The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-28

w NluulCaVe pelOfe inc people II tney can.
And, by the way, It would be % well 70
remember In this connection that q pro-
vision q now pending before Congress,
with Q fair prospect, OF passing, prohibit;
Ing the erection Of o pier bridge any,
where on the Ohio river, Ut may not Be
applicable 10 the Ohio alone) eXcept
where there will be not less than one mile
OF straight river channel above such
bridge, and requiring that all channel
piers shall be parallel with tho current.
But why spend more time or words on
this whole fallacious scheme, when there
are probably not q dozen persons In the
city who really believe the thing ought
TO be attempted or venherionaly thought
Of. IbelieVel The secret md root Of this
whole bridge moReinentInre to be found
IN the TACT thatabpth the Baltimore &
Ohio, and Pennsylvania Central railroad
authorities (but especially the former are
determined TO throttle tho Wheeling &
Tuscarawas Valley enterprise, IL they
possibly can, and drive the extension oil
the Lake. Shore 81 TusearawasJ Valley
road southwark from Denison, 10 some
other p0int--Rny p other point-than
Wheeling; and iithat every conceivable
trick and subterihge ia to be resorted to
by q few cunning, determined citizens, in
the interests Of the B. 81 o. Company, 10
divert the minds and money oil the people
from the Tuscarawas Valley project, and
retain TO the b. q @. road particularly,
that monopoly oyer the city's commercial
interests and municipal machinery, which
II has long possessed. For thia oppOsi.
ton Of the two corporations named, TO q
rival for the trade and patronage Of the
city, l do not blame Thorn, That ia rail:
road tactioO. They both know very well
Iand wish the people ofIWheellng knew
It halfas welN that the extension Of the
Lake Shore s. T.,V. road through to
Wheeling, by the projected Wheeling s.
I. V. route, will give us another com.
peting route TO the East and Northwest,
by the Lake Shore and n. Y, Central
roads; as, by the running arrangements
already agreed upon, these four roads will
mako one through line both East and
West, and will give the latter two power.
full, joint corporations o direct connec.
ton to Wheeling; though am not
aware that they specially seek such
connection, or that they would,
themselves, make any very great
expenditure 10 obtain It For any
opposition that Presidents Scott and
Garrett may fairly exert toward this
rival enterprise, 1 have said, they are
not to be censured. II Is their right and
privilege to keep rivals out Of their way
just as far as they can. But at tho same
time, 1t Is the right OF the people OF
Wheeling TO choose whom they willserVe;
whether they will serve one master or
more, have one servant or many. And
when huge, costly scheme, such as the
bridge project, is paraded before them, it
behooves them TO consider well lis real
character and purpose; whether 1t is OF.
fered as reality, or o fiction to subyert
and destroy an achievement they have
sought TO accomplish for moro than thirty
years-a direct and convenient outlet by
rail to the Northwest. That this is the
purpose aimed at by some Of the adyo.
Gates of the bridge scheme, has been al.
ready eVinced by the fact that one Of
them, a citizen OF Wheeling, has very
modestly inquired by letter Of the Presi.
dent Of the Lake Shore & Tuscarawas
Valley railroad, whether it would not suit
him just as well to extend his road to
some point on the Central Ohio road, so
as to cometo Wheeling. Estate :his as a
fact-not a mere rumor-though have
neither learned il from President Slreator
or any member OF the W. at. V. r. r.
committee.
Then another little matter, in connec.
ton with this bridge movement, the peo.
pie have right to, and may as well
know. We have been; informed that the
Q. u P. road "Warmly favors the bridge"
\ that its own engineer, at its own cost, Is
making the surveys and estimates for the
BRIDGE and that ''its President will lib.
orally aid the enterprise" &c., sc. Now
there isjust little mistake here. j hap.
pen TO know that instead Of the bridge
survey being made at the cost of the G. s.
T. road, that expense has already been
paid out OF the city treasury to the
amount ot2seYenty dollars. OF this l
make no complaint; only let us have the
"facts" in the case. 0 Tho records show
that the City Council made an appropria.
I pon loF snat purpose, and l presume Its
I'.lo commiLtee mas the right to dis
u oaIsc tna[ apProptiauoa al It's owndls-
engineer ofthe O. & P. road will willingly
makejust as many surveys as tho city
that ne pr LII ut' - N .he 40 doubt
contribute G"liberally" in aid of the
he s S,sn, 'I tron ySn MISSeilag cspltaf wnl
a r;va1 IEno Pnt ,n Iu.S 10 pLlla up
road reaiIs 5 nu, WIZ bel mat lnaI
river herey For Ssar,U DlRS Aye nc a me
road has rrr ito t re n nseen yeaEs tnat
RsIla;reiw;thont,ona ,.o. sGSs ans Guy 70
os slii: w S WORD being saidaoout
,, nFl n LOT II, iar'her tha1 to the Island
a a5 1--we; even at nas seluom Deen mention
~ s.ncG snataroaa was forced TO make It's
SouueCIlOu Will Inc central ONO at BELL.