Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-14
THAT EXTENSION.
An ABSTRACT or TIE ORDINANCE
Passed Monday Night by Council Civ.
ing the Baltimore and Ohio Road
the Right 10 Extend through
this cit,-will 1t be
Accepted

this cit,-wih II be
Accepted
Belos We give an abridgement of the
| ordinance passed Monday night by the
second Branch OF Council, authorizing
the B. & O. company lin the event Of
their s~cceptance) to extend their road
from Thir Us, cond by way of Woods
street to O point near the Central Glass
Works and thence to Connellsvilie. Pa.
Our reporter has not had an oppor-
tuuity 10 iuteryisS any Of the officials
in this city in regard to the matter OF
! acceptance, bu. heard one or Two OF
! them say that they did not see how
under the circumstances the company
could accept it as the provisions Of the
! ordinance were onerous, preposterous
| and unprecedented. The whole matter
will. however, be submitted to Presi-
dent Garrett and the board OF directors
Immediately, and until they shall be
| heard from nothing can be said in the
matter. The ordinance ia gwen by sec
TONS as follows:
Section one grants the B. & o. Co.
permission to occupy and use for the
| purpose OF constructing and maintaining
a sinsls Iai'road track, q portion Of
| the ground now occupied by the slope
O the east side Of McColloch street,
from the north side OF the intersection OF
! Fourteenth and McColloch streets to the
north side CT the intersections OF Six
te nth aad MrColloch; the b. q U. 20.
TO construct at its expense a stone wall
along the west side Of said ground, sui
6cient TO support McColIochr street and
keep said street at its present width
from the top OF said slope TO the west
| side OF the street, the top OF said wall
u be made TO conform TO h grade oil
! McColloch street west OF the slope, Int
TO be surmounted by an iron railing,
said wall and railing to be constructed
under the supervision OF the Committee
on Streets, Alleys and Grades.
The railroad constructed on said
ground shall be parallel with the track
| OF the w, p. & b. and have its centre
/ line twelve feet distant from the centre
line OF the line OF the track OF said w,
p & B. Company. This section also
provides that the present track OF the
w., P. & B. Company shall not be NOV
I ed in either direction towards the works
OF the Central Glass company; 1t also
provides that the B. & q Company
shall furnish all the drains, walls and
sewers made necessary near its track by
reason OF the extension.
Section % gives permission to the b
& D. Company to reduce the grade OF
McCOl!och street at its intersection with
Sixteenth street not TO exceed three
feet; provided the grade OF Sixteenth
street is changed by said company 30 as
70 conform TO the grade OF McColloch
street at said intersection by grading said
Sixteenth street with q uniform slope or
grade from ALLEY q to said intersection;
McColloch street is also to be graded 10
the north and south OF said intersection,
SO ss 10 give a uniform slope or grade 10
and from said intersection, the Il & ..
Company 10 pay for the grading, which
is to be done to the satisfaction OF the
City Surveyor.
Section 3rd grants the company per-
mission to construct, maintain and use
for railroad purposes a double track
across Sixteenth street, diagonally across
McCollcch, between Sixteenth and Sew
enteenth; across Seventeenth street,
alley u and Eighteenth street, between
Wood and McColioch street; across
alley Is and alley II and into and down
Nineteenth street, the centre line be-
tween the two tracks TO be the straight
line hereinafter described, extended
from the north side OF Sixteenth street
to a point nsar Eishtocnth strert- said
straight line being the line connecting a
point on the north line OF
Fourteenth street distant in an
easterly direction from the south
east corner OF the house at the north.
. west corner OF Fourteenth and McCol-
loch streets. eighty and fifty.five hun
dredths 80 81 feet, and three and one
! half feet from where the west rail OF the
track OF the Wheeling. Pittsburgh and
Baltimore Railroad Company crosses
/ the north lire Of Fourteenth street, OF
such north line extended. with a point
distant in an easterly direction from the
southeast corner OF the stone wall at
the cemetery at the corner Of Sixteenth
! and McColloch streets, measured along
the north side OF Sixteenth street, ex-
tended seventy. one feet and distant
from the point where the west rail OF
the Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore
Railroad Company now crosses the
north side OF Sixteenth street, or such
north side extended 81 feet; and
from the said point near Eighteenth
street said centre line is a curved line
with q radius of six hundred feet until
it intersects the centre line OF Nine
tenth street. Said Baltimore aud Ohio
| Railroad is further granted by said city
permission TO construct, maintain and
use for railroad purposes on each side Of
said centre line said double tracks down
Nineteenth street, the centre line be.
tween the tracks running with the cen.
tire line OF Nineteenth street to a point
distant from the south side OF Jacob
I street, measured in a westerly direction
along said centre line Of Nineteenth
street, not more than two hundred and
fifty nor less than one hundred fee
from said last point in the centre line Of
! Nineteenth street, said centre line be
tween said tracks, and said tracks them.
selves to curve towards the southwes;
and run out of Nineteenth street across
lue bDuLu IIuc, uCIlIlCI rail- III cllDog
track. however, TO intersect the south
line Of Nineteenth street nearer to tn.
southeast corcer OF Nineteenth stree:
aud alley "F" than ten feet west thereof
or further west OF said last named cor
ner than a point on the south line a
Nineteenth street distant one hundred
and ifty feet from such corner, ant
neither rail OF either track at said last
named curve shall at any point approach
said corner nearer than ten feet. Wher
said tracks are laid at the said last named
rurys, the location thereof shall not be
thercaIleT UIIapSVI -i>L~-t the ~-nsSuI
of the Council OF said city. Said
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
is further granted by said city pernis.
sion, se far as said city can give such
permission, 10 tunnel under Twentieth
stree. at the place on said Twentieth
street where the east and west Ines OF
Eff street, extended, would inersect
said Twentieth street, said tunnels
mouth or portal not to be over twenty
seven feet in width, and furthe per-