The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-10
SOMETHING, AT LAST,
IN THEwAYo OF AcrIoN BY The CITY
On the Ilivtr Road and reuih,'I pstiioa-A Plan
MT Upon Which the Jolus Committee Agrees
to ilscommsnd TO CauaeI. to s.eure to
tho Roads More Accommodation,

The joint meeting OF the Council Commit.
tees on Railroads and Ordinances, held at
the City Building last evening, was a very
large and interesting one. Col. Wilkinson
presided, and Mts,,s. q. o. Smith, Hall,
Stanley, Happy, Work, Miller, McFaddep,
Peterson and Lat, members Of the commit
tees, were present. In addition, ATTORNEYS
Hubbard and Caldwell, and Surveyor Peter.
son, OF the Wheeling Il Harrisburg, Vice
President Thompson, Superintendent
Howard and Attorney White, Of the Ohio
River Road, Engineer NJ. q. Becker, OF the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati 4 NJ. Louis, Secretary
J. NJ. Belleville, Attorney Barr nnd'President
Hubbard, OF the Pittsburgh, Wheeling& Ken.
lucky. aud City Surveyor Hogs and solici.
tor Erskino were also present. The meet.
Ing was called to order about s O'Clock and
considerable time lost by o wranple beiwetn
thu chairman aud the committee az 10 what
the committee wa9 called for. AT the meat
Ing last Monday night certain changes In The
proposed plan Of the Pittsburgh, Wheeliug&
Kentucky and OIio River roads for adli-
tional depot md track room we're agreed
upon, and 1t was ordered that the Solicitor
ba notified OF the same aud that he draw nm
an ordinance Incorporating them, and TINT
the committees meet again Friday night 10
examine tho ordinance and hear what the
various rouds might have 10 cay regarding 1t.
IN chairman got that meeting confused
with a meeting Of the Railroad Committee
on the b. & O.'s petition, and wrongly in.
formed the Solicitor, 90 that insttad Of hhy.
Ing the p, W. Il Ky. ordinance drawn I'm
the Solicitor. had one for the B. l. 0, Several
warm tiliD between the members was the re-.
suit Of this bungle.
y A PLAN PROPOSED.
II was stated 10 the railroad men, howeyer'
that the idea Of the committee In brief was
to move the proposed depot ten feet 10 The
east, and they were asked to express them.
sclves. Mr.. Howard referred to the biz busi.
ne9s tha: would naturally bs done by the
Ohio River road, and it would be crampsd
even II itwere granted Whist was asked; bul
rs there WAS an evident intention
To- move the west spur track, in
10 feet ho asked that tho depot building be-
moved In only three feet and that tho twenty.
five loot driveway between tho depot and Inc
west spur track DO reduced seven feet: In that
way the spur track would be moved len feei
east andit would also allow the Companies to
put down their contemplated spur track be.
tween the main track and the depot, which
the committees plan would not. Engineer
Becker favored this change and atated at ihs
same time the north abutmsat OF the bridge
could bs moved ten fee: east, Us proposed by
the committees.
There appeared to be no o Election to this
nlan. Mr.. VIZ. Hubbard, however, raised
th, point that tho city could not r-ant t lie
roads the ground asked for on the south slde
OF the creek for the abutmen. Of the new
| l1piflUa rpt n far, W. 81, - ...l
present in litigation. This was news TO The
committee. 1t appears that when the r, w,
& ny. undertook to push ito way across tho
creek several yea's ago and WIS stopped hy
the 3. &O., 1t instituted condemnation prc.
cesdlngs 10 tho Sla!e courts and won It's case,
The B. e. o appealed 10 the G.. s. Supreme
Court, and the case ia to come up next O,to.
ber. The strip In litigation Is 1870 feet wide
and runs along the river bank q shors diE.
tancei it Is where the b. 10. threw lis trest!e
| ont into tho river in 1879. :,