Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-20
EASTERN EXITS.
OPENING FOURTEENTH AND ff-
TEEkTH STREETS. Es,.r.
The Picturesque Appeasnee Of the Cut
Jagged Walls and Rugged Road
way-The Proposed Cut
on Fifteenth Street.

A resolution introduced by Mr.. Hal
Ter and adopted by the Second Branch
of Council, on Tuesday night, attracted
the attention OF the reporter. Ii was as
follows:
ResoIred. That the City Solicitor be and
Is hereby instructed TO take the neces-
sary steps 10 condemn the property
necessary 10 the extension OF Fifteenth
street through to McColloch.
This naturally suggested to the re-
porter's mind, the cut at the eastern ex'
tremity OF Fourteenth street and curious
TO view the situation, ne excurted out
there Yesterday afternoon. In route
he met Mr.. Halter, the sire OF the above
resolution and that gentleman gladly
hailed the receipt OF the information
that the Fifteenth street cut would be
written up"
"Lud knows We need it bad enough,
he said. sixteenth street isn't finished
and we can't use that botch on Four
tenth street. Oh! you're going TO look
at il, are you? Well, give 1t goss.
Captain John Boring, who was pres
ent, echoed these sentiments, and with
sucb a weighty send-ot, the reporter
continued on his mission.
THE FOURTEENTH STREET CUT,
viewed with the artistic eye OF a news
paper scribbler, presents much the APP
npsrance of one OF the canons OF yell
iowstone. The north wall is high,
rugged and picturesque In the
extreme. Rocks jut out here
and there, and complete the natural
grandeur Of the scene. As. Rocky
Mountain pass it is an eminent success.
But AS boulevard in tlourishing city
of 90. 900 inhabitants and the nail CEN
ire of the world, it is disgrace--as far
As IL goes.
The critical glance cast along the way
by the reporter attracted the attention
OF a gentleman living near and he joined
the critic. "It you will write this place
M" said he, "you will crafty every
person in the neighborhood. But you
did not come at the right time; you
should come up here in rainy weather
and look at the oceans OF mud.
At present il is singular sight. Ii
was understood the roadway, at least
we are so informed, was to be thirty
feet in width, but it seems this was a
mistake, for il is not more than hall
that distance. And such way! A
liyht wagon with six horses might get
through, and so might coal wagon, but
the latter is somewhat obscured by
doubt. And the foot-way on the top oi
the north wall, with its hand-rail, re-
minds the traveller Of similar ones at
Watkins Glen or in the Alps oil Switzer-
land.
Preparations have been made Tor a
sidewalk on the south side-that is to
say. a curb has been set, but there is
where it stopped, and the people living
there would be pleased 10 see the work
completed.
1t is said the cut is not yet finished.
BY all that is desirable in street 1t Is TO
be hoped this is true. IL will require
weeks OF work to transform that I'M
slightly place into street. Unsightly 1t
certainly is now. The reporter viewed
il from both ends, and even climed into
the centre, but from all three points the
view was discouraging, and he sought
FIFTEENTH STREET.
The natural inquiry OF a stranger
viewing for the first time the eastern
end OF Fifteenth street, would be: How
did they happen 10 block up the end OF
the street in this wayY 1t is singular.
indeed, but no less true. Fifteenth
street runs out as far as Alley q, between
.Ncod aud McColioch street, and then
suddenly stops-stopping as short as
nv grandiather's clock. IL continued 1t
would run through and cut OLA portion
OF the old Shriver garden. Set upon the
end OF it. and not straight, either, is a
marrow and naIneless alley, running
down by the Central Glass Works to
McCollOch street. At present this is
the only exit.
Mr.. Haller's plan is to condemn so
much OF the Shrivcr garden as is neces.
sary 10 continue the street through, and
ii the First Branch cOncurs, this will be
done. And at once, perhaps, though
the writer has an indistinCt recollection
of Council having passed the same order
once before.
This is the idea of opening up the east
central portion oi the city so as to dis
tribute the wear OF hauling and not con-
fine it 10 one street and circuitous
route. The northern exit seems to have
been abandoned, how will it I've with
IL