Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-08-06

PtNlC FAlTII.-Wc are very willing tc
believe that hose in whose hands will hence.
torth be til management of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, will cvince more wisdom than
mas belonged to its affairs under a former dy-
nasty, and that, the malign influence being
renewed, they will, at all timcss act with
sincerity and good faith. Unfortunately. il
has always been too much left to the presi-
d'hS oitlccr 10 possess the information and
exercise the control which ought to have be-
ionged to the entire Board. Instances prc not
wanting in which that control has made thc
company act towards others with the same
naughty contempt and the same Punic faith
which was attempted to be exercised towards
us Fortunately, in our case, our own faithful
and honorable state protected us against inius-
tee and rebuked the temper which had rcpar-
ded the ambition Or caprice of an individual
more than tn rights or interests. of cities OF
States.
a writer in the National Intelligence OK.
poses one OF the indecent tricks which the
Company was made to play upon the Cl,esa
peake and Ohio Canal Company. I'm the fall
OF 1913, the Railroad Company was eudc,v-
oring 20 satisfy the Legislature of MARYLAND.
that itcould transport TO Dam No. 6, all the
coal necessary for the trade of the "a
nal AMI of course that it was unne-
eessary TO complete the canal above that
point. la September of that wear tho
TWO companies made an agreement by which
a.. D-l
the Railroad was TO transport coal from Cum.
bcTland TO Dam No. 6, at two cents nor tor
per mile, "and at that rate to transport il for
any person or persons so long as it should not
interfere with their general trade, nor reouire
a material augmentation of their machincry.o
a lew months ago the Maryland Legislature
authorized the completion of the Canal Inn,
required as a condition precedent that a certain
amount OF trade should be guaranteed to tho
company for five years. The Alieobcnv coal
Companies were expected to furnish a norton
OF that guaranty. To prevent this the screws
might be put on. At all events. on the 7th
May, 1913, the following cool note wa, dos.
patched by the President:
OFFICE or THE Il. & O. r. r IN
May Z, 1915.
oIR: The amount OF Transportation Of Cosl
ana IRON to Dam No. 8. hitherto has been So
inco1sittrablr as scarcely to~authorize , louoc,
continuance of our preparations for its accom-.
Moddtfon at the present rates, especially as
arrangements already made and i'm progress for
an extended trade in those and other articles
10 'Nls CITY, aud other points on the linz nf
nc road, ore OF much greater ipuorsnr. :,
me company and to the public generally.
nave therefore. toaCquaiut You. thar until
o'hefwis' ordered, the rate for die tmnsro,,,
uon oil coal ironI Cumberland 10 nuu 81, 3
WI " Hour cents per ton per mile. and for
Aion SIX GEMS per ton per mile.
am, slr, very respectfully.
Your ObcdIent servant
LOUIS MLANE. PylsiJ,y,
}. NJ COALE, ESQ. Prryidegt
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Comnanv
As tha amount of transpoIiion Of coal ;sl
here complaincdof as being mconsidrnblc
1t could not have "mtchcred with the general
nor required a material aupmcntation oil
machinery Such was not the rrsson e., nm,
ing an end suddenly to the arrangement. Tho
.OaI trade on 'ic caral was about 70 incress.
The anloyauces and h~indrdnccs thrown /, H.
say the inst year-such as having no cars AT
to receive it. or no agent At dam
70. 9 to attend its delivery. Sc. had mad,
be amount inconsideablc. But the M,,,lapd
nj New York Iron AL Cool Co,opao, a..