Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-10
THE THROUGH LINE.
IHE 8. & o. C0MPANY'S PROPOSITION
TO The CITY.
Vice President ksysers Letter to the Com
mittee on Railroads, Stating the Route
and LAYING Down a Definite
Proposition 10 the
Committee.

Railroads and its conferences With Vice
President Keyser, all oi Which have
been given at length in the REGISTER
Nothing was wanting but definite
proposition from the company, and that
is given below:
BALTIMORE, May7
Samuel Lauqhlin, Esq, Chairman Rail
road COMMITTEE Of Cay Council, WhSriiag,
HsS JIryiaia.
Ny DEAR SIR:-As requested by you,
for the better information OF the Com
mittee, ] submit in writing the PROPOSE
ton OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company to the city of Wheeling TO
furnish II free right OF way through
the city for its Hemp6eld extension.
The Company asks in view OF the great
advantage OF this work to the city. that
the latter will grant and procure for it
free right OF way for a double track road
from the north side of Four-
teenth street through McCulloch
street to Sixteenth street; thence dag
onally across to 4 point near Eighteenth
street: thence by 600 foot radius curve
into Nineteenth street; thence down
Nineteenth street 10 Eof street in North
Wheeling; thence by 600 foot radius
curve across Wheeling creek into Eoff
street, South Wheeling; thence under
EOf street by tunne. to point
between Twenty.tiith and Twenty.
sixth streets, where the tunnel, by
a curve OF 7l6 feet radius, will pass
under Twenty-sixth street; under the
corner OF the public school lot and dag
onally across Twenty-seventh street 10
the intersection Uf Jacob and Twenty.
eighth streets; thence by line at grade
down Jacob street TO the intersection OF
the Baltimore and Ohio COmpany's
main tracks at Thirty second street
The Company also asks the privilege OF
laying two additional tracks on Thirty
second and McCullOch streets from the
intersection OF Jacob street to the south
ern limit Of the corporation.
Should the Council comply with this
request, the company asks permission
to occupy portion OF the ground now
covered by the slopes OF McCullOch
street, between Fourteen and Sixteenth
streets, substituting stone wall in Or
der 10 sustain the street; also TO reduce
the grade on McCullOch street, near the
intersection OF Sixteenth street, 3 feet,
running out each way until 1t intersects
the present grade OF that street. The
road will cross Seventeenth street by an
oveT-grade bridge, 50 as to allow
the free passage ot vehicles
under il. The crossing OF Eigh-
teenth street will be at grade, for which
purpose il may he necessary to elevate
the present grade two or three ieet at
the point OF crossing A slight change
will be necessary in the grade OF Nine.
teenth street, between Jacob and Wood
streets, for a short distance, in order that
the descent may be uniform from Wood
street To- Wheeling creek. The road will
pass under Twentieth street on the
south side OF the creek. In order, how
ever, to do this il will be necessary To
raise the grade OF the street not exceed
ing four feet at the entrance to the tun.
mel.
This embraces all the changes OF grade
that will be r, quired.
Besides the use of the streets, as sta
ted, the company asks the city TO pro-
vide il with right OF way thirty feet in
width, at the grade oi its tracks between
Sixteenth and Nineteenth streets, on
the hne above indicated; also a small
triangular lot at the intersection of
Nineteenth street and Wheeling creek;
and a strip forty.two feet in width be-
tween the creek and the portal of the
tunnel at Eof street, in South Wheel
ing.
Should the committee insist upon the
Company's tunnel terminating on Jacob
street instead of on EoH street, as re-
commended bv its chief engineer, the
Company will have to ask the city to
p-ocure Tor it the right to make this
change by tunneling under the double
building at the northeast corner OF Eotf
aud Twenty-s ixth st-eets, under the
corner OF the public school lot, and
under the alley and the rear OF the lots
facing on the west side OF Jacob street,
between Twenty-sixth and Twenty
seventh streets.
It also asks the city TO procure first
the lots OH the west side of jacob street,
between rwenty-seventh aud Twenty
eli ,hth streets, running back to the al
ley. To the north OF this tier OF lots it
| p,o. osed to rect the southern portal
10 the tunnel. So that Twenty.seventh
Il eet vi pass over the tunnel and
Txenty eighth street will be at the
gr lie.
Besides this the company asks the city
o provide il with a suitusble site for a
pass niger station at the corner OF Eotf
and Nineteenth streets, in East Wheel
ing, at which point it is stated that the
- owns su tabls property.
I order that the committee may fully
"a .derstand the location, / accompany
Z lis letter with plAf, and, il fonRd de-
rable, will arrsrg' Tor one of the COM
pLny's engineers To give any further in
formation that uISy be needed.
In asking the all OF the city OF Wheel
ing to this important enterprise in the
manner proposed, the Baltimore x ONO
Company does not underestimate either
the value or cost OF the concessions it
SET Ks. The company believes that the
important benefits, which the compile
ton of this short line to the seaboard and
Il the coke fields will Immediately confer
upon the city fully warrant it in expec;-
ing this assistance from the city, espe-
eially in view Of the fact that the COM
pany will be compelled to expend so
large sum in the construction OF the
lire within the corporate limits.
The proposed extension will place the
city OF Wheeling upon the Main Line OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and
secure TO it sll the advantages of being
the western terminus OF one OF the great :
Trunk Lines OF the country. The only
assistance asked OF the city is the pro.
curement OF the right of way designated
AMI the company hopes that the CON-
mittee will favorably report upon the
application.
Very respectfully yours.
--. WM. kEYsRR,