Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-25
RAILROAD RAcKETS.
News and Gossip Of the Double
Track.
Principally Of the Lines Near About Us ia
West Virginia and Ohio, and a
Lille General Talk.

yesterday from Youngstown, o.
The winter schedule on the Chesapeake
and Ohio road has gone into effect.
The B, & o. Company is extending its
telegraph system through the South.
The B.&O. and w. & w. roads have
been selling tickets to the WaynesburS
fair for 50 the round trip.
The Norfolk ard Western road viii be
extended to Hinton, Summers county, thi:
state, before many months.
Truck laying on the Davis Greek road,
near Charleston, is going on very rapidly,
and trains will soon be running. -sr
Mason's efforts in behalf of a railroad for
Barbour county are what carried that coun'
~ for him at the recent election.
Tire Cincinnati Eastern is being pushed
towards Portsmouth at a Satisfactory rae
of progress, and will be there this winter
Mr.. c. p. Huntington has under consid-
Grafton a project to double track bio Chesa
apeake and Ohio road AS soon as it can be
done.
Tom Burke, who has been in charge Of
the B. & o. ticket Office ror some weeks,
returns to-day to his office in the freight
building.
The rapidity o. track laying on both the
Ohio Central and the Norfolk and Western
roads, is closing up the gap remaining be
tween them.
Col. T. H. B Haase returned yesterday
from Colorado. IL is more than likely that
he will locate either in thai State or in Ari
IONA in the near future.
George G. Beltzhooyer. travelling pas-en.
ger agent p, @. & st. L. rod, has removed
to Evansville, o., from Pittsburgh, where
be now has his headquarters.
The first passenger train on tie Mckee
plate road, passed out from Buffalo on
Monday. The passenger coaches are sad
to be the finest in the country.
A general inspection of railroads is going
on now throughout the country, in orae- to
ascertain what is pece' sary for the safe
operation of roads for the winter.
Work will soon begin ON both the rail
rold bridges at Charleston. One Tor the
Ohio Central road over the Elk, and the
other over the Kanawha for the Chesapeake
and Ohio road.
The shipments Of coal over the Tuscara.
was road Just now are something wonder
full. All the cars that can be obS-'ped are
in use, and the company IS advertising
broadcast for more miners.
II is said that the Penr sylyania railroad
is negotiating for the purchase o. the Ma
tonal Hotel at Washington. D. c., with
view OF erecting hotel upon the site that
VII rival the Grand Hotel at Paris.
The P. c. & st. L. has Just placed upon
the Wheeling extension two elegant new
passenger coaches, equal to any OF those
in use by the Pennsylvania company. a
rev engine will likely be put on shortly.
General John Bradshaw, who was master
Of the B. & D. road for many years and has
at present control of the roSd and bridges
on II IS side o: the Ohio, lives near Grafton
in large substantial house on u large farm.
w. F. Stark, for long time Superintend'
emit o. the Little Miami division OF the =.
c. & st. L. road, has been appointed Assist
ant Superintendent of portion o. the c.
H. & ID. road, with headquartersat Dayton.
There is a big freight blockade at Pitts,
burgh, several miles Of cars being backed
upon side tracks east OF the Union depot,
on the Pennsylvania road. President Roberts
was in Pittsburgh on Saturday last with
reference 20 a RELIEF.
Can't. George Whitesedryer, Of Grafton.
who has been for many years connected
with the 4. & o. road in the construction
department, is now IN the employ of John
w. Garrett at Baltimore, having charge OF
MS JGdl estate DuSlllcSN lISlS.
The Ohio Central road is about completed
from Toledo TO Pomeroy, from the lake to
the river, and it only requires the compile
tioD Of the bridge across the river al p.
Pleasant to run unbrOken trains into this
State from Ohio and the great West.
The c., T. v w. agents inform us
that the freight and passenger business ,oi
that roSd has been much more satisfactory
this year than it has at any time in its his
tory, and that q continuation OF good times
will make something out of the road yet.
Henry Monett, formerly Assistant Cen
eral Ticket Agent of the Pennsylvania Co.
is now General Ticket and Passenger Agent
of the Nickel Plate Mr.. Monet is we'll
known in this city. He was most recently
General Manager of the ohio State Journal.
The contracts for the construction OF the
road for the Ohio Central Company, be-
tween Kanawha COurt House and kanawhd
Falls, will be awarded within lew days,
and the road will be built shortly after
wards.
Some extensive improvements will he
made on the Quincy Narrow Gauge Road
in Belmont county, as soon rs the arrange
ments can be made. This roSd is one of
the best ballasted little roads in the Coun.
try, and runs through very picturesque
locality.
Grafton appears to be future place o:
residence for b. 4 o. r. K. officials. Among
those who live there are Col. J. A. Hunter,
Assistant NJ. of r., Arthur Sinsel, Superin-
teRdent of Bridges. John Bradshaw, Cen
smaller dignitaries.
The gentlemen who have leased the St.
ClairSVille and Northern Road have also
f1xrl oil hal
way between Barton and ST. ClairSville. aud
will IS soon as practicable, proceed to open
il up. and place the coIl. which is OF a
Superior quality upon the market.
1t is reported that on the completion of
tie Ohio Central road that not only will
that road run trains to Charleston, but that
the Hooking Valley will also run trains
through 10 The same place. IL looks now
Us il Charleston would be q railroad center
of some magnitude ii The near future.
1t is reported that among other poSsibili-
ties there is one that the South Pennsyl-
yania ro4d is contemplating the construc-
ton of a bridge over the Ohio river at
Wellsburg to Brilliant, Jefferson county.
In that event the Wheeling ana Lake Erie
road might not come to Martins Ferry.
j. n. Mccullough, first vice president;
Thomas ID. Messler, third vice president
Hon. j. L. Brown, general counsel; Is. lay
'or, superintendent; NJ. J. Becker, chief
engineer; John McCrea, general manager,
all OF the p, c. & st. L. road, have gone
west and south in an inspecting tour OF the
road.
The election Of General A. J. Warner to
Congress from the Marietta, o., district is
likely to cripple the pro,cct of Building
the road between Belll're and Marietta
permanently. There is Strong boDe, how
ever, that the indefaticable enterprise Of
Bellaire will alone and unIided take it up
and put it through.
The Chesapeake and Ohio road will soon
extend from Newport News, Va, TO Mem
phis, Tenn, 4 distance of 970 miles, all
under one management aud it requires
only q connection between Memphis and
the present terminus of the Southern Pa
ciic 10 give Huntington a continuous road
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, the
longest road in the world under one MAS
control. ,s...,.
Steubenviile people are trying to make
up scheme that has Tor its object the con-
stTuctiOn. of street railway from Mingo, a
mile or two below the city to Alkanua,