Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-15
General Headlight Flashes.

GenerAI heauIIGnt y ihsues.
What has become of the Hempfeli ex.
tension to Connellsyilie?
The Ohio river road is now under con
tract. This time next year trains will b.
running to Parkersburg.
Why doesn't some enterprising individ
ual start restaurant at Steubenyille juno
ton. There's millions in it.
A force of workmen will shortly be put or
the Hempfeld to get it in condition FOL
through trains to Pittsburgh.
The annual meeting of the stockholder'
of the p, w. 4 X. will be held on March
q. The stock of Ohio county will be repre-
scented by Mr.. Commissioner Woods.
1t wouldn't hurt the railroad agent al
Wellsburg to be little more complacerfl
when passengers make polite inquiries OIL
him.
The p, ". & X. extension force is work.
ing in Marshall county. The track ha:
been laid to the lower end OF the Belmont
mill.
Ed. Redman, for several years the say
newsboy on the Pewiky. has resigned and
gone to school, and Frank Wheat succeeds
him.
President Hubbard, of the P. w. & X
road, has ready his annual report TO be
submitted to the general meeting week
after next.
Passenger trains on the P. W. & K. are
now in charge OF two Jakes. Capt. Jake
Hammond punches tickets and Engineer
Jake Arbaugh holds the throttle.
The p, w. & X. company is putting up
fine station at Beach Bottom. Quite a
number of handsome yillos are going up
there, and there is some talk Of calling the
station Alton.
The Pewiky is doing q good business.
The earnings of 1882 are about the same as
1881, but the earnings OF January and Feb.
ruary OF this year are in excess Of the same
months last year.
A brand new engine, No. lis, has been
put on the Pewiky. 1t is one OF the very
best make and sometimes outruns the
wind. Jake Arbsugh is at the throttle aud
cleyerer roadsman never blew whistle.
Some dastardly scamp Whitfield and
SCARED the outside of the passenger coach
on the W. & w. K. K. q short time since,
and Superintendent Bowers was hopping
mad about it, and will give nice little re.
ward for the detection and punishment oil
the offender.-AesnngT.
There is no immediate prospect OF the
completion OF the w. 4 L. Z. TO Wheeling
from Bowerston. II the building OF the
union bridge and the coming of the South
Pennsylvania hang on this, We are left.
Then will the Cincinnati, Wheeling and
New York and the Mt. Vernon, Coshocton
and Wheeling roads come?
The gross earnings OF the Waynesburg
and Washington Railroad for the month OF
February amounted to $2,8s0.s5, or q little
over one hundred dollars per day for each
day in the month, Sundays included. This
is about three hundred dollars more than
the road earned during the corresponding
single cent difference 10 the amount re.
ceiyed for passenger traffic and that taken
in for freight carrying.
The surveys for the new transfer inclines
for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad n
Glenw wood and at Hays Station, on the Cd
posite side OF the Monographs river, have
been completed under the direction oil
Sigismund Loew, engineer. As sson a
the weather will permit. the work of con.
struction will commence. The new trans.
fer is intended to connect the main line
with the branch now being constructed Or
Streets Run, and sGill be used until the
contemplated bridge over the Monongaheia,
above Glen wood, Is completed.
We saw our old friend Capt. w. G.
Brown, late the popular conductor on the
W., p. Il B. road, on Saturday last, and b,
informed rs Of having struck good posi-
ton, as agent Of the Adams Express Com
pany. His run will be from Pittsburgh u
Columbus on the Panhandle road. Hi
friends, OF whom he bad host are glad n