The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-19
RAILROAD RUMPUs.
cOunIst between The Clty aud n. a o.
Authorities.

COutttot between the CItt auu h VI
Authorities.
Yesterday morning great excitement
was caused in the Fifth Ward, in the vi
cinity Of Butterasld's malt house, on
Water and Twenty.third streets, by an
attempt Of laborers In the employ Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company tc
lay down a track on Water street on the
course staked of by the r. VIZ Ky. K. r,
for its extension to BenwOOd. Mr.. John
Butteraeld, a member Of the Nrst Branch
Of Council for that Ward, percelving the
attempt, at once notified Mayor 4. j.
Sweeney that the B. & o. men were work
ing upon city property, and he q once
went 70 the spot, accompanied BY Chiei Of
Police Sweeney and q squad OF police, to
enforce II necessary the ideas ofthe Mayor
in the matter. He found about q dozen
men working under the direction oil Capt.
Dan. Nightingale, q section boss, and
him who he was, notified him to
cease work or he would be arrested.
Nightingale told the Mayor that he was
working under orders from the master oil
the road, John Bradshaw, but at once or
dered his men TO quit work. This termi'
mated that part Of the difficulty, but after
dinner the Mayer was again sent for 70
prevent similar operations on a lot owned
by the city Just opposite the Nail City
boat house, but when he arrived on the
scene Of operations the men had quit
work, being notified Of the second ap'
proach Of the Mayor before his arrival.
Hearingotthe war on thesouth Satisfactorily
dinner, a representative OF this paper
went over. We found several men al
work in the immediate vicinity OF the dis
puted grounds who told US OF the above
occurrences, and also directed our atten'
ton TO the presence oil a couple Of police
men stationed near by, and who were evt'
IDENTIFY on guard, which wetound upon In.
t~errogating them to be so. They also told
US substantially what We have given.
CAPT. DEvEIEs
was found at the B. & o. Depot, and We
asked him as 10 the status Of affairs. He
said there wasn't much in it. The B. 4 D
Co. for purposes OF convenience needed Q
track in the disputed territory and would
like 10 have one there, and were proceed
ing 10 lay II when the Intervention OF the
city authorities occurred. Ascertaining
the status be had ordered a cessation o.
operations for the present, and had tele'
graphed his action 70 the Master Of the
Road, John Bradshaw, at Baltimore. Thit
a all there was Of it.
Captain, we asked, do you think the &C
ton Of the Mayor in intervening was attht
instance ofthe "Pwiky?" ~ really dom
know" was the reply, and we left him tc
hunt up
MAJOR J. W. SWEENEY,
whom we found on Seventeenth stree
together with Street Commissioner
Nichols, who had warned the B. 4 O.
wOrkmen to stop working on Water street
Major Sweeney said that he had been
notified by Mayor Sweeney to send his
men to the disputed ground and he had
done so, and had also left one or two t
watch the proceedings in his absence. liz
had nothing new to add.
MAYOR a. J. SWEENEY
was found in the City Building last night
and readily explained to US the reason Q
his action earlier in the day. This morn,
ing" said he, II was sent for at my place
OF business and told that workmen in the
employ OF the B. L o. Company were en-,
gagged in digging up Water street and lay
ing down q switch near Twenty-thifG
street. l at once went down, notifying
Major Sweeney in the meantime to send
down what men we're available. ! found
twelve men at work under Section Boss
Nightingale, whom l approached and
asked, under whose orders are you doinc
this work. From headquarters. Mr.. Brad
shaw, Master Of the Road was the reply
! then explained to him hat I was the
Mayor Of the city, and that any further
work in that place would subject him Ia
arrest by my orders. He stopped work,
and l went back to my work, only TO be
summoned back after dinner by the an
nouncement that the same gang was al
work on a lot owned by the city on Water
street, between Twenty-second andTwen'
ty-third streets, but when / gotthere they
had omit. 1then went to Capt. DevrieS,
and explained the situation TO him. He
said he would promise me that all oper.
atoms should be suspended until the ar
rival OF the company's counsel, Daniel
Lamb, Esq, who would likely be at home
by Thursday. He (Devries) wa under
the impression that the company had
rights in the matter, which l told him
they had not. The contract between the
city and the Baltimore and Ohio, dated
July 10. lS47, only gives them the right to
pass to and from their depot on the north
side OF Wheeling Creek TO the city limits
on the south, with locomotives, and does
not grant them groundo on Water street fol
switching and car storage purposes"
us this action On your part at the in'
stance Of the p. W. ( KY. authorities?'
We asked the Mayor.
mo, sir; although this work is being
done to obstruct the work on the project,
ed extension Of that road to Benwood,'
was his answer "ior, in digging to-day,
they dug up the stakes driven in by the
engineers in their recent survey along the
route Of the extension. There is no use
Disgusting this fact, and Captain Devries
admitted 1t to me in the course OF our con.
%versaton this afternoon; but my reason
for interfering is this: the city has per.
mitted the P. W. & Ky. 10 use Its property
in the proposed extension, and the ordin.
anceshould notthus be violated, and in this
instance when the object is to interfere
with the construction OF this extension,
and also interfere with the operation oil
the contract made by the city with the P.
W.&ky. Company not long since. They
also took possession Of 9 part Of South
street this morning, laying down a tempo.
rary track near the freight depot OF the P.
". SKY. Company, and runninga couple
OF old cars out omit to holdit,n he said.
The part OF it thus taken possession OF is
the property OF the city, under the con.
tract made between the B. 4 0. Company
and the city on February 18th, 1852, when
the city gave them $4,000 and a part
Of South street upon the condition that
they build their depotB on the north side
Of Wheeling Greek and also buy several
lots contiguous, which they vacated to the
city, and now form the street extending
from South street to Fourteenth, and to
convey to the city the slope to the creek
and river banks. The track laid this
morning, vi are assured, Is on this slope,
which was determined not long ago BY The
City Surveyor. So you see The obstacles