Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-12
MARTINS FERRY.

of cur town have been alternately thrown
into ecstseies or plunged into the depth Of
DESPAIR Just as the prospects Of new rsil.
to Il EN-. But during the psat few months
railroad talk among our gossipers has been
on The decline, and hard times, poverty,
theft and politics have gradually taken its
place. A few months ago partial revival
oftle railroad fever was caused by the c.
i p. p esentirg to Council q
men orial asking for the right to
extend their switch down Wst=r
80 so as to reach the usuutactories loca-
led on the lower end Of that thorougntsre.
This petition was referred to the Com mitsse
on Streets, who returned it, expressed tn If
objection to it and recommended that tee
railroad company be allowed to build 9
trtstle along the river bank. The company
could not see the plsusibility of this scheme
snd it has apparently been dropped. Bot
this petition has brought out one or two 9TH
er facts. Thu South Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad Company have secured the right
of way almost into town, and to show their
intention OF coming here, K. 81. Cochran,
President Of the above named road addressed
a letter to o. r. Wood, of this place, one of
the directors OF the road, which be ends with
the following: please ask Council to reserve
in any ordinance it may pass every proper and
Joint right for the South Pennsylvania
and Ohio Railroad Company to reach
the business and business sizes of the city.
We will be there sooner than they probably
expect If there is any show Of reachisg the
bushes of the city after we do get there"
This letter is dated May Z, but has never
been put before Council for the simple rea-
son that that body has never shown any in.
clinstion to touch the railroad matter very
forcibly.
o. Z. Wood, director of the same COM
Tany. has also offdred the following self
explaining letter to Council and it is to be
loped that our city dads will net fail to I'M
6erstsud and appreciate what it contains:
MARTINS FERRY, July l, 1885.
To the Honorable Council of Martins Fer
~, o.:
GESrLEMEx-On beeaH of the South
PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio Railway Company
respectfully request that you grant no ex-
elusive privileges to any single railroad
company for 3 switch down First street in
the city of Martins Ferry. Within the next
sixty days think our company will be
ready to make formal request for privileges
similar to those now asked by the Pennsylva
Liza Company, in connection with other
companies. As result Of recent confer
ence with the Vice President, ganeral man
ayers and counsel Of the B. i 0. r. r l
ssk on their behalf that no exclusive priv.
lcges be granted the Pennsylvania Com
psny in the matter of access to the manu-
iscturer. Yours respectfully,
o. Russell WooD.
As Mr.. Woods letter to Council shows,
there are several roads thinking seriously
Of asking for an opportunity to reach our
manufactures. Just how soon anything
will be done is not known, but our business
men seem to think that the outlook for more
extensive railroad communication Is better
now than at any time before for several
years.
The prospects Of the glass works resum-
ing in short time are now more eucour-
aging than thy have been at any time
since the lock out was instituted last De-
cember. Before the National Convention
met in Philadelphia, President Smith, Of
the A. f. G. ". U, came down from Pitts.
burg and held q conference with several OF
the manufacturers, at wSich time the man
sgers explained to him the concessions
they desired from the union. Mr.. Smith is
reported as having said that he saw no res-
son why the differences between the workers
ard managers could not be smieably set
tIsd in the GENERAL convention
If 8 settlement is affected, as nenrly all
the workmen and managers seem to think
will be done, our works will probably re-
sumo operations by the middle of next
month
The Workmen s6em to think TURN work
throughout the country will be adopted at
the National Convention. If this is done it
will probably give the factories in this part
of the valley quite boom as Pittsburg
manufacturers viii probably raise strenuous
objections to q change in their methods OF
working. The black smoke of few of our
facto les would be blessing just now. which
compared with Ehichths purefresh mount lin
air advertised by summer resort keepsrs
would sink into iusigni6caece.
TIE buildingsin course of construction in
town are all getting along nicely, and the
greatest trouble we see is that there are no
lew ones starting, and that the builders will
probably come to q stand still when the
buildings now under way are finished. Tue
Ohio Valley Wine Compsnys new cell N
building is almost completed and when don =
it will stand without rival In this section.
The workmen are busy putting in ma
cbinery and sppEcsnce at the Hoyle Jones
manufacturing company's works.
The new Commercial block and E. c.
Boyds new business block are in the hands
Of the brick and stone mssons. Work is
progressing very nicely.
GSee First Psgel
These are Solid Facts.