Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-04
$4,000 DAMAGES
Asked by Pat Daily from the p,
C. & st. 1. Co.
For His Accident at Short Creek-General
Railway News Notes-Building
and Industrial Matters
Generally.

Yesterday Mr.. Patrick Daily, through his
attorney, Mr.. John o. Pendleton, brought
q suit in the Circuit Court against the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and st. Louis Rail
way Company for $4,000 damages.
II will be remembered that some time
in May Mr.. DAILY was badly hurt bya TALL
from the platform of the train near Short
Creek, Brooke county. Mr.. DAILY claims
! that his accident was due to negligence on
the part of the company. and believes that
he is entitled to compensation from it.
| He will probably be a cripple for life, as
his injuries seem TO be Of permanent
| character.
Bsggagemaster John L. Neeley, of the p,
W. & Ky, returned yesterday from an eX-
| tended trip through the west and north
west. On his way down he stopped at tine
camp of the "Muldoon Picnic fishing club
and brought home fine string of tish ana
| a 16 pound turtle. Jack is great tavorlte
| along the line, and will be welcomed home.
Capt Thos. II. B: Haase, OF the b. ",
reports an unusually large sale OF tickets to
watering places.
Col. Husemen, of the P, C. & st. L., says
! that while the passenger traffic is brisk,
! the annual rush of emigrants toward the
west has been about finished. :,
There is a tunnel on the Chesapeake and
| Ohio road, near Clifton Forge, through
which a train is nine minutes in passing.
| This rather beats the "hole" at Tunnelton.
Heavy shipments of cattle to the East
are anticipated shortly by railroad man.
ayers.
A car accountant of a prominent road
says that the present equipment OF railroads
| in this country is far in excess OF the need.
| Many great roads report the average mile
| age Of each car at only fifteen or twenty
miles daily.
The surveys over the proposed route Of
the South Pennsylvania Railroad between
Harrisburg Pa, and Wheeling, West vir.
ginia, via Bedford and Somerset counties,
have been completed. The engineers are
now prospecting for a route to the Fayette
county coal and iron region Telegraph.
Who gets the most out OF the railways,
the bloated capitalists who have impudence
to build them, or the downtrodden people
who ride on them and ship by them at as
tonishingly cheap rates and the vast army
of men, women and children whom they
support? Let us see. In round numbers
in 1881, the railways earned $125, 3OOOO
they paid out for working expenses, Sii9,-
1000; the interest on the bonds was,
in dividends, $93, 3OO,O 900. What farmer,
out Of every 500 which he received for his
crops pays his laborers $62, the holders OF
his mortgage ST., puts into other necessary
OUTLAWS So, and keeps only $l2 for his capt.
tai, labor and risk? Not one.-Rdii'cag
.ige.
In the building line, the same State of
affairs exists here as in Pittsburg. accord
ing to one of its papers: 1t seems more
- - r,hil a will ha M
building boom in this city this fall and
winter, there will be satisfactory degree
of activity and an increase as compared
with last spring, or with operations year
ago.
Early during the present season the state
of labor, as we'll as of the material market
was most unsettled one. Workmen dur
ing the winter and spring, held meetings,
and in most cases decided to ask an In
csease of from 20 to fifty per cent. Mater
ial, brick lumber, &c, advanced steadily
and the prices of the future were regarded
as an unknown quantity.
ut was this state OF affairs, said build
er to-day, "that compelled contractors to
add wide margin for contingencies in
making estimates. They could not posi-
bly, foretel what their work or their
bricks or lumber was going to cost them
The stone masOns at work on the foun-
uatlOn IOT tne new duulllOu W OCuIluludCI
brewery, expect to finish their part OF the
contract in very few days. This depart
ment when completed, will comprise on
the first floor washing rooms, on the second
two large and finely furnished offices, and
the third will be used as a surplus ware
room.
All repairs at the Upper Riverside mill
have been completed and the departments
are ready to start on days notice. Their
nail factory, which is on the river bank
has received several important improve.
ments such as a well and q good set OF
wagon scales, both Of which have been need
ed for some time.
The Creek MILL which has been off for
the past two days, on account OF leak IN
the boiler, will resume work again this
morning
The Improvements at tn Belmont Mill
are about completed.
Mayor Egerter the manager OF the Sugar
Refinery, left for st. Louis the other day on
a business trip. The refinery cannot, at
its present capacity, fill the orders that are
pouring in every day, and the managers
are doing everything in their power to
double its present capacity.
Bells foundry is still off There is but
small prospect of its starting up before the
first Of September.
The Centre and Sweeney 4 Sons found
ries are both doing very large business,
and the outlook for them is very enCOur-
aging.