The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-17
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Xislt 10 BeIlaire.

G,nye was coming on. Meeting Co
S,IIiy,n on the track, near the State to-
h,,co warehouse, and making known ou
h,.ipess, he hailed the engineer and pu
n,ou board a uain bound down to tn
mint Of track.lnyiug, q mile this side Q
wesee. The train consisted OF tn
.WooI,feld," a sixteen ton engine, hand
.oueIy got up. and a gondOla partly
Landed with railroad iron. On the en-
yius was Mr.. Booth, one OF the directors
and .vo'or three visitors. Altogether VI
c,oSIed the engineer into close quarters
bu, he was just as accommodating anC
GENIAL as he could be Notwithstanding hii
environments. After crossing the creek
the train stopped to fill out the gondola'l
nu1 with lot OF ties. "All hands and
,bscook" debarked to engage in the busi
u.s Of loading, by which we mean moi
ooly the hands regularly employed fol
the purpose, who were on the gondols,
butthat Mr.. Booth, the director, and the
genial engineer Aforesaid, aud We know
no, now many others, took hand in
carving ties and heaving them up on the
vopdola. The engineer remarked "a he
On. off, I'VE are all poor on
mi, rold and we have 10 lend hand to
ret things started" Loading was "hump,
eiup" lively, and we were soon under
WAY again and jogging along at a very
fair speed considering that the track was
fresh laid down and totally unballasted.
Abou, Two miles down wegot land view
of Mr.. B. R. Cowanis handsome country
residence on the bank OF the river, no "
sb,at completed, to which he has per-
mIneulIy retired from the cares OF State
Washington, and to which he retires
every evening from the cares OF "sheut
per sient" at Bellaire. All man needs
ior thi, sort OF life is plenty Of money to
support plenty of hired help and to pro-
.ect his family from s.rolling tramps.
We also passed Heatherington's castle
90 the way down. This reminds US Of
the first time we ever saw Jacob
Heatherington, the proprietor. It
ws five years ago this last spring,
when he was still living in his one.story
cottage on the bank OF the river. Going
in to inquire for the proprietor .of the
coal works We were introduced TO man
ina red shirt seated at his supper table, to
whom we made known our business. We
had only left him for an hour, just time
enough to 90 down to Rockenhouser's
sad back, when we met the same man
Standing at the gateway to his new build.
iug-his English Castle-so changed
in his appearance that we utterly failed
to recognize him at frat. In other words,
he was dressed from head to foot in a
Con.ly suit Of black that made him look
more like the "lord OF the manor" than
the British red" in which we had left
him only a short time before. And yet it
was true then as when'Pope wrote it that
"worth makes the man, want OF 1t this fellow.
All the reSt "a bat leIthsr aud prunellA"
Aud Mr.. Hea.herington is an illustra-
tiOn Of what his great countrymin meant
when he wrote those lines. For instance,
OUT engineer friend said to US, as we
passed the Castle, "Ileatherington is a
dnt.class man. The other day two little
children belonging to some Of his tenants,
went to his house and appealed to him
iOt aid as their families were almost out
Ofanything to eat. Giving each Of them
ass bill he remarked to them that no.
body should suffer for food who lived in
any Of his houses"
Lest, however, some people may say
that We were long time riding five miles
We will pass Heathearingtoa's Castle
and Rockenhouser's coal works, and all
the other suburbs OF Bellaire, and remark
tha. when We came in sight OF the ter
minus OF the track it presented quite an
animated scene. Enough men were at
work to lay down half mile oftrack per
day. While some were loading ties on a
construction truck" others were lead
log the advance guard OF civilization by
putting down the two parallels over
which the car OF progress is seeking ita
way to the dark hills OF Monroe" The
first man we met amidst this animated
scene was Mr.. Morgan, President OF the
road. Morgan is good name for busi'
ns's mau. In New Orleans one hears
r,u'tsntly Of Morgan's Texas Line,
just as in New York we hear Of E. D,
Morgan, the " hilom great merchant
and subsequent Governor and SEN
A!or, and OF Dfexel, Morgan & Co.
the great bankers. In the days Of anti.
Masonry, also, there was famous man
whose name was Morgan, and, like
ancient Moses, no man knows to this day
what becams Of him. He didn't 60 W
into mountain and die. II he died any
where, it was in the waters OF sodus bay
in northern New York, where, it ia said
the bloody Masons drowned him In .
coffee sack for telling tales out Of school
Served him right.
Nobody will ever drown Mr.. Morgan o
the Bellsire road for telling tales. HI
10 one Of those successful business mer
who know how to keep their own coun
sells. He knows enough to know, as In
Ger'oll said about Blaine, that the pros
psrity OF the town Of Bellairs, with which
he is SO cOnspicuously identified, is to b,
greatly enhanced In value by the build
ing Of this road, and therefore hi
has come to the front and put hi
shoulder to the wheel. There Ia an ex
preston about Mr.Morgans tout ensembl,
that marks him as the man to revive ant
put throuvh n lsovinv and failing enter