Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-02
WHEELING AND LAKE ERIE ROAD.
Little Hopes OF Its Coming 20 Wheel
ing lille Commodore Carr isOn

Ex.Judge X II. Cochran was in the city,
yesterday, and ran against a REGISTER man
in his rambles about town. He still lives
n Toledo, whittier he went in pursuance
of his contract as attorney with the Wheel
ing and Lake Erie Railway Company, a
year or two ago, and is a director IN the
board Of that company. In answer to II
question, the Judge said:
Il see no prospect either immediate or
remote, OF this road being built on TO
Wheeling. II is in the hands Of a paraiytic
old man, and the road as well as the man
has paralysis. 1t has a large business, but
i, has neither locomotives nor the cars to
do one.f0urth the business that is offered
il. Its rolling stock is being worn out, aud
the demands upon it is so great that there
is no time to keep It in proper repair.
Construction of the road has been
stopped. Although the grading is pretty
near done and the bed almost ready
for the cross-tIes on the part between Ioar
and Bowerstown, Mr.. Garrison has ordered
all work to cease in the further construC.
ton of the road. If this fourteen miles
were completed, the Wheeling and Lake
Erie would have at BowerstOwn a good con-
neCtion with the an-Handle road.
From BowerstOwn to Martins Ferry
is IS miies-and a very profitable section OF
the road il would be, too. | an astonished
and disgusted that the road has not been
pushed through to the Ohio river at this
point. II VIM. r. Garrison had lived | am
sure matters would have been different. He
was a vigorous, b~road.minded man, in the
prime Of life, and was gradually getting
control OF the road. But his death was the
death Of everything like business libe. ali
" and enterprise in the management of
tho affairs Of thp rom many.
Have you no hopes at al that this road
will be finished to Martins Ferry,
Judge
None at all. And yet Mr.. Garrison
may take q sudden notion tomorrow TO
order the work of construction TO be re-
sumed; though | don't expect him 10. He
is governed largely by impulse, Conse-
Iuently you never can tell what he will do
in any given case Until it is done.
"In regard to the bridge across the OAio.
the Wheeling and Lake Erie Company own
the franchise and hold the permit from the
Secretary of War TO build il. Mr.. Garrison
owns the bonds and pretty much all the
stock of the railroad company and hence
controls the bridge project. There is now
10 prospect that he will build the bridge,
nor will he allow anybody else TO build ii.
For that purpose he has the river blocked,
and there is no power to remove that 'uog
IN the manReT except tue SECRETARY VI
War. He hes the power to abrogate the
authority now held by Mr.. Garrison 90
bridge the Ohio at this point on proof that
the Wheeling and Lake Erie Company did
not intend 10 avail themselves of the al.
vantsges CT their permit. But another
company could not get as favorable terms
for building a bridge in consequence OF the
more stringent regulations enacted by the
last Congress.
'Altog.ther.'' said the Judge, the out
look for a bridge and for the completion OF
the Wheeling n Lake Erie Road to Martins
Fry is not Good