Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-24
HEADLIGHT FLASHES.
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The round trip to philadelphia THIS week
Is only So, by any route.
Southern Pacific railroad express cars are
to be guarded by bloodhounds.
There are IS, 200, OoO, 900 invested in rail-
roads in the United States alone.
yanderbilts wealth, if weighed (gold
geightl would weigh ninety-three tons :, =
Charlie Adams, B. 4 o. express agent oa
the Hemp6eld, Is laid up with q sore hand.
UCol. J. A. Hunter, Assistant Master Of
the B. & o. road, was in the city yesterday.
A. C. Darrah. president of the st. Glars
Vile and Northern road, was In the city
yesterday. ,rf r-.a
To do the railroad business of this coun.
try requires 10000 locomotives, which cost
$i65, 100000.
Capt. John T. Lane and family have re-
turned home to Bellaire from an extended
Eastern trip.
Col. James A. Boyd is still busily at work
in behalf of the Hempfield extension in the
Pike Run region.
A Newark, O., gentleman is negotiating
for the purchase of the B. & .. eating
house at Benwood.
Col. T. H. B. Haase, ticket agent OF the
B. & o. of this city, returns today from
mining expedition through Colorado.
Col. Richard Cheney, southeastern trav-
cling agent Of the c., B. & Q. K. r., is e1-
pected in the city to-day or tomorrow.
Judge r. H Cochran is and has been for
the last ten days, out in Ohio in the inter
est Of the Wheeling and Lake Erie road.
Capt. K. D. Walker, telegraph operator
at Fairmont, has been In the service OF the
B. & o. Company for about thirty years.
John Gregg, B. & o. brakeman, had one
of his hands frightfully mangled by the
bumpers of two cars day or two ago, at
Bellaire.
The B. L o. does not own its own, lines
out the Hempfeld, except at Washington,
Pa The Western Union Is IN use at west
Alexander.
Captain r. T. Devries, General Agent Of
the Baltimore & Ohio, at this city, who has
been at Youngstown for . few days, will
return to-day.
The Waynesburg and Washington road
will do big business this week, on account
of the Waynesburg fair, which begins to-
morrow and lasts three days.
Capt W. G. Brown, of the Hempfeld,
represented the conductors in this State at
the National Meeting Of Railroad Conduc-
tors recently held at Milwaukee.
Mr.. z. G. Sanpssr, q wellknown railroad
man, has been appointed travelling engineer
between White Sulphur Springs and Lex.
ington, Va, Chesapeake and Ohio road.
The Chesapeake and Ohio road is placing
new signs'at its stations between Newport
News, Va, and Lexington, KY. Each one
notes the distance between points named.
John Moore, one of the recently decapi-
tated conductors on the Central Ohio, was
in the B. & o. service for more than TWEEN
ey-five years, having become a conductor
in 1855.
General G. A. Jones, Of Mt Vernon. o.,
is in the city, the guest of VIVA. s. Goshorn.
Gen. Jones is an old railroad man, having
been prominently connected with several
Ohio roads.
The General Manager of the Chesapeake
and Ohio road has informed the Board of
Directors of the Garfield Monument Fair
that his company will sell tickets at re
duced rates.
William Hutchinson and John McKim
fell from a trestle near Cambridge, Ohio, a
day or two ago, Hutchinson receiving fatal
injuries. They were engaged in preparing
the structure.
The freight business between the Chesa-
peake and Ohio add Scioto Valley roads is
Increasing rapidly, and should it continue
it will compel the placing of a double crew
to keep up the transfer.
Frank Bennett has Koch's place as con-
ductOr on the b. & o. from Columbus to
and John Francis has MitchelPs
place from GAINESVILLE to Wheeling. Both
are excellent gentlemen.
The B. & o. Railroad Company has under
the erection of bridge over
its tracks in Bellaire, connecting the two
ends of Belmont street, the principal
of Bellaire.
The bridge over the Monongahela river
at BellevernOn, Pa, for the Hempfeld eX-
tension will pass over the town in a man
ner similar to that of the B. & o. bridges
ut Bellaire and Parkersburg.
The new and revised time table of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie road, from Toledo
to Marietta, and from Toledo TO the present
point of the road, has been hand
ed to US by Judge R. H. Cochran.
On Sunday VIM. Franklin, Master Of
B. & o. Trans-0hio divis.
ion, W. E. Reppet, Western Travelling
agent, and Jerry Flynn, Trans-0hio man
ager of b. & o. telegraph, were in the city.
The B. & o. buildings on the South Side
in this city are in wretched state OF dilapi-
dation, and we are informed that no re-
pairs will be made as the company con-
template change in the situation of these
buildings.
Business has increased to an astonishing
extent on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh
road since the resumption OF work in the
mills, and it is difficult to obtain cars suffi-
Gent to accommodate the demands for
freight shipments.
Travel over both the B. & o. and Penn
sylvania. roads from Ohio and this State to
the Bi.Centennial celebration at -Philadsl-
phia this week promises to be very large,
the low rates enabling many to take their
first tip since the Centennial, in 1876.
Mr.. W. A Mclaughlin, of the General
Freight Office, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
road, Pittsburgh, and formerly of the Bal
has been in Bellsire for a few days, the
guest Of his brother-in-law, Capt. John T.
Lane.
Those having the work of extending the
"Pwiky" to Benwood in charge are prose-
cutting it with the utmost vigor, and they
think that much of it will be done within
the next few weeks. 1t is very likely that
trains will be running over it by January
lst, 1888.
The survey by the South Pennsylvania
Company from Claysville, Pa, to Wheel
ing has been completed. 1t parallels the
almost to Wheeling If the line
is built it will pass through the large brick
of Judge James R. Bell at West
just north of the W., P. & B.
station.
The semi-annuai change in the B. & o.
time table will occur in about two weeks
1t it said that but few changes will be made,
the only one at present contemplated be.
ing the change of the time of the departure
Of train No. s, from this city to Chicago
Instead Of leaving at l 80 P. NJ. it will leave
at PAS p. N.
The St. Clsirsville and Northern road isdo-
inS very satisfactory business, and antici.
pate a large increase in the near future. A
new station house for the accommodation
Of the passengers, and also for the use OF
officers, is going up at st. C.airs-
Vile. The road runs trains through to
Bridgeport twice q day.
w. C. King, Esq, who has been for many
years B. & D. agent Washington, Pa, win
likely take charge of the Washington end
Of the Pttsburg Southern road. Mr.. King
is one of the best railroad men in the en-
ploy of the b. & o. company. He was for
fifteen or twenty years one Of the most &C
tive managers Of the Hemp6eld road.
A gentleman who takes great interest
he nj Of Ii Dan-..l-.