Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-01-22
RAPID TRANSIT.
Electricity on the Citizens Railway
COmpany's Line.

pany. The Railway Company has applied
to the Committee on Streets aud Alleys to
approve the use of the Nandcrporl electrical
system with overhead conductors or wires
to prOpel their cars, and the Committee is
| to meet on Monday night to consider this
application. Considerable opposition has
arisen 10 the approval OF the Committee be-
! ing given, on the grounds that 1t Is the first
| step towards consolidation Of the Citizens
Railway c.. and the new Wheeling Rail
way Co. and that if such approval is not
given il will prevent the consolidation.
The Vandcrpoel system is the one which
has been adopted, with the approval OF the
same committee, by the Wheeling Railway
Co The general public has very little in
terest IN whether these two rail
way companies consolidate or not
| The ordinances OF the City of
Wheeling, giving each of them the
right to run street cars, limit them 10 IRE
cent Grcs, and they cannot charge more,
unless the city should give them the
right in future to charge more,
| whether consolidated or not. ltmatters not
| in what form the uniiicatiOn should take
! place, these ordinances would bind them
! to five cent fares and no more, The Citi-
| 2ens' Railway Co. must adopt the Wander
| pOel system with overhead conductors or
! II cannot Use electricity as a motive power
| Underground wires as conductors are out
of the question. An underground wire
must he connected with the car by 4 slot or
opening running lcugthwise along the
street This admits the water aud dirt,
and the wire must he kept clean and insu-
| lated. aud the sever or conduit in which
| it runs underground must he kept drained.
| \ cable road costs $50 600 per mile and IS
constantly getting ont OF order and in need
ol repairs. The expenses OF running by
mdcrgunnd wire renders that Systcm i'll
a Citg the size ol Wheeling not to he
thaught of
Ga August 3uth, last, written notice was
sary ell on the CltiZens' Railway Company by
the Wheeling Electrical Company that they
owned the exclusive right in Wheeling for
the use Of an overhead electrical conductor
under what are known rs the Finncy pat
cnts. AID that any infringement would lie
proFrynt"d. Again, on October Gth, last,
the Overhead Conductor Railway Company,
OF Pittsburgh. notified the Citizens Rail
way Company In writing, that under said
patents they had gr.nted the cEoNirr right
Tor Wheeling Ia the Wheeling Electrical
Company, aHi had agtccd 10 pro-
t'd that company in Tie quiet en-
iOym,mt Ul tha; right by suit or other
wise. 3, might he necessary. That they
gave the notice 50 that the CrtI2rE- RaIl-
way Company mi2ht not plead ignorance.
They further notified the CltiZrrs' Rail
way Company that If they undertook 10
erect such overhead conductors they would
bring suit against them Immediately tor
irjunctOn AMI damages That Il the CIT
zcne' Railway Company should he rninined
il would urCt ~sltgtc a change Ci their
plant, ard that they would be called upon
to pay profits and damages for the unau.
thOriz.d use Of any overhead electrical
conductor tor railway purpoa'".
The Cit'Z.ns' Railway Company desire
To buy their pJwrr from lhr Wheeling E.,c
tricai Company, which thus claims the eX.
elusive right Tor Wheeling for overhead con
ductors. and can buy such power for a Ger.
: tain rate per car per day under the Van
r irrpoci system. # Tn" Citizens Rtiiway
, Company should adopt any other system
aud not buy it- power from the Wheeling
Electrical Company they viii hay" Ia dc
Tend Il suit for years IN the United State
Courts clear through the United States Su
o. prcme Court, and if the validity ol tn,
8 Latent9 should he sustained, thirty tc
forty thousand dollars invested in Il plant
ANA power house would he lost, ~ they
would he pcrpctuaily rni0incd from using
H. Under these circumstances the CitI.
zems Railway Company, it j. plain, viii
continue to run horses on their line unless
they are allowed to use the Nand,!pOcl
electrical system with overhead con.
ductora. Thus on Maln street,
from Tenth street south to Twenty y.seventh
. street, the Wheeling Railway Co., would
have rapid transit with the Nandrrpocl
Electrical system, and cars lighted and
warmed by electricity. The retail trade
on Market street would he diverted Ia
Main street, aud property on all Market
street, and on Chapline street south Of the
creek, would be greatly drpr,C:n!Cd in
value, ~ was the case when the Citizens
Railway Co. WAS taken of South Main
street North of the creek, above Tenth
street, on Main street, iherc viii be no
rapid transit The wOrkingmen and others
who live in Wheeling aud work in Ohio, or
who live in Martins Ferry and work in
Wheeling, wall hc deprived of the comfort
aud rapid communication Of an Flee
trral railway. The general public will he
deprived Of rapid transit on the most pop
ulOu' and most used streets Of
this ci Y. Consolidation or no
consolidation, public sentiment would
never Justify discriminating against the
other streets of this city in favor of
Main street from Tenth to Twenty
streets This would I've making fish Of one
and ilr.h cf another at the expense "i pub
lie convenience II this rommt'c" denies
this application OF the Citizens Railway
Company, tie interests Ot the general pub
lie must inevitably compel IN the end the
permission of rapid transit from the North
end Of Wheeling 20 the south end
| thereof along the route of the Citizens
Halfway Co Why delay granting what
must in the end bg granted, IN thc inter
est Of the people, wien such delay can
only result in Inconvenience tC the CltI-
2rna of Wheeling generally aTd great loss
10 the Company in which many OF our
people have invested their means. The
! Citizens Railway Co offers the city rapid
transit. It can only he denied for the
i,upocarV benefit of the pyopl" along Main
street from Tenth 10 Twenty
streets at the expense "t the general good.
The Wheeling Railway Co, would thas
be made a complete mou0poig with ,n@UTrC
rights and privllcrrL This Committee has
already approved their usc Of the Wander
p0el system and cannot consistently deny
the use of the same system 10 the other
Company The Wheeling Electrical Com
pany from whom tie Citizens Railway
Company desire to buy their power, is a
separate and distinct corporation from the
Wheeling Railway Company. But few of
the stockholders in the latter Company,
probably not Onr-twcntieth, own any
shares in the Wheeling Electrical Com
pany. STocKHOLDER.
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