Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-20
QUIETLY REFERRED.
The 3. & o. Proposition Goes to
Committee
At Council, Last Night. With Few Rid
es-New Fire Engiae-dinor Mat
tiers Brought Up Before
Council.

The fact that the Baltimore & Ohio prop
osition to the city would come up In the
Council, last night, drew out q large at
tendance and at the second roll-call Ia the
Second Branch, every member but Grosan
and Rosenberg answered his name. The
nature of the proposition is perhaps well
known, but to bring it fresh 10 the minds
OF cur readers, it is reproduced, as follows;
THE BALTIMORE OHIO AND PROPOSITION.
To the Honorable Mayor and Council Of ne
City Of WheeIing:
Your petitioner, the Baltimore Il Ohio
Railroad Company, desires to discontinue
lis present connection through Sixteenth
street with the road of the Wheeling, Pitts.
burg 4 Baltimore Railroad Company, and
70 substitute therefore another connection
with the road of said Wheeling, Pitts
burg & Baltimore Railroad Company
along a line running from point IN
Water street near Twenty. first street, to
a psint near the intersection OF Baltimore
and Walnut streets, in East wheeling.
Accom- panying this petition are map
ard profile showing the exact location
and grade throughout of the route de-
scribed by your petitioner. 1t is the in
IGNITION of your petitioner, should 1t o.
tain the necessary permission, TO con-
struct q double track road, for winch o
rjebt Of way twenty-six feet IN width
will be necessary.
Your petitioner therefore prays your
honorable body that an ordinance may be
passed granting to your petitioner, so lar
as YOU can lawfully grant the same, the
permission to construct, maintain and
operate railroad of the kind and on the
route indicated above. Besides being will
ing, should such action be taken. to sur
render its present rights in Sixteenth
street, your petitioner is also willing that
any proper. limitations and restrictions
usy be made which may be necessary TO
secure the city sgainst any abuse OF the
rights which may be granted.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
nenyby ROBERT GARRETT,
President pro tenn.
There was no apparent desire to provoke
any discussion, at this time, and members
seemed satisfied for the present, TO allow
the matter to go 20 the committee. Mr..
McFadden offered the following:
Resolved, That the railroad business be
ref. rred TO the Committee on Railroads
az d they be authorized TO employ cOmpe'
tent engineer to assist them in such sur
yCys as they may require, such engineer
city, or seeking TO enterit.
The last part OF this, in relation to dis
interested engineer, emanated with Or.
Jepson and was good idea. The resnlu:
ton was adopted. Mr. Stanley then offered
the following:
OFF OF SEVENTEENTH.
Resolved, That, in the event OF the petit
ii, IL of The B. d o. Railroad Company be-
Irg granted by the Council, the said rail
rad company shall, upon the completion
Of tie said proposed new road, take up
and remove all the tracks on Sixteenth,
Seventeenth and go much OF Baltimore
street as is not included in said proposed
new route.
The following petition was also read In
this connection:
AGAIN SEVENTEENTH.
The petition Of the undersigned proper
ty owners and residents OF Seventeenth
and adjoining streets in the City OF
y heeling respectfully requests you, in
decline with the proposed change Of loca.
ton of the B. e. o. Road, to compel the
company to remove its track entirely from
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. Lo-
Gated as it is at present, said railway is q
constant source of nuisance and damage
on much-traveled streets, and also subj ects
the property on said street to permanent
dc rreCiation in value.
Signed by sixty-tive persons.
Under the resolution, everything per.
tanning to the railroad question was re-
hIred to the committee.