Carriage, Buggies, Road and Track Wagons

"Donaldson, Lewis & Co., Carriage, Buggies, Road and Track Wagons - 1876 - Wheeling, WV."  An advertisement from a 1876 Centennial Wheeling, WV City Directory.

February 2, 1878 - Wheeling News

On February 2nd of 1878 Wheeling newspapers reported that "The tinkling of the sleigh bells have become quite familiar."  Other snow related stories include:

• Where is the Street Commissioner? - Standard.  Lost in the snow storm.
• The Main street clerks, not having anything better to do yesterday, engaged in a general snow ball war.  
• Main Street, between Sixteenth and Eleventh, was short of a race course for the boys with their cutways yesterday.  
• A sleigh containing four or five youngsters capsized at the corner of Market and Fifth streets Thursday evening.  
• BOMBARDING the some of the State officers with snow balls seemed to be a favorite pastime with those who loaf around the Capital.
• A force of workmen were engaged yesterday in cleaning the snow from the Elm Grove railway tracks on Eleventh and Chapline streets.  

Other news included:

• A large pile of lumber obstructs Eoff street between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, and it is impossible to pass those points with a horse and wagon.  
• THURSDAY some mischief making individual took the stone out of the box on the end of the toll-gate pole at the top of Wheeling hill, thereby letting the pole down into the road, so that wagons were not able to pass for several hours.  

Source: Date: 1878-02-02; 

Paper: Wheeling Register