The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-08

\, X Lack Of railroad facilities ia all old aopg
in Wheeling. Everybody knows that
Wheeling might have been in better con.
dition II narrow spirit had not driven
4 tho Baltimore & Ohio road of when It
Y wanted to build liz bridge at Wheeling.
4 Ever since Wheeling bps suffered for the
5ffolly; she hes not felt kindly towards tie
4 Baltimore 4 Ohio Company and it Is not
likely that there has been any love lost.
q Alter some disappoinlments the Pttburgh,
Wheeling and Kentucky road was built.
That gave competing line to many points
and opened mp new avenues Of commuui.
cition through tho great Pennsylvania
system. '
X With comparatively little preliminary
talk the 0hio River Railroad company
3ilwsat 10 work, pushed i.y completion Wig.
orously, md in spite Of drawbacks will
4 soon DO ready 10 enter Wheeling. 1t has
4 contracted with the Pittsburgh, Wheeling
4 & Kentucky TO enter over the Bcnwood
Il extension and share the terminal facilities
4 OF that company. In order that these 10.
cilitics may BE- adequate the two companies
unite in petition Tor certain additional
I privileges.
The enc question 10 DO decided is
/ whether the public interests would be ad.
5vanced by granting this request. II may
Y be found upon due consideration that the
proposed plan ought 10 be modified in
i some rcspecta; but this would come under
the general rule Of the public welfare. In
\ this view Tho city would grant 80 much os
! may be necessary, aud no more. We
\ .should have due regard Tor the future,
h without laying blockade against 10 day.
II There has been great deal OF talk about
Z new road from the Eas. 10 connect at
by bridge across the Ohio
/: river With coming roads from the West. It
y Ia, been given out that Vanderbilt is be.
sghind this project. But in all that hos been
said there has not been 30 much OF any,
thing as OF mystery. Wheeling has been
asked, and the ISTELLlGEScEn has given
4 tue request vigorous second, that Wheel
Z ing shall do what che can to open the way
z Tor Fanderbilt's road. Persons supposed
s TO represent the Wheeling end OF the much
taiked.abou! enterprise are now preierring
requests as though the road were surely
coming. Still the eushroudirg mystery re.
mains, and Wheeling is expected to 60 on
i counting as substantial iactols in the local
railroad problem promises as vague as ever
from corporation abou. which the public
is permitted to know nothing.
The Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad com.
pany re know, the Pittsburgh, Wheeling
4 Kentucky, and the Ohio Riyer-when
I we treat with either Of these we know with
+ whom We IRE dealing. What is the lar
\ risburg 4 Western, or the Wheeling 4
4 Harrisburg, and who are the responsible
persons composing ii? What are the leas-
enable assurances, II any, that there is
substance in the scheme? What response.
BILE man in this community can cay that
Vanderbilt or any other capitalist or
I capitalists have put Or are likely to put
money in the project? President Baird,
in an interview published this morning,
goes further than anybody has yet gone.
! HIS is responsible man, but is not ready,
I or il not q: liberty, to reveal the outsiders
who are supposed to be behind all this.
!. Wheeling wants that proposed road and
Z ongh! to do all that is reasonable and with
/; in hor power to accommodate every new
I road. Bat when Wheeling is asked to
/ hold off and to make preparations for q
! coming road it would not be more than
I, courteous aud business like to give come
tangib!eassurance that this is a bona tlde
4 project, and not q mere scheme to be
: finely outlined on paper, such franchises
: aa can be secured bundled up, and the
whole offered to the highest bidder, after
tho manner q a good deal OF the railroad
ma1Mlverias Of the day.
n II the promo!era OF the so.called Van.
derbils road mean business, what need ia
there to dodge behind all sorts OF eyasiye
4 devicesr Where 30 much Of public IN
tcrest is at stake 60 much secrecy might
!: ipjufiously affect very good thing. The
ISrELLlaEScER respectfully submits to the
gentlemen who have this matter in hand,
whether tue time has not arrived to take
+ of the cover and let the people see whit
! is inside.