin all of the varied features of his trade. He is oue of the most public spirited of our\\ncitizens, and indeed, a prominent one. He has been a member of the Municipal\\nCouncil of Wheeling for six years in the past, and is a member of the City Council at\\npresent, and one of the most useful and active members of that body.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "s*\\n96 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nMAYER BLUM,\\nJNo. 322 Union Street, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nThe above house, opened in the year 1878, by Henry Blum and Alexander Mayer.\\nstarted at once, through energy, careful management and attention to the wants of\\ntheir customers, upon a successful business, far exceeding their expectations. They\\nare dealers in Dry Goods. Notions, Trimmings, Fancy Goods, Ready Made Clothing,\\nHats, Caps, Oil Cloths. Trunks, Window Shades, c. They occupy one building at\\nNo. 322 Union street, which, is fully stocked with a supply of the above named goods.\\nThey are careful buyers, always buying for cash, which enables them to sell at\\nthe lowest prices. Four polite and attentive clerks are employed who will take plea-\\nsure in showing* those who may call through the store.\\nWHEELING FEMALE COLLEGE,\\nBOARD OP TRUSTEES.\\nDr. T. H. Logan, Secretary. D. C. List, Esq., Treasurer.\\nCol. Thos. Hornbrook. Benjamin Davenport. Esq.\\nA. W. Campbell, Esq. J. S. Rhodes, Esq.\\nH. K. List, Esq. Sam l P. Hildreth, Esq.\\nAugust Pollack. Esq. Hon. A. J. Sweeney.\\nJoseph Bell, Esq. George K. Wheat, Esq.\\nOn one of the proudest eminences of the city stands one of the most celebrated\\nfemale colleges in the country, the Wheeling Female College. The scholars of this in-\\nstitution have all the combined advantages of urban and suburban life. This magni-\\nficent structure inrposes itself on the eye of the beholder, with something akin to the\\nromantic effect produced in medieval ages by the grand and storied baronial castles of\\nthe old world. This eminent and favorite college is known throughout the country\\nby the accomplished graduates that it has sent forth to all parts of the Union. They\\nare noted examples of culture, and were it not deemed unnecessary for our present\\npurpose, and indeed, repugnant most likely to themselves, we should take pleasure in\\nnaming some of them. We will now speak in detail of the college building, surround-\\nings and the like. From the windows of the college building on the south the eye takes\\nin one of the most lovely scenes imaginable. For miles the view of the Ohio river,\\nskirted by a grand amphitheatre of hills, is uninterrupted. Bellaire. the railroad bridge,\\ntin- ascending and descending steamers, the rattling trains of the Cleveland and Pitts-\\nburgh, and Baltimore and Ohio i-ailroads on opposite sides of the river, the grand old\\nhills in striking contrast, all go to make up a picture of beauty rarely ecrualed, and\\nthis while right at omfeet is the roar of nail works, the smoke of glass factories and\\nthe clinking and rattling of the artisan s hammer, and the everchanging panorama of\\nbusy life. From the windows of the eastern side, we see the windings of Wheeling\\ncreek and the many factories that skirt its banks. On the north the many beautiful\\nresidences that Wheeling boasts, its handsome churches, the market places, the cus-\\ntom house, the steamboat landing, the railroad depots, the suspension bridge, and all\\napparantly miles away, as far as the noise and business of life is concerned, and yet\\nactually within a stone s throw of the college. Wheeling Female College was chartered\\nin 1848, and went into operation in the winter of 18. .0, and has always been regarded\\nwith pride by our citizens. As a boarding school the arrangements for the comforts\\nand discipline of pupils are well devised, having in view their moral, intellectual and\\nphysical culture.\\nThe college building is four stories high, and consist of a main building and two\\nwings. The main building is !)2 feet in length and 41 feet in width. The south\\nwing is 4. by 41 feet, and the north 23 by 23. There are recitation rooms, a chapel\\nand study hall forty feet square, mathematical and recitation rooms, four music\\nrooms, preparatory school room, a gymnasium 40 feet square, a science hall, where\\nis^kent tlie best chemical and philosophical apparatus in West Virginia, a choice\\ncabinet of geological specimens and minerals, globes, maps, charts and all else nec-\\nessary for the study of Natural Philosophy, Astronomy and kindred sciences. It\\nis not often that so complete and extensive apparatus is found in educational insti-\\ntutions for young ladies. The parlors are spacious and richly furnished. The\\ndining room is large, airy and convenient.\\nThe courses of study are perfect, and comprises everything essential to the per-", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 07Xy%\\nfecting of a cultivated mind, fitting it to the highest position in lift the accom-\\nplished grades of science, language, music and fine arts, receiving the advantages\\nof eminenl tutors. In short, no educational institution in America is more ad\\\\ an-\\ntageously situated, combining the stillness, healthfullness and retiracy of theconutry,\\nand the advantages, amusement and pleasures of the city. It is snbjecl to a Board\\noi Tm-tees and Kxecutive Committee, consisting of many of the most influential\\ngentlemen in the State, who, bv the way, are unremitting in their interest and at-\\ntentions for the welfare of the institution and to second the aide and energetic ef-\\nfortsof the President Miss A. Taylor, a. m. Miss Taylor is an accomplished lady\\nwith a wide experience, energetic and firm in her resolve that her administration\\nshall continue with that unprecedented success that has characterized the mat\\nment of the College since her accession as i t President The religious character\\nof the College has always been in conformity with the liberal and Christian aim\\nof its founders It is a thoroughly Christian yet unsectarian institution, in which\\nthe word of God is systematically t .-night and the Christian religion is made the.\\nbasis and character of education. \\\\ddrcss the President.\\nMiss A.Taylor, Wheeling. VV. Va\\n0. H. HOWELlT\\nTin, and Sheet Iron Ware, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nThe above store was started in L877, and occupies the building at No. 538 Union\\nstreet. This business was started with a small capital, but since its inception has\\nsteadily increased. He has by his untiring efforts and personal attention to business\\nbu lt up a large circle of friends and a correspondingly large business, both in tin city\\naud in the country surrounding. To those who will call on Mr. Howell we can safely\\nsay that his goods are always just what he represents them to be. He has establish d\\nhis trade by honest dealing aud he proposes to hold it in the same way.\\nA. 0. MELL0TT C0.,\\nFurniture, c, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nThe above conceru was started by the Marietta Chair Company in I860. In 1874\\nthe above firm succeeded the Chair Company. Since coming into the hands of the\\npresent owners, the business has been steadily increasing. The store is situated at\\nNo. 135 Belmont street and occupies a large two story building twenty-two feet front\\nby ninety feet deep. In these rooms is piled Parlor and Chamber Sets of Furniture of\\nall styles and grades. The undertaking department is complete aud isa specialty with\\nMr. Mellott, and besides his large stock of Furniture he furnishes a Hearse, Caskets,\\nCoffins, Robes, Crapes. Gloves, c, for funerals. This firm has a large local aud\\ncouutiy business which has been built up by an energy aud perseverence, character-\\nistic of its owners. A. O. Mellott is a native of Belmont county and came to Bellaire\\nin 1866. His career as a business mau has been one of marked success.\\nA. RICHARDSON,\\nGroceries and Produce, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nAway back in 1859, when the city of Bellaire was but a small village. Richardson\\nA- Brother started the above business with a capital of but $300.00. Under their\\ncareful and able management the busiuess has increased from year to year and to-day\\nit stands a monument to their industry and is deserving to rank among the solid busi-\\nnesses of Bellaire. The store is situated at No. L L l Thirty-second street, and is a\\nbuilding L OxdU feet, well stocked with a large and varied supply of Foreign and do-\\nmestic Groceries, c. Starting with a capital of $300.00 they now carry a stock of\\n$1,500.00, and do an annual business of about $20,000.00. Two clerks are kept con-\\nstantly employed. They are attentive to the wants of customers, always ready and\\nwilling to wait on those who call.\\nMr. Richardson is also agent for the B. 0. Express Company in Bellaire. This\\nbusiness is in charge of his son Geo. F. Richardson, who is also bookkeeper for tin-\\ngrocery store. Mr. Richardson was born in Dracuth, Massachusetts, and afterwards\\nremoved to Lowell in the same State, where he commenced his business career. On\\nthe 23d of June, 1856, he removed t this city, and commenced business as above\\nstated. He has been actively engaged in the various enterprises which have made his\\nadopted city what she now is, and we heartily recommend his store to our readers.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "Jv^98 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. S\\\\\\nN. STEINHAUSER,\\nWholesale and Retail Liquors, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nThe above establishmeni is situated on Union street, No. 335,andis the largest con-\\ncern of the Mud in Bellaire. This stove was started in 1876 by the present owner\\nwith a small cash capital, and since its very inception has proven a valuable invest-\\nment\u00e2\u0080\u0094the increase over the first year s business being very large and still increasing.\\nThe building is a two-story, twenty-five feet front by one hundred feet in depth, and is\\nfilled with a choice stock of Wines, Liquors. c, both imported and domestic. Mr.\\nSteinhauser keeps none but the very best of Liquors, and customers who wish to buy\\na good article should not fail to give hiiu a call.\\nBELLAIRE BOILER WORKS.\\nProminent among the industries of Bellaire is the concern which heads this article.\\nStarted in L87.1 by the present owner, James B. Barnhill, they have from their incep-\\ntion been a financial success, increasing largely each year. They are the only Boiler\\nWorks in the city where all descriptions of Sheet Iron Work is done. The ground\\noccupied by these works is quite extensive, on which is erected one building forty\\nfeet front by eighty feet deep. The works are erected on the line of the C. A: P. li.\\nK. and on the hanks of the Ohio river, thus giving them all the advantages of ship-\\nment either by water or railroad. James 1 Barnhill was born in Pittsburgh in 1837,\\nand came to Bellaire in 187~ He is a practical workman, having been in the busi-\\nness in the Smoky City before coming to Bellaire. Those who have anything to do\\nin his line will consult their interest by calling on him. as he can do the work as well\\nand as cheap as any concern in the United States.\\nFREE BURT.\\n503 South Union Street, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nA work professing to give in detail an adequate display of the commercial and man-\\nufacturing advantages of this city, would not be complete without more than a pass-\\ning notice of the concern which heads this article. H. H. Pree and P. H. Burt, Jr.,\\nare the individual members of this extensive concern; they are dealers in Sash. Doors,\\nAc, Leather and Findings, Hides, Pelts, c. This firm, although starting on a lim-\\nited capital, have steadily increased their business, and at this time it would be im-\\npossible for us to give the figures in regard to then growing trade suthce it to say that\\nthey are doing a first class trade, and they are gentlemen whom we have no hesitancy\\nin recommending to our readers. They are well known and universally liked in the\\ncity which tiny have adopted for their business life. It would be a good idea for\\nthose who contemplate building a house to call on this firm before purchasing the ma-\\nterial for building. The stork of Doors. Sash. c, are all made of No. 1 seasoned\\nlumber, and there is therefore no danger of warping.\\nManufacturers agents for the celebrated Calvert Oak Sole Leather.\\nGEORGE MATHISON,\\nWholesale and .Retail Hats and Caps, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nThe above is the bon ton hat store of Bellaire and has for its customers the b?au\\nmonde of the city, in April of the present year. Mr. George Mathison, with an eye\\nopen to the interests of Bellaire, opened at the corner of Belmont and Thirty-third\\nstreets an exclusively hat store, where will always be found a large stock of the latest\\nstyles of Hats and Caps, from the dandy silk to the urchin s ten cent chip hat. The\\nsteadily increasing trade of Mr. Mathison proves conclusively that he is being appre-\\nciated by the people of Bellaire and vicinity, and also that his is a good house with\\nwhich to deal. His sales during this year will probably reach the sum of from\\n$3,000.00 15,000.00, and this with a capital of $2,000.00 invested is, to say the\\nleast, a good showing. Mr. Mathison is a native of Wheeling, where he was born in\\nL857. He has always been highly esteemed by those who know him in Wheeling.\\nIn 1879 he removed to Bellaire to embark in the above business, which under his\\nable management has been so successful. During his brief stay in Bellaire he has\\nformed an extensive and highly cultivated acquaintance, and though a young man is\\nentitled to rank among Bellaire s solid business men.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "5?\\nTHE rNDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n09\\nJ. F. SHARP,\\nRetail Grocer, Bridgeport, Ohio.\\nOf all family necessities there arc none so fall of solicitude and care to the careful and\\nprudent housewife as her stock of groceries. How can she beexp cted to provide ap\\npetizing meals for the family if her groceries are not good? Give her good flour and\\nshe will provide good bread let her supply of sugars, pepper, salt and other condi-\\nments be first-class and the food will be nicely and properly seasoned. A good, honest,\\ncapable grocer is a blessing to the housekeeper. Such an one Mr. Sharp claims to\\nbe in au eminent degree; giving his entire time, attention and energy to his business\\nhe is justly entitled to his claim. Mr. Sharp was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1848. He\\ncame to Bridgeportin L859. In L876 he commenced business with a small capital, and\\nso well have his well directed energy, unremitting attention and ecu teous demeanor\\nbeen repaid, that his business is now a flourishing one amounting to some $600.00 per\\nyear. He aims to keep a, full stock of Staple, Fancy, and Family Groceries of all\\nkinds, pure and fresh. He warrants his goods to be of prime quality and condition\\nsurpassed by none. He guarantees satisfaction and investigation of his stock. Mr.\\nS. has been the recipient of favor in a public capacity, having been selected by his\\nfellow citizens for the responsible position of Township Treasurer, in which he Si\\nthem with honor and ability for four years.\\nS. HORKHEIMER CO.,\\nImporters and Wholesale Dealers in Wines and Liquors, Wool, sheep Pelts,\\nFurs, c. Nos. 115.4 Water and 1, 3 5 Twelfth Street.\\nAmong the substantial. A No. 1 houses in Wheeling, there are none that for bu-\\nsiness sagacity, energy, commercial and financial ability outrank this. Fixing their aim\\nat the highest commercial\\npoint, they claim with jus-\\ntice that they ha e almost\\naccomplished this obje t.\\nand they can claim that\\nstant labor and\\nindustry hiive been devoted\\nto tne task of building up\\nan establi anient in which\\ncustomers can rely on find-\\ning everything that exper-\\nbe wor-\\nthy of confidence. 1 h\\nmembers of the firm are\\nGermans, and com;\\nviessrs. s. horkln imer, it.\\nBaer, H. Horkheimer, M.\\nHorkheimer, and L. Hork-\\nheimer. The senior mem-\\nber, S. Horkheimer, com-\\nmenced business in vVbods-\\nfield, Monroe county. Ohio.\\nremo ing from there in\\n18.18 to Wheeling, where he\\nbegan business again on a\\nlimited capital. The re-\\nsults Of his business life\\n^V~ arc abundantly shown, not\\n*~^*-sr _ -^T only by the Lmmensi\\nness done by the firm, DO, 10(1, and a stock constantly on hand amount-\\ning to fully 100, 000; but by the confidence reposed in him 1 his fellow-citizens\\nin calling on him to give them the benefit of his ability and sound judgment in pub-\\nlie matters he having been for years a prominent member of the City Council, a.\\nDirector in Banking institutions. Fire Insurance Companies, and Manufacturing I\\npanies. In all positions which lie has been called upon to serve Mr. Hork .eimer has\\ndisplayed distinguished ability and given faithful service. The younger members of", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": ",0^100 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. Nj^\\nthe firm all stand high in the business community for integrity, capacity and good\\njudgment. This firm has a branch house in Zanesville, Ohio. They are probably,\\nwithout exception, the heaviest wool dealers in all tins section, handling enormous\\nquantities. Their place of business is on one of the most prominent corners in the\\ncity a three-story brick, 24x120 feet. They employ 22 hands in their three depart-\\nments their monthly pay-roll reaching the sum of $1,300.00. In addition to this,\\nthis firm cany on an extensive sheep skin tannery, the most improved and thorough\\non this side of the Allegheny mountains this is a three-story building, 5oxl00 feet.\\nThis branch of their business is carried on with their accustomed ability, and is the\\nonly establishment of this khid in West Virginia. In this are one boiler and one en-\\ngine. Such linns as this give business tone and reputation to any city, and are uner-\\nring indices of her prosperity and availability for business enterprises. Their trade\\nas may be imagined, is very extensive, and is located in West Virginia, Ohio. Penn-\\nsylvania and Maryland, and for wool, in Massachusetts. The reputation of the firm\\nextends over the whole country, and might be said to be national: and exercises a\\nwide spread and marked influence on the reputation, not only of the city, but Suite.\\nBL0CH BROTHERS\\nWholesale Grocers and Dealers in Specialties, JNo. 1137 Main street, Suc-\\ncessors to S. S. Bloch.\\nThese gentlemen are extensive packers of specialties in thegrocery line, among\\nit i -h may be enumerated Canned Mountain Trout, Beef Sal ad, Tripe Salad, Pickled\\nEels and Lamb s Tongues. They are also manufacturers of American, Swiss and\\nLimburg Cheese. .The articles mentioned are warranted first-class and unrivalled\\nin the market. They form, however, lnu a part of their large and varied stock,\\namong which may be found every article known to the trade, all of which may I it-\\nhad at the closest figures for cash or approved credit. The proprietors are both\\nyoung men, (neither of them being over thirty years of age) and have established,\\nin but a very few years, one of the largest trades in the city. Their home trade\\nwill compare favorably with that of any house in Wheeling, and their trade abroad\\nis simply immense, extending, as it does, to all parts of the country. Considering\\nthis, it is surprising that it should have been accomplished so soon by such very\\nyoung men. It is, however, only another illustration of the fact that some men\\nare born business men, and really have but little to learn in its prosecution, while\\nothers, not shaped by nature for business, will goon plodding for _ years, ere they\\ncan learn the first principles of the trade.\\nBLOCH BROTHERS,\\nManufacturers of Cigars and Smoking Tobaccos, No- 1317 Main Street\\nAs will be seen elsewhere, the memlvers of this firm are also wholesale grocers,\\nand have been sufficiently alluded to in the latter capacity. We here speak of\\ntheir Tobacco and Cigar trade. The individual members of this firm are S. S.\\nBloch and Aaron Bloch, sons of S. S. Bloch, deceased. The deceased was a native\\nof Germany, but the sons were born in Wheeling. This manufactory of Tobacco.\\nCigars, c, is one of the largest in the State, and employs, it is claimed, the largest\\nnumber of hands employed in any other similar establishment in the city of\\nWheeling. From fifty-five to sixty hands, find constant employment in this ex-\\ntensive manufactory. These workmen, being all first-class operatives receive, as\\na matter of course, first-class wages. Such being the case, it may be inferred that\\nthe products of this factoiT are equal if not superior to those of any other house\\nin the city or State. This accounts for the fact that Messrs. Bloch are always\\ncrowded with orders for goods manufactured by them. Virginians, Pride of\\nWest Virginia Cigars are their specialties. Their workmen are never idle for\\neven a single day. No inferior articles are permitted to enter into the compositions\\nof anything sent out of this celebrated establishment, whither it be goods of a low\\ngrade or those of a higher kind. Wherever the goods of this popular house are in-\\ntroduced they rapidly come into favor. They are handled by the largest jobbers\\nin the Union. The constantly increasing trade of this tobacco house establishes\\nthe fact that the goods sent out of it are unsurpassed bv any in the country. Messrs.\\nBloch are always ready to meet the views of the closest buyers for cash, or on time.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "/C^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 101 X\\nJONES BRO\\nCopper, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware 1163 Market Street.\\nReliability and practical workmanship united with business tacl and polite, ac-\\ncommodating manners are sure indicators of success. In Messrs. .limes Bro.\\ntheee qualification will be assuredly found by all who patronize them. Messrs.\\nH F. and J. II. Jones compose the firm, horn in this State, they came to the city\\nin 1863, and commenced learning their business. In 1873 they began business\\non their own account and the possession of the qualities mentioned above have in-\\ncreased their business from a small capita] to at least $10,00000 per year. They\\nmanufacture all articles entering into their trade in upper, Tin and Sheet Iron and\\ndeal in all kinds of Stoves and House Furnishing Goods. Their place of business\\nis in a very prominent locality opposite city building, Messrs. Jones Bro. give\\ntheir personal supervision to all work done hy them and have uniformly given\\nentire satisfaction to their patrons. Skillful, throughbrec! mechanics, their work\\nwill stand the test of the severest criticism. All goods usually found in this class\\nof houses will he found in their stock and of the very best quality and make.\\nRepairing of all kinds receives their special attention.\\nO.P. WHITTAKER, FREs T. N. E. WHITTAKER, SECY.\\nWHITTAKER IRON COMPANY,\\nWorks, South Side of Wheeling Creek, above Jacob Street.\\nThis extensive Iron Works is one of the largest in the city. It was built about the\\nyear 1819 or 1850, and originally was used for the purpose of manufacturing railroad\\niron, but the present company have devoted it to the purpose of making all kinds of\\nSheet, Plate, Tank Iron. c. in the product of which they have quite an extensive\\ncapital invested. These Iron Works are equalled by few enterprises of the kind in\\nthe country, either in the superiority of manufacture, or to the ljtoss amount of ma-\\nterial produced. This enterprise has advantages, both in the home and foreign mar-\\nkets, not possessed by many others of the kind- having extensive coal mines within\\na few hundred feet of the milk. An abundance of orders keep these extensive works\\nin almost constant operation, both day and night, with the exception of such times\\nwhen stoppage for repairs is necessaay.\\nThe capacity of these mills may be easily inferred, from the fact that they are con-\\nducted in buildings covering an area of ground 500x100 feet. About two hundred\\nhands are employed in this establishment, to whom is paid over $12,000 as monthly\\nwages. A large home and foreign demand keep these works with a constant surplus\\nof orders.\\nIn the manufacture of Sheet, Plate. Tank Iron. Ac. the Whittaker Iron Works\\nhave become the synonym for the production of the most superior articles in their\\nhue of trade, wherever these goods are introduced embracing nearly every section\\nof the Union. The iron business in the United States, during the past four or five\\nyears, has been put to a very severe and trying ordeal, from which it has not, even\\nyet, entirely recovered. This company, however, proved itself equal to the emer-\\ngency, and* relaxed no effort to meet the supreme demands of the hour. Although\\nprofits are light, the Whittaker Iron Works fills all orders which offer a margin over\\nthe cost of production, even if the net gain be small preferring to keep their ma-\\nchinery running, rather than let rust which is greater than wear and tear -make in-\\nroads on their capital.\\nwillianTalexanderT\\nWholesale and Retail Grocer, Bridgeport, Ohio.\\nOne of the largest and most extensive grocery establishments in Bridgeport is that\\nof Wm. Alexander, successor to Bates A- Alexander. Mr. Alexander started with J.\\nA. Gray A Co. in 1849 in a comparatively moderate way. His energy, enterprising\\ndisposition and close personal attention, has yielded him that much gratifying result\\nto the true man of business qualifications and abilities, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0success. and he now tran-\\nsacts a flourishing and steadily increasing business. He carries a large and complete\\nstock of choice family groceries, Flour, Teas, Sugars. Coffees, Spices, and in facl e\\\\ en-\\narticle usually found in a first class, well regulated establishment of this kind, vary-\\ning in value from $8,000 to $10,000. His annual trade will average $40,000. He\\ndevotes his personal attention to the business, and his house has achieved an enviable\\ntfl", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nreputation for mercantile integrity. Mr. Alexander is a native of Greenville, Pa.,\\nand commenced to learn his business with John Hogg, of Mt. Pleasant. Ohio. His\\ntrade extends through Belmont, Guernsey and Harrison counties. He has done a\\nprosperous and steadily increasing business, and his house is fully entitled to a prom-\\ninent position among the representative houses of Bridgeport and this section.\\nC. M. RHODES CO.,\\nWholesale Grocers, Bridgeport, Ohio.\\nThis house was started away back in 184fl by E. P. Rhodes, and justly ranks as\\none of the pioneer establishments of this section. It then assumed a position which\\nit has since retained of being one of the responsible institutions of Belmont county,\\nand has built up a very large and growing trade through actual merit and continued\\nfair dealing through a long series of years of active business. A very large capital\\nis invested, and an immense and very complete stock of everything in their hue is\\ncarried the year round. Mr. E. P. Rhodes, retiring some years ago, the present\\nmembers of the firm are Messrs. M. Rhodes and 0. T. Rhodes. This establish-\\nment is one justly claiming a particular notice in our work, as they do a business\\nsecond to none in this section of the country, and surpassed by few in rnuch more\\npretentious localities. They occupy a handsome building 40x80 feet and three\\nstories high. Their trade extends through this and adjoining counties. Any busi-\\nness transactions with this firm will be always attended to strictly and promptly.\\nThey are agents for the Kings Great Western Powder Company, and keep a maga-\\nzine near Bridgeport, in which their supplies are stored. They employ four hands,\\nbesides book-keeper and salesman, Both members of the firm are natives of this\\nplace, Mr M. Rhodes being born December loth, 184 No house in this section\\nstands higher for integrity and square dealing, Mr. C. M. Rhodes is also a member\\nof the firm of Rhodes Dunlevy, Diamond Flour Mill.\\nU. J. DUFFIELD, 1106 WATER STREET,\\nManufacturer of all kinds of Copper work for Steamboats and Distilleries Cop-\\nper Kettles of all sizes made to order special attention to Copper\\nKettles for Sweitzer Cheese.\\nThe quality of his work\\ncompares favorably with any\\nin the United States. This is\\nthe oldest establishment in^the\\ncity. He learned the busi-\\nness in Wheeling, and has fol-\\nlowed it here ever since. He\\nsupervises every job done in\\nhis establishment, and is wry\\ncareful to let no deflective\\nwork go out of it. Mr. Dnf-\\nfield s establishment is known\\nall along the Ohio, Mississip-\\npi and Missouri rivers, and in\\nfact pretty much along all the\\nwestern rivers and (heir trib-\\nutaries, as a shop that cannot\\nbe surpassed for good work.\\nMr. Duffield having been so long in the business, gives him an experience that can\\nbe depended on by those sending him orders: hence his great reputation in his par-\\nticular calling. V\\\\ e doubt if there is a person in this business, from Pittsburgh to\\nNew Orleans, that is better known than Mr. Duffield. He is always on hand and\\noffers work in his line at the lowest figures. Mr.- Duffield makes large cheese kettles\\nand sends them to different States: also agricultural and family boilers with fruit\\nboiler combined. The above boilers are Mr. Duffield s own invention, and have given\\nentire satisfaction. A number of references can be obtained in this city in their\\nfavor.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "J^P THE INDUSTRIES OK WHEELING. 103H^\\nTHE BELLAIRE SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY.\\nOffice in Bellaire.\\nThe Bellaire \u00c2\u00abS Southwestern Railway Company was organized in L875. The qap-\\nital stock was subscribed to the amount of two hundred and forty thousand dollars,\\non the first division, from Bellaire to Wbodsfield, forty-two miles. Surveys made,\\nand estimates calculated, placed the cost at $12, 000 per mile; I ml the excellent man-\\naent and rigid economy, connected with the shrinkage in the cost of labor and\\nsupplies, have reduced the cost of the road, fully completed and equipped, to $10,000\\nper mile. The twenty-nine miles, now completed, gives evidence of good man\\nagement, rare executive ability and unusual engineering skill. The bridging and\\ntrestling are substantial and well built, showing thai no pains or expense were spared\\nin those parts of the construction requiring special care and in avoiding too many\\nami ton abrupt, curves, it was necessar\\\\ in build a great deal of trestle work. The\\nballasting of the road is progressing, and in a short time there will be no easier, pleas-\\nanter road to ride on in the State. The. ascent of t lit; road from the river level, is\\nquite t a] iid. requiring a grade in many places of one hundred and thirty feet to the\\nmile, and the sensation to the passenger of an up grade of an unusual degree, is often\\nvery apparent. The road passes through a rich country, hitherto accessible only by\\nthe usual country roads, frequently impassable in the winter season, opening up to\\nthe fanners the B sllaireand Wheeling markets, giving them facilities forthe transporta-\\ntion of their products, which alone is worth the price of the road. To the tourist or\\npersons seeking relaxation from labor, or the mere seeker alter pleasure, a trip over\\nthis road presents unusual attractions passing rapidly through the diversified scenery\\nof the country, now skimming along the side of some creek, then rapidly mounting\\nto the hill-tops, the scene constantly changing, the whole country dotted with ele-\\ngantly built, comfortable farm houses, the sheep and cattle browsing in the fields,\\ngive a pleasant tone and vivacity to the trip, reminding one somewhat of the ascent\\nof the White Mountains. Tor picnics and pleasure excursions, this country presents\\ngreat facilities and attractions. There are numerous delightful groves and shady re-\\ntreats, specially adapted for parties of these kinds. There could be no pleasauter\\nresort, from the noise and bustle of the city, than some of the points on this mad.\\nNumerous views can be obtained alone the road of great beauty and interest. Some\\nof them, from the hill-tops, are really grand, looking for miles and miles over the\\nhills and valleys, the view embracing every feature of a beautiful landscape, the cul-\\ntivated fields, and in autumn the shady groves of trees with their variegated leases,\\nthe white farm houses and barns, there are many of I hem really entrancingly beau-\\ntiful, and well worth a trip over the road. The company will extend liberal induce-\\nments to picnics and pleasure parties seeking points for these purposes, and it is\\ntheir intention to make their road the popular one for parties of this kind, and it is\\nvery certain there are few roads that can claim better facilities, or more of them, for\\nthese holiday excursions and parties. The business of the road is already very good,\\nfully coming up to the expectations of its projectors, and when fully completed to\\nWbodsfield, it will, beyond doubt, be a good paying investment, as it will have a mo-\\nnopoly of the carrying trade of the country through which it passes at full tariff rates.\\nThe road is of the narrow gauge system, which has become so popular of late years,\\nand which experience has taught to be better adapted for the. economical handling\\nand transportation of the business of the country. The cost is less than the broad\\ngauge, the wear and t ar of track and machinery much less, the handling of trains\\nmuch more economical, and current expenses, incident to working the road, greatly\\nreduced. The location and direction of the road is unquestionably excellent in its\\nselection, opening up a country that had practically no outlet for its farm and other\\nproducts, giving the dense population of this s sction fa iilities for the transmission to\\nbusiness centers of the fruits of their industry, and thereby stimulating them to\\ngreater and renewed eif orts. The officers of the company are S. L. Mooney, Presi-\\ndent; A. Armstrong, Vice-President; A. W. Anderson, Secretary and Treasure]-.\\nThe Executive Committee is composed of the following gentlemen: S. L. Mooney,\\nW. T. Morris, A. H. Caldwell. W. M. Armstrong, G. W. Sanders, A. W. Anderson,\\nE. G. Morgan. The road will be completed to Woodsfield, the county seat of Mon-\\nroe county, by December 1st, 1870. On the occasion of the speech of lion. I). W.\\nVoorhees, on the 8th of Octoberin Bellaire, this roa 1 carried fully five hundred passen-\\ngers from the country into Bellaire, evidencing already a capacity and energy wortl y\\nof great commendation.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "JvX 104 THE INDUSTRIES OK WHEELING, X^\\\\\\nJ. W. SELLERS, PHOTOGRAPHER,\\n301 Union St., Bellaire, Ohio.\\nThere are many still living who remember the time when it was almost impossible\\nfor a person in moderate circumstances to possess a picture of himself or friend. It\\nwas the breaking of a glad day, therefore, when the rude daguerreotype and then\\nthe ambrotype could be procured. These were eventually superceded by photo-\\ngraphs, which certainly was another step toward the perfect likeness. At the art\\ngallery of Mr. Sellers, the consummation of the highest skill is manifested in the va-\\nrious branches of the art. In the first place he has been careful to secure the most\\nperfect aparatus having done this, he has constructed a skylight upon the most im-\\nproved aud scientific principles, so that he shall not have any difficulties to contend\\nwith in these respects. Besides being a natural artist, Mr. Sellers has had close and\\nrigid culture and long experience, and has kept pace with the most progressive ideas.\\nThese qualifications not only make him master of the profession, but give him a wider\\nrange in the judgment of style, position, color and shades best suited to his subject.\\nHis studio is made most inviting to the critic or lover of art. His walls and cases\\nshow the finest specimens that the art can produce in photographs or other styles of\\nwork. Copying and enlarging old pictures is made a specialty by him. Mr. Sellers\\nis a gentlemen of refinement and public spirit, and has been associated with the bus-\\niness interests and general prosperity of Bellaire since 1862.\\nS. L BRICE, DRUGGIST,\\nThe above gentleman has been established in South Wheeling, as a druggist and\\nprescriptionist. for quite a number of years. The establishment is situated on the\\nline of the city street railway cars, and has the reputation of being one of the most\\nreliable prescription offices in the entire city. Mr. Brice has a full stock of such ar-\\nticles as are usually found in a first-class store of the kind. The capital invested in\\nthis business is $3,000.00. There are two assistants, who are skilled and expert in\\ntheir difficult art. The proprietor himself is well known throughout the city as a\\ngentleman entirely devoted to his profession, and possessed of sufficient experience,\\ntact and talent to have his business conducted with all the system aud order that is\\nobserved in a medical school. Drugs are things which require the keenest eye and\\nthe soundest judge to deal in for if these articles are not perfectly fresh and sound,\\nno matter what skill the physician may have in dictating a prescription, it will be\\ncomparatively vain, and indeed sometimes injurious to the person for whom it is in-\\ntended. First-class articles only are used at Mr. Brice s store for this purpose. Pres-\\ncriptions compounded day and night.\\nR. M. THEAKER,\\nHardware, Cutlery, c, Martin s Ferry, Ohio.\\nThis store is situated in Medill s building on Hanover street, where everything\\nusually found in a first-class store of this kind is kept by this gentleman, and offered\\nquite as cheaply as it can be purchased abroad. There was a time, and not many\\nyears since, that an enterprise like this, in Martin s Ferry, would have been consid-\\nered a doubtful undertaking, but the proprietor had the foresight to see that the suc-\\ncess of such a thing in a city so large as Martin s Ferry, only depended on one con-\\ndition, aud that was a complete assortment on hand at all times, and at such prices as\\nwould leave no inducement to those who had been in the habit of buying abroad to\\ncontinue in doing so. This condition he fully complied with, and he has now quite a\\nflourishing hardware trade in this busy and thriving corporation. His room is fully\\nstocked with an endless line of hardware, cutlery, iron, nails, glass, etc. No need\\nfor citizens of this locality to go over to Wheeling for anything pertaining to the\\ntrade, as lie sells first-class goods and at low prices, from the most important article\\nin the line down to those of the most insignificant character. A large Stock of Stoves\\nand Tinware, Oils, Paints and Varnishes, Porcelain and Granite Iron Ware.\\nJOHN REED CO.,\\nMaltsters and Hop Dealers, No. 1425 South Street.\\nThe individuals compi-ising this firm are John Beed, Esq., President of the Peo-\\nple s Bank of this city, and Killian Kress, proprietor of the Eagle Brewery. These", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "fCp THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 105^^\\ngentlemen either buy. or sell if desired, malt, hops and barley in quantities at whole-\\nsale. Mr. Reed attends mostly to the purchasing of these commodities, having had\\na large experience in the business. They give the very highest prices for these goods,\\nand buy in lots, no matter how large, (Mr. Reed being a heavy capitalist) whenever\\noffered. A farmer need have no difficulty in finding a market for his commodities in\\nthis hue, for here is the place all the year round to dispose of what he may have to\\nsell. He will always be treated well by these gentlemen. No man in this whole\\ncommunity stands higher in character, as a business man, than Mr. Heed. He has\\nlived in the city for nearly half of a century, and has always had the utmost confi-\\ndence shown him by business men, and in fact the whole community. Their trade\\nextends quite a distance in the surrounding States and is enormous!} large, and of\\ncourse remunerative. Bring on your products, farmers, these gentlemen are always\\nready to buy.\\nJOSEPH BELL CO..\\nCorner of Fourth and Main Streets.\\nThis well known and long established Poundrj is one of the oldest in the State.\\nIt has often been said by the proprietors of this well established business, that they\\nneed no advertising. If this could be said with truth, of any enterprise in Wheeling\\nthe eminent success in business of Joseph Bell fe Co. would seem to entitle them\\nto such a flattering and advantageous position as the one alluded to but the truth is,\\nthat there is no industry, however large, that is not still further enlarged by a judi-\\ncious use of prmters ink. The object of The Industries and Statistics of Wheel-\\ning, C, is twofold, however first, to show to persons abroad the magnitude and\\nimportance of Wheeling as a manufacturing and commercial point, and secondly,\\nwhile so doing, to benefit the subscribers to the work, by giving, in as much detail as\\nour space will allow, the leading features, c, of the business of each establishment,\\nand in such a manner, as to attract, if possible, additional patronage from the public\\nat large. This work, however, would fail entirely in what it purports to be, weresuch\\nan extensive and prominent manufactory as that of Joseph Bell Co. omitted from\\nits pages. This Foundry has a frontage on Main street of 150 feet, and extends well\\nback to the Ohio river, where it has a western front of loo feet. The moulding room\\nalone is quite large, being 100 by 90 feet. The mounting shop and pattern room is\\n140 by 28 feet, and is four stories high the ware-room is 60 feet square, and two sto-\\nries high. In the entire establishment there are 70 hands employed, who have every\\nfacility for turning out superior eastings, as every modern appliance known to the\\ntrade is used at this progressive and enterprising establishment. Prominent among\\nthe products of this Foundry is the well known and favorite Arlington Stove. which\\nhas no superior, if an equal, in any part of the country. This celebrated stove lias\\nstood the test of a long series of years, and human ingenuity has hitherto been unable\\nto supplant it in favor with the hour.ewives of the land. The Arlington has become.\\nso to speak, a household word, in domestic economy. The trade of the house of Jos.\\nBell Co. extends through the North, South. East and West, and is the most exten-\\nsive in the State, The senior member of the firm, Joseph Bell, Esq.. has served\\nthe public in different capacities he has been a member of the Legislature of West\\nVirginia, and has held other positions of public trust. The other members of the firm\\nare David Bell and C. H. Senseney. Esqs.\\nA.J. SWEENEY SON.\\nManufacturers of Steam Engines, Boilers, Heavy and .Light Castings. General\\nMachinery, Mowing and Reaping Machines.\\nThis varied and extensive manufactory is the oldest establishment of the kind in\\neither the city or State. It was originally organized by a Joint Stock Company, in\\n1824. In 1830 the Hon. Thomas Sweeney, father of the senior member of the present\\nfirm, purchased it. and it remained in his hands for a long series of years. Tin works\\nare now. however, on a much larger scale than ever before. Few establishments in\\nthe United States surpass them in capacity, and very few equal them in quality of\\nwork turned out. They consist of nine large, brick buildings, which occupy quite two\\nand a half acres of ground in the extreme northern part of the city, known as the\\n1st Ward. This vast concern has five departments, capable of giving employment\\nto three hundred and fifty hands, to whom would be paid as wages $2,500.00 weekly.\\nThe works are propelled by three large steam engines of. in the aggregate, ninety", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "^0^106 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. x5\\\\\\nhorse power, supplied by five large boilers. The individual partners are A. J.\\nSweeney and Jno. M. Sweeney, father and son. A. T. Sweeney is the bookkeeper.\\nThe trade of this manufactory is quite large at home, and very extensive throughout the\\nUnion. A vast amount of machinery that is made at these works is shipped to the wes-\\ntern and southern rivers. Quite a heavy trade is done in Agricultural implements, such\\nas Mowers and Reapers, which go to all parts of the country. Col. A. J. Sweeney is one\\nof our most prominent citizens. He has been Mayor of the city so often, that recap-\\nitulation would seem almost unnecessary, but as this work is intended to contain, not\\nex -hide such matter, we insert it here. He has been the Mayor of the city of\\nWheeling for the several terms of 1861, 62. 65, GO, 67, 75, 7G, 77, 78 and the\\npresent unexpired term of 79 and 80. We doubt whether there is another city in the\\nUnited States that has so signally honored a citizen in this respect. He is a gentle-\\nman of notable administrative ability, a fine parliamentarian, and possessed of quite a\\nliberal share of political and general culture. He was chosen by Council in 1855, to\\nfill the unexpired tenn of Mayorality, of the Hon. James Paull, who had then just\\nbeen elected to the Legislature of Virginia. This was Col. Sweeney s first appear-\\nance in public life. He is one of the most efficient citizen s that Wheeling ever had,\\neither in a private or public capacity, and enjoys a personal popularity, second to that\\nof no other public man in the city or State.\\nO KANE DIVINE,\\nManufacturers and Dealers in Boots and Shoes. No. 1107 Main Street.\\nThere is no branch of industry carried on in this city of more importance or better\\nworthy of notice in our work than the Boot and Shoe trade. A business that requires\\nnot only abilities of a first class order, but sound judgment and discrimination enabling\\nthe parties in the trade to cater successfully to the varying tastes of the public In a\\nbusiness so extensive and general as this, there are, of course, many who engage in it\\nwho do not possess these qualifications, and we desire to call the attention of our\\nreaders to a firm, who, by strict attention to their business, liberal and honorable\\npolicy, and concientious adherence to the desires and instructions of their customers,\\nhave assumed a leading position in the trade of this section. We refer to Messrs.\\nO Kane Divine. They started business in 1868, in a moderate way, which, from\\ntheir business habits and able management, has increased from year to year, achieving\\na prominence in their trade well known in commercial circles and a most gratifying re-\\nsult of their labors. The manufactory and salesroom of this firm are located in a three\\nstory brick building on Main street, the most prominent business thoroughfare in the\\ncitv. They employ nine hands in their manufactory, taming out all grades of Gen-\\ntlemen s, Ladies and Children s wear, from the very finest known to the trade to the\\nplainer and cheaper articles. The proprietors are both practical men in their busi-\\nness, thoroughly educated to it by years of close application being probably\\nthe longest in the trade of any house now in Wheeling. They employ none but first\\nclass finished woi-kmen, and in ladies wear of their own manufacture enjoy a reputa-\\ntion equal to the large houses in the eastern cities. Their factory is run to its fullest\\ncapacity, and a large and complete stock of all goods in their line, of all grades in qual-\\nity, sizes and prices, will always be found in this establishment.\\nLEWIS CLEMENS,\\nMetropolitan Shaving Saloon, No. 5 Washington Hall Building.\\nThere is probably nothing in a man s necessities that he is so particular about as\\nhis shaving and this can readily be made a trial or a great pleasure. To have your\\nface manipidated, when the hirsute appendage is being removed, by cool, soft, deft\\nfingers, every movement gentle, every stroke of the keen, well kept razor, almost un-\\nf elt, gliding over the face with a soothing, refreshing sensation. You are perfectly clean\\nand smooth before you are aware of it then the dextrous, experienced hands busy\\nthemselves arranging your hair so softly and neatly that you awake as it were from a\\npleasant, delightful dream when your barber calls next. This is pleasure unal-\\nloyed. No where in Wheeling can this pleasure be obtained to so much perfection\\nas at the shaving parlors of Lewis Clemens. They have made it their aim, and\\nwith success, to render their saloon the most popular in the city. Employing none\\nbut the very best and most experienced hands, keeping everything about them neat\\nand clean, making their place of business inviting with its elegantly tarnished apart-\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "/V^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 107^A\\nmeats, they have justly assumed a position at the head of the tousorial fraternity in\\nWheeling. Their bathing rooms arc lilted up with the most modern and approved\\nappliances, well furnished and appointed, everything ready at a moment s notice for\\na delightful hath. In the hair-cutting department of their business they certainly\\ncannot lie excelled, both Boose and Tom being experts with the scissors. We gladly\\nrecommend to both citizen and stranger, in want of the services of a barber, the clean\\naud elegaut saloou of Lewis Clemens.\\nREED HOUSTON, DRUGGISTS,\\nJNlo. 2200 Main St., Center Wheeling.\\nThese gentlemen are the successors of Baguley Keed, who started the business\\nin 1853, at the same stand occupied by the present firm. Mr. Reed was formerly\\none of the lai ge wholesale drug house of Heed, Kraft Co., and is the inventor of\\nthe celebrated dian-hoea medicine known as Heed s Diaekhcea Mixture, which is\\nwidely known all over the country, and said to be an infallible cure for that common\\ncomplaint. Their present capital is $3. 000. 00. Besides themselves, they give em-\\nployment to two hands, who are perfectly competent assistants in this intricate and\\ndifficidt business. The individuals composing th e firm are James Keed and John M.\\nHouston. This is the oldest chug house in Center Wheeling, and does one of the\\nlargest businesses in the whole city. Prescriptions are carefully compounded\\nat all hours, day and night, and are of the very purest and reliable materials, for\\nwhich they charge the very lowest possible prices when compounded. Because you\\nmay not know the ingredients that enter into the composition of a prescription, is no\\nreason why you should be overcharged for the order you give this is often taken\\nadvantage of, however, by unscrupulous druggists. This never occurs at this house.\\nIt is a very conscientious and honorable one to deal with in this respect. Your igno-\\nrance in such matters is as much respected, in dealing with Reed Houston, as if\\nyou were an accomplished druggist yourself, and knew all about the cost of such ar-\\nticles.\\nGEO. HESSE,\\nCorner of 33d and Eoff Streets, South Wheeling, Dealer in Boots and Shoes.\\nMr. Hesse commenced business on April 1st, 1871), with $3,000.00 capital, and\\neverything appears to work in his favor, as his trade increases every month. Doubt-\\nless the fact that the stock is entirely new has much to do with it but this, unat-\\ntended by other circumstances, would not create such a trade as he is now doing.\\nHis prices are notoriously low for such goods. This latter consideration combined\\nw-ith the former, and added to the gentleman s pleasant manner of dealing, is calcu-\\nlated to make the ultimate success of any business the assured result of such consid-\\nerations. Here may be found the finest of Gaiters, Walking Shoes, Slippers, Heavy\\nBoots and Shoes, etc. If you wish good articles at a fair price, his store is the place\\nto get them.\\nKILLIAN KRESS,\\n1425 South street, Brewer of Ale, Porter and Brown Stout.\\nThis gentleman commenced brewing the above popular beverages in lS(i8. on a\\nsmall capital, but having determined to brew nothing but the very best that it was\\npossible for human skill to brew, his productions rapidly grew into public favor, and\\nbecame at once standard articles. Their sale kept increasing from year to year so\\nmuch, that it is now quite doubtful if his sale of the above articles is not the largest of\\nthat of any manufacturer in the city. Honesty is the best policy in everything.\\nHad the gentleman been so disposed, he coxdd have availed himself of a shorti r road\\nto wealth thau brewing a pure article, which road is well known to those in the trade\\nwho are less conscientious in the manufacture of the above beverages. But having\\ndetermined, from the beginning of his venture in business, thai his Ales, Porter and\\nBrown Stout should attain the celebrity thai they now enjoy, nothing has caused him\\nto swerve from the rigorous line of rectitude which he knew would, in the end. bring\\nhim a good name in the trade instead of a bad one. Kress s beverages are never\\ndoubted as to quality, and are in general demand in the city, and are largely shipped\\nabroad. West. East. North and South. A tirst order for these goods is sure to make a", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "/Cpl08 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. V\\\\\\npermanent customer. Near to the different railroad depots, he enjoys f acilities for\\nthe shipment of his excellent wares, not possessed by any other brewer in the city.\\nHaving sufficient capital to conduct a safe business, it is to be presumed that his bus-\\niness will still continue to increase, as it has done in the past. He is detei mined if\\nhonorable and straight forward dealing will ensure success, that he will obtain it.\\nHis prices for these goods are as low as they can be quoted by any other brewer who\\nbrews a first rate article, and will give the customer the same guarantee that he\\nwill.\\nJ. R. NAYLOR CO.,\\nNews Depot, Wall Paper, c, Bellaire, Ohio.\\nThere is probably no concern in the city of Bellaire more extensively patronized\\nthan is the one which heads this article. The business was started in 1874\\nby the present owners, with a small capital which has steadily increased. The store\\nis situated on the comer of Belmont and Thirty-third street, and is a large and well\\nventilated store, the cellar of which is used for paper bags and wrapping paper.\\nHere will be found News matter of all kinds, Daily and Weekly Papers from all parts\\nof the United States, School Books, Stationery and Blank Books. Wall Paper, Notions\\nand Toys, either wholesale or retail.\\nOTT, HALL CO.,\\nNo. 1206 Main Street.\\nWholesale dealers in Hardware, Foreign and Domestic Cutlery, and Saddler s\\nHardware. This popular establishment is the oldest house of the kind in the city,\\nand probably in this section of country. It owes its origin to Samuel Ott, Esq..\\nfather of two of the members of the present firm. Mr. Ott and Mr. Joseph Pollock\\ncommenced business under the firm name of Pollock Ott, above 11th street, in\\nL835. The name of the firm sometime afterwards became Samuel Ott. Subsequently\\nthe business was removed to the corner of 12th and Market streets, and was conduct-\\ned under the firm name of Ott fc Greer. After that, the name of the firm changed from\\ntime to time, as follows: Gkeeb, Ott Co., Ott Boyd, Ott Son, Ott, Son\\nCo., and lastly to that of the present firm. Thus it will be seen by the reader, that the\\nhouse is nearly a half of a century old, during which time an uninterrupted business\\nhas been conducted by the firms alluded to, which increased in volume from year to\\nyear, until it culminated in the present comprehensive and extensive trade of Ott.\\nHall Co. one of the most prominent firms in any line of business, either in the\\ncity or State, and one eminent for the energy and enterprise with which it prosecutes\\nits heavy and constantly growing trade. The building in which the business is con-\\nducted, is one of the largest and handsomest business houses in the State. It is a\\nthree story structure, one hundred and thirty-two feet in length, by thirty feet front.\\nA capacious cellar runs the entire length of the store. The cellar is full of articles\\npertaining to the trade, and serves the purpose of an additional story. This store, for\\nbusiness purposes, may propeiTy be called a four story one. Its extreme width and\\nheight of ceilings, which are It! feet, and the unusual length of the rooms make the\\ncapacity of this house quite equal to that of any double store room in the city. The\\nentire premises are packed with goods, from floors to ceilings. The stock of Messes.\\nOtt, Hall Co. will compare favorably with that of any house in the West, and\\nwith many of the prominent houses in the East. The energetic and progressive\\ncharacter of this firm, combined with their systematic and agreeable manner of doing\\nbusiness, has secured them an extensive trade both at home and abroad. The trade\\nof Messes. Ott, Hall Co. exclusive of the home trade, extends through West Vir-\\nginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio, where they are constantly represented by\\npersons connected with the establishment, who, aided by samples of a first class stock,\\nand low quotations, are not only enabled to retain the trade of the old patrons of the\\nhouse, but to secure that of new ones on nearly every business trip: Thirteen hands\\nare constantly kept busy in this heavily stocked concern, from early in the morning\\nuntil late at night, either selling or packing goods for shipment abroad. The pro-\\nprietors of this house are as constantly and industriously employed, as the employes.\\nEvery department in the house moves with the same regularity and order as a nicely\\nconstructed piece of machinery. The individual members of the firm are Morga\\nL. Ott, Wm. H. Hall, Henry O. Ott and Wm. P. Heiskell. These gentlemen are all", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "!cr THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 109^2*\\nfirst class business men the eminent success of the house, however, would indicate\\nthat the administrative ability of the establishment, is of the most enlightened charac-\\nter, in purchasing for tin- house, this firm never deals with what are known as\\nmiddle men, hut purchase direct from the manufacturers, both in this country and\\nin Europe. This, as a matter of course, enables them to sell goods at the lowest mar-\\ngins of profit, and insures a permanent trade.\\nHENRY SCHMULBACH CO.,\\nWholesale Liquor Dealers, No. 1133 Market Street.\\nA careful review, or detailed examination ot the various commercial enterprises of\\nWheeling, renders plain or apparent the justice of the reputation or celebrity which\\nshe enjoys abroad, for business energy and enterprise. Prominent among the business\\nhouses of the city, both on account of the magnitude of their business transactions and\\nthe ability and systematic manner of conducting their busines affairs, stands the estab-\\nlishment of Henry Schmulbach Co., started in 1862, by Mr. H. Schmulbach. From\\na small beginning, this concern has grown to be one of the largest and most influential\\nbusiness enterprises in the City. Mr. Schmulbach afterwards connected Messrs.\\nHenry Hanke and Solomon Kraus with his house, and these gentlemen under the\\ndirection of the senior. Mr. Schmulbach. have conducted the business with signal\\nability and marked success, sustaining the well earned reputation of the original pro-\\nprietor, and the house to-day is the most extensive of its kind in the State. They oc-\\ncupy the spacious and commodious double three story wai-ehouse, No. 1133 Market\\nstreet. 110 b\\\\ 25 I eet, carrying an average stock of about 75, 000. 00 consisting of\\nevery variety of Foreign Wines. Brandies, Gins, Rums and Cordials. Pure Eye and\\nBourbon Whiskies, the choicest brands, from the most renowned Distilleries in the\\ncountry. They enjoy a large city trade, with a liberal patronage from dealers and\\ndruggists throughout Eastern Ohio. West Virginia, Western Maryland and Pennsyl-\\nvania; their annual sales reaching $200,000.00. In addition to the stock carried in\\nthe warehouse, they keep constantly on hand, quantities of pure Liquors. Five as-\\nsistants are constantly employed by this house. Mr. Schmulbach is a native of Hesse\\nDarmstadt, he has several times been called on to serve his fellow citizens in a public\\ncapacity, generally declining, although we believe he served one term on the Board of\\nEducation.\\nAUGUSTUS POLLACK,\\nManufacturer of Crown, Mould, and Seed Stogy Cigars, also Crown, Standard,\\nSeal of West Virginia and other Superior Tobaccos, Numbers 1216, 1218, 1220,\\n1222 and 1224 Water Street.\\nThis is one of the most extensive tobacco works in the country, and infinitely the\\nlargest enterprise of the kind in West Virginia. This factory comprises five large de-\\npartments. The Wheeling establishment is an immense building, 73 by 100 feet, and\\nis four stories high. The amount of stock carried, is over $60,000.00, on which a\\nbusiness is annually done of from $150,000.00 to $200,000.00! Seventy-five hands\\nfind employment in these comprehensive works, and receive about $400.00 as weekly\\nwages. All of the equipments of this concern are of the most modern and approved de-\\nsign. The Tobacco Cutters are of immence size and capacity, and are opperated by\\nsteam power. In the manufacture of cigars\u00e2\u0080\u0094 known by the name of stogies, these works\\nare believed to be the largest in the world. The proprietor has a trade extending\\nfrom the river St. Lawrence to the Guif of Mexico. Large orders are constantly re-\\nceived from the Canadas. and even Great Britain. An annual stock of 200, 000 pounds\\nof leaf tobacco is carried, and none except double sweated, or fermented leaf is worked\\nin any of the departments of Mr. Pollack s Factories under any circumstances.\\nHe was the first cigar manufacturer who introduced the Mould Stogy, which has\\nbecome quite a favorite with smokers, and is in general demand, both at home and\\nabroad. As illustrative of what energy, foresight and perseverance\u00e2\u0080\u0094 combined with\\ncapital will do. we would allude to the fact that Mr. Pollack commenced the business\\nin 1871, on a capital of $40,000.00, which has increasad largely in volume. He is\\nnow a stockholder in many of the most prominent joint-stock companies of the city\\nand elsewhere, among which may be mentioned the German Bank, the Mtn Iron\\nand Nail Works, and the Germania Fire Insurance Company. Being a gentleman of\\nirreproachable merchantile and social character, he has. for quite a number of years,\\n*s", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "llO THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\na\\nbeen prominently before the public in different responsible positions. He was form-\\nally a member of the Board of Education. He also served as one of the members of\\nthe Directory of the Wheeling Female Seminary. ^From 1852 to 1871, he was large-\\nly in the wholesale notion and fancy goods business, which, however, in 1871, he\\nabandoned for the purpose of inaugurating the present extensive Tobacco and Cigar\\nenterprise, Mr. Pollack is a native of Westphalia, in Germany. There he received a\\ncollegiate education, this was supplemented by a tine commercial one in an eminent\\nbusiness house in Germany. These two elements are happily combined in Mr. P.\\nand to a certain extent, explain the secret of his well deserved success.\\nWHEELING HOSPITAL\\nThe Wheeling Hospital, the only Institution of the kind in the State of West Vir-\\nginia, was incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed March\\n12, 1850. It is located in North Wheeling, on the banks of the Ohio river. No site\\nwithin the city limits could be more retired, audyet more accessible and more happily\\nselected for the purposes of such an institution. Since its foundation, nearly thirty\\nyears ago, it has been under the management of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who devote\\nthemselves with assiduous care and solicitude to their patients. The well-deserved\\nreputation which these Sisters everywhere bear for their excellent nursing of the sick\\nand suffering, is the best guarantee that patients entering the Wheeling Hospital, will\\nreceive the very best treatment, and, as far as possible, all the comforts of home.\\nThe charges whether in the wards, or for private rooms, will, on comparison with the\\nrates in similar institutions, be found extremely moderate. These charges, which do\\nnot include physicians or surgeons fees, range from $4.50 to $10.00 a week.\\nU. S. Mai-ine patients are received and attended in accordance with the contract\\nmade with the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army.\\nSince the death, many years ago, of the distinguished Dr. Hullihen, the Physician\\nin charge, has been Dr. John Fi-izzell. His fame as both a surgeon and physician,\\nwhich has passed far beyond the boundaries of his own State, is a strong recommen-\\ndation of the merits of the Wheeling Hospital. But the Institution is open to ah the\\nMedical Faculty of the city, and patients are at liberty to employ the services of any\\nrespectable practitioner. It is understood, however, that in sending any patient to the\\nHospital, the Physician pledges his professional honor, that there is nothing in the\\nsubject which is excluded by the Hospital regulations. The number of eminent phy-\\nsicians and surgeons, who practice their profession in the city of Wheeling, to all of\\nwhose patients this Hospital offers its excellent accommodations, is a sufficient guaran-\\ntee to our less favored citizens in the interior of this State and in adjacent States, that\\nthey may here receive, at eompai atively light expense, the very best medical and sur-\\ngical attention and the most skillful treatment. All communications should be ad-\\ndressed, Sister in charge of\\nWheeling Hospital, Wheeling, W. Va.\\nN. W. BECK. 3 \\\\s. W. SIMPSON\\nBECK SIMPSON,\\nNo. 14 Sixteenth Street, Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters and Dealers in Steam\\nWhistles, c.\\nThis enterprising firm keeps in stock at all times a full supply of the above use\\nful articles in great variety. Anything not on hand either made to order, or ob\\ntained at the shortest notice. They are both experienced mechanics, and give\\ntheir personal attention to everything pertaining to their business, which they think\\nmuch better than entrusting work to half learned subordinates. Orders filled care-\\nfully and with dispatch. Send to them for work when you want it done, and it will be\\ndone well and cheap. They say they defy any one in the city to produce better work\\nfor the money than they will. If you wish Gas Fixtures introduced\\ninto your house, they will do you such work as to quality and price, that you will\\nlie sure to favor them with your patronage in this line ever in the future, as they\\nmake this latter feature a specialty*. Orders for street and garden hose filled to a\\nnicety. Their supply of sewer pipe is complete and an order from any portion ot\\nthe surrounding country promptly attended to. As we have said before, all work\\ndone well, and the same warranted to give satisfaction in every particular, and at\\n_ *s", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Jo^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 111^\\nbottom figures. This is a modest and unpretending establishment and [or that\\nvery reason, reader, you are likely to be pleased with quality of t^ xls and prices\\nof the same, than you are to be where they pay high rent and high salaries to\\nclerks. Special attention given to rebronzing chandeliers, c, ,v.c.\\nOSCAR SEELEY,\\nPractical Plumber, and Dealer in all Kinds of Plumbing Materials, No. 2112\\nMain Street.\\nThis is comparatively a new enterprise, as the proprietor only opened in 1877.\\nlie lias a very fine stock of goods, however, in a fine room, and in one of the best\\nlocations for trade that is to be found in the city. Mr. Scclcy has made himself a\\nhost of friends in this city by the excellent character of the work pertaining to his\\ntrade which he has done, and by his general qualities as a gentleman apart from\\nbusiness considerations. Many men will live in a place for many years and not be\\nas successful as Mr. Seeley has been in the short time he has lived in Wheeling.\\nHis business is quite large, comparing favorably with that of any of the older es-\\ntablishments of the kind. The secret of all of this is, he is obliging and prompt\\nin the exeeutii f orders entrusted to his care, does good work, uses none hut the\\nbest of material in connection with the same, and charges the very lowest figures,\\nfor anything he is commissioned to execute, it may be easily inferred from this\\nthat he has plenty to do. He keeps quite a tine stock of Plumbing Materials, and\\nanything in the line not in stock, he will order for you with the utmost prompti-\\ntude. All kinds of repairing carefully attended to, and in a thoroughly workman-\\nlike manner. Leave your orders for good work at low figures.\\nHUGO L LOOS,\\nManufacturer of Fine Cigars, Tips and Stogies; Wholesale and Retail Dealer in\\nAll Kinds of Tobaccos, Snuffs and Smokers Goods. Number 1228 Market\\nStreet, East Side.\\nThis establishment was commenced in 1868, on a small capital, by Mr. Loos, in a\\nImilding on Twelfth street between Chapline and Market, in quite a small room as\\ncompared with the present large and more eligibly situated manufactory on Market\\nstreet. He now employs, he assures us, from seventeen to twenty hands, to whom\\nconstant employment is given. An idea of the magnitude of the business may be\\nformed from the fact that 2,000,000 of stogies alone are turned out at this manufac-\\ntory annually. Siich au enormous product of merely one feattu e of the business in-\\ndicates an extensive business in the aggregate trade in the other articles, such as tine\\nand common tobaccos choice Havanna cigalas and fine cigars of a medium grade,\\nand tips all kinds of snuff, and a general assortment of other things\u00e2\u0080\u0094 such as smokers\\nGoods must indicate a prosperous business for this well known and pupular house.\\nThis house ships goods to the Canadas, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis,\\nand even to San Francisco besides having a general trade to less noted points in many\\nof the different States. This has all been accomplished by attention to business, en-\\nergy, perseverance, making and shipping a prime quality of goods at such prices as\\nhave commanded from time to time a return of further orders.\\nWM. MYLES,\\nPhotographer, 2154 Main Street.\\nThere is nothing more conducive to the good morals of a city than any enter-\\nprise contributing to the cultivation of refined ideas and tastes. Who has it in his\\npower to do more in this way than the finished and artistic Photographer? Mr.\\nMvles has certainly done everything in his power to cultivate and perfect his art.\\nBorn in Ireland, he came to Wheeling in 1851. In 1859 he commenced Imsiness\\nand by faithful, constant endeavors and a true artistic conception of his profession,\\nhe has secured for himself a prominent position in this community. II is pictures\\nare strictly true to nature, and arc faithful portrayals of the linaments of his sub-\\njects. There are no improvements in his husincss, no styles of sittings in his art\\nthat Mr. Mvles has not availed himself of. Mr. Myles has been called on to serve\\nhis fellow citizens in other capacities, having been chosen Councilman from his\\n__", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "112\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nward, and being at one time President of the Board of County Commissioners. Mr.\\nMyles is just finishing a magnificent brick building in Centre Wheeling, which he\\nwill occupy in the prosecution of his business.\\nGRAY S IRON LINE,\\nFreight Transportation, Office, 94 Water Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.\\nContingent upon the industrial manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Gray s Iron Line is\\nentitled to particular mention in these records. As the Pioneer Line of Barge\\nTransportion of general merchandise from Pittsburgh it was established in 1863,\\nwith a view to afford shippers greater facilities in the river transportation of heavy\\nfreights to points in the West, North and Southwest from which they would other-\\nwise have been virtually cut off. The Iron Line at, once became a permanent insti-\\ntution. In heavy freight transportation the company gives special attention to\\nthat of Steel and Iron Rails and Pittsburgh and Wheeling manufacturers from all\\npoints. The proprietors arc Capt. R. C. Gray and Capt. M. W. Bettzhoover, the\\nformer acting as general manager, W. P. McConnell and J. H. Dunlap being re-\\nspectively secretary and superintendent.\\nBeing the largest undertaking of the kind in this part of the country the facili-\\nties of this company are somewhat extended and consist of the Steamers Iron\\nMountain, W. C.Gray, Master; Fearless, Thos. Greenlee, Master; Ironsides,\\nJ as McDonald, Master, thirty-five model barges for regular freights, iron, etc.,\\netc., and five barges designed for carrying bulk grain, having a total capacity ot\\n140,000 bushels with a tonnage of 1,400 tons each. For safety, speed and economy\\nthis line has justly achieved a matchless reputation. No men in Pittsburgh are\\nbetter known, or more highly esteemed than Capts. Gray and Bettzhoover, Their\\nconnection with the growth and prosperity of the Iron City has been a very inti-\\nmate one. Gray s Iron Line is but one of many beneficial enterprises to which\\nthey have lent their names and advanced their capital, employing in this branch\\nof their business alone, over one hundred men. They may well be entitled to con-\\nsideration as promoting in no small degree the industries of Pittsburgh.\\nHANNA CLEMENS.\\nManufacturers of News and Book Paper, Fulton Paper Mills, Wheeling.\\nThis is one of the oldest papei mills in the country. The present firm are the\\nsuccessors of several firms in the past; among whom may be mentioned Armstrong\\nand Fisher, and Armstrong and Sons. The former firm established these well-\\nknown mills nearly fifty years ago. The present firm, however, are introducing\\nsome new machinery, which, when completed, will give these mills double the ca-\\npacity of producing power to what they have ever been capable of in the past.\\nThey are quite large, as they occupy an acre of ground. When the new machinery\\nis adjusted they will compare favorably with the most prominent mills in the\\ncountry. They are propelled by two steam engines; one of ninety, and the other\\nof twentv horse power, which are fed by three double fined boilers, thirty-eigtht", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": ",Cr THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 113 KS\\\\,\\ninches in diameter and twenty-eight feet in length. A remarkable feature about\\nthese mills i-, the proprietors assure us that they are the only mills in the coun-\\ntry that are producing a pure rag news paper, as it is known that mo\\nthe paper upon which newspapers are printed is made of iuferior materials. This\\nEact alone should ensure Messrs Hanna a Clemens larj as it is well-\\nknown that nothing will make 90 good an article oi papei oi the kind of which we\\nspeak as cotton rags. r lhis establishment does a heavy business in Wheeling,\\nBaltimore and Cincinnati, and has a large trade in the surrounding States. I he\\nindividual members of the firm are Thos Hanna, and Daniel Clemens. They\\nwere both born in Steuben ville, Ohio. They are both practical pap\\nwork in the mills themselves, and are gentlemen oi business enterprise and intelli-\\ngence.\\nE. LARKIN,\\nDry Goods and Notions\\nThis old and reliable establishment was started in L852 by the fathei of the\\npresent proprietor, Mr. Edward Larkin, No. L042 Market street. Thi\\naspiration and highest achievement of the businessman is the satisfaction of his\\ncustomers, and in this Mr. Lark-in stands pre eminent, courteous and urbane in his\\ndeportment, anxious to gratify the tastes and whims of shoppers, no matter whom,\\nor how poor or rich. He has built up and holds a trade gratifying to the pride\\nof any business man. The amount, style, texture and quality of his goods are 1\\ntreat for the lady buyer. Cheap as the cheap are the\\ntoes Mr Larkin has for his guidance, and one may rely on the representations\\nmade in this establishment, everything sold is warranted both as to quality\\nquantity. It is a labor of love to Mr. Larkin to give the greatest amount ofsatisfac-\\ntion to l\u00c2\u00bbis customers. His trade ig in both city and country and from a small begin-\\nning^ very large and remunerative trade has been seen red. Mr. Larkin wascho\\nthe last municipal eleel ion to represent his ward in the City Council, a testimonial\\nto his uninterested energy, unswerving integrity and business capacity. Such men\\nas Mr Larkin are a credit and a benefit to any city in these days of show and\\ngreed, and gi ire strong evidence of what maybe accomplished by vim and push\\ncoupled with honesty of purpose.\\nHENRY A. ALBRIGHT,\\nManufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware. 2607 Chapline Street.\\nMr. Albright, the proprietor of this store, was born in Prussia in the year 1817,\\nand came to this country in 1836, and to Wheeling in 1858. In July,\\nhe began the important struggle to better his fortune by establishing a -hop for\\nworking at his trade. Mr. Albright is a mechanic of long and great experience,\\npractical in every sense of the word, and all work turned out of bis shop bears the\\nstamp of good workmanship, lie deals in House Furnishing Hardware of all\\ndescriptions and kinds. Stoves, Buckets, in fact everything in bis line, lie pays\\nparticular attention to putting on gutters and spouts, and in all and every case\\nwarrants his work- in every particular, quality and workmanship especially. He\\nhas a fine city trade and gives general satisfaction.\\nD. C. LIST,\\nPork Packer and Manufacturer of the Chester brand of Sugar Cured Meats\\nNo. 23 Fourteenth Street, between Alain and Market.\\nThe proprietor was formerly the senior member of the large wholesale grocery\\nhouse of List, Davenport Parks. Ilei now heavily engaged in the Pork Packing\\nbusiness in all its branches and the manufacture of Sugar Cured Meats The\\nname of Chester is the trademark by which Mr. List s celebrated productions\\nare known at home and abroad. Chester Hams and Breakfast Paeon are used\\nin a great many of the families of the city on account of their superiority of man-\\nufacture, fine quality, and exquisite flavor. Wherever these goods are introduced\\nthey never suH er from competition, as they ha\\\\e been pronounced by the trade to\\nbe superior to most of the sugar cured meats which are admitted to be standard", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "V114 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\narticles with the trade. The excellent character of these goods may be inferred\\nfrom the fad thai they will, at all seasons of the year command a higher figure\\nii-oni dealers than those which are regarded as a marketable article, hearing the\\nbrands of other manufacturers. This house enjoys a heavy home trade, and a\\nconstantly increasing one from abroad. The proprietor has made this business a\\nthorough study in all its branches the result is, he offers aline of sugar cured\\nmeats of a character unsurpassed in qualitv bv those of any other establishment in\\nthe United Si\\nDONALDSON, LEWIS CO.\\nW. K.Donaldson, W.Lewis. C. ^hl and W. II. Little are the individual members\\nof this establishment and Jacob Jefferson bookkeeper. These gentlemen are the\\nsuccessors t the Wheeling Wagon and Carriage Company. Tin- establishment\\nis the oldest one in the city, li hasexisted for nearly half a century under the\\nabove firms, and those of E. Hays (V Co., and Busby Little, in times long gone\\nby. It is a very extensive affair and may he found at No-. L500, 1502, 1504 and\\n15l)(; Market street,from whence it extends hack to Chapline. It has five depart-\\nments, and employs constantly about fifteen hands in the prosecution of its busi-\\nness. The pay roll is between $130.00 and \u00c2\u00a7150.00 per week. The proprietors\\nassure us that the quality of their work is equal in durability and style, to the\\nwork of any shop of the kind in the country. They will take orders for and make\\nevery style of vehicle known to the trade, including Carriages, Buggies, Track\\nWagons Trucks and Express Wagons. They can make any tiling in this line thatismadein\\nfirst-class establishments. Their work in the line of Buggies and Carriages is notably\\nlight and handsome. When it is averred that even Pittsburgh, which is eminent for\\nits skill jn this branch of trade, cannot surpass the work of Messrs. Donaldson. Lewis\\nA Co.. it is saying a good deal. Call down and see their work and be convinced of\\nthe fact, mid also of the fact that they sell at bottom figures. They also attend to all\\nkinds of repairing with neatnessand promptitude.\\nCARNAHAN CO.,\\nDealers in Boots and Shoes, Nos. 2103 Main and 117 Sixteenth Streets,\\nThehouseof Carnahan Co. is a very old establishment, having been first organized\\nin 1840 by James H. McMechen with quite a small capital. The present business is\\nabout six times as large as was that of the original honse. The capital of Messrs.\\nCamahan lo. is quite large, which, as they do a very heavy business in both houses\\nyields them handsome returns. The Main street building, in which they conduct\\nthe most important branch of then business, is 70 feet in length, by 22 feet front. It\\nhas two departments, in which four hands are employed. The store on Sixteenth\\nstreet is of similar size. In either of these stores you can have your wife, daughters.\\nsons or self fitted with an elegant boot, shoe or slipper as the stocks are very heavy\\nand comprise all styles, qualities and sizes. Often in going to a shoe store where you\\nhave been in the habit of dealing, you find that you cannot get precisely what you\\nwant, either in style or size and finding this to be the case, you are often induced to\\npurchase, though not quite suited from the fact that you dislike to go elsewhere\\nhaving dealt at the store of your friend so long, as they have always tried to please you.\\nNothing of this disagreeable nature ever occurs at the stores of Carnahan A Co.. as\\nthey constantly keep up their stock in every respect, by continually sending orders to\\nthe eastern manufacturers from time to time: as the demands of trade may require\\nfrom season to season. No store of the kind in the city surpasses either of the stores\\nof Messrs. Carnahan A Co.. in the able manner in which it is managed in general and\\nin detail.\\nebeling Tpebler,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealers in Leaf and other Tobaccos. Cigars, c. Nos.\\n1043, west Side of Market Square.\\nThis is one of the oldest and most extensive tobacco houses in the city. It was\\noriginally commenced on a somewhat smaller scale than at present, in the lower part of\\nthe city by Mr. Ebeling. about the year 1860. The trade increasing from year to year,\\ncaused the proprietor to form a co-partnership with Mr. Pebler, a gentleman of much I\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "X^ THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 115^*\\nexperience in the tobacco and cigar business. firm repri senting so much enterpris\\ncould hanllv tail to succeed. The business kepi enlarging from year foyear until they\\nwere obliged to remove their tobacco factory to a larger room, and the present exten-\\nsive three-story wareroom was rented by Messrs. Ebeling A Pebler. It is one\\nof the largesl tobacco warerooms in the citj It is loo feel long bj 22 feet in width.\\nand admirably situated for the demands of trade. As tin premises are large, and\\ntherefore well adapted tor a wholesale, rather than a retail trade, it may he inferred\\nthat the business is an extensive one as it reallj is extending over a great many\\nstates and even into the territories. It must not he inferred from the above, however,\\nthat they do not sell goods at retail. To do so would be incorrect, as their retail trade\\nis quite large. Everything embraced in a general tobacco and cigar manufactory\\nmay be found at this establishment, either at wholesale or retail. The wry lust of\\nleaf tobacco is an article in which they deal heavily. This is a specialty with them\\ninvariably purchasing from first hands, and in large quantities, they are enabled to\\noiler such inducements to purchasers as are not to he had elsewhere. Putting noth-\\ning but the very best of stock in their goods, they find a constant demand for all that\\nthey can manufacture. Tin reputation of this house is second to none in tin- trade.\\nEverything in the tobacco and cigar line is offered to close cash buyers at the very\\nlowest figures. The senior member of the firm. Mr. Ebeling, is a member fit the\\nBoard of Education of Wheeling\\nJOHN ROEMER,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in Dry Goods. Carpets, Notions, Wall Pai er and\\nWindow Shades, Main Street, Center Wheeling.\\nThis spacious, elegant and popular establishment is conducted in a double\\nstore-room, and is one of the most varied and extensive concerns in tin- city. Noth-\\ning but the 1 .est of administrative ability could ever have developed such a compre-\\nhensive business as this concern now enjoys. Originally the trade of this house was\\nconducted in a single store-room, hut i uergy. enterprise and low price-, created such\\nan increase of the trade that the proprietor deemed the premises to be of too contract-\\ned a character for the convenient prosecution of his constantly increasing trade. The\\nadjoining room was rented, and both rooms were transformed into one large arid ele-\\ngant establishment; and one of the heaviest stocks put into it that was evei put\\ninto a store in the city. The result was a vastly increased trade. Wall paper and\\nwindow curtains were added to the attractions of this enterprising house, and at such\\nfigures as caused a large and constant demand in this new feature in the business,\\nThe proprietor, with his polite assistants, are always on hand to show visitors goods\\nwhether they wish to purchase or not.\\nGEO. E. STIFEL CO..\\nDealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Cloaks and Shawls. Purs made a\\nSpecialty. No. 1065 Main Street, West Side.\\nMessrs. Stifle and Schwertfeger, the individual members of this firm, may he said to\\nhe experts in this business, as they have been in the trade from boyhood. The senior\\nmember is, perhaps, as good a judge of the quality of domestic goods as any mer-\\nchant either east or west his father having been a calico printer in Wheeling for\\nover forty years, in which business the father has amassed an ample competency.\\nThe firm Of Messrs. Stifle and Schwertfeger was but recently formed, they, hitherto,\\nhaving been the principal salesmen of one of the then leading Dry floods houses in\\nthe city. Believing that it would be to their interest to embark in business for them-\\nselves, and urged to it by influential friends, and the assuranceof goodwill and patron-\\nage by a large proportion of the public, they opened out something less than a year\\nago. and have succeeded beyond their most sanguine expectations. Their trade em-\\nbraces quite a large and fashionable proportion of city buyers, and has a very exten-\\nsive circulation in the surrounding country. Having a ripe experience in dealing, both\\nin foreign and domestic goods, they keep one of the most fashionable and best selected\\nstocks ever offered to the public, and at prices which will ensure their sale, when\\ntested by .i fail- examination. One great advantage this firm has, is that their stock is\\nall and of the latest designs and styles: no old goods to offer yon everything is\\nmodern and desirable. These gentlemen do not have to resort to the old, threadbare\\ncry of Closing out at cost: Come and examine our cheap counter goods at half\\nprice. Ac", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "XSPll6 THE INDUSTRIES OK WITEELING, X-^\\nN. W. BECK,\\nBrass Foundry and Machine Works.\\nMr. Beck keeps constantly on hand an almost endless variety of Brass Goods, Globe\\nValves, Cocks, Whistles, Cylinder and other Oilers, Babbitt Metal, Metallic Packing, I\\nmi Gum Belting, Packing Yarn, Belts, Lace Leather, and all kinds of Engi-\\nneers Supplies (Successor to Collins McGill, established thirty years ago).\\nThis old and well known establishment may be found at No. 12 Sixteenth street.\\nThis gentleman offers his services to the public in general, and steamboat and other\\nengineers in particular. This latter class can find at his establishment supplies of a\\ncharacter that it would be difficult to find in such variety, quality and quantity else-\\nwhere in the city. He has a very extensive trade in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West\\nVirginia, and a ery large city trade among such persons who may havedemands for his\\ngoods, as Ins prices are so low that they defy competition. Mr. Beck has lived in the j\\ncity all of his life, and therefon i lied a citizen in the fullest sense of the\\nword. He is a very Lngenioi erienced mechanic, having had an experit\\nof eighteen sears at the machinist business, and eleven years of that time as superin-\\ntendent of a first class una him works. Should you want an engine or other ma-\\nchinery drafted, or any advice in regard to kind, size or quality of machinery, it\\nwould be well to call on him. He is prepared to cast or fit up spring-packing in the\\nlatest improved style, tit up model- or light machinery. All kinds of repa rs made at\\nshort notic Eis prices will be found, on application, to be as low as such work can\\nbe (tone for th same amount o! labor bestowed on the job. He can do a perfect job\\nin either plain or intricate design in brass work in either heavy or light work he is\\nly at home. If you have a broken stop-cock, or anything which you may be\\ndisposed to deem as worthless. s nd it to Mr. Beck, and he can restore it to its origi-\\nnal usefulness at a moderate\u00e2\u0080\u0094 indeed, many times at but a trifling charge. You may\\nalways depend on Laving good work at low prices from him.\\nN. B.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Old brass may be sold at this shop.\\nlaughliiTbros, co.7\\nWholesale Druggists, 1208 Main Street\\nAmong th prominent mercantile establishments of Wheeling, which have con-\\ntributed so largely to her reputation as a manufacturing and industrial center, there\\nare none occupying a more conspicuous position than the firm of Laughlin Bros. A\\nCo. Rankingas the largest drng house in West Virginia, largely identified with some\\nof our most prosperous manufacturing and commercial ent uamendation of\\nthe Laughlin Bros, at our hands would seem superfluous. This establishment was\\nfounded in 185-1 by Messrs. Samuel Laughlin, Alex. Laughlin and S. B. Bushfield,\\norn the day of their embarkation into business life the Messrs. Laughlin have\\nenterprising, energetic spirit, iron, which has resulted the present\\nwidely known and popular house. Tin present members of the firm an Messrs.\\nSamuel and Alex. Laughlin, Chas. H. Odbert and Alex. Efc. Campbell. They occupy\\na building three stories in heighth, forty feet front by one hundred and forty deep\\nemploying eighteen hands in tiie prosecutioi of their large business. They carry a\\nstock of about $100,000, and do a business oi some $275,000 per year. Every arti-\\ncle and every class of goods pertaining to a. first class Drug establishment, are kept i\\nby them. Actuated by their usual business acumenand judgment, they purchased, a\\nfew years ago, the interest of Dr. A. S. Todd in his wonderful medicine, which has a\\nworld-wide reputation Todd s Liver Pills. paying therefor the larg sum of\\n$25,000. Thes Liver Pills justly hold a most prominent position among medical\\nrations not only in this and adjoining States, but theirfame has ext ndedtofor-\\neign countries.. This house does an immense business, as is readily e^ idenced by visiting\\ntheir place of business and watching their capabh corps of assistants at work prepar-\\ning, packing, selling and shipping from their large stock. It is not only in their pri-\\nvate business capacity that the Messrs. Laughlin have served their fellow-citizens, but\\nof them have been called on to occupy positions of public trust and confidence,\\nSamuel Laughlin being at the present time Vice-President of the Exchange Bank and\\none of the Directors in the new organization of the Belmont Mill. Alex. Laughlin\\nwas for some years President of the Ben wood Nail Mill, and is now President of the\\nLaughlin Nail Works and the Junction Iron Company, formerly known as Mingo.\\nAlex. Laughlin has also served in the City Council. They are representative men,\\nsuch as build up the trade and business reputation of prosperous cities.\\ni\u00c2\u00a3", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "JSP THE INDUSTRIES OP WHEELING, WTKfs\\nC. H. DINGER.\\nWholesale and Ketail Deaier in Hats and Caps\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wholesale House at No.\\n38 Twelfth Street Ketail Store at 1047 Main Street.\\nTht basis or origin businesses was tin well known Hut and\\nof Mr. S. Averj wiiu Mild out his business a short time after tin- late rebel-\\nlion, occurred, to Messrs. Bliss Ding firm, however, was of short duration,\\nMr. Dinger in his own name alon This was at No. 1064,\\njust one door corner of Main ami Eleventh streets, ami occurred in\\nabout L862 or 63. A t w that the proprietor removed to l047Mair street\\none oi tl i pn sent establishments when he, by attention to business, built up oni\\nof the best retail trades of the city. Be soon found, howevet thai then was room\\nfor him in the wholesale branch o I ide. This branch he cultivated with Buch\\nenergy and judgment, that he found the premises in which he did business\\ntoo limited a character for thi proper ti of both the wholesale and\\nretail features oi th Hat and Cap Trade. Ti meet this emergency he resolved on\\ncarrying on the jobbing department in another establishment, and rented one of thos\\nmagnificent rooms in McLain s Block for the purpose, No. :\\\\f Twelfth street, which\\nho has filled with suitable goods for the trade, and where he is doing a leading busi-\\nness in tin jobbing of Hats and Caps. No niori notable instance of the result of\\nad perseverance, in the mercantile annals of the city, can be pointed out\\nthan tl I which Mr. Dinger is the central figure. Aided by an efficient corps\\nof assistant doing a flourishing business at both stores, and for the best of\\nreas as hi jells\\nT. W. WEITZEL\\nGroceries.\\nExperience teaches us that the most successful man is he who besl understands\\ncatering to the various wants of his fellowmen. Mr. Weitzel proves the truth of this\\naxiom, for now i tronger evidence of its application and successful result\\nthan in his case. Mr. Weitzel fi store is tirst class in every respect; his selection\\nods displaying good, sound judgment and taste. No interior goods or second\\nrate brands oi make find room on his ly strictly on Ins\\nrepresentations and feel confident of being supplied with pure, fresh, unmixed Gro-\\nceries. Mr. Weitzel wasboi*n in Bavaria, Germany came to Wheeling in 1847. H,\\nbegan business in L872, and has carefully fostered his trade until it is now of large\\ndimensions and increasing rapidly. His place of business is at the corner of Market\\nand Twenty-fourth Streets, Center Wheeling.\\nNICHOLAS SCHLUTZ,\\nNo. 1310 Market Street,\\nManufacturer of and dealer in French and American Candies and Confectionei\\nForeign and Domestic Fruits, and all kinds of Canned goods kept on hand and for\\nsale h endless varieties. This is one of the most enterprising houses in this depart-\\nment of trade that can be found in the cit\\\\ oi Stati Mr. R. first commenced busi-\\nL861. He isa practicle workman in this particular and complicated trade, and\\nknows the business with sui i is no mystery to him in propor-\\ntioning I quantities that enter int. pounding of the most elaborate\\nand fine articles of confectionery. To b o hich he is ad-\\nmitted to be, W( conceivi to he an accomplishment requiring much ingenuity and skill\\nquite as much as that which is required in o tore prominent\\nplace in art. In this store can be purchased thi various fruits, Ac. of almost i verj\\nproductive climate in th. world. Oranges, Lemonk G Prunes, Basins,\\nCurrants, Nuts, Bananas, Pine Apples, Ac ad infinitum, mi in endless\\nvarieties. This store, it might b said, is a sort of commercial rnusi i\\nthing may he seen thai tempts thi eye, sharpens the taste, and as a o\\ndepletes the purse, We generally make it a poh tmous store and\\nlook at things which in themselves are well worth going to sei\\nourselves with looking for what right has a poor i ditor with such things who ha\\nmuch as he can do to find money for the common necessaries of life We say v.\\nI at them, we do indeed, and find a sort of gratification in thi reflection that the:\\n8", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "X^llS THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\ni\\nsome people any how who can afford these luxuries. The trade of this bouse is quite\\nextensive both at home and abroad. The propietor is one of our niostreliable commer-\\ncial men. and enjoys the esteem of his fellow merchants.\\nTURNER DILLON\\nNumber 1223 Market Street.\\nDealer in Watches, Clocks. Optical Goods and Fire Arms. This establishment was\\noriginally established by the senior member of the firm in 1849, on- compared with\\nwhat it is now\u00e2\u0080\u0094 quite a small scale. He. being a practical Watchmaker, was not\\nlong, however, in commanding a liberal share of public patronage. The junior mem-\\nber of the present firm is also a practical workman, and though a younger man than\\nMr. Tukneb, is quite an expert in everything that pertains to the trade. Few men of\\nhis age are as well informed in their respective lines of business as Mr. Dillon is in\\nthe branch of trade in which he is engaged. This is conceded even by his competi-\\ntors in the Watch, Clock and Jewelry trade. This is a flattering and well deserved\\ncompliment. The property in which the firm conducts their business was built but a\\na few years since, and is one of the handsomest store rooms in the city. It was built\\nby the senior partner to accommodate his increasing trade when the business was car-\\nried on above 1 1th streeton Main by Mr. Turner alone. It is admirably adaptedfor the\\npurpose for which it was built, being in one of the most fashionable business centres\\nin the city. The firm of Turner Dillon has within a few years back made rapid\\nstrides for supremacy in the Jewelry trade of Wheeling, and seems to have attained a\\nposition which no competition can injure or dislodge it from. The ample capital and\\nindometable energy of the firm have been rewarded by a large and fashionable circle\\nof patronage, both at home and abroad. Repairing in all the varied branches con-\\nnected with the trade attended to with the utmost care, and excellence of workman-\\nship, and at figures which can not fail to please the patrons of the house. Messrs.\\nTurner Dillon never entrust complicated work to unexperienced or incompetenl\\nhands. The proprietors always attend to this class of work personally. A splendid\\nlot of Fire Arms always in stock.\\nM GUTMAN CO..\\nClothiers and Furnishing; Goods, Nos. 20 and 22, Cor. 12th and M;un sts.\\nAmong the. most attractive and best stocked establishments in the city, is the large\\nClothing house of M. Gutman Co. They occupy the large double tour story build-\\ning on the corner \u00c2\u00abf 12th and Main streets, bj far the largest building devoted to this\\nbranch of trade in the city. Their rooms are spacious and elegant, with handsome\\nshow windows on both streets, that are always decorated with the most tempting dis-\\nplay of the latest novelties and most attractive goods in their line. This business was\\nrounded in LS03, by the present proprietors, and is a branch of a Baltimore house.\\nfounded in 1 s.%u, by M. Gutman, the father of the gentlemen composing the Whi\\nfirm, Messrs. M. and D. Gutman these gentlemen are also interested in the Balti-\\nmore house, where a large portion of their immense stock is manufactured, although\\ntheir purchases are not by any means confined to the Baltimore market. They carry\\nery large stock and do a. very extensive business, employing 1(1 assistants. The\\nMessrs. Gutman have been actively engaged in this business since boyhood, and give\\nto their trade the benefit of matured judgment, the result of years of connection with\\nthe Clothing business. Their place of business is an orament and credit to the\\nand will com] tare favorably with any similar establishment in the country. They\\nare gentlemen of great energy and very agreeable and popular manners and their high\\nbusiness qualifications have placed them in the front, rank of the leading business\\nmen of the city. The successful prosecution of any business enterpt ise requires both\\nability and intelligence, with a. natural aptitude tor commercial pursuits. This\\ncombination always results in success, as it has in the case of Messrs. Gutman .V Co.\\nThe possessson of the necessary knowledge of trade requirements is an impor-\\ntant element of success in any branch of business. Possessing this I in an\\neminent degree, enables them to give to their customers tin- benefit of their abilities,\\nand to furnish goods ingreater varietiesand more moderate terms than most establish-\\nments, which is one of the strongest reasons of their success. Such men soon make a\\nreputation worthy of record, and the appreciation of their fellow citizens. Mr. M.\\nGutman is a Director of the Exchange Bank, and also of the Laughlin Iron Works.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "JvT THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 119 X\\nOPERA HOUSE OF WHEELING.\\nId the progress of ill nations towards civilization in ancient times, the refining influ-\\nence of the Drama has been acknowledged as an important element by historians,\\n[indeed one of the strongest indications of the change, from the rude to the cultured\\nof society, lias been the growing taste and appreciation for dramatic and theatri-\\ncal amusements. One of the fli-si impiilsesof any thriving enterprising community\\nwhen emerging from the village or town condition, to that of a city, is to become\\npossessed of a building for public amusements and dramatic display. The love of\\nwealth and the engrossment of business, are not the sole characteristics, as is often\\nfalselj stated of the Americans. There are no people who have a better appreciation\\nor more cidtivated taste for the legitimate Drama, or who build larger or more costlj\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0md ornate edifices for the encouragement of the Thespian art. Wheelingit is true, was\\nfor many years unprovided with a building, adapted for scenic display or conveniently\\narranged forthe effective presentation, of the better class of theatrical or operatic en-\\ntertainments. But during the last few years, much has 1 n done to remedy this de-\\nfect by the building and improvement of the opera House. This building which is\\npronounced by experts to be admirably designed and finished, and complete in construc-\\ntion and arrangement, was built in 1870 by Mr. -lames Hamilton, but it afterwards\\npassed into the possession of the German Insurance Co. of this city. Mr. F. Reister\\nthe Secretary of the Company, is officio manager, and he deserves no small share of\\npraise for his successful efforts to continue to the public the benefit of this elegant\\nplace of amusement. The interior of the house is handsomely and elaborately decor-\\nated, and pros .i with unsually comfortal ile and roomy opera chairs. All the details\\ncomplete and best approved designs; and everything possible for the\\nbetter comfort and convenience of patrons has been furnished with lavish hands.\\nThe size of the house is 70 by 100 feet, being in heighth equal to 4 stories. The\\nstage is (i0 feet wide and :;n feet deep: the trap and machine cellar is 15 feet deep.\\nThere are 2 exits from the first door and family circle, and one from the rear of stage\\nsalty of actors. Allot the doors open outward, affording every requisite for\\nspeedily emptying the house in case of lire. Every possible precaution istakenforthe\\nsafety of spectators. The stage in its appointments is perfectly complete, and all the\\nskill of the artist, the engineer and the mechanic have been called on in its construc-\\ntion, The seating capacity, aside from boxes, is 850. The dressing rooms for actors\\nwhich are very complete, are 8 in number, including star room3. Some of the most\\ncelebrated stars and combinations of the country have performed in this house, and\\nhave universally spoken loudly in its praise, for its convenience, perfect arrangement,\\ncompleteness of detail and accoustic properties. There can certainly be no more\\ncharming place of amusement in the Country, and under the able management of\\nMr. Reister few more successful or more worthy of success. Under the building\\nthere are four finely furnished spacious offices, one of which is occupied by the In-\\nsurance Co. for their office.\\nFRIEND^ SON,\\nNumber 1063 Main Street.\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in Furniture. Carpets, Oil Cloths and Window Shades.\\nThis extensive establishment was first started on quite a limited capitial by Mr. R. F.\\nFriend and his son K. K. Friend, in 18(J2, on the opposite side of -Main street, some-\\nwhat north of the present splendid Store Room. The business, from its verj origin,\\nseemed to have in it all of the elements of prosperity that are assential to a permanent\\ntrade. From year to year the business increased in volumeup to 18(50. Duringthis year\\nthe Senior partner died, the entire management of the business devolving on the\\nson, Mr. R. K. Friend. This gentleman shortly after this, purchased the premises on\\nwhich standsthe present magnificent structure Bya judicious investment of a similar\\namount of what he originally paid-for the property, he provided himself with a busi-\\nness house of extraordinary capacity, and in the very centre of the commercial part of\\ncity. The building is 180 feet long by 22 feet front. Countingthe cellar, which runs\\nthe entire length of the building, and is used for business purposes the house may\\nbe called a :-J storj edifice of L80 f eel in length! Thus, it will at once he seen that the\\npremises have all the capacity that a o story one would have if it were the averagt\\nlength of store rooms e. 90 feet. This house is one of the leading Furniture estab-\\nlishments in the State. We should despair in making an attempt to enumerate item", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "5\u00c2\u00a3\\n120 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X\\nby item the different articles of trierchandise bhat are kept in these extensive and\\nsplendid Furniture and Carpet Warerooms. Suffice it to say that the establishment is\\npacked from top to bottom with goodsof the most elegant and fashionable design, every-\\nthing pertaining to the tra le being always kept in stock, and at bottom prices forcasn,\\norapproved credit. The eminent success of this house, since Mr. Friend, Sr.. died,\\nis quite a marvel, and can only be attribul isession of a very superior order\\nof administrative mercantile abilitj on the part of Mr. R. K. Friend, the present\\nbead of the concern. Se has, however, Long been regarded as one of the most en-\\nterprising merchants in the city. Undertaking i specialty.\\nJOHN A. LASH.\\nWholesal tail Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver Ware, fcc., and\\nmanufacturer of the celebrated Silver Klenzer for cleaning silverware, which has\\nthe reputation of being the be3t article in the market for the purpose. This establish-\\nment is at the well known corner of Main and 11th streets, one of the most prominent\\nbusiness stands in the city. Mr. Lash commenced business on a much smaller scale in 1866,\\none door south of the Grant House but with tin- march of events he found his busi-\\nness might be increased bj getting a more eligible stand, and took his present room\\nlast spring, and had itted up for the purpose, almost redoubling his\\nformer stock. Ue now- does one of tie- leading businesses in the citv, He pays par-\\nticular attention to the Spectacle trade, i ou ca ery best irticle of this kind\\nin either gold silver or steel frames from Mr. Lash, and what is not always the case\\nelsewhere, you will be sure to get the preci hat your eyes require, as he is\\none of he most acccomplished opticians in the city. He attends to all kinds of re-\\npairs in Watches, Clocks and -Jewelry. He is well known in Wheeling, having spent\\nthe greater part of his life in the city, and indeed learned his trade under the most\\nskillful of watchmakers. His store will compare favorably with any store in the city.\\nIt is tilled with the most attractive kinds of Gold and Silver Ware and other desirable\\narticles. In fact all goods that are found in first class Jewelry establishments. Su\u00c2\u00abh\\na man as Mr. Lash deserves to do will, being a skillful and careful workman, and uni-\\nformly polite and agreeable to customers. All who call upon him may depend on fair\\ndealing, a. he recognizes the fact that pleasing his customers is the best advertise-\\nment, and low prices the surest way to success.\\nHOLLINGER PERKINS,\\nNew McLure House, O. K. Shaving Saloon.\\nExcellence in any pursuit in life is always worthy of commendation, and especially\\nso when combined with rare managerial ability ami energy. The capacity toestablish\\nand conduct any class of business, doing the trade and enjoying the wide spread\\npopularity of this Tonsorial Emporium is rare. And when it has achieved a position,\\nrecognized as is that of this establishment, we consider it worthy of especial notice in\\nthis hook. Mr Hollinger commenced business at his present location in 1868, and\\nfrom that date to the present, he has devoted himself to his calling, with a laudable de-\\ntermination to bo conduct his Saloon, as to be always in the lead. In June. 1879, Mr.\\nT. M. Perkins became a partner, he is a valuable acquisition, having had an exper-\\nenee of fourteen years at the principal watering places and summer resorts in the Country\\nTheir rooms are conveniently located, commodious and well ventilated, furnished in\\nelegant style, with all modern appurtenances and appliances, and go when you will to\\nsecure the benefit of their skill and services, you will always find them marvels of\\nneatness and cleanliness. This Saloon is connected by a specious entrance with the\\nMcLure House Office for the better accomodation of guests of the Hotel. The corps\\nof assistants are all first class artists, than whom, no better can be found in the Coun-\\ntry. Their Bathing apartments are tastefully furnished and fitted upwith all requisite\\nappliances: an inspection of them alone guaranteeing a confortable, (dean and invig-\\norating bath. Ceo. Hollinger can point with pride to that unering test \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Success.\\nthe fruits of his labors in the past, and a sure warranty of his efforts in the future,\\nd o all in want of the services, of an a scomplished Barber, either for Shaving or Hair\\nCutting, we can with confidence recommend Messrs. Hollinger Perkins, and their\\ncourteous and capable assistants.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "^Cr THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 121^^\\nW. S. DILWORTH,\\nCor. of 4th and Hanover Streets, Martin s Ferry, Ohio.\\nDealer in Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Wall Paper, c, This extensivi\\ntablishment is one of the largest business houses in Eastern Ohio. It is one c\\nmost fashionable places of resorl Eor buyers. The building is a large and elegant\\nbuilding of modern design, and is packed from top to bottom with a rich and varied\\nassortment of Dry Goods, c., in which may be found everything usually kepi in\\nstores of the kind. Mr. Dilworth 1ms just received a fine invoice of\\nwhich will be sold as low as the same can be sold in either Martin s Ferry or v\\ning. Judging from appearances, we should judge this stoi i to bi\\nbusiness as the proprietor appears to be a mei\\nligence. He is proverbially polite and attentive to custou ,i ri l\\nto wait on persons who tnaj visil the store, whether they purchase or not. In addi-\\ntion to what may becalled the regular business, the Merchant Tailoring trade is also\\ncarried on in the establishment. Everything is systematized under the able ma\\nmeat of Mr. Dilworth. and works with the regularity of a time peice. His st\\nnoted for its low juices.\\nJ. KERR CO.,\\nStar Planing Mills and Lumber Yard, Cor. 1st and Hanover Streets, Mar-\\ntin s Ferry. Ohio.\\nThis popular and enterprising concern is one of the very best in the State. The\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Star Planing Mills are provided with all of the modern appliances which human\\ninvention has thus far discovered towards aiding the rapid turning out of work by\\nmachinery, instead of those slower methods by manual labor, which formerly was\\nthe only means of turning out work. Notwithstanding this great change, this very\\nmachinery works with such comprehensiveness and variety, that more work is fur-\\nnished by its operations for carpenters throughout the country, than the same\\nclass of persons had before the introduction of Planing Mills. This may seem strange,\\nbut it is nevertheless a fact. A full supply of all kinds of lumber and builders material\\nalways kept in stock, and at bottom figures. Low prices however are a notable\\nfeature of this extensive concern. No need of going to Wheeling for anything in this\\nline, asthis establishment will compare favorably with anything in the city of Wheel-\\ning in the same line. The individual members of the firm are Jas. Kerr and Alex.\\nG. Campbell. The senior member is the .Mayor of the city at present, and lias served\\nin the same capacity previous to the present term.\\nWILSON BROS.,\\nParlor Boot and Shoe Store, 1200 Market Street, opposite McLure House,\\nWheeling W. Va.\\nThe great importance of a first-class Boot and Shoe House in Wheeling, has been a\\nfrequent subject of comment, and. not until the firm of Wilson Bros, commenced oper-\\nations could it be said that such a house existed. The firm is composed of N. B. and\\nS. C. Wilson, young men who have had a number of years experience in the business\\nand especially note worthy for enterprise, energy and square dealing, characteristics\\nwhich have secured for them an enviable position in the community for honor and\\nable conduction of their business. They keep a general stock of all the very best\\ngoods manufactured in their line, and are prepared to warrant every pair of shoes or\\nboots they sell. They also have the sole agency for Edwin C. Burt s celebrated make\\nof fine shoes, which have a world-wide reputation for elegant finish and durability.\\nThey also handle Ziegler Bro. s work, which is second to none in the country. In\\ntheir stock will be found a choice and complete assortment of various styles of Boots.\\nShoes and Slippers for ladies, gentlemen and children, from the hue and costly to the\\nplain and cheaper grades. They are in constant receipt of all the latest novelties in\\ntheir line, and guarantee satisfaction and lit to their patrons, Ail goods sold by them\\nare of superior workmanship and material, and their p\\nThis firm is the only one in the city that gives special attention to orders by mail.\\nPersons living outside the city can have their orders filled promptly by giving num-\\nber of shoe, and width of last.\\ng^", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "8\\n122\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nE. J. HOYLE BRO.,\\nManufacturers of the Balston and Hoyle s Threshing and Cleaning Ma-\\nchines, and all sizes of Mounted and Down Horse Powers, Fanning\\nMills, Straw and Stalk Cutters, and other Agricultural Machinery, Mar-\\ntin s Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio.\\nThe proprietors would ask the attention of those in\\nwant of Horse Power for Threshing purposes, to ex-\\namine their new Patent Mounted Power. They\\nassure us that it is especially adapted to the wants of\\nThreshers, on account of strength, durability, and\\nlightness of draft: itisnot liable to breakage, as it has\\nstood the test of four threshing seasons, and given the\\nmost complete satisfaction to all of those who have\\nused it. as have also all the other articles which\\nthey manufacture and when brought into compe-\\ntition with those manufactured by others, have\\ninvariably been pronounced superior to all. The\\nforegoing manufactory was established in 1S7: by\\nthe present firm, on but a small capital, which is\\nconstantly increasing. The concern occupies an\\narea of ground comprising three town lots. It is\\ncomposed of three departments, in which twelve\\nhands are employed, to whom is paid out $120.00\\nper week as wages. The trade of this firm extends\\nthroughout the entire West. The senior member of\\nthis firm is a gentleman of some prominence, apart\\nfrom business as he has been a member of the\\nCity Council of Martin s Ferry, and is now a mem-\\nber of the School Board, of which he is the Treasu-\\nrer. The proprietors assure us that their establish-\\nment will compare favorably with any other in this\\npart of the country, either for excellence of work-\\nmanship, variety, or amount of goods sold.\\ns", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING\\n123\\n$8", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a20^124 THE INDUSTRIES OP WHEELING.\\nDR. HALLEY McCOY,\\nPractical Gynecologist, Cor. Chaplme and 22d Streets.\\nA retrospective survey of the lives and life long labors of some men, teaches us what\\nmaybe accomplished, and to whal eminence one may attain and enjoy whilst still\\namong the living, by devotion to any one branch of art or science. Dr. McCoy is a.\\ninstance of this. Signalling out one particular branch of his profession, be has\\nits study and lias made himself perfectly familiar with it. Dr.\\nMeCoj was bom at McCoy s manor, near Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1816. Hewas\\neducal aduated in L834, at Franklin College, Ohio. He studied medicine\\nwith Dr. Leslie in Smithfield, Ohio, and attended lectures at Jefferson Medical Col-\\nlege, Ohio, and Clinical lectures al Pennsylvania Hospital. The Doctor commenced\\nthe practice of his profession in is:, I. in this city and has resided here ever since, though\\nthis by no means however reckons the length of time he has practice,!. I r. McCoy has\\nbeen a practicing physician for 42 years. The Doctor has devoted himself to the\\nGynecological branch of his profession, or that branch especially treating on the di-\\npecnliar to women. His reputation is by no means confined to this city, but\\nextends into our neighboring States. His diagnosis of a case involving critical jtidg-\\nment is rarely if ever faulty, and his residence in the city may be considered a piece\\nof good fort rine. As an Obstetrician he has few if any equals and many a life has\\nI by his skill and ripe judgment. The Doctor of course has alarge practice\\nthe fruits of a long and meritorious life.\\nTHE STAR FOUNDRY.\\nThis well-known establishment was founded by an enterprising company so tar back j\\nas 1848, and for twenty long years, succeeded in bringing its interests to a very high\\ngrade of success and general popularity, so that now we can point without hesitancy\\nto the Star Foundry, as being in fact as well as in name, a brightly illustrated and\\nrepresentative house, unsurpassed, if indeed equalled, in its specialties, throughout\\nthe entire region of West Virgil\\nMr. Fisher has attained an enviabh reputation as manufacturer of the celebrated\\nGladiator and Valley Star Cook Stoves, whose peculiar merits an too well known to\\nneed description or minuti i our work. In all the cmalities constituting\\ntrue excellence, and whic to public flavor convenience of ar-\\nment applied to the minutest particular, durability, economj in consumption of\\nlcI last, if not least, in the matter of pric the Gladi-\\nnd Valley I ouneed the cheapest in the mar-\\nket wiii;, par excellence, the specialties of\\nCook Stove manufaetm that, in accommo-\\ndation of the varied tastes and necessities of his patrons and the public at large, Mr.\\nBenj. Fisher manufactures and keeps on handa large variety of other Cook and Heat-\\ning Stoves, especially .the Apollo, Herald and Justice, entirely new in design\\nand perfect in operation, which pread popularity whereever they\\nhave been introduced.\\nThe Star Foundry occupies fully an acre of ground, and comprises a large two\\nstory brick building having the dimensions of 265 by 100 feet, it is located at Nos.\\nL622 Market street. Wheeling, W. Va. The facilities, in-\\nof ti best and most favorable kind.\\nlb mimbering 10. contributi\\ni was .-reefed, and for a time used bj the B. .V\\nWe had almost omitted mention of the interesting\\nstar Foundry there are kept constantly on hand marbleized iron and\\nmantels, and odd castings of ah kinds, which for beauty of color and design,\\ncannot be well surpassed, and they are sold nearly as cheap as wood mantels. We\\nare pleased to have this opportunity of indorsing for the benefit of our readers every-\\nwhere we circulate the claims of the Star Foundry. The personal supervision of the\\nwhole concern on the part of the esteemed proprietor, gives Wry needed assurance\\nI that all work executed here is unexceptionably perfect in its kind. Wheeling, West\\nVirginia, may well be proud of the long continued prosperity of so ably conducted an\\nindustry.\\n_ s", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "ST\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n125\\nS2\\nL866. I s\\nWHEELING, PITTSBURGH AND CINCINNATI PACKET ANDES.\\nChas. Mtjhleman, \\\\fastei\\nEd. Muhleman. rk.\\nLeaves Wheeling for Cincinnati everj Tuesdaj at 3 p. vi. Leaves Cincinnati for\\nWheeling ami Pittsburgh ever} Friday at 5 p. m. This packet line was established\\nby apt. Chas. Muhle-\\nman in February, L866,\\nthe introduction of\\nthe liaudsorne side-\\nb |i. el steamer, Phil.\\nSheridan, which boat\\nwas buill at Jincinnati,\\nOhio, during the win-\\nter of LSli and L86G,\\nbut shortly after enter-\\nY\\\\ heeling and\\nCincinnati trade was\\nsold to apt. I a\\\\ idson\\ni.l Si. i, .in-. apt.\\nMuhleinan then pur-\\ns chased the steamer Po-\\ntomac and put, her in\\nthe trade in place of the\\nSheiidan, 11 which boai\\nwas afterwards suc-\\ncei dedby the Major Anderson and by the Andes No. 1. and now by the New Andes, which\\nboat has no superior on the River in point of speed and accommodations, having a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ity for one hundred and twenty-five cabii ers, who will be furnished\\nwith elegantly fitted up state rooms. This boat is also noted forthe sumptuousness of\\nthe table, everything the market affords is provided with lavish hands. The\\ncabin is tastefully furnished and decorated, the comfort and convenience of passengers\\namply provided for. The Ladies Cabin is furnished with an elegant Pianoand Parlor\\nFurniture. In the rear of the cabin the nursery is situated, provided with all nec-\\nessary conveniences. Th Andes is deservedly a popular boat. Her officers oblig-\\ning and attentive. The business of this boat has increased wonderfully during the\\nlast few years, her carrying capacity being oft a scarcelj adequate for the freight off\\nPassengers and shippers can find no better craft afloat for speedj and secure trans-\\nmission of freight, or mor .comfortable accommodations.\\nJ. H. CONNALLY SON.\\nOffice and Wareroom in Seventh Av. Hotel, 272 Liberty Street, Pitts-\\nburgh Pa.\\nThese gentlemen ai agents for tin- Consolidated Fire Extinguisher\\npany, and proprietors of the Connally, Babcock, Champion, Peerless and Gn\\ncan Fire Extinguishers and Chemical Engines. They are represented in this cil\\nC. F. A. Yahrhng, and are. therefore, entitled to mention in this I\\nThe Connally Warehouse Extinguisher is especially adapted for the use of fan:\\n[t is mounted on large wheels, and can 1m- handled with ease by one man. It has\\nto extinguish an ordinary farm house or barn when half envelopedin flames, and\\nthe farmer provided with one would have almost absolute protection from loss b;.\\nThe Champion Engine, for towns and villages, is the most simple and complete\\never offered, more than two hundred of them being now in use throughout the Onited\\nStates. No town should be without a chemical engine, whether well supplied with\\nwater or not. as it will extinguish a fire, in nine cases out of ten, before a steamer\\ngets to work, and save great loss by water damage.\\nThe. above engines are all admirably gotten up and complete in the smallest detail.\\nThe Messrs. Connally are gentlemen of the utmost reliability, and customers can\\nsafely place confidence in what they say. Mr. Yahrling the agent in this city will at-\\ntend promptly to all orders bv mail.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "JcPl26 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X^V\\nARBENZ CO.,\\nDealers in Furniture and Carpets, No. 1109 Main Street.\\nA Branch of the same house is at No. 3305 Jacob street, Eighth Ward. The\\ncapital invested in this business is $13,000.00, on the basis of w].ich a trade is done\\nof from $28,000.00 to $30,008.00. The house in which the firm conducts their busi-\\nness is an unusually large one, being four stories high, with a basement, exclusive of\\nthe main rooms. The store is 21 feet front by 90 feet deep. The basement serves\\nthe purpose of an additional story, and can be used for the purpose of stowing plain\\nand common goods when required. The proprietors employ six hands. The senior\\npartner twenty-six years ago was doing business on quite a small scale, but the pres-\\nent establishment does quite an extensive one, and one which will favorably compare\\nwith that of any house in Wheeling. The stock of Furniture, Carpets and Mattresses\\nis unusually large. Undertaking is made a specialty with this firm. Arbenz\\nCo., and their assistants are proverbially polite and attentive to the demands of the\\ntrade, and will quote you such jjrices as will not fail to secure your patronage.\\nOHIO CITY PLANING MILL\\nMedill Exleys.\\nThis well managed institution is located in Martin s Ferry. Ohio, and being compara-\\ntively young in years, maybe presumed to be quite up to the times in the way of improved\\nmachinery. The proprietors are practical workmen and may be presumed to lie well\\nqualified to run an establishment of this kind. All kinds of work are turned out of\\nthis establishment with a rapidity as notable\u00e2\u0080\u0094 as the work that is produced, is. for its\\nexcellence. Every kind of lumber and builders materials kept in stock. Messrs.\\nMedill Exleys gives you the very lowest quotations on all work done by them or on\\nany kind of goods kept for sale. The individual members of the firm are Benj.\\nExley, Sr., -I. .Medill and Benj. Exley, Jr.\\nHOEHLE BR0.,\\nDealers in Furniture, No. 1053 Main Street.\\nThis firm is well worthy of the patronage of the public. Perfectly familial with\\nevery branch of their business in detail, customers can rely on obtaining first-class work\\nfrom them. The firm consists of Messrs. George and William Hoehle, both natives\\nof Wheeling. They worked for three years with that well known upholsterer, Joseph\\nKlapheck, and are proficients in the trade. They do all of their own wort\\nguarantee every article purchased from them to be equal to any in the country. They\\nbegan business for themselves in IS7C,, and have established a florishing trade in\\ncity and surrounding country. They pay special attention to repairing, and can lie\\nrelied on for giving prompt attention to any article entrusted to them, and for giving\\nperfect satisfaction at cheap rates. These gentlemen an- notable for low prices on all\\nkinds of goods, and for all work done by them in the way of repairing. They\\nassure the public that they are not only the cheapest dealers in Wheeling, but they\\ncharge the lowest prices of any house in the State.\\nDURST KOBER,\\nWholesale Grocers, Produce and Commission Merchants, No. 1125, Market\\nStreet.\\nAmong tlie commercial enterprises of Wheeling there is probably no one branch of\\nmore importance to the general public than the produce and commission business.\\nMessrs. Alex. Durst and Theodore Kober compose the firm, both natives of Wheeling,\\nand both young men of industry, and well directed energy. Well and favorably\\nknown to this community. Mr. Durst has been seven years in this business aud/he\\nhas made the wants and requirements of his patrons a subject of study. There are\\nfew men in this city sowell posted in the produce and commission business of this section\\nas Mr. Durst, he having served a long and faithful apprenticeship in it. Mr. Kober\\nis a gentlemen of acknowledged business capacity, he having had several years valua-\\nble experience in connection with some of our prominent business establishments.\\nThey pay particular attention to the commission branch of their trade, and have the\\n3*", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "8\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n127\\nbest facilities for storage and prompt handling of all goods. All orders entrusted to\\nthem receive their personal attention, and they guarantee perfect satisfaction and\\nprompt settlements. They deal in all kinds of produce and ship by the ear load to\\nall parts of the country. They handle Flour, Eggs, Butter, Apples Potatoes, Fresh\\nVegetables and Fruits of all kinds. Canned Goods, Family Groceries, and supply a\\nlarge portion of the retail trade of this vicinity with their stock. This is a thorough\\ngoing house and deserve-, the patronage of the farmers of this section, as well as thai\\nof the general public.\\nNATIONAL PLANING MILL\\nR. J. Baggs Sons, Bridgeport, Belmont County, Ohio.\\nThe firm of R. .1. Baggs Sons, the pioneer planing mill men of Belmont county,\\nnow occupy the shop and yards near the railroad depot. The shop proper is 30x100\\nfeet, two stories bighand a storage\\nroom on the west side that is 20x48\\nfeet and three stories high, which\\nfurnishes room to store Kill.\\nteet of planed lumber.\\nOn the first floor is a large iron\\nframe double cylinder planing ma-\\nchine, a heavy iron frame flooring\\nmachine, an upright re-sawing mill,\\na circular re-sawing mill and a cir-\\ncular saw. On the second floor\\nwe find a variety of machinery for\\njthe manufacture of door, frames.\\nsash, mouldings, brackets, mantels,\\npalings, shutters. Ac. First we find\\na scroll saw for cutting out of all\\nimaginable shapes of irregular\\nwork. Next, we come to a nia-\\nBAQGS BEVEL-SAW AND GROOVINQ-FRAME. clliue fOl topping the styles (it\\nvenitian shutters, a very ingenious piece of machinery by which the styles are\\nmortised and the mortises are cleaned out by the action of the machine which\\nalso does its own feeding and spacing. Next in order is the Ellis blind slat\\ntenoner. a machine that cuts the tenuous on both ends of the slat at the sam.\\ntime. Next we are shown the machine used for putting the staples into the slats\\nand rodsof pivot shutters, which is a machine thatneeds to be seen in operation to be\\nappreciated. _\\nThe machine in use for cross-graining and a great variety of other work is the in-\\nvention of J. T. Baggs, the manager of the mechanical department, the heavy mould-\\ning machine is one of Smith s patent iron frame machines that works three sides\\nof the moulding at the same operation. In addition to the above, there are on\\nthis floor two circular cut-off saws, two circular rip saws, oue sash, door and mould-\\ning machine, one stand of emery wheels, irregular moulding machine and one ot J\\nT. Baggs patent universal sawing machines. This machine does a great variety of\\nwork that cannot readily or easily be accomplished by the use of other machinery\\nit combines first as rip, and cut-off saw and a wabble saw with an adjustable table, so\\nthat the work can be done square or at any desired angle it is used for all kinds ot\\nrebating, chamfering, fluting, plowing window frames, gaining out pew ends, cent-\\nering, cutting dove tails, flows for extension-table slides, and a great variety ot other\\nwork. Situated near the depot of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, and the\\nprospective Tuscarawas Valley Railroad, and near to the bank.ot the Ohio river, the\\nproprietors of these mills enjoy facilities for the shipment of orders and for reception\\nof raw materials, possessed by no establishment of the kind in this region of country.\\nThe proprietors assure us that neither the planing mills ou the Ohio side of the river\\nnor the West Virginia side, can quote lower, if as low figures, on work or lumber ot\\nany kind than they can. This assertion they say they can confirm to any person or\\npersons who may favor them with their orders. All orders promptly attended to on\\nthe reception of the same, and satisfaction guaranteed.\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": ".\u00e2\u0080\u00a22^128 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. X^\\nG. MENDEL CO.,\\nCarpets, Furniture of all Kinds and General Undertakers, 1124 Main Street\\nThis old and substantial house, one of the pioneer enterprises of Wheeling, was started\\nin is:;:,, by George Mendel, whose name is recognized in the commercial history of\\nWheeling as a synonym for honorable dealing, and well directed energy and high\\ntoned unswerving integrity. Beginning business with a moderate capital as a nucleus\\nto build upon, Mr. Mendel before his decease, which occurred in 1875. by his ac-\\ntive and thorough management, his rave business ability and perfect knowledge of his\\ntrade and its requirements, stood at the head of the business he had founded forty\\nyears previously, and his establishment had arisen to almost its present magnhicient\\nproportions. He had the satisfaction while still among the living of realizing, that he\\nhad established and successfully carried forward a business that fco-day stands as a\\nmonument to his memory. The business, while suffering a loss in the death of its\\nfounder, had in the son. Mr. b Ed. .Mendel, the present manager, a gentleman who\\nhas in a great degree inherited much of his father s business tad. and being young\\nand enterprising, has not let the business transmitted to his management languish in\\nany way. but further magnified and carried it forward to meet the wants of this age\\nof progress and improvement. The warerooms of this house are in three buildings,\\neach three stories high, which have in the aggregate a frontage of 68 feet, and a depth\\nof 133 feet. There are four departments, one for Carpets, one for Furniture, one for\\nUpholstering, and at the factory which is on Eoff street, their elegantly fitted up Un-\\ndertaking department. This room for the branch of this trade, which has been re-\\ncently fitted up. is especially designed and adapted for the display of their large and\\nvaried stock of caskets and burial eases of all grades and descriptions. Mr. B. Zook\\nis in charge of this department, who has had an experience of 30 years in this depart-\\nment. The carpet rooms are spacious and well lighted filled with an immense stock\\nof Brussels, Velvet. Tapistry and other styles of Carpet. Access to this department,\\nwhich is on the second floor, is by means of a nealty furnished hydraulic passenger\\nelevator. The. lower floor which is partially devoted to the reception of their custo-\\nmers is stocked with an elegant, line of Bed Boom, Library and Dining Room Furniture.\\nThe Upholstering department is on the third floor, where also the packing is done.\\nMessrs. Mendel Co. make a large part of the furniture they sell, especially the\\nfiner and better class of work\u00e2\u0080\u0094 this is in itself a guaranteeof the excellence, finish\\nand durability of their goods. Mr. C. Ornold is superintendent of the factory, he is an\\nexpert, and quite a veteran in the business. Messrs. Mendel Co. have a capital of\\n$75,000.00 in their business, upon which they do a business approximating $175, 000. 00\\nper year. They employ in the aggregate thirty-five hands. Mr. L. D. Williams then-\\nbook-keeper is an accomplished accountant. The trade of this house is throughout\\nWest Virginia, Eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, besides controlling a large\\nportion of the local trade. A visit to this establishment will well repay parties in\\nquest of furniture and carpets of any style and grade, and fully substantiate what we\\nhave written. The public are cordially invited by Mr. Mendel to call and inspect\\ntheir stock. Visitoi s whether calling with a view of purchasing or not, will be cour-\\nteously welcomed.\\nDENTISTRY, INVENTION, c.\\nWe boast very justly indeed of what we have done in the way of discoveries during\\nthe last half century. The Railway, Engine and Car, is quite a notable instance of\\nour invention. Then came the Steamship, then the Telegraph wire, and more re-\\ncently and quite lately, the achievement of Edison in the Telephone, and Iris promised\\nelectric light. These are all very well, and of much moment to the human race, but\\nmen appear in these great discoveries to forget many silent advances that more un-\\npretending arts have made. Enlightened Dentistry for instance, what a boon it is to\\na person who has a violent toothache. Thoughts of the Railways, invention of Rail-\\nways, Steamships, Telegraphs, Telephones and the like, afford no relief to a person\\nwho has an aching tooth. The modern dentist takes precedence here and shows the\\nrapid advancement that his art has attained, and with his present skillful appliances,\\ncompared with what he had in years gone by, makes it rather a pleasure than other-\\nwise to have a tooth plugged or extracted, especially when done by a master hand. When\\nit comes to making a comparison as to physical advantages that have been made in dif-\\na", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "ST\\nTHE INDUST1UKS OF WHEELING.\\n120\\nsa\\nferent inventions, we must award much credit to the discoveries tlmt have been made\\nin dentistry, because they touch the feeling8 so to speak in a more acute manner than\\nthe more pretensions inventions of the Railway, Steamship, Telegraph or Telephone\\nCan do, with all their admitted usefulness. In relation to Dentistry it may be said\\nthat few dentists in the country occupy a position so prominent as that of Dr. W i\\nter of Wheeling. He has been in the business and has been known as an expert for\\nthe last sixteen years- Be is a gentleman of quite unobtrusive manners (which ever\\nattends on skill and attends in person to the constant demand on his services for\\nfurnishing new sets of teeth, parts of the same, and plugging or extracting natural\\nones. Hi-, employes are as careful as he is himself of such work as is entrusted to\\ntheir care. There of course could only be one result to such complete and systematic\\nsupervision on the part of Dr. Wingerter, and that is. a prosperous and lucrative trade.\\nC. Y. LUCAS,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in Pianos, Organs, Violins, Brass and other\\nMusical Instruments, Sheet Music. c.\\nThis establishment, by continuous succession, claims to be the representative of the old\\nand favorable known l nnsic store of James Mellor, a store which was Opened in Wheel-\\ning nearly a half a century back in the\\npast. At the decease of Mr. Mellor, he\\nwas succeeded by his .son. Jesse Mellor.\\nSenior, who also died a short time after\\nhis accession to the business. This gen-\\ntleman was succeeded by his brother,\\nJesse B. Mellor. who after a few years\\nwas succeeded by Wm, II. Sheib. Some-\\n\u00c2\u00a7jf time after that the firm became Hamil-\\nton A- Harding, subsequently V. Hard-\\ning, and later Adams Lucas. The\\nsenior member of this firm, a short time\\nsince, sold out his entire interest to his\\npartner, C. V. Lucas, under which\\nname the business is now carried on.\\nThis establishment has undergone many\\nchanges, as to the various firms that have had charge of it from time to time, but the\\nmost notable change of all is in the energetic manner in which the business is now pros-\\necuted. Never in the past has tin trade of this house at all approximated in volume to\\nthe present varied and extensive trade of 0. V. Lucas. The proprietor keeps a full\\nassortment of the leading Pianos, Organs and other musical instruments known to tin-\\ntrade. Among pianos, the very justly celebrated ones of Steiuway, (nickering, Knabe,\\n.1. A Fischer and Luierson may be mentioned. In organs, the Palace Organ, is be-\\nlieved to be the best in tie United States. These, however, arc merely the more\\nprominent ones as to excellence, in a stock notably large, and comprising instruments\\nof other manufactures of celebrity. The stock of this establishment appeared to Us\\non a recent visit to the store to be very full, having about L8 pianos and 15 organs, and on\\nremarking the same to the proprietor, he assured us that though he had what might\\nappear to a casual observe]- to be quite a large stock, the stock at present was by no\\nmeans of the magnitude that hemakesit a point tocarry the year through, his stock be-\\ning about 25 pianos and 30 or In organs, butowingto the present I in in business his\\nsales have been larger than usual, and have somewhat depleted his stock, which how-\\never will shortly be restored to its usual magnitude. The proprietor facetiously re-\\nmarked that sometimes dealers professed to have a direct interest in the manufacture\\nof pianos, organs, C, this he assured us was the same interest that he had himself,\\nthe profit merely that accrues to the dealer on sales of the sane The store room of\\nMr. Lucas is one of the most elegant ami capacious in the city, ami is one of the\\nfavorite resorts of the cultured in music, and is widely known and patronized, both at\\nhome and abroad. Every piano irrespective of makers, that LssoldbyMr. Lucas, isguar-\\nanteed by the manufacturer for five years. In addition to this, the proprietor gives\\nhis own guarantee for the same length of time, thus affording the purchaser a double\\nsecurity in purchasing. Notwithstanding the above guarantees, pianos and organs are sold\\nas low, and sometimes lower than they jixe sold by other dealers who do not guarantee", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "S\u00c2\u00a3\\n30\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n*s\\nthem. We were shown seven and one-third octave rosewood pianos with carved legs c.\\nin fact quite as good as any one would wish to have, at the very low price of from $200. 00\\nto $250.00, and elegant organs with from seven to ten stops, carved walnut cases, at\\nprices ranging from $65 to $75.00. Mr. Lucas is a gentleman of much energy and\\nenterprise, and judging from appearances we presume him to be enjoying a large and\\nlucrative trade. A full corps of gentlemanly assistants are employed at this progres-\\nsive establishment. The most prominent among tbese are Mr. Chas. Kilmeyer and\\nMr. F. W. Baumer, both excellent pianists. Special attention given to tuning and re-\\npairing pianos and organs.\\nJACOB W. GRUBB,\\n(Successor to Hennegan, Bates Co,) Wholesale and Retail Jeweler, Wash-\\nington Hall, Corner Market and 12th Streets, Wheeling, W. Va.\\nThis old Jewelry house of nearly half a century, was established by Jas. T. Scott, suc-\\nceeded by Jas. T. Scott Co., Scott Hennegen, W. H. Hennegen Co., Henne-\\ngen, Bates Co., and Jacob \\\\V.\\nGrubb, the present owner.\\nThe old house was largely\\nknown to manufacturers and im-\\nporters, and they have been of\\nlate years recognized as jobbers,\\nand have been getting the very\\nlowest discounts accorded to the\\nlargest wholesale dealers. This\\nconcession has been gained by\\nyears of constantly increasing\\nbusiness, connected with the rule\\nof always buying for cash.\\nAs the successor to H. B.\\nCo., and the purchaser of all the\\nadvantages and the facilities en-\\njoyed by them during a service\\nof ten years, Mr. Grubb can well\\npoint with pride to the establish-\\nment complete in all its depart-\\nments of Watches, Clocks, Jew\\nelry, Silver and Silver Plated\\nWare, Bronzes, and indeed ev-\\nerything that goes to make up a\\nfirst-class store. We can partic-\\nH ularly recommend anything se-\\nlected from his stock, knowing\\nfrom the past that only first-class\\nH goods are sold. We would do\\nthe readers an injustice were we\\nto close this article without calling their attention to the display of Watches, in Gold,\\nSilver, Nickel and Celluloid Cases. This branch of the business is immense. Mr.\\nGrubb has charge of the standard city time, and has in his store direct telegraph com-\\nmunication with the Observatory at Washington. D. giving correct time by tele-\\ngraph twice a day.\\nWhen visiting in the cityMo not fail to call and see him at Washington Hall, corner\\nMarket and 12th streets.\\nSteamboat Agentu Proprietors of the\\nC. H. BOOTH SON,\\nProduce and Commission Merchants-\\nOld Reliable Wharf Boat.\\nIt is our duty in recording the various industries of the community, to mention\\nthose firms or men, in any particular branch of trade, who have achieved prominent\\nposition through the force of natural ability unaided by any influences except those\\nevoked by their own capacity. Such a firm is that of C. H. Booth Son, the senior\\npartner being a striking example of what may justly be called a self-made man. This", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 131^*\\nfirm was originally composed of four members: C. H. Booth, J. C. Jelly, \\\\V. G.\\nBattelle and John Mulrine. For years they conducted their business systematically\\nand prosperously at the location of the present finn, but the deatli of three of\\nthe members caused changes in the style of the firm Mr. Battelle died in 1868; Mr\\nJelly in 1864. Subsequent to this time, the firm was composed of Messrs. Booth fe\\nMulrine; Mr. Mulrine dying in L875, the firm became C. H. Booth Son, Frank B.\\nBooth being admitted. Through all the changes incident to the decease of members,\\nthe firm has maintained its reputation for business tact, liberality in business transac-\\ntions and commercial integrity. Steadily increasing their business by their compre-\\nhensive knowledge of its responsibilities and requirements and their straightforward\\nmanner of doing business they have won the confidence of all with, whom they have\\nhad dealings. Their transactions embrace a general Produce and Commission busi-\\nsing of consignments of produce, and Dairy products, as\\nwell as being buyers and sellers They handle Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Flour, Grain,\\nFruit a, id all kinds of Country Produce. They have ample facilities and a full force\\nof efficient assistants to transact promptly, accurately and intelligently and upon\\nsound principles, all business entrusted to them. They sell without, delay all consign-\\nments and make prompt returns therefor: which is the correct method of doing bu-\\nsiness. They make liberal advances upon goods when desired. Any one having\\nbusiness in tins line can feel assured that it could not be entrusted to safer or more\\nexperienced hands. This is also the Pioneer Steamboat Agency of Wheeling. Being\\ninterested in steamboats for years, both as owners and officers, they are well posted in\\nthe business. They have in connection with their house an admirably constructed,\\nwell arranged and spacious Wharfboat for the convenience of shippers the Old\\nReliable Whabfboat, John Crockard, Manager. There is no firm in Wheeling\\nthat has the experience, gained by years of application to the business, possessed\\nby this concern. There lias scarcely been any river enterprise of importance that\\nthe senior member has not been identified with. No house in the city occupies a\\nhigher position commercially, which, considering the liberal and enterprising 6pirit\\nthat characterizes its operations, is as natural as justly deserved.\\nOHIO VALLEY PROTECTIVE UNION,\\nHome Office, Wo. \u00e2\u0080\u0094\u00e2\u0080\u0094Market Street.\\nBOARD or MANAGEBS AXI) OFFICERS.\\nPresident Hon. Robt. White, Wheeling, W. Va.\\nVice President- Gen. I. H. Duval, Wellsburg, W. Va.\\nSecretary -Hon. R. H. Cochkan, Wheeling, W. Va.\\nTreasurer Wm. C. Hanolan, Wheeling, W. Va.\\nGeneral Agent- Wabben Hollistek, Bridgeport, 0.\\nMedical Examiner- Thos. B. Campbell, M. D., Wheeling, W. Va.\\nGeo R Tingle rm Chas. G. Dillon,\\n1J t V. Wheeling. T t Zauesville, O.\\nJas. R. McCoubtney, j B Jas. Buckingham,\\nThe above is not nominally an insurance company, but it has all of the virtues of\\na good one and none of the vices of a bad one. The management make it a custom\\nto send catalogues explanatory of the details of the method to be pursued by those\\nwho would avail themselves of its benefits, and wherever a party may not have been\\nfavored with one of the companies circulars, the same will be cheerfully sent by mail\\non application. This system of insurance for it really is one \u00e2\u0080\u0094is far superior to the\\nold hackneyed system which goes by that name not that there are not many regular\\ninsurance institutions which are legitimate in their character and manner of dealing\\nbut that tie many that are not too many that are, what might be called\\nasylums for idle and pompous clerks who draw liberal salaries for doing little or noth-\\ning. The Ohio Valley Pbotecttve Union, however, is an^organization which is\\nuntrammelled by any of the injurious machinery which defeats tin object of an\\nequitable insurance company. We would conclude this article by saying that the in-\\nsured in this company in case of death do not leave as a legacy, a quarrel to bo fought\\nby the survivors, with an insurance company as is too often the case\u00e2\u0080\u0094 as all liabili-\\nties on the pai-t ot this organization in case of death are promptly and satisfactorily\\nadjusted.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": ",^Pl32 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING, H?*\\nMOUNT DE CHANTAL-WHEELING FEMALE ACADEMY,\\nIn Charge of the Sisters of the Visitation, B. V. M., Near \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Wheeling\\nThis institution was founded in the year 1848, by the Rt. Rev. R. V. Whelan, Bishop\\nof Wheeling, and shortly afterwards incorporated under the title of Wheeling Fe-\\nmale. Academy, and was located in the city on the corner of Eoff and 14th streets.\\nThe success which attended the efforts of the ladies in charge, rendered it necessary\\nto secure more commodious quarters. With this object in view, the community pur-\\nchased the elegant and attractive site, about three miles from the city, immediately on\\nthe hue of the W. P. B. railroad, which the}- now occupy, removing thereto from\\nthe city in 1865. The situation is remarkably well adapted by its elevation and salu-\\nbrious air, as well as by its comparative retirement, for the purposes of a school of\\nthis description, and for beauty and healthfulness can not be surpassed. The exten-\\nsive and admirably constructed buildings crown an eminence from which is had a\\nview of the charming valley below. The horizon is formed by an amphitheatre of\\ngreen, woody hills, that enhances the beauty of the scenery. Attached to the Acad-\\nemy is a tract of land comprising 100 acres. Near the buildings are the play-grounds,\\nthickly planted with choice evergeens and ornamental shade trees. Statues, judi-\\nciously placed, blend art s beauties with nature s loveliness. The rest of the laud is\\nI occupied with rich and well stocked pastures, fields of grain, vegetable gardens and\\norchards enabling the Sisters to supply the table with an abundance of fruits and\\nvegetables in season, and a plentiful supply of dairy products. The plan adopted by\\nthe Sisters for the instruction of their pupils has for its special object the develop-\\nment of the faculty of imparting knowledge by stimulating thought and not allowing\\nthe understanding to be impaired by reliance on memory. Little stress is laid by the\\nSifters upon recitation questions are pi-oposcd that are calculated to cause reflection\\nand show the extent of information these questions are persisted in until the answers\\nprove satisfactory. A thoi OUgh understanding of the subject matter of study is re-\\nquired of every pupil. In the classes of Literature, critical essays are required to be\\nwritten upon the authors whose works are perused, and magazines and pe-\\nriodicals which are read, during the year. French and German are taught with\\ngreat cave, especially with regard to correctness of pronunciation and purity of\\naccent: for this purpose, pupils who are sufficiently advanced, are required to con-\\nverse in these languages during a part of the recreation and at the table. Great at-\\ntention is bestowed on English spelling, reading and composition the Sisters deeming\\nthe correct speaking, reading and writing of ones native language of paramount impor-\\ntance. The Musical Department is ably conducted, long experience having brought\\nthe system of teaching to great perfection. In vocal culture, the Sisters are particu-\\nlarly favored the Sister in charge of this branch having a voice of remarkable com-\\npass, beauty and culture. Soirees Musicales are held in the Music Hall twice a month.\\nat which the pupils are required to execute both vocal and instrumental music, with-\\nout the aid of the notes. The government of the institution is eminently maternal.\\nEvery effort is made to compensate children for separation from home and friends,\\nand to subject them only to such discipline as is essential to good order and the cul-\\ntivation of the habit of self control. Neatness and simplicity in dress are considered\\nindispensable. (Treat attention is paid to the exterior deportment and polite man-\\nners of the young ladies, in order to fit them for entering any society in their own or\\nforeign countries. Two examinations take place during the year the former in Jan-\\nuary, the latter in June. After the first examination, a report is sent to the parents\\nor guardians of each young lady, giving an account of her proficiency in study, ob-\\nservance of 7-ules, etc. and at the close of the second session, a public distribution of\\npremiums takes place. To the most deserving in the various classes the following\\npremiums are awarded-. In the first a crown and gold medal; in (lie second a crown\\nand silver medal; and badges, wreaths, and sprays of flowers in the other classes.\\nGreat attention is paid to the health of the pupils, the young ladies being required to\\nexercise freely in the open air. The course of instruction comprises six classes, each\\ncarefully arranged to meet the wants of the student, in regular progressive steps from\\nthe rudiments to the highest branches of literature and classic lore. The Sisters in-\\nculcate genuine piety, which is founded on the love of God, possessing a sunny radi-\\nance all its own, permeating all our duties, joys and sorrows, our entire being, our\\nwhole lives. The*junior pupils are kept apart from the seniors experience having\\nproven the advisability of keeping them separate. Necessary arrangements have been\\nmade which provide the junior pupils with such attention and care as their tender age", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": ",Cp THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 133 ^6*\\nrequires. Wo have endeavored to give our readers a brief sketch of one r f die most\\nworthy mid best regulated institutions for the education of all classes, regardless of\\nreligious faith. The terms are very moderate. Prospectuses will be furnished on\\napplication. Letters should be addressed,\\nDlRECTRKSS OF THE ACADEMY OF HI]\\nMount De Chantal,\\nNear Wheeling, W. Va.\\nP. KENNEDY,\\nDealer in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. Notions and Carpet Chain, No\\n1033 Main Street\\nThis house is the representative r the old house of Jacob Kiger, Esq., who in\\nyears gone by was well known by the citizens generally, and by thousands of i\\nabroad who always dealt with him. He was a gentleman of the old school, and a\\nvery successful merchant, and a man of much force -as to mercantile ability. Mr.\\nKennedy was a clerk in Mr. Kiger s stove as early as 1849. The establishment was,\\nso to speak, Mr. Kennedy s commercial school. There it was thai the foundation was\\nlaid for Mr. K. s business education. There he a quiredthal methodical and satisfac-\\ntory manner of transacting business, which all who are acquainted with him know\\nhim to possess. In 1858 he became a partner of t lie firm of J. Kiger Co. The\\nsenior partner died in L868, and the present incumbent purchased the stock of goods\\nand embarked in the Dry Goods business in his own name. By bis attention to busi-\\nness lie rapidly gained the favor and patronage of n- customers, besides retaining\\nthe trade of the old patrons of the house. We doubt if there is a merchant in Wheel-\\ning, who. considering the amount of stock carried, made money faster between 1861\\nand 187o than Mr. Kennedy did. (hit of the gains of his business he was able to pur-\\nchase the very elegant three-story building in which he curries on his own business,\\nand the magnificent three-story building in which R. S. Hopkins has his furniture\\nstore, and also a splendid farm situated directly on the National bond, about live\\nmiles east of the city. This latter he purchased with a view to the discontinuance of\\nmercantile life. He went on his farm, staid there for something o\\\\ cr a year, but\\nsoon .grew tired of it. It has been said by some writer, Once a merchant always a\\nmerchant. Getting tired of farming, he rented his farm to another party, and re-\\nopened the Dry (roods business at the old stand, which had been remodeled by a\\nsplendid front of large plate glass windows and doors. He then placed in the room a\\nvery large and entirely new stock of hue and staple Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods.\\nBuying for cash at the choicest figures, he is enabled to offer goods at the very lowest\\nprices. Mr. Kennedy is honorable and exact in all his dealings. He is too conscien-\\ntious to ask you one price and your neighbor another for the same article of goods.\\nHe has but one price\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and thai price is always reasonable, and as low, if not lower\\nthan elsewhere.\\nBENWOOD IRON WORKS\\nManufacturers of Nails and Pig Iron\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Works situated at Benwood, four\\nmiles below Wheeling.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Blast Furnace at Martin s Ferry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Office, No. 11\\nFourteenth Street, City.\\nArchibald W. Campbell, President; L. S. Delaplain, Vice-President: Alonzo Lor-\\ning. Secretary.\\nThis large and varied establishment is the representative of the old Virginia Iron\\nWorks, formerly situated on the present site of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Pas\\nsenger Depot in Wheeling. The Virginia Iron Works was torn down to make\\nroom for the depot, and the materials shipped to Benwood at quite an early day. and\\nused in the building up of the old original Benwood Iron Works. which had quite\\nI a prosperous career for over twenty years, when, unfortunately for the company, a\\nvery few years since, the entire concern was burnt to the ground. The mill was in-\\ni sured, however, and the Company immediately resolved to rebuild, and build in such\\na manner as to defy further loss by tire. from the ashes of tin old mill, p\\nlike, arose the present magnificent iron structure, which is admitted to be one of the\\nmost complete, handsome and durable establishments either east or west. It was\\nfinished in L876, and since that, it. has had quite a successful i\\nOne very great advantage possessed by this mill, uot always enjoyed by similar", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "*2r 134 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. V^\\nmanufactories, lays in the fact that it has its coal almost at its own door, being with-\\nin a few hundred feet from inexhaustible beds of the very best of coal for daily de-\\nmands in that line. This Nail and Iron Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094combined with its Blast Furnace\u00e2\u0080\u0094 em-\\nploys about five hundred hands, to whom is paid, semi-monthly, about $14,000.00 in\\nwages. The mill proper is propelled by three powerful engines, which are served by\\neight large boilers. The Blast Furnace is run by one. immense engine, supplemented\\nby six boilers. Wheeling nails have become a familiar proverb as to excellence and\\nsuperiority of workmanship. When it is borne in mind that Wheeling and vicinity\\nfurnish about one-tourth of the entire amount of nails manufactured in the United\\nStates, it is no wonder that she has, with one accord, been called the Nail City. The\\nproducts of no iron works in the country enjoy a superior reputation to those of the,\\nBenwood Iron and Nail Works, either in quality of material used or general excellence\\nin finish. The Howard Rotary Nail Picker is in use in this mill. This is, perhaps,\\nall that it is necessary for us to say, as their reputation is amply attested by the im-\\nmense and constant shipments to the northwest, west and south.\\nWHEELING, CINCINNATI AND PITTSBURGH WEEKLY PACKET,\\nST. LAWRENCE.\\nWm. M. List, Master. C D. List, Clerk.\\nThis magnificent side-wheel passenger steamer was partially built during the latter\\npart of 1878 and finished in April, 1879. Her hull was built at Murraysville, W. Va.,\\nHer cabin, machinery andequip-\\n__ ments are the handiwork of\\nWheeling mechanics. She is\\n=r THfi -sS= 5^P on a y g an( j t j i|ie a( j ver ti se{ i.\\nHer regular dates are, for leaving Wheeling every Saturday at 3:00 p. m. return-\\ning, leaves Cincinnati every Tuesday at 5:00 P. M. The St. Lawrence is a model\\nsteamer, built with a view to speed, and every possible precaution and device adopted\\nfor safety. She is probably the handsomest, most finely equipped and fastest boat\\nthat comes to this port. No expense was spared in building her; all modern, best\\napproved and tested appliances and machinery were freely supplied in her construc-\\ntion and equipment. Her accommodations for passengers are ample and unexcelled\\non the western waters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 her table lavishly supplied with all the home markets afford.\\nand choice delicacies from eastern and southern markets. Her cabins are tastefully\\nfurnished and arranged, with elegant furniture and decorations. Her staterooms.\\nwhich are sixty in number, are marvels of comfort and convenience. The ladies\\ncabin is sumptuously furnished- everything that the most fastidious taste could re-\\nquire is supplied\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an elegant Steinway Piano for the amusement of ladies, among\\nother articles. The officers are courteous and obliging, and no pains are spared for\\nensuring the comfort and convenience of the traveling public. The St. Lawrence has\\nbecome both an institution and an object of pride to the citizens of the river towns,\\nnot only for the skill, business ability and accommodating deportment of her officers,\\nbut also for her beauty, speed, pre* nations for security and elegance of her accommo-\\ndations and equipment s. Her capacity for carrying freight is large, and the reputa-\\ntion of the boat for secure transmission and prompt delivery is No. 1. The St. Law-\\nis the successor of those popular aud well known boats, R. R. Hudson and Hud-\\nson, and is officered by the same gentlemen who so ably managed those steamers.\\nDR. M. J. RHEES,\\nHorncepathist, No. 56 14th Street.\\nThere is no profession or pursuit in life that exacts the same, patient wearying and\\ni self-sacrificing service as the medical profession. None in which the nobler quah.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Jcr THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 135^\u00c2\u00a3\\nties of head and heart are so frequently called upon. It is a profession requiring the\\nmost careful preparation and most profound study and research, and there can be do\\ni in in- noble calling or none affording a better field for exercising judgment and skill.\\nThe subject of the present sketch, Dr. M. J. Rhees, is a native of Philadelphia. He\\nwas thoroughly educated in the best schools in his native city. Choosing the medical\\nprofession as his a\\\\ oration in life, the Doctor received a complete education in the\\nAllopathic school, graduating in March, L840, at the Jefferson Medical College, Phila\\ndelphia. The Doctor became a converl after severe study and research, to the doe\\ntrine of Hahnenmu. and studied this system under the preceptorship of Dr. Geo. H.\\nBute, the first physician who practiced Homopathy in Philadelphia. He com-\\nmenced the practice of Homcepathic Medicine in Mount Holly. J., a short distance\\nfrom Philadelphia. After many years of large and laborious practice, he retired and\\nturned his attention to fanning! Feeling himself out of place and growing restless\\nfrom this conviction he returned to the practice of his profession, locating himself in\\nNewtonville Mass. Lookingout for a more extended sphere of usefulness, and with the\\nhope of gaining a more lucrative practice, and recognizing the claims of the growing West,\\nhe selected Wheeling as his new location, coming here in January. 1879, succeding\\nDr. C. Olmstead. From letters which have fallen under the observation of the\\nwriter. Dr. Rhees has certainly enjoyed the friendship) and esteem of some of the most\\neminent men in the profession in Philadelphia. Boston and other cities. He has been a\\nfrequent, ami judging from the flattering remarks of brother physicians which we\\nhave seen and read, a valued contributor to the Homcepathic Medical Journals.\\nThe American Institute of Homcepathy was organized in L844. In 1846 Dr. Rhees\\nbecame a member, and in the same year exerted himself to induce the Homcepathic physi-\\ncians of New Jersey to organize the New Jersey Branch of the American [nstitn\\nHomcepathy, of which he was the first secretary and a delegate to the American In-\\nstitute in L847, at its meeting in Boston. He wrote a paper on \\\\Iaierio Medico in\\n1858, which brought him into prominence before the American Institute, and the\\nnextyear he was appointed a member of the Central Bureau of Materia Medico in that\\nbody which position he held for several years. He is now one of the senior members\\nof the American Institute, who by reason of years or more of continuous mem\\nbership, enjoy all the privileges and advantages of the Institute without bein\\nliged to pay annual dues. close student and observer, he has always kept pace with\\nthe times. Every new discovery in science meets prompt investigation at his hands,\\nbeing quick to recognize and avail himself of everything possessing merit, and to dis-\\ncard the worthless. perusal of several articles from his pen in the New England\\nMedical Gazette, of Boston, indicate a familiarity with and knowledge of his pro-\\nfession, which can only be acquired by years of close study and application.\\nD. WAGENER.\\nManufacturer of Wrapping. Roofing, Print, Glass and Carpet Paper, Build\\ning Paper aSpecialty, Nos 1503 Maia Street and 1506 South Street.\\nAmong the manufacturing interests and business enterprises of Wheeling and\\nvicinity, we cannot fail to maki liberal mention of the paper manufacturing indus-\\ntry. Prominent among the business houses of this section we class that of David\\nWagener, whose reputation forthe different grades of paper manufactured at bis es-\\ntablishment, extends over the whole country. His business is conducted in the- most\\nable and enterprising manner, and he presents to the trade articles thoroughly and\\npractically adapted to the uses for which thej are made. The manufactory or null is\\nsituated in West Wheeling. Belmont county, Ohio. It is a building especially fitted\\nup for the business, supplied with all modern machinery and appliances of themostap-\\nproved dii signs. It is a two story brick, 40 by 7. feet, with all necessary out b\\nings and adjuncts, the whole occupying one acre of ground. He employs in the\\nprosecution of his business, twenty-five hands, all experienced, first-class mechanics,\\nand personally superintends his business. For supplying the necessarj power the\\nmill is provided with two engines, .me of L20 and one of 60 horse power; two double\\nHued boilers. 42 inches in diameter, and 26 feet long. -Mr. Wagener is the sole pro-\\nprietor, and J. E. Paris, book-keeper. The warehouse in which the office is situated is on\\nMain street, the principal business thoroughfare ofthe city. It is a threestorj building,\\nL ,s by III feet. Mr. Wagener manufactures all styles and kinds of paper,\\nmaking a specialty of building paper, for which he has labored for and\\nobtained an enviable reputation. His trade extends all over the country. lb-", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "136 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. Hi\\nwas bom October LO, 1827, in Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. He\\nis eminently a sell-made man. his opportunities for acquiring an education being\\nlimited. In 1842 he started West, and came to a stand still at Bridgeport, Belmont\\ncounty, Ohio, almost destitute of money and friends. Not afraid of honest toil, he\\ntook hold with pluck and energy, soon acquiring friends and money, by industry\\nand integrity. In the spring of L 8 -43 he and his brother built a Paper Mill in West\\nWheeling. His brother dying in 18-18, Mr. Wagener assumed entire charge of the\\nmill, settling up the old business. He acquired an interest in the Wheeling mills,\\nwhich he disposed ofin the fall of 1856, and accepted the position of Deputy Sheriff of\\nBelmont county, which position he held for two years. Before retiring from office\\nhe purchased the West Wheeling Paper Mill, and has since been actively engaged in this\\nimportant manufacture. He has certainly been one of the most successful business\\nmen in Eastern Ohio. While hard times and bad management have embarrassed\\nothers, and closed up rival mills, his works have continued in active operation and\\nnever a dollar of his paper has gone to protest. His ability and business capacity\\ngained him the confidence and respect of the community, and as a natural consequence\\npositions of honor and trust were thrust upon him. In l s?7 he was nominated and\\nelected to the State Senate of Ohio, which position he tilled with marked ability.\\njThThobbs, BROCKUNIER CO.,\\nManufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of Glass Ware, Porcelain Ware,\\nXiamps and Glass Chandeliers.\\nThis is one of the most famous works in the United States. These gentlemen are\\nthe proprietors of a Glass Manufactory that had an existence on quite a limited scale\\nnearly 50 years ago. It now occupies five acres of ground. The works have twelve\\ndepartments, in which are employed 350 hands, who receive in the aggregate\\n$12,000.00 per month. It is now one of the largest in the country, hut when the\\nproprietors complete the Gas Furnace which they are now having erected, it will be\\nthe most extensive works of the kind in the Onion. The members of the firm are\\nMessrs. Jno. L. Hobbs, John If. Hobbs, Chas. W. Brockunier and Wm. Leighton,\\nJr. They have a vast amount of capital employed, and do a business of $300,000.00\\nannually. Pretty much every article that enters into a general glass trade is manu-\\nfactured at this extensive -md celebrated Glass Factory. In Cut and Engraved Goods\\nthe workmanship will compare with anything of the kind made in either the United\\nStates or Europe. They have invented, perfected and patented an ingenious piece of\\nmechanism, which is known by the name of Hobb s Patent Glass Chandelier. It is\\nfor the purpose of burning Gas. A minute description of it would be impossible, but\\nthe main features of it are easily described. Take a gas pendant with any number of\\nburners, say six\u00e2\u0080\u0094 imagine the pendant and all of its projections at its base, entirely\\ncovered with profusely ornamented glass, up to very nearly the mouth of the burners,\\nand the whole arrangement from the top where the connection at the ceiling is made,\\nenriched at intervals from thence down to the burners with elaborately designed\\nornaments in glass, and the whole presenting one of the most artistic exhibitions of in-\\ngenuity and splendid mechanism, conceive this, and you have a fair outline of this\\nbeautiful achievment of genius. -Jno. H. Hobbs. Esq., is the inventor of it. This\\nfirm makes a speciality of this Chandelier, also Epergnes and all kinds of Cut and En-\\ngraved goods. Their trade extends almost world-wide. They manufacture and send\\ngoods to all parts of the Union, to Canada, to the empires of Brazil. Germany, Russia\\nand even to Persia. When they get their (las Furnace into operation, and thereby\\nextend their capacity, there will be no limit to to their trade, nor what additional\\ndirection it will penetrate, as their wares are in great demand. It may not be amiss\\nto add the following by way of addenda to the foregoing. Mr -J. B. Barnes and John\\nL. Hobbs in ISC, when Wheeling was only about two-fifths of its present size, pur-\\nchased what existed of these works at that day. They put quite a heavy capital in\\nthe business, improved and made additions to the works and commenced manu-\\nfacturing under the. firm name of Barnes Hobbs Co., and made money. Some-\\ntime after that Mr. Barnes died, and his son succeeded him in the firm, which be-\\ncame then Hobbs, Barnes Co. This firm also realized handsomely out of the busi-\\nness. Many years ago however. Mr. Barnes withdrew, and the firm was changed\\nagain. Mr. Jno. II. Hobbs, who had previously been a silent partner, then became\\na prominent one in it. 1 luring tics.- changes the establishment was enlarged from\\ntime to time until it became the extensive flourishing Class Works that it is to-day. Its\\ncareer has been one uninterrupted success for the last 35 years.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE INIUJSTUIKS OF WHEELING.\\n137\\n*a\\nWHEELING, PARKERSBURG AND CINCINNATI TRANSPORTATION\\nCOMPANY.\\nO. H. Booth, President and Manager. P. B. Booth, Secretary\\nOffice, corner Twelfth and Water Streets,\\nThere is. perhaps, nothing associated with the growth and development of en\\nprises and consequent prosperity of this city, of paramount importance to our river\\nand commercial in-\\nterests, then this\\nreliable Transpor-\\ntation Company\\nand their line of\\nstaunchly built and\\nsplendidlj equip-\\nped steamers.\\nThis is one of\\nHi. pioneer insti-\\ntutions of Wheeling, dating away hack to 1845, when Captains John McLure, John\\nReed and J. H. Roberts bought the Arrowline from the Brownsville Slackwater Navi\\ngation Company, and inaugurated the business. Captain John Reed was Master,\\nCaptain Roberts, Clerk George Hardesty, Pilot: and Billy Morrison, Engineer.\\nThose were the good old days, before the railroads startled the world witli the idea ot\\nquick transportation two trips per week being the maximum running. The next\\nboat bought from the saint Pittsburgh parties and put in this trade, was the AHeghenj\\nClipper. She was succeeded by the Courier. .Many changes have occurred since\\nthose days, and many of the parties have been long since numbered with thedead.\\nThe business now transacted by the Company would he a matter of astonishment and\\nincredulity to those old veterans, so great has been its increase, and so important has\\nthis trade become. The first round trip made by the Arrowline. the receipts were fif-\\nteen dollars, and this was not considered discouraging, Now the ordinary receipts ot\\nanv boat Of this line will run far up in the hundreds. The present Companj consists\\nof .Messrs. C. H. Booth, Chas. Muhleman, Frank B. Booth, -I. G. Muhleman, E. K.\\nBooth. A.lex.Voegtly, J. M. Gamble and Jas! Stephens, with Capt. C. H. Booth. President.\\nSuperintendent and Treasurer, and Frank B. Booth. Secretary. Under the present\\nefficient management, and with such experienced and able officers, manager and agents\\nthe business has increased, and the importance of the line to the city and river towns\\nis incalculable. The Companj own four steamboatB, all speedy, well built and hand-\\nsomely equipped and furnished. The machinery is of the best description and all ap-\\npliances and appurtenances for the security and comfort of passengers first class. ft\\nis really wonderful in boating season, to see the vast amount of freight brought here\\nand carried to other points from here by these boats. This trade is an important fae\\ntor in the commercial prosperity of Wheeling, and has contributed no little to her\\nreputation as a business center. We give, for the convenience of the public, the\\nnames of the boats owned by this Company, with the dates of their departure and ar\\nrival\\nSteamer Courier leaves Wheeling for Parkersburg every Monday, Wednesday\\nand Friday, at L0:.-50 o ebefe m. Returning, leaves Parkersburg for Wheeling everj\\nTuesday. Thursday and Saturday, at .Villi o clock M.\\nSteamer Diurnal leaves Parkersburg for Wheeling every Monday. Wednesdaj ami\\nFriday, at :.:oo o clock \\\\i. And returning, leaves Wheeling for Parkersburg v\\\\\\nTuesday. Thursday and Saturday, at I ::;o o clock M.\\nSteamer Mallie Regon leaves Matamoras for Wheeling every Monday. Wednes-\\ndt\\\\ and Friday, at 0:00 o clock a. \\\\i. A.nd returning, leaves Wheeling for Matamo-\\nras every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday, at 1:00 o clock r. \\\\i.\\nWILLIAM GRAHAM,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Upholstering,\\nand Undertaker, No. 1144 Main Street.\\nThis is the oldest and one of the largest Furniture stores in the city. It was started\\nby James W. Robb about a half a century ago. The house is 22 feet front by 128 ft.\\nin length, and the rear part of the blinding is four stories high. We were shown", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "/^138 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. H\\nI\\nthrough the establishment, and found it to be well stocked from top to bottom, with\\nj a full assortment of all the elegancies and useful articles pertaining to the trade. This\\nj house is provided with an elevator from floor to floor. This is a great convenience to\\nboth buyer and seller. Mr. Graham, from an humble beginning, rose to his present\\neminence as a merchant by nothing but what every man possesses, andean put to good\\naccount if he be so disposed, and that one thing is an ability to endeavor to please the\\ncustomer when waiting on him. Although goods are generally sold and bought because\\nthey are thought to be worth the money, yet there are some merchants who do not\\nfully appreciate the full power of politeness as a lever in the sometimes difficult task\\nj of selling goods, when they are engaged in the same. This valuable qualification\\nMr. Graham has in its best phase he never suffers himself to get out of humor with\\nhis customers. We will conclude by saying that his stock is one of the most elegant\\nand extensive in the city, and that he is the very soul of honor in all his dealings with\\ncustomers, and Iris assistants are notably imbued with the same.\\nWHEELINGAND SISTERSViLLE DAILY FACi^T7 iT PHAET0N?\\nWin Dillon, Master. W. F. B. Dillon, Clerk.\\nThis staunch and trim steamboat was built expressly for this trade, and the purpose\\nof her builders to build a boat that would be speedy enough to accomplish her trip in\\ndaylight\u00e2\u0080\u0094 has been a perfect success, the Phaeton regularly making her trip of one\\nhundred miles in daylight. She is conveni-\\nently fitted up and furnished, and everything\\nthat could conduce to the comfort of passen-\\n1 gers has been adopted. Her machinery is\\nfirst-class in every particular, and her officers\\ncourteous and obliging gentlemen, leaving\\nnothing undone for the pleasure and satisfac-\\ntion of patrons. Captain Dillon is a veteran steamboatman, beginning the business\\nin a 1833. In 1847 he commanded the Picayune in 1850 he built the S. B. Orion\\nin 1853, the Osprey and Orb in 1856, the Lotus; in 1858, the Morning Light; in\\n187b in connection with Capt. John McLure, the Phaeton. In 1847 he commanded\\nthe Miner, which towed the stone used in the construction of the Suspension Bridge.\\nThe Phaeton is one of the safest crafts running, being provided with a balance slide\\nvalve, now in use on the steamers Diurnal, C. W. Hombrook, and also in several of\\nthe rolling mills in the city. Captain Dillon was born in Guernsey county, Ohio,\\nDecember l O, 1817, and came to Wheeling in April, 1829. He has built up a pros-\\nperous and growing trade, and commands the respect and good will of his compeers\\nand the public generally. No more genial, good natured and accommodating man\\n1 fives than Captain Dillon, and we take pleasure in commending him and his fleet boat\\nj to the public.\\nDR7GE07WrKELLY~\\nOffice No. 38 Sixteenth Street.\\nOf all pursuits in life, whether professional or commercial, there are none requir-\\ning so much labor, such continuous study and thorough research as that of the physi-\\ncian. Dr. Kelly, the subject of this sketch, has had the advantage of years of study\\nand experience, qualifying him in an eminent degree for the practice, of the medical\\nprofession. Not being blessed with an abundance of worldly goods, it was necessary\\nfor the Doctor to apply himself to some calling to support himself whilst pursuing his\\nmedical studies. Being qualified by a thorough education to the profession, he practiced\\nDentistry for some ten years. During this time, he studied the Allopathic system of\\nmedicine under the preceptorship of Drs. John and James KeUy, who have achieved a\\nhigh reputation for the successful practice of medicine. Dr. Kelly has been practicing\\nwith unvarying success for the last fifteen years, and during that time has accomplished\\nsome remarkable cures. The Doctor reasons that all physical derangements and disabili-\\nties arise from two chief causes loss of mechanical equilibrium or poison in the cir-\\nj culating system. Taking these as the fundamental causes of disease, he argues that\\ni a removal of them will, in most cases, effect relief. Dr. Kelly has acquired quite a\\nreputation in this city and vicinity for the successful treatment of chronic diseases,\\nand has numerous testimonials of his success. He pays particular attention to such\\nserious diseases as Heart Disease, Lung Diseases, Liver Complaint, liheuiuatism,\\nScrofula and Dyspepsia. In the treatment of these diseases Dr. Kelly has had the j\\nI most unqualified success. He has won the respect and confidence of the entire com-\\nj munity, by his honorable deportment and high attainments as a physician.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "j$? THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 180\\nOHIO VALLEY AGRICULTURAL WORKS.\\nMartin s Ferry, Belmont County. Ohio.\\nL. Srr.NCE, manufacturer of Stationary and Portable Steam Engines also Rais-\\nton s Threshing Machines Pitts Patent Thresher, and a full line of other Agricul-\\ntural implements. This extensive and widely celebrated establishment was started in\\n1859 on quite a moderate capital the business, however, increased so rapidly from year\\nto year since that, that it has now become one of the largest and most comprehensive\\nenterprises in the country. The annual sales of this manufactory amount to an al-\\nmost fabulous sum as all work turned out by the proprietor is of superior merit, both\\nin design and excellence of finish. The Works comprise four departments, and oc-\\ncupy about a half of a full square of ground lots. About forty hands are employed,\\nto whom is paid the most liberal wages. Since the Improved Threshing Machines\\nhave been introduced, quite wonderful changes have taken place in the agricultural\\ninterests of the nation. At present a machine of the kind alluded to, will do in one\\nday, the same amount of work that it formerly required the services of scores of field\\nhands to do unassisted by the appliances of modern invention. Very few are there,\\nif any, that will compare with the celebrated agricultural implements manufactured\\nby Mr. Spence. The trade of the proprietor in this line of goods may be said to have\\nlittle limit to it, as he ships such wares all over the United States, and many of them\\nto foreign markets. These implements are beautiful specimens of workmanship and\\nelaborate finish.\\nIt is very desirable, for farmers, when about to purchase a Threshing Machine, to\\nknow whether it contains all the necessary qualifications of a good Machine whether\\nit is a. good and rapid Thresher whether it separates the grain well from the straw\\nwhether it cleans the grain well; whether light of draft on horses, and if made from\\ngood, well seasoned lumber: simple in all its parts, and not liable to break and get. out\\nof order. If satisfied that a Machine contains all of these qualities, then it should be\\npreferred to all others.\\nThe manufacturer claims all the above qualifications: and his customers, nod all\\nwho have seen his Machines in operation, say that they are better constructed, run\\nthe lightest, contain more good improvements, and are nearer perfection than any\\nother Machine that they will clean the grain well, and as fast as threshed that the\\nriddles will not choke up; that, when the wind-gauge, dampers and the pitch of the\\nriddles, together with the stirrer at the tail of the shoe, are all properly adjusted, the\\nMachine will then clean the grain better and faster than anything they ever saw.\\nId the earlier part of our article we alluded to two kinds of Threshers the Ralston\\nPatent, or Double Cleaner, and the Fitt s Patent, which is known by many as the\\nMassihVm Machine. Having been in use for many yerrs, with valuable improvements\\nadded from time to time, they have won an enviable reputation. (laving said this\\nmuch about only one large department -large enough in itself to he pronounced an\\nextensive business we shall advert to the more complicated and ponderous and com-\\nprehensive one of Steam Engine building. Engines, both Stationary and Portable,\\nare constantly being turned out at these well equipped and powerful Works. They pos-\\nsess all of the powerful appliances and facilities for making engines of vast, and so to\\nspeak, comparatively unlimited power. Reference could here lie made to numbers of\\ncelebrated engines which the shops of Mr. Spence have turned out. Suffice it for our\\npurpose, to refer to the very large and powerful engines that the proprietor made for\\nthe Belmont Iron Works of Wheeling one of vast and unusual power, and which\\nhas been pronounced to be one of the most workmanlike jobs in the countrv.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "3*\\n140\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nThis vast concern is conducted with energy, tact, enterprise, and a very large capital.\\nIn its more comprehensive features, and in those of minor detail, it is managed with\\nthe most consummate judgment by the proprietor, and moves along successfully,\\nwith all the regularity of the sun in its diurnal revolutions.\\nRIVERSIDE FURNITURE COMPANY,\\nMetzner, Schellhase Co., Proprietors, Water Street, between Twenty-first\\nand Twenty-second Streets.\\nlu a careful review of the inception, growth and extent of the manufacturing and\\n.on,.,,, rein! enterprises of Wheeling/ for which this work is designed, we find none\\nthat have risen\\nmore rapidly in\\nthe march of pro-\\ngress towards per-\\nfection and im-\\nportance than the\\nmanuf actu re o t\\nFurniture. From\\nan almost con-\\ntracted place in\\nthe list of indus-\\ntries, bid a few\\n3 ears ago, it lias\\nbecome one of the\\nmost preminent\\nand widely pat-\\nronized branches,\\nthat help to swell\\nthe great variety\\nof manufactured\\narticles, sent out\\nli\\\\ Wheeling to the markets of the world, and which hav giv o lei such prestige as a.\\nmanufacturing center. Of the nianj enterprises contributing to this fame, then li\\nperhaps, no one single house that has. by its evidences of practical, skilled work, doni\\nmore in bringing about this gratifying result, than tie establishment whose name\\nheads this article. The proprietors started this business in L878, in a very large live-\\nstory building, occupying an area of four lots of ground. Their capacity for manu-\\nfacturing Furniture\u00e2\u0080\u0094 especially Bed-room, Dining-room and Kitchen Furniture is\\nprobably as great as any establishment in the same line in this section. When run-\\nning full, a fore* of LOO hands is required, to whom a beavj amount is paid weekly,\\ncommensurate with the employment of so great a force. The capital invested is quite\\nlarge entirely adequate for a concern conducted on so large a scale as this must lie\\ninferred to he judging from the large force of employes. The factory is situated on\\nWater street, convenient to both railroad and river, their facilities for shipping being\\nremarkably good. The factory is supplied with an engine of too lei and\\ntwo large hollers. We are assured that this establishment is equal to any in this part\\nof the country, and provided with the largest and latest styles of machinery. The\\nemploye* are all picked men -expert at their trade. The proprietors giye personal\\nsupervision to their business. They are both natives of Germany, and both practical\\nmechanics with years of experience, which is the|besl teacher in any trade, when\\nprofitably taken advantage of. The management of their increasing business is sys-\\ntematic and comprehensive. Tact and energy,, and enterprise are characteristic of\\nthis firm and have given them an enviable position and reputation in commercial cir-\\ncles. One of the gentlemen of this firm was for five years Fresidmt of the Wheeling\\nFurniture Company. Conducting their business on so large a scale enables them to\\nsupply the trade of the city and surrounding country, at either Eastern or Cincinnati\\nprices. They are pleased at any time to open correspondence with dealers in this\\nline, and furnish complete and detailed price lists on application, with a view to the\\nfurther extension of their already heavy trade. Business houses will find it to their", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "^\u00c2\u00a3p THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING. 14lH^\\nadvantage to deal with this firm, as all regular styles and all novelties and aeis de-\\nsigns are manufactured by them. The firm, as a firm, stand to-da} among tin- verj\\nfirst in their line, with a reputation for strict integrity in business transactions and for\\nturniug out first-class work at minimum prices.\\nBELMONT NAIL COMPANY,\\nOffice at Works, corner Main and Twenty-sixth Streets.\\nA detailed examination, prepared with a view of giving a careful review and com-\\nprehensive description of the various enterprises of a tnanufact tiring character, which\\nhave given Wheeling the celebrity that she enjoys, would be incomplete withoul ret\\nerence to this representative establishment, which has, for the last quarter of a c a\\ntnrv, exerted a powerful and vital influence upon the prosperity of the city. Thismill\\nwas established in L849 by a co-parnership effected between the Norton brothers,\\nHenry Moore (now of Baltimore), S. II. Woodward, Wm. Bailey and some others, un-\\nder the firm name of Norton. Bailey Co. This plant was regarded at that time as\\nno insignificant affair; but in comparison with the extensive works now occupying the\\nsame site, must have approached insignificance. After a lapse of some years. Messrs.\\nWoodward, Bailey anil others retired from the Belmont and erected the La Belle Mill\\nthe style of the firm then being changed to Norton. Acheson Co. The Norton\\nbrothers, after another period, also retired and built theBelfont Mill a1 [ronton, Ohio,\\nthe firm name being again changed to McCullogh, Acheson Co., Mr. McCullogh, of\\nPittsburgh, becoming a member. Mr. McCullogh retiring, the style w is again altered\\nto Robert Lehr Co. In L868themill was incorporated under tne style of the Bel-\\nmont Nail Works Co. This corporation devoted themselves, with unusual talent and\\nvigor, to the work of increasing their business resources and facilities, enlarging at a\\nrapid ratio keeping pace with all improvements suggested by inventive skill or es\\nperience. In L 8 73 they erected, on a piece of ground contiguous to their works, a\\nWast Furnace of the most improved design and appliances. This furnace was Imilt\\nafter plans furnished by William Tait, who also Imilt the Top Mil] Furnace ot\\ncity, and the Lucy of Pittsburgh. The Belmont Furnace is li; feet bosh and 65 feet\\nhigh, with hot stoves. I engine and 66 cylinder boilers, .sin. diameter and f, feet\\nlong! The hoist is of tic famous his o. patent Iter out-put is about 18,000 tons\\nperyear. The close and stringent times following the panic threvt this corporation\\ninto difficulties, and during L878 they were obliged to succumb the concern passing\\ninto the hands of the present corporation, which is composed of some of the wealthiest\\nand most influential business men of the city. These works cover an area of about\\nrive acres, having a frontage on the river of about 600 feet. Within these limits are\\nthe Fore,. Department, Nail Factory. Blast Furnace and necessary adjuncts and out-\\nbuildings. The Works are supplied by waterworks belonging to the concern, con\\nstructed in L874. Here are employed 60(1 n in the various departments, in\\noperating the machinery, which is most complete in every respect consisting n\\nof 4 trains of Bolls, 25 Boiling Furnaces. Ill Nail and Spike Machines, 2 Blueing\\nFurnaces. I Heating Furnaces, I Steam Engines with 11 Boilers, and all other ap-\\npliances appertaining to a plant of this capacity. This plant has an annual produc-\\ntive capacity of 260,000 kegs of nails. The corporation own LOO acres of coal, which\\nis brought to the Mill by a tram-way- the bank being but a short distance from the\\nMill. Wherever nails are sold and used the name of the Belmont has extended and\\nalways commanded a reputation in the front rank. Her product is sold all over tht\\ncountry: the principal distributing points are St. Louis, Cine Nev\\nOrleans. San Francisco, Kansas City, and at times New York and Baltimore, with a\\nheavy trade in interior cities. The Directors are A. Wilson Kelly. John Reld, Sam\\nLaughlin, A. Wilson, R. M. Delaplain, Thos. O Brien and -lames Todd all gentle\\nmen of large interests in various enterprises in the city, and of the highest commer-\\ncial and social standing. The present corps of officers of the corporation are A. W.\\nKelly President; Jos. D. DuBois, Secretary; A. Wilson, Jr., Bookkeeper: W. 1\\nCushing Pay-Clerk: N. Reister, General Manager; Frank Kline, Forge Manager;\\nS. Whitesides Factory Manager; John Norton. Founder at the Furnace. Chi\\ncapital stock is $390,000; -hares. $200 each. The business per annum is quite\\n$1,000,000.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": ",V^142 THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n_.__ I\\nROBERT LUKE,\\nLivery, Boarding and Sale Stables, corner Alley 12 and Market Street.\\nTli is well known and popular Livery Stable was started originally in 18r 2, by the\\npresent proprietor, on a somewhat smaller scale than the present extensive establish-\\nment. The stable of Mr. Luke is one of the most commodious, convenient and clean-\\nly establishments of the kind in the State of West Virginia. They are quite large, and are\\nadmirably contrived for the comfort of that noblest and most useful of animals the\\nhorse; being well ventilated with purr air, and provided with the best of food and\\npure water things not always to be bad in some livery stables. A large force of\\nskillful subordinates are employed, night and day, to attend to the premises, even in\\nits most trifling details. The proprietor himself personally attends to the effective\\nmanagement of this well equipped and systematic establishment. No person, in\\neither the city or State, has a more thorough knowledge of how to keep a Livery Sta-\\nble or please customers in furnishing Turn-Outs for public or private parties or in-\\ndividuals, than has Mr. Luke. If a quiet horse is wanted, just such a horse will be\\ngiven you. If one is wanted possessing a higher spirit, you can have it without hav-\\ning one that will play any of those devilish tricks that many spirited horses are apt to\\nplay on the unsuspecting driver. Mr. Luke, however, keeps some of the most rapid\\ngoers that are to be found in the city, and is noted for the handsome and stylish\\nVehicles of all kinds, that he always keeps in stock, inclusive of spendid Sleighs for\\nthe winter season. When a horse becomes somewhat worn with long service, the\\nproprietor immediately disposes of him and obtains a first class horse in his stead; in\\nthis manner he is always provided with a full corps of first class horse stock, and never\\noffers a customer mi old hack of an animal, as is too often the case with some Liv-\\nen Stable proprietors.\\nKELLY ROBERTS.\\nDruggists and Pharmacists, 1109 Market Street.\\nThere is probably no more important field for the chronicler of the interests and\\nadvantages of a city, than that presented by the Drug trade for there can be no\\nprofession requiring greater skill, more patient, laborious preparation, and such watch-\\nful care. Not only is the condition and well being; even sometimes the life, of the\\npatient dependent on the proper compounding of the prescription by the Druggist,\\nbut the reputation of the physician prescribing, also. The house which is the subject\\nof the present sketch has been established for some ten years. Mr. T. F. Sullivan,\\nthe founder of the house, by his skill, admirably arranged store and complete, stock,\\nbuilt up quite a handsome business. Desiring to change his business, he sold out in\\nOctober, 1879, to Messrs. Kelly Roberts, gentlemen who possess every necessary\\nqualification for carrying on the business. Messrs. G. M. Kelly and J. W. Roberts\\ncompose the firm. Both of these gentlemen are from Washington, Pa. Dr. Kelly is\\na graduate of Jefferson College, Philadelphia, and a regular practitioner of the allo-\\npathic school. He has had unusual facilities for gaining experience, having been res-\\nident physician at the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and whilst there he had all the\\nadvantages that could be gained from the diagnoses and practice of Dr. Dixon and\\nothers besides being from his position obliged to watch carefully the prescriptions\\ncompounded in the Hospital Pharmacy, where all the medicines for the use of the\\npatients are prepared. Mr. Roberts has had five years experience in the business in\\nWashington, and brings a first-class reputation with him. These gentlemen, we are\\nassured, are in every way competent for their business, and we take pleasure in com-\\nmending them to the public. Their stock is complete and of the veiw first quality\\ncomprising all articles usually kept in a first-class establishment. A full line of Drugs\\nand Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Brashes, Fancy Goods\\nand Druggists Sundries generally. We are confident that this entei-prising firm will j\\ngain the confidence of Physicians and the public generally. They are both courteous I\\nand obliging gentlemen. j\\n3*", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "3\u00c2\u00a3\\nTHE INDUSTRIES 01 WHEELING,\\n143^\\nTHEE PEOPLE S\\nF urniture] (and) C arpet) [jousD\\nNo. 1124; Main Street\\ni\\nV\\nTo the Trade.\\nft\\nOur stock comprises all the Latest Novelties and New Designing in all depart-\\nments, and can only tit- appreciated by seeing them. Comeone, come all, whether\\nto purchase or not; von will be waited on tin- same. Our object is to please those\\nthat call to see, regardless of selling.\\ns", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "144\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nShip your Goods to and from Pittsburgh,\\nD\\nTTO\\nn\\nuril\\nTHERN RAILWAY,\\nThe Most Direct Route,\\nThe Pittsburgh Southern, by its connections with the Baltimore and Ohio K.\\nR. at Washington, Pa., affords to Wheeling Merchants and Manufacturers, the\\nSHORTEST AND MOST DIRECT\\nCommunication with Pittsburgh.\\nJames H. Hopkins, Pres.\\nJno. L. rEORGE, Sec y.\\nOFFICKKS.\\nM. D. Hays, Superintendent.\\nI. W. Mitchell, Gen. Frgt. Pass. Agt\\nTHE LEVYTYPE CO.\\nWould respectfully call the attention of all desiring\\nOf any kind, to their facilities for the execution of artistic anil accurate print-\\ning plates from photographs, models, drawings, sketches, etc.\\nThese plates are produced DIRECTLY in hard type metal, mounted ready for\\nthe press.\\nSend stamp for specimen, estimates, etc.\\nLEVYTYPE CO.,\\nZPiLoto-E3ng-ra.-vers,\\nS, E.cor. 7th Chestnut Sts., Philad a.\\nft", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n145\\nBear Ye One Another s Burdens.\\n___\\nTUB! IE TERM\\n=OF\u00c2\u00bb\\n-^^tS^-\\nCOLUMBUS, OHIO.\\nIncorporated May, 1870, under the laws of Ohio, with a charter that is perpetual.\\nPRINCIPAL OFFICE:\\nHuntington BZoek, Cons* Iieai and High Streets Columbus,\\nOPFICEKS:\\nR. H. Denny, President, Columbus, Ohio.\\nA. Keth, Vice President, Logan, Ohio.\\nChas. H. Towson, Secretary and Treasurer. Lancaster, Ohio.\\nE. W. Caldwell, Assistant Secretary, Columbus, Ohio.\\nJohn D. Notjrse, M. D. Medical Director, Lancaster, Ohio.\\nA. G. Richards, Actuary, Columbus, Ohio.\\nRELIABILITY.\\nAs an evidence that this class of insurance is reliable, it is only necessary to state\\nthat the principles upon which this Association is founded are as old as history. They\\nhave been used in various forms in almost every branch of business and society, and\\nhave afforded substantial relief and aid to the families of deceased members to a\\ngreater extent than any other mode of insurance. The fact that the funds are held\\nby the members themselves until actually needed, and are then paid out only on the\\nmost positive proofs and under the strictest rules, is the best assurance that its affairs\\nmust be properly and carefully managed, and that the officers cannot perpetrate fraud\\nwithout detection.\\nThere are in England alone more members of Associations of this kind than there\\nare policy-holders in all the high rate companies in the entire Continent of Europe\\nDR. J. W. RICKEY CO.,\\nGeneral Managers for Pennsylvania and West Virginia,\\n96 Diamond Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.\\nJ nST. SIGHTS, .A-grezit, Vs7-li.eelixi.g-, W. Va,.\\nA.J.\\nPa.\\nSTILLWAGEN, Agent, Claysville,\\nNote.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 We have looked over a large number of references of the principal citizens\\nof Wheeling and vicinity and have examined into the workings of the Company and\\ncan cordially recommend it to the public as reliable and trustworthy.\\nLand Brown, Publishers Industries of Wheeling.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nWILLIAM o- r,_a_:h:a.:m:,\\nWHOLESALE AXI) RETAIL DEALER IN\\nCARPETS, FURNITURE, OIL CLOTHS^ WINDOW SHADED c.\\nMo. 1144 Main Street,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nHas one of the Largest and most Elegant stocks in the city or State. See page 137.\\nLiberal Advancement made on Consignments.\\nC. H. BOOTH. F. 15. BOOTH.\\nC H. BOOTH SON,\\nPRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS,\\nCORNER TWELFTH AND WATER STS.,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nProprietors of the Old Reliable Wharf Boat\\nJohn Crockard, Manager. See page I3u\\nBuilt Expressly for this Trade.\\nElegant Daylight, Side-wheel Passenger Packet,\\n3Plx\u00c2\u00abes ton.\\nWILLIAM DILLON, Master.\\nW. F. B. Dillon, Clerk.\\nLeaves Sisiersville everv morning (Sundays ex-\\ncepted), at 5 o clock, arriving at Wheelinga! 12\\nM Returning leaves Wheeling at P. M., arriv-\\ning at Sistersville at 8 P. M.\\nLOO Miles in Daylight.\\nSee page 138. a\\nH^ife 4$n nmnce (jj/Qin iji\\nOf Hartford, Conn.\\nALL POLICIES NON-FORFEITING.\\nAssets, $25,000,000.\\nA. H. BEACH,\\nGeneral Agent, 1303, Market St., Wheeling.\\nWheeling, Pittsburgh Cincinnati\\nTransportation Company.\\nSTEAMERS\\nDIURNAL COURIER MALLIE EMM\\nI DIURNAL leaves for Pai kersburg everv Tues-\\nday. Thursday and Sati .rd iy, at 1o 2 a M.\\nCOURIER leaves for Pafkersburg everv Mon-\\nday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 10^ A. M.\\nMALLIE RAGON leaves for Matanioras every\\nTuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 1 P. M.\\nSee page 137\\nC. H. BOOTH, Prest.\\nN- A. HALDEMAN.\\n(Successor to Chandler Haldeman,)\\nMANUFACTURES OF\\nSmith, Haldeman Chandler s\\nCombined Cap and Anchor\\nIron Rootling,\\nPatented May 9t h, 1876\\nGerman Fire Ins. Co., F. Reister,\\nProprietors. Manager.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\7^7 lxeeli3n.g-, ^77 T7 a-\\nTHE ONLY FIRST CLASS PLACE\\nFOR AMUSEMENTS.\\nProvided with all modern improvements.\\nROBERT LUKE\\niiiry and Biding Stables,\\nNo. 1430 Market St.,\\nNear Post Office,\\nWheeling, West Va.\\nCrystal Ire always on hand and ior sale.\\nSee page I 12\\nL H. HELWIBRIGHT,\\nr of\\nFine Cigars, lips and Stogies,\\nAnd Dealer in all Grades of\\nSMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO, Ac.\\n1 323 Market Street,\\nThree doors above Opera House,\\nWHEELING. W. VA.\\nFee page 86.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "TIIK INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n147\\n8\\nBuilt and Equipped Expressly for the Tradf.\\nRegular Cincinnafl, Wieelii ai Tltagli Packet.\\nTHE ELEGANT NEW PASSENGER STEAMER,\\nA 3XT X E3 JS\\nCHAS. MUHLEiMAN Master. ED. MUHLEMAN, Clerk.\\nLeaves Wheeling very Tuesday at 3 o elk, P. M. Leaves Cincinnati very Friday at 5 elk. P. M.\\nLeaves promptly as advertise.!. ,See page 125.\\nMETZNER SCHELLHA\u00c2\u00ab CO.\\nProprietors of\\nRiverside Furnitu re Factory!\\nWateb Stbeet, between 21st 22d,\\nWheeling, 11. Va.\\nSSBfFurniture of all kinds constantly on hand.\\nPrice Lists furnished on application. .See page 140\\nUEURGK D..r:i: SMI ru i;t I\\nDOBBS RISXNGER,\\nMauufactui i\\nWholesale and Retail Di aler in\\nFancy and. Staple Goods,\\nMammoth SSo- Store,\\nBest Goods at Bottom Prices.\\nNo. I 1 L3 .Main Stbeet,\\nsee page 62. Wheeling, W. Va.\\nU. W. Redman. e o. G. M Kown.\\n\\\\Y. J. Hamilton.\\nEXCELSIOR MACHINE SHOP\\nBENT WOOD WORK. SEDM co\\nAnd Deal.,-, in IJjENERAL M. A C H I N i S T S\\nCarriage and Wagon Materials. nd\\n18A St., near Chaplme, Wheeling, W. Va. MM) M M^W] EliPCS,\\nOFFICE AND WAEEROOM Smallman st.,\\nnear 25th. 12th Ward. Pittsburgh, Pa.\\nARBEN2 3te CO-.\\nManufacturers Dealers in\\nFurniture Carpets\\nCorner Chapline and istii 8treets,\\nSeepages?. WHEELING, W. VA.\\nBest Work. Lowest Prices.\\nHOEHLE BRO\\nManufacturers of and Dealers in\\nFt\\nrl\\nUpholstering,\\ntiy and Neal I\\nNo. 1053 Main Street,\\nSHU\\nbolstering, Pvepairing and Varnishing,\\nand Neatly done.\\nNo. lion Main Stbeet,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nBranch House, 3305 Jacob Street, Eighth Ward.\\nUndertaking a Specialty.\\nS ee page 126. See page 126.\\nDR. M.J. RHEES,\\n(Horn ceo path ist,)\\n56 fourteenth Street.\\nWheeling, W. V\\nPRACTICAL\\nPLUMBER, CrAS AND STEAM FITTER,\\n33 Twelfth Street,\\nWheeling, West Va.\\nParticular attention given to diseases of Women\\nand Children.\\nOffice hours, 8 to 10 A. M and 2 to 4 P. M,\\nand 7 to 8 P .M. See page 134. j AU Orders promptly atteuded to. See page\\n18", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "5*\\n148\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nt\\nHENRY WARWOOD,\\nManufacturer of\\nWROUGHT IRON GARDEN RAKES,\\nSPECIALTIES OF COAL AND OTHER MINERS TOOLS,\\nALSO, ALL KINDS OF STONE MASONS TOOLS,\\nI Exley, Sr.\\nJ. Medill.\\nB. Exlev. Jr.\\nManufacturer of\\nSTATIONARY AND PORTABLE\\nffp jtai\\nMEDILL EXLEYS, Proprs, STEAM ENGINES,\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\nt t t al m.- i tt u ni: j\u00c2\u00ab 0-n Kalston s Improved Separator Thresh-\\nLllfflte Latll, StimgleS. SaSll, BIllS, k er and Cleaner. Also. Pitt s Patent\\nImproved Threshing Machine,\\nAll kinds 01 Boxes Made to Order.\\noc r-, MARTIN S FERRY, BELMONT CO, 0.\\nbee page i2b. Martin s Ferry O. See p agel39\\nW. S. DILWORTH,\\nDealer in.\\n3EY SODDS, NOTIONS i FAJfCY SQCSS\\nRob. J. Baggs. J.\\nR J. BAGGS SONS,\\nOF EVERY KIND,\\nCor. Fourth Hanover Sts.,\\nMartin s Ferry. O.\\ngee page 121.\\nBRIDGEPORT, O.\\nSee page 129.\\nJames Kerr. Alex. O. Campbell.\\nT. KZEIEWR, Sc CO. S\\nSTAR PLANING MILLS, ft W\\nThos. H. Lewis. Boose Clemens\\nMETROPOLITIAN\\nAND LUMBER YARD.\\nCorner First and Hanover Streets,\\nMARTIN S FERRY, O.\\nWe keep constantly on hand a supply of Lum-\\nber and building Materials of all kinds.\\nSeepage 121.\\nNo. 5, Washington Hall,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nLEWIS CLEMENS, Proprietors,\\nFirst-class Barbers. New fixtures throughout.\\n,Nrw Bath Rooms, that will always be clean.\\nOutside orders promptly attended to.\\nPage 106.\\nBuilt and Equipped Expressly for the Trade.\\nmUl CINCINNATI, WEEELINC AND ffilSSWH PACKET.\\nTHE ELEGANT NEW SIDE-WHEEL PASSENGER STEAMER\\nST- I J J5L.^7V r R]B3XrOE3 9\\nWM. M. LIST, Master. CHAS. D. LIST, Clerk.\\nleaves WHEELING every Saturday at 4 o clk p. m. Leaves CINCINNATI every Tuesday at 5 u clk p. m\\nLEAVES PROMPTLY AS ADVERTISED,\\nSee page 134 ^^f", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "5*\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n149\\n*s\\nWHEELINQ FEMALE SEMINARY\\nIBO-A-ISOD 03T TZEiTZZTSTZEZES.\\nDk. T. H. Logan. Secretary.\\nThos.^ Hoenbrook.\\nA. W. Campbell, Esq.\\nIf. K. List, Esq.\\nAugustus Pollack, Esq.\\nJoseph Bell, Esq.\\nSee page 9fi.\\nJ). List, Treasurer.\\nHi vi. Datenpobt, Esq.\\nS. Khodes, Esq.\\nS. P. Hiloketh, Esq.\\nA. J. Sweeney, Esq.\\nGeo. K. Wheat\\nPresident, Miss A. TAYLOR.\\nW J^G-E^TEII^ c CO.,\\nMAUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IX\\nWRAPPING, ROOFING, PRINT, GLASS ANO CARPET PAPERS,\\nBUILDING PAPER A SPECIALTY.\\nNo. 1503 Main and 1506 South Streets.\\nSee pace 135.\\nJACOB. CRACRAFT I FERGUSSON,\\nL. S. JORDAN,\\nATIB1RS-AT-UW itiombt-it-law.\\n1136 CHAPLINE ST.,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nROBERT WHITE,\\n(ATTORNEY GENERAL)\\nNO. 1205 CHAPLINE ST.,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nW. IT. CURTIS,\\nlAUUIUM .l lir,.\\\\l ,,lAL) l 1 1 J t 4 4\\n1142 Chapline St.,\\nWHEELING, W. WA.\\nOFFICE, 1220 Chapline St\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nWhere shall we go to get a clean bath or share, and have our hair or whiskers neatly\\ntrimmed? The place is the O. K. Saloon, under the new McLnre\\nHouse.. Whiskers dyed in the most approved style. Capable\\nand polite Barbers always in attendance.\\nSeepageiM. BATHS FURNISHED AT ANY HOUR,", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "150\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n-\\\\atim:. h. ^ozBinsrsonsr,\\nDealer in\\nPAINTS. OILS. AND VApSHE\\nSASH, DOOBS AND BLINDS,\\nArtists and Painters Materials,\\n-AGENT FOK-\\nFrench and American Plate Glass, Anchor White Lead Cos Pure\\nWhite Lead, Walters Fielding s Richmond Browns and\\nPatent Borate of Zinc Kalsomine, C. T. Reynold s\\nCo s Pure Colors and Artists Goods.\\nD. Rosenberg Son s Standard Varnishes Felton, Rati Sibley s Pure Tinted\\nLeads, Belgian Fillers, Liquid Slating. c. Jno. L. Whiting s Patent Paint Brushes;\\nthe best Brush in the market. Evei-ything in the Paint line usually kept in a first-class\\nPaint House. Sash and Doors made to order\\nTTsT. H. ROBI1TSOU,\\n1 223 Main Street, Wheeling, W. Va.\\nSee nsc 58.\\nSee page SO.\\n1310 Market, and 3601 Jacob Street.\\nHEABRIGHT,\\nFASHIONABLE\\nAnd Dealer in Gent s Furnishing Goods,\\n2201 Corner Main 22 d Sts.,\\nWHEELING. W. VA.\\nCentre Wheeling.\\nSee page 93.\\nShirt? Made i\u00c2\u00ab Order.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING,\\n161\\nHENRY SCHMULBACH.\\nBENRY BANKE.\\nSOLOMON KB VUfi\\nHENRY SCHMULBACH CO.,\\nTxrxioiL.ES^^nL.E:\\nLIQUOE fil MAUUB,\\nNo. I 133 Market Street,\\nSeepage^. ___________ WHEELING, W.VA.\\nI w\\\\ .a.. is _:_f_.35riL. _r.\\nManufacturer to Order of\\nDIAMOND BAND\\nAdvertisement on page\\n121 is exclusively for the shirts and Underwear,\\nLadies.\\n1321 and 1323 Market Street (Second Floor),\\nWHEELING. W. VA.\\nWILLIAM F. KRIEG,\\nJOHN BUTTERFIELD,\\nDEALER IN\\n|atcl}55 jlocks, JeweliYa.ua\\nj\\nCor. 23d and Water Streets.\\nWHUUUHO, W. YAi\\nI 307 Market St., Wheeling, W. Va.\\nflESr-Doi. t fail to see the miniature steam en- \u00c2\u00b1Jarle y :ind Kye Malt always on hand.\\ngine in the window\u00e2\u0080\u0094 niy own make. See nasi 95\\nDURST KOBEE,\\nWholesale Grocers\\nPublished Every Sunday Morning. p^ ^j g^g^ jfcj^h.\\nCirculation Over^ 3,000 Copies. i 12s Market street\\nTHE LARGEST IN THE STATE\\nSubstantiated by Affidavit.\\nOffice, Main and 14th Sts.\\nSee p3ge 56.\\nA full line of Groceries and Pr d\\njv nn hand.\\nSpecial Attention Paid to Consignments\\non Commission.\\nA hare of the public patronage solicited.\\nge 126.\\nJACOB BERGEK.\\nC. E.\\nJ. BERGER BRO.,\\n-DEALERS IN-\\nLeather and Shoe Findings, Tannery Supplies,\\nSee paga *4-\\nHJDES, PELTS, TALLOW AND OIL,\\nNo. 1032 Main Street, Corner UarkH Alley. Wheeling, W. \\\\a.\\n.*S", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "Jo^l52\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\n8\\nr,. C. REED.\\n(Hf\\nSee page 60.\\nC. E. BAILEY.\\nW. N. LINCH.\\nttl\\n29 Twelfth Street\\nHARBOUR DITTMAN,\\nDealers in\\nBELTZ FLADING,\\nfarpcts, |up, fil floths, PtingSr A jrS JL M _\\nm n a w- m i BOORS, SASH, FRAMES,\\nWall Paper ant Window State, shutt ers and an Moulding,\\nAnd dealers in Lumber, Shingles, c.\\n1059 Main Street.\\nSee page Hi.\\nEIGHTEENTH STREET, RET. CHAPLINE\\nAND EOFF STREETS.\\nSee page 89.\\nWILLIAM H. SHEIB,\\nWashington Hall, Wheeling, W. Va.,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in\\nSHEET MUSIC, MUSIC BOOKS, STRINGS, MUSICAL\\nINSTRUMENTS AND GOODS.\\nSole Agent for \\\\V. Va. and Eastern Ohio for\\nWeber, Mason Hamlin\\nDioilfW Hazelton. fWQllP 0hin Valle y\\nridllUS Ohio Valley, Ul^dllb Burdott,\\nBooodwood. .1. Estey Co..\\nPianos and Organs jor Rent.\\nTuning and Repairing carefully don,\\nSee page 86. ^^___\\nJ. B. SHEPPARD,\\nManufacturer of\\nWheeling, W. Va.\\nZ/bQ4r?l4,\\n1205 MARKET STREET,\\nOpposite McLure llniisc.\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nSee page 67\\nSADDLES, HARNESS,\\nW. S. HUTCHINS\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in\\nMusic- Photographic Stock and Artists\\nMaterials, Engravings, Chromos,\\nTRUNKS, VALISES, C, Frames and Mouldings,\\n107?; Main St.. Cor. 11th (Late Union),\\nSee page 83.\\nALSO, WAX FLOWER GOODS AND GLASS SHADES,\\nNO. 1321 MARKET STREET,\\nWHEELING- W. VA. pera House Block\\nSee page 72.\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nI?. O- Jk/EO^WJ^T,\\nAND DEALER IN GENT S FURNISHING GOODS.\\nSTe. 27 T-welfUa. Street.\\n3*.\\nSee page 83.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nTHOS. HUGHES.\\nW. E. TEX i i.\\n153\\n[UGHES.\\nUZ^C X. t;. T TJ.IL 0% 8,\\nAND DEALERS IN FINE FURNISHING GOODS,\\nCORNER TWELFTH AND WATER STS.,\\nWheeling-, AV Va.\\nSee page 59.\\nW. A. TURNER.\\nr. G DILLON.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094DEALERS IN\\nFine Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Clock:, Bronzes, Speolaslos\\nOJP^^A AND KOBU) GLASSES;\\nAgents foe Parker Bbeeoh Loading\\nLange Stem Winding Watches,\\nFINE WATCH WORK A SPECIALTY.\\nSee page 118.\\nGuns. Sole Agents foe the Celebbated\\nind King s Combination Spectacles,\\n3nTo. 2.223 :Lv/\u00c2\u00a3axls:et Street.\\nW. A. WUson. H. 11. Dunlevy.\\nWILSON DUNLEVY,\\nManufacturers of\\nm TX* mmmmr\\nFLOUR, APPLE, GLASS HALF BARRELS.\\nSole Owners of Dunlevy s Patent Crozing and\\nCbanifering Machine.\\nFactory, river bank, foot of 6th St.\\nOffice, 1215 Main Street.\\nSee page 77.\\nO. H. Q CTXMB Sr\\nDealer in\\nBooks, Periodicals Stationery,\\nSubscriptions lilleil for all the leading New Y,,rlc,\\nPittsburgh, Cincinnati and Chicago Dailj\\nrs. Also all of the Popular\\nWeeklies and Monthlies, at\\nPublishers Prices.\\nPlease call on or ad\\nNo. 1414 Market street,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nPAINTERS AND BUILDERS SUPPLY DEPOT-\\nHanes. W. A. Wilson. J. E. liane-,.\\nHANES, WILSON CO.,\\nManufacturers and Dealers in\\nLUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, DOORS, SASH\\nBlinds, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Window Glass, c.\\nOffice and Warerooms, 1215 Main St.,\\nPlaning Mills and Lumber Yards, 432, 434, !36,\\nand 433 Main Streel\\nSee page 78.\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nPLATOFF ZANE,\\nREAL ESTATE AGENT,\\n35 Twelfth Street,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nCollects Rents and Accounts, aad ai\\nto all Branches of a general Real\\nEstate Business.\\nREMITTANCES MADE PKOMr/Tl.Y\\nBUSINESS SO] ICTED.\\n64.\\nJOHN OESTERLING, President.\\nPOLLACK,\\nJ-. RIESTER, Secretary.\\nVV.M. S, FOOSE, Ass t Secretary.\\nOFFICE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 No. 29 Fourteenth St.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Opera House Building.\\nSee page SO.\\n_", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "154\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF WHEELING.\\nThe North Wheeling Glass Co.\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\nFLINT FLASKS,\\nWHEELING, WEST VA.\\nThe largest establishment in the United\\nfacilities possessed for procuring low rules\\nD. Pakk. Jb., Pees. Wm. T.\\nEBELING PEBLER, I\\nMauufacturers of the Celebrated\\nWheeling Tips Stogies;\\nAnd Dealers in\\nTobacco, Snuff, Fine Cigars I Leaf Tobacco\\n1043 Market street,\\nsee page 1 1 i. Wheeling, W. Va.\\nStates devoted to this specialty. Superior\\nof freight.\\nOtt, Si it. F. J. Pakk, Sec y.\\nGEORGE H. PARKS,\\nCURER OF THE\\nBrand of \\\\\\\\m Cured Meats,\\nD. C. LIST, Jr.,\\nPORK PACKER,\\n1 4th St., between Main Market.\\nSugar Cured Hams, Chester Sugar I !ur d\\nShoulders, Virginia Breakfast B\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2u-re Leaf Lard,\\nin tierces, barrels, half -barrels, pails and half-pails\\nPlain Shoulders, Mess Pork, Family Pork,\\nFresh Sausage, Bologna Sausage.\\nSee page 113. WKEELIWG, W. VA.\\n~ot r T~ hTl iTTcoTT\\nImporters and Dealers In\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2e ddltrr.\\n2STo. 120S 2^a,iXL St.,\\nWHEELING, W. VA\\nSee page IDS.\\n15th St.. between Market Main,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.\\nEstablished 1854.\\nUi, J.\\nDEALER IN\\nfill! UHtttlt,\\nAmi Bes t Brands of Flour.\\nKeeps the largest stock in his line iu Wheeling.\\nCor, Market and 14th Streets,\\nII HEELING, W. VA.\\nJ. c. aldersonT\\nGeneral Insurance Agent,\\nWHEELING, W. VA.,\\nBepreseuts the following first-class companies:\\nNorthern, Imperial, Com l Union, London, Eng.\\nScotl i-li Com l, Glasgow.\\nFranklin, Peabody, Wheeling.\\nWilliams burg City, Westchester Lorillard.N.Y.\\nI enusylvania, American Fire, Philadelphia.\\nMercantile, Cleveland.\\nGood risks and reliable agents solicited in all\\nparts of West Virginia.\\nA. C. EGEETEH.\\nGEO. A. WELLS.\\nGEORGE\\nA. C. ECERTER CO.,\\nWW?\\na\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*.See page S\\nG-mVimRAX* PRODUCE,\\nCONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.\\nI 425 Main and I 420 South Sts.", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "fPX\\n178", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n008 808 917\\nfj\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r\\nJ", "height": "3281", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "industriesofwhee00whee_0160.jp2"}}