The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-18
MONDAY, AUGUST IS, 1873.
The Question to be Voted on !, To-
n n morrow.

The question " w ia, "a
within the past few days there has
becn 4 manifest increase Of interest IN the
eIecrOl tomorrow on Tia additional sub,
scrip,lon 10 the Pittsburgh, Wheeling i
Kentucky Railroad. AgOod deal Of COM
ment was oCcasioned Saturday BY the
publication q statement in the RegtHsr
that thefe was between SO, 900 and ST.
900 Of private subscriptions unpaid; and
that ii Was! the failure TO collect these
that had rendered the additional sub
scription by this county necessary. This
statement Is partly true and partly mis-
taken. It's true, as we learn from one OF
the directors, that there Is about the SUN
mentioned Of unpaid private .subscrip.
tions; blt,it Is not true that their cOllec'
ton you'd have rendered, or would yet
render, the subscription unnecessary.
These unpaid subscriptions are relied upon
and counted as cash. They are 80 put
down in Mr.. BECKER's estimatea;) and
counting these It was found lthGeiWaS
still lack Of over G29 900 TO finish the
work, According 70 the closest estimates
that co1ld, be made; and TO cover condp77
gencies $4,000 was asked Ior, $500 Of
which has been voted and.subscTibed by
Brooke, while thosolher $4,000 is asked
OF this county. .......
ThestAte, Of tbs case in regard 70 these
uucolleCled, Brooke county private sub
scripuouswe understand to be about this.
The railroad project as FIRST proposed was
for a road TO Wel!sburg only; and $780,
900 private stock was subscribed for thai
purpose But the, Pan Handle Road do
clined 10 takeholdof the enterprise except
ior a 4 road 70 Wheeling. This shape II
finally took, as our readers know. The
subscriptions made in Brooke TO the orig
inal scheme were turned over to the Com.
pany organized to conduct the extended
project; and here is where the hitch comes
in with these private stockholders. Pro
cisely what points they set up, we are not
advised, but, their claim is as we learn,
that they are not bound to the P. w. g.
Ky. Company for subscriptions made to
the company when proposing road only
to WellsbTg. Suit has been brought
sgaiDSt the principal Of these subscribers
and II the courts decide against them, the
others win pay without further question.
The Company and their advisers have no
doubt OF all that these private subscribers
are bound, and will proceed 10 collect their
subscriptions just as fast as the courts will
enable them to do SO. d. ~, r-... lf
We may add here,-and we do 1t upon
the assurance Of Hon. G. D. HUBBARD,
one Of the Ohio county direCtors-that the
company feel the utmost confidence IN
the assurances Of the engineers that this
additional subscription VIII enable them
tocomplete the road bed and to present
it, free Of debt, according 10 the contract
with the p. c. & ST. Louis Company,
ready forirack and equipment
In Justice othe management of tue z.
W. &K. Company thus far, our readers
ought not TO forget that they have had 70
encounter many difficulties for which
they are in no wise answerabIe. They
were delayed several weeks in COM
mencing work by the unreadiness
OF the p, G.. & St. L. Company TO
close! the contract. They found IN
at times impossible to procure as many
laborers as were needed. The winter
came on them unusually early, held on
very late and was remarkably unfaVorR-
BILE ali the way through. What with the
terrible winter and the epizootic, but little
progress was made between November
and April though every effort was made
10 push on the work. Thirty or forty
thousand dollars were expended in this
winter campaign with the best intentions;
and with constant hope for moro favor
able weather, without having made pro.
gress at all adequate TO the expenditure.
1.-THE character Of the winter and the ep.
izootic could have been foreseen, we pre-.
sumo operations would have been wholly
suspended and money would have been
saved; but ordinarily good deal of rail
road work can be done in tho winter
nearly a. well as at other Seasons. II the
work as q whole has not progressed %
expediuously as we were led TO expect
itwould, it Is yet to be shown that the
delays, and the costs beyond the original
estimates estimates which the chief en-
gineer himself now confesses were too
low were such as could reasonably have
been avoided, or thAtthcyar are due TO any
culpable fault on the part Of those entrust-
cd with the management Of the work.
On the other hand, the high character
OF the gentlemen composing the directory
their cSpability as business men, and
their integrity in any capacity-ought to
afford some assurance to our people
that they have been doing the very best
they could to forward the work and pro
mote the interests Of this county. But
there are those who choose to regard the
conduct Of this work with suspicion,
We presume even they are not unfriendly
to the work itself. Their very dlssatis.
faction must be taken as evidence Of their
solicituds Tor the early completion Of tho
road. There il nowhere, we take il Anv