Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-12-27
BEIMONTC CHRONICLE.

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ST. CLAiRsvILLE. OHIO.
THURSDAY. DEC. "a, 1877.
a. VI. Campbell, Esq, Ediler Of
the wheeling lntelligeneeF.
Visits BeIlaire-Rtdee Over the
h. 4 s. w. n. g. Railroad-kees
Seme ef Her big Hen and then
Tells About tf.
From Intelligencer December 17th.]
We took run down to Bellaire Saturday
afternoon to see how the Marrow Gauge was
coming on. Meeting Col Sullivan on the
track, near the State tobacco warehouse, and
making known our business, he hailed the
engineer and put us on board train bound
down n the point of track-lsying mile this
side of Wegee. The train consisted of the
IsWoods6eld sixteen ton engine, handsomely
got up, and gondola partly loaded with rail .
road iron. On the engine was Mr.. Boosh, ons
Of the directors, and two CT three visitors.
Altogether We crowded the engineer into
close quarters, but he was just q accommo-
dating and genial as he could be notwithstand-
ing his environments. After crossing the
creek the train stopped to fill out the gondola's
load with lot Of ties. ''All hands and the
cook" debarked to engage in the business Of
loading, by which We mean not only the
hands regularly employed for the purpose,
who were on the gondola, but that Mr.. Booth
the director, and the genial engineer aforsaid,
and We know not-how many Others, took q
hand in carrying ties and heaving them up on
the goadola. The engineer remarked as be
got oif, 1--WE are ell poor on this road and We
have to lend hand to get things started. p
Loading was bumped up" lively, and we
were soon under way again and jogging along
at very fair speed considering that the track
was fresh laid down and totally unhallasted.
About two miles down we got land view OF
Mr.. B. r. Cowans handsome country resi-
deuce on the bank of the river now about
completed. to which he has permanently re-
tired frcm the cares Of Stale at Washington,
and to which he retires every evening from
the cares Of ''shest per shent" at Bellaire.
All man needs for this sort of life Is plenty
Of money to support plenty of hired help and
to protect his family from strolling tramps.
We also passed Hestherington's castle on
the way down. This reminds US of the fut
time we ever saw Jacob Heatherington, the
proprietor. 1t was 6ve 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 in q red
shirt seated at his supper table, to lwhom We
made known our business. We had only Left
him for an hour, just time enough to 60 down
to Rockenhouser's and back, when we met
the same man standing at the gateway to hii
new building Ibis English Castle-so changed
in his appearance that we utterly failed to re
cognize aim at first. In other words, he wa
dressed from head to foot in q comely suit q
black that made him look more like the ''Iort
of the manor" than the 'sBritish red" in which
| we had left him only short time before. Ano
yet it was true then IS when Pope wrote il
l
that
..Worth makes the man, want of it the fellow
All the rest Is but leather and prunella
And Mr.. Beatheringtou is an illustration o.
what his great countryman meant when h
wrote those lines. For instance, our engineer
friend said to US, as we passed the Castle
"Heatherington is q frst-class man. Tn,
other day two little children belonging t.
some Of his tenants, went to his house and ap
pealed to him for aid as their families wer'
almost out of anything to eat. Giving eaci
of them $s bill he remarked to them tha
nobody should suffer for food who lived il
| any of his houses"
Lest, however, some people may say tina
we were long time riding five miles we viii
pass Heatherington's Castle and Rockephous
er's coal works, and all the other suburbs o
Bellaire, and remark that when we came il
sight of the terminus of the track it presented
quite an animated scene. Enough men wer'
| at work to lay down half mile of track PEI
day. While some were loading ties on ,
CONSTRUCTION truck" others were leading tn
advance guard of civilization by putting dow
the two parallels over which the car of pro
gress is seeking its way to the clark hills o
Monroe" The first man we met amidst thii
animated scene was Mr.. Morgan, President o
the road. Morgan is good name for bust
ness man. In New Orleans one hears con
stantly of Morgan'sTexas Line, just as in New
York we hear of E D. Morgan, the whilom
great merchant and subsequent Governor ant
Senator. and of Drexel, Morgan 4 Co. tn
great bankers In the days of anti Masonry
also there was famous man whose name wa
Morgan, and, like ancient Moses, no mai
knows to this day what became of him. 81
didn't 70 up into mountain and die. II h
! died anywhere, It was in the waters Of Sodu
bay, in northern New York, where, it is said
the bloody Masons drowned him in a coffe
sack for telling tales out of school Servet
him right.
Nobody will ever drown Dir. Morgan of tn
Bellaire road for telling tales. He is one o
those successful business men who know how
to keep their own counsels He know
enough to know, as 1ngersoll said about Blaine
that the prosperity of the town of Bellalre
with which he is so conspicuously identified
is to be greately enchanced in value by thu
building of this road, and therefore he ha
come to the front and put his shoulders to th'
wheel. There is an expression about Mr.
Morgan's tout ensemble that marks him as tn
man to revive and put through laggins ant
falling enterprise. He is large and compre
hensive looking man, and possessed of tina
nervobilious organization that gives great en-
ergy and endurance to character. We said Il
him, ''Mr. Morgan on what basis Rave yo
finally put the wheels In motion on this road?
'sOn strickly cash basis" said he. 9Th
directors put their hands In theis pockets AM
advanced the money to build the road dow