Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-08
From the Baltimore Sun.
TEE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL
ROAD COMPANY.
BUILDING OF ENGINES PASSENGERS AND
FRR1GHT OARS.

for long time at the shops Oh the j. an,
Ohio Raflroitd Company, Mt. Glare Depot in the
construction of locomotive engines, passenger ana
freight cars, preparatory to the accommodation ol
the immense trade expected over the railroad from
the West ON its completion to Wheeling. former-
w. about six hundred workmen we've employed le-
enlarly: now, they IRE over eight hundred, every
Shop being full, besides which large PIlVats con.
tracts are being executed at other works with tue
greatest expedition. Everything at Mt Glare Depot
exhibits the energy the Company; me nun o. Tue
machinery and the busynose ofthe Jorge, the nam
mer and the plane, greeting one on every hand;
stroll through the shops has suficed to gather lew
important and interesting facts. -.
The RAILROAD Company are now building at MT
Glare three of the largest class locomotive engines
weighing thirty tons (60, 600 lbs.l each. They are
of the most improved make, with ten wheels, SIX
drivers and truck, and so constructed that three
fourths of the adhesion is on the drivers, %hlch are
of fifty inches diameter. The cylinders have IL
by 20 inch stroke and the furnaces are constructed
to burn coal as fuel. They are expected TO nave
power sufficient to attain speed OF twenty miles
the hour, with FIVE cars attached, over Inc heaVy
grade oils feet 10 the mile west of Piedmontj and
are intended to run over the heavy grades between
Piedmont and Faimont, with the passenger ualhs
exclusively They are being built from designs
furnished by Samuel j. Hays, Esq, the ethclent
Master of machinery.
There are also nine engines being built for the
Company by private contracts they are OF the same
design (Mr. Hays') except IN the cylinders which
are is by % inch stroke. This is the only Va1la-
those
Glare These nine are intended torthe transporta-
ton of stock and merchandise trains and Will
average from fifteen TO twenty miles per hour. rive
Of the nine are being built by Messrs. A. q W:
Denmead & Son, North street, "M 1 msl!1
Manufacturing Company; Alex. Q. Gray Esq, IS
President, end Mr.. VIM. w. Dobb master OF ma
chinvry. The other two are being built by MesSrS.
Smith 4 Perkins, at the Alexandria Works, Alexan-
dria, Virginia. All of these engines are INTENDED
to burn coal for fuel.
AT Nit. Glare, the Company are also building
large class engine (Which is nearly completely IN
tended for freight train, 1t has eight driving
wheels connected together, and cylinder with a
90 by % inch stroke; its weight is 81 900 lbs, and
tits likewise coal burner. 1t is q line piece OF
mechanism and will do credit to the workmen en-
ployed in its construction.
The Company have recently completed at MT:
Glare shops four superior passenger engines OF
A. 500 lbs weight each. They have Jour drivers
five feet in diameter and truck, with cylinders OF
l6 by 90 inch stroke. With seven passenger cars
attached, they average Sl,eednf twenty hVe miles
per hour In point OF view and beauty OF finish,
| they will compare with any locomotives in the
country. These were designed by William Parker,
ESQ.,, the general Superintendent. and arranged and
CONSTRUCTED by Mr.. Hays, Master OF machinery.
L Mr. Ross Winans has also been building large
number oflocomotive engines for the Ohio railroad
company-all OF the largest class and m7st I'm,
\ proved patterns. They are all coal burners, and
intended for freight trains. Mr.. Winons has built
| forty two engines for the company on new con
/ tract and has yet eighteen more to build. de
turns out from three 10 four per month, his vast
establishment adjoining Mt. Glare depot, being bu-
silly employed in their construction. Ihesc en-
| gines are built after his own models, and always
give unye rsal satisfaction by their working power
and speed.
The railroad smpany have likewise just receiv.
| ed two new passenger engines built IN thlladel-
phia. They have drivers oil five and hall teet
in diameter and cylinders of Is by 26 inch stroke
rni.a e.
ed uS very desirable TO aid in fully stocking Inc
road in season, for all the trade and travel that
may offer.
| three at Mt. Glare, and one at their shops, Mar
tnSburg, Va, and which are now equal 10 new
ones so thoroughly have,the Old parts been repla-
| ced by new. There are at this time, about l22 or
80 locomotive engines running, or ready LOT ser
vice, on the road, which motive power VIII De
la rgely increased by the completion OF the loco
motive building here and elsewhere.
| The means for the transportation OF passengers
and freight, being increased ina pToportlonate
degree with the motive power. they nave JUST
COMPLETED two beautiful passenger cars al Mt Clare
shops, besides rebuilding four or FIVE old ones,
which, with the number of fine cars now on the
| road will no dohbt be sufficient for the accommo-
dation CT the travel. They are further, builds
| ing two hundred and eighty-four burthen q
freghs cars, intended formerchandise, wood, coar,
&C., at Mt Glare, and large number have been
contacted for by private parties. MesSTS. Murray
& HazlehutSt, Vulcan Works, south side OF the ba-
SIM have contracted 10 build four hundred cars tor
the TRANSFORMATION of stock, merchandise, &C.
These cars are built so that they can be used for
STOCK when required (the stalls being movenDle)
! or merchandise. MeSSTsA. d w. Denmead d Son.
Monumental Works, have a contract for two hun
dred cars of the same description; MeSs1s Poole q
| Hunt, contract for one hundred; Mr.. +. 5. Ben
| son, u contract for one hundred; and MeSSrs
Scott & Bolster, contract for fifty, These con-
tracts have been given out sometime, and ere rap
idly approaching tLeir completion.
contract has recently been male for The build
ing of two hundred iron coal cars, the contractors
being as follows:-MesSrs. Poole Hunt, one hun
dred; Suffolk Works, fifty, and Mr.. E. S. Benson
fifty. These will be required for the rapidly IN
creaSing coal trade. A contract for some i've hun
bred more similar talked Of, but not definite
| ly settled as yet. All of these burthen cars are
constructed undrr the supervision of the master o.
| machinery Mr.. Samuel J. Hays.
From the above, some idea of the activity OF the
railroad company in preparing to meet all connn
gences of travel or trade, may be obtained, prep
| araton which, although of magnitude, is justified
by the anticipation ofthe President and directors
and the community generally
The Graf is PAwrs.-''Emma Snodgrass,' who
has been SO notorious of late in visiting different
| parts of New England. arrested last evening
in this city by police officer Oliver, and was this
morning arraigned in the police court on charge
/ of vagrancy-the examination of which, however,
resulted III heI complete Triumph anu AeL S"lSs
| quent discharge from custody.
| Ii is understood that she is the daughter OF a
New York official.
The examination developed the fact that pr or t.
the first arrest of the accused she was regularly
employed as aclerk in one of our mercantile pala-
ces, and that, durinh all her subsequent wander
ings far and near, she had been well supplied with
money, and all her bills were promptly paid sc
that the charge of ''being without home, lawful
employment, or means of support. could not be
sustained, and the court promptly ordered a dis
charge-much to the satisfaction of a crowded au
His honor afterwards had an interview with EN-
;.,Gl-a,s Is and gave her SOM