Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-08-26
WHEELING DAILY TIMES.
SATURDAY, AUGUST &c, 1919.
FoR President IN lo44.
III Il n IL II T. Il n n.
FoR WICK PRESIDENT,
JOHN DAVIS. OF MASSACHUSETTS.
THE GREAT CENTRAL ROUTE.

THE GREAT CENTRAL ROUTE.
We perceive by the Pittsburgh papers. that they.
as we'll a. some other PennsY sheets. are CIV
ing the Baltimore aud Ohio Rail Road Company.
series Of Lectures upon their of fare. telling
them what they ought To DO. and what they ought
not To do. II must be considered by the company.
very kind IN them they probably do not know
how TO manage their affairs. and consider the
insruc iion they Illus receive, very friendly and
disinteTested particular OF this time, when the
people Of Pittsburgh know thai their public works
are now evoid Of travel or bushes $, and that the
Great CeRIra sweep The board. But seriously.
desire TO say a few words about the course of the
Balmure and Ohio Rail Road IN relation To the
SINCE Companies and passengers that do not go
through To Wheeling. The Rail Road Company
ascerlained early in the last that in order To
the means Ofiranspnring passengers through
they must control The Stage Companies in some
degree, at least. far TO reguI ate their prices
and the amount ofstock on the road. Inhey ID NOT.
il would necessarily follow that irregu ary in prices
must exist the traveller havIRg TO more certainty
IN prices, than The merchant found last winter ia
transpOrlaIi'n by the transient wagons. CumPeri.
mere song; at aroiher, when the opposition had
broken itself down. it would be raised e1orbl.
tanI price and those lines kept the would
consider il for their advantage keep stock
on the road than would be well filled at ordinary
Times. Every one knows. who knows anything Of
staging: that This would by means answer the
purposes Of The Rail Road company. whose unliring
sleeds wilt carry any number Of passengers. Stage
companies would rather end hall dozen passengers
on TO Pittsburgh any day, Than TO Put on an extra
team, and The rail road Company would he he loser
by tie operation. Alter yielding. AT various times
during last fall aud winter, suggestions Of persons
not connected with tho company, and some Of these
PIusburghers, always at q loss TO themselves, the
board authorized the president TO invite proposals
from the leading Staging owners and managers Of
the country, 10 contract for carrying the passengers
TO and from Wheeling, The companies being bound
to furnish stock sufficient to carry OF oil times, all
passengers who applied. either at Wheeling or Cum
berlsnd, al The time they wished TO go. The propo
soils Of The companies now on The route, the Good
Intent and National Read, were the lowest. They
proposed TO furnish the requisite stock for all emer
yencies, and carry at sI dollars the "a road carry
ing al five through the year; Ia return for which
he rail- road was TO charge four cents mile for all
passengers who were not ricketied through 10
Wheeling. when opposition came on. and mot till
hen. That opposition is now on tho line, and they
have rnsed the transient iAre. Could they do other
wisel SIX dollars is as low as the fare can lie
afforded, or else other companies would have pro-
posed TO carry Observation-Disclosures, the public gains
nothing by competition in tho long run, 90 long as
good Stages enough must be furnished by these
companies for all who wish to pass over The route
II It is not low enough, tie Rail Road Company will
doubtless provide other that will be chesper
Ou' 'hey must have some means that they can control
anu ihey cen only control any means, by giving
Them security that they shall be supported IN
passenger 10 The exclusion Of others or ha We an
advantage over them that will sustain their stoek
Now, 80 for as these Stage companies are con.
cerned' either the old new. We have no especi,I
interest IN either.
We know some Of The proprielors Of the Good
Intent and NotioEul Rood LiEesHnd We esteem Them
as worthy citizens. We have also on ac,,unintanc.
WIN Mr. Henderson Of the oiher line. and esteem
him highly. There is nothing would indscc us IN
one feeling fpanialily between the two; We look
alone TO The permanent interest Of The Great Central
Route The welfare Of That WORK to which our eve.
nave long and earnestly been directed. and when
''s course Of that company deserves approval. We
deem . our duty 10 yield IL without stint or besi,,
'oh' 10 those living on the lioe and Of Cumberland
enc Baltimore, who have found fault with the cour..
OF ue h'h Road Co., We would suggest the fact
mat u the Company yields the measurable control
" ''' no" over The staging and throws up ~
cOnUao'' ell who pas over the road will he compel.
Ted 10 Pay'a least Gyur esn ts mile TO sustain n.