Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-24
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Correspondence of the Register.
WESTON, w. W., October 2l.
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Coming up from Grafton q few days
since fell in with an intelligent railroad
official who predicted the rejection, since
declared, by the B. & o. r. r. Company
OF the ordinance recently passed by the
City Council of Wheeling, prescribing
the terms on which its proposed Con-
nsllsyille extension Of the company
should pass through your city. One OF
the most serious drawbacks to its ac-
ceptance seems to have been the clause
in the ordinance requiring the consent
of the Whitaker Iron Works to the
passage Of the extension through its ter
ritory, thus taking away from the b &
0. Company the opportunity to con-
denim a right OF way which would have
been within its reach but for
this particular stipulation. lnQuiring
into the reasons which made a peacable
agreement between the Whittskers and
the road unlikely, l found that fsud
as broad and deep as that OF the Mon
tsgues and Capulets stood
In the Way of Amicable Adjustment.
The story runs that when Mr.. George
w. Whitaker was director OF one OF
the B. e. D. lines, as well as an active
iron manufacturer, he bought piece
of property near Benwood which he
understood the road wanted for track
purposes, and held it at an advance
when the company sought TO acquire il.
President Garrett, who has long men,
ory and who, if he had lived in DR..
Johnson's time would have
won the esteem OF that
worthy as being a good hster, never
forgot what he considered sn unpar-
donable ohense. He would neither buy
the land nor forgive the purchaser, and
the bad blood engendered by the trans
action was sutiicientto prevent him from
accepting any ordinance which required
him to make terms with his former as
sistant.
From railroad extensions the conver-
sation shifted to railroad accidents, and
the policy of the road in discharging
nearly all the train hands connected with
thedlsastrous Thornton collision was
talked over. was underline impression
that conductor was the supreme au-
thority 80 far as the management OF his
train when running was concerned, and
| wondered at the suspension OF the
engineers, whom thought were
Required to Obey all Orders
from the gentleman with the punch, and
were only held accountable for disobey.
ing them"
Your impression is wrong" sail my
int NJ sch hn
advices from the dispatchers that are re-
ceived by the conductor. They are made
Will" the the third is retained in the Office.
Now, suppose an engineer doubts his
ability to make point in time to avoid
a collision. He has the right to refuse
to go on, although ordered to do 30 by
the conductor. and can side-track the
train in opposition to the conductors
directions. The conductor, of course,
has the same right, and either of them
can control the other, each being held
responsible for any error OF judgment.
In the Thornton case the man most
blamed labored under the disadvantage
OF recent promotion, and there is always
something about the transfer of even
the most careful man to the new place
which embarrasses him until he gets
the hang Of
His New Duties
The added responsibility and the change
OF work are very apt to make him for
get something until he gets accu ustomed
to both"
The eastbouud trains were pretty we'll
filled with passengers returning from the
West Virginia Fair and Exposition, and
most OF them expressed themselves as
being very much pleased with the ini-
itial exhibition of the association.
At Grafton, which has been cursed by
every traveller who ever was allowed
twenty minutes to surfeit himself on
rumpsteaks and cold potatoes, there is
some improvement in the eating house.
The company has changed its superin-
tendents frequently of late years, and
now has a jolly Irish gentleman in
charge who looks so fat and hearty as
to suggest the thought that he boards
outside of his own commissarY.
Mountain Lake Park.
At Clarksburg met ex-senator Bish-
| op, OF Preston caunty, who spoke very
encouragingly OF the new Mountain
Lake Park project, recently undertaken
by some Wheeling capitalists and cler-
gvmen. Mr.. II. p. McGregor, who had
recently visitsd the scene Of operations,
midway between Oakland and Deer
Park, also gave a very satisfactory &C
count OF tho progress made. The en-
gineer who furnished plans for D:uid
Hill Park at Baltimore has been em.
pIoyed to furnish a plat OF the work as
it will appear when complete, and from
which the drives, rambles and orna.
mental gardening can be laid out. 1t is
probable that two lakes will be made
one being formed by damming the
Youghiogheny, and the o,her
by using spring OF un'
usual size and beauty that comes in
farther from tie railroad. The company
vii have S.j, 40 to spend on the ground
betw EN- this time and the beginning o
next season, it's capital stock OF Sl5, 5,00C
having been paid in, and some Sl0,0OC
having been already realized from the
sale OF one hundred cottage sites. As tc
the future prospects, whila they NAV bs
good deal subject 10 the csprices o
that portion of the public which con
Germs itself especially over the matter o
summer homes, they can hardly result
in disappointment.
Tne Religious Element
is expected to furnish the backbone anC
direction of the enterprise, but due pro
vision is to be made for the comfort o
the ungo1ly, and with nearly
a thousand acres OF glad,
and hillside, tempered by the breeze'
and refreshed by the clear streams o
the Alleghenies, there is no reason VIII!
a mountain ChsutaHQua cannot DO es
tsblished here in West Virginia, which
will prove even more popular than 1T
lower level neighbor in New York. Al
it is, there seems to be a marked ten
dency for the past two seasons, ever
among summer travellers who live in
land, and who would naturally be ex
pected to seek the seashore with it
complete change Of air, diet and sur
roundings, to give the preference +
mountain resorts. At the sesshor
there are breezes and breezes. That
70 say there are winds which blow frou
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