The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-08
THE PRESIDENTpSFSAYi
CONCERNING The W Y & 4. !eAlLRoAr
History Of the i0tsAnlri.ior,f aad i!al Prtssht
/ Status-its Proposition TO r., n. 4 KI., and q
r. Why It Was Anon mous-The CitI = Gilt;
fsrlns Opportunity, ifShS Stia Il.

E Areportsr OF the 1NrELLleENcER called on
DR.. George Baird last night, aud asked him
some questions about tho status OF the pro.
posed Wheeling q Harrisburg Railroad,
what itsesks at the hands Of the city, who ID
backing II end tho prospects OF Its constru:!
ton. DR.. Baird Is nominally President Of
this read, and In unuwer to inquiries he ex.
plaiacd the Status and organization Of The
company. Whom Vanderbilt first pro jacted
h'sHouth Pennsylvania road, his pei pro- &C!
was through east and west iiuo via Wheel
Ing, crossing the Ohio river here. Pittsburgh
seoing the advantage this would give Wheel!
Ing, bacazas JEALOUS OF her, and Hus.e,ter and
other Smoky City capitalists put enough
money Into the road to influence tho pre- lee
tors to abandon their original idfa ard stot
at the Yohghiogheny river, there diyettlue
their line 70 Pittsburgh. Z. l3fB.,i'i
There wee other persons, however, who
were net willing to see plan which prom
ised 80 much abandoned, and they took ur
the old route, aud now propose to build
road TO this city. When the prospects were
that the Wheeling T. Lake Erie road would
not come nearer TO Wheeling than BowerE.
town, Judge 0ichran and, Others, among
them DR.. Baird, took out a. chdrter for .tl,e
Wheeling & Harrisburg railroad. The men
who are now interested In, the road from The
Youghiogheny 10 Wheeling proposed 10 till
corporation that It should tranaier IL chdftei
10 them, they promising 10 build the road
and construct bridge over the river hsre.S+
Tho charler requires that two o! tho diree,
tors Of the road snail reside inWest Virginia
4 II M nrtSn ~ -
lar meeting Of the stockholders! heretort
Dr.. Baird aud B. W. Peterson reniaiI Is b..
rectord OF tbs company, and the Doctor a:
President, until the next annual meeting
early In March, when the eastern capitalist,
will take fall charge OF the scheme. The u,
ecutlye Committee Ii already composed ex
clusivsly OF eastern ulen. M 80 81
TIRE ANONYMOUS rRcrjsAi.
This led up to the proposal OF the II. 4
W. road to the Pswiky, and thu Doctor wa
asked about the anonymous ptop3ssi Of hi.
| company presented at the recent meeting O
the Board Of Public Works. .3Ss
"speaklGg about that meeting" said tk!
Doctor, "and the statement made by ME t.
reporters that 1t wss private, want to 80,
right here that It was st the instance OF thi
+, W: Il Ky officials TINT did so. And III,
next day Nj. Barr,ita attorney, came to III,
Office Of tho Board Of Public Works IN,
raised row because somebody had given
reporters o little information.
NOW about that proposition. To show
YOU what time we had 10 consider The matter
l meyer knew of that meeting OF the Boa,t
myself until lato In tho day on which 1t va
held. Il was not called until about noon
aud wes held at tho instance OF the PeRiky
Company. We has no time 10 prepare any
Thing. We cocclrd.d 10 submit that propc
stion, bu. I az President Of the roai am *
pressly prohibited from signing any Gocc
ment without the snthoriiy OF The Exscutiy,
Committee. Mr.-W:. 2. Hubbard, IS atlor
ney, did not feel like taking 1t npon himsel
to sign It. Mr.. Peterson, Us engineer, coult
notsign It, aud that IVES all the Officers Of tht
company hare. 81 you geo we were obliged
to submit II without signature, II al u.l.nS {
TENOR oF THE pEoro:lTI ". Il \
The Doctor stated further thst the state
ment in yea'etday's 1NTELL1GEscER tha. thi
proposal sought virtually 10 lake tho contro
Of Ito track from the Pittsburgh, Wheeling 4
Kentucky Company, was no. strictly All
not being specific enough. The propositor
IN brief, he SAID, was that The Wheeling (
Harrisburg road should buy irom2fh
Pewiky a strip OF ground ,slong the latte,
compsny's track, plying for ita fair price
and Oh 1t lay track parallel to that ri HI
Pewiky, thus making a double track; III
Mr. Becker, Chief Engineer OF tire Piitsburri,
Cincinnati & ST. Louis road, admitted Itsth,
board OF Public Works meeting, would in
crease The capacity Of the track skiold, /
was then proposed that tho two roads shoul,
! make % arrangement with the city, b,
which the three parties should appoint
yard master, to be paid by the Companies
and 10. 20 control the tracks that each com
pany using them should have fair show. :,
Look a: It yourself" said Dr.. Baird, viii
some esrnestnoss. "Do you suppose for :
minute that tho Pewiky road would fair|,
observe the city ordinance requiring it II
give other roads j,int use OF its track. How
easy it would be for 1t to crowd It's tracks a
that the Wheeling 4 Harrisburg road could
not get upon them with car from i.a bridge
"And talking about the good fsith will
which tho Pewiky proposes to observe tia
ordinance, Its very agreement with the Rive,
road, printed i'll the INTELLiGEHcER thi,
morning, is in violation of the terms OF thai
ordinance, and how Col. White, attorney 10,
the River road, ever came 10 allow the WOO
70 Be pulled over his eyes, cannot imagine
See, the ordinance guarantees all oominr
roads tho right to use the Pewiky tracks and
depot; yetthe River road makes a co3treei
with the Pan. Handle by which the latter can
kick her out ut any time on ninety days' no
tice." ;n, - :. -.
'j--yl WHAT THE PETlEY IL AFTER. 1s