The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-24
RAILROAD ROUTES
BIZ TIE ooAlAnTTEE
At Its voy proEaO.sd session Last Night.
The Two Companies which Desire Tracks
sOuth Of the creek Will Oct Them
on Good Terms for the City.

The Two accompanies when De8Ho AEAeAA
sOzth Of the Greek viii Oct Them
on Good Terms for the City.
The meeting OF the Council Committee
on Railroads held ct the Public Building
lsst evening, was the longest meeting Of
any city body on record. The session
lasted from before o'clock till nearly 2
o'clock this morning. The object Of the
meeting was to consider the ordinances
presented by the Wheeling & Pittsburgh
Junction Railroad Company (the Balt.
more & Ohio and the Wheeling & Harris
burg Railway Company, the provisions OF
which grant each company a right Of way
along the south bank Of the creek. Both
ordinances were considered and q large
number Of amendments made. Assmend-
ed, they will be recommended to Council
for passage.
It was shortly before s o'clock when
Chairman Terrell called the Committee to
order. There were present Messrs. Cruise,
Tracy, McGregor, Dslbrugge, Caldwell and
Harrell, Of the Committee; Capt. William
NJ. Clements, General Manager OF the B.
& O.; Capt. ]. 7. Legge, Superintendent
Of the B. & O.'s Western DiyiRions; Mr..
| P, q. Irwin, the B. 4 O.'s engineer having
in charge It's interests in this matter ;
Capt. Spies, the B. & o. agent at this
point; Judge r. H. Cochran, Of the
Wheeling & Harrisburg Railroad Com
pany, and Mr.. Gustave Ltndenthal, the
Chief Engineer Of that road, and Mr.. Paul
King, Que Of his assistants, and Mr.. W. P.
Hubbard and Mr.. Al. Caldwell, the attor-
news for the road; City Engineer Hoge ;
Councilmen G. G. McKoWn, Alex. Young,
o. L. Davis and Blddle Jones; Mr.. H. M.
Russell, attorney for the B. & O.; aud
Messrs, G. G. Hannah, George X. Wheat,
], ], Jones, @. D. Thompson, John Bod
ley, Capt. o. J. Rawling, Joseph Brady,
T. o. Mofat, W. F. Peterson, Capt. John
Mcclure, Postmaster Simpson, DR.. George
Baird, Fred. @. ArbsEz, J. NJ. Ewing, +.
q. LANCE, John g. Hoffman,, IT,, D. r,
Brooks, L. @. 9tifel, G. 8. Feeny and many
others.
MIR. McGregor opened tho ball by NOV
ing to take up first the ordinance present.
ed by the Wheeling & Harrisburg Com
pany. Mr.. Caldwell moved to take up
the B. & O.'s ordinance as 1t was more
complete in that 1t specified in what tune
the work was to be done. Mr.. McGregor
commended that as the Wheeling & HarriE-
burg's ordinance had been pre-
sented to Council first 1t should be
considered frat. Mr.. McGregor's mo-
ton prevailed, and the Wheeling
& Harrisbure's ordinance enGsged at
tention from that time till II 80 o'clock.
The ordinance as finally approved pro-
vides that 1t must be accepted by June /,
1888, and that work must be commenced
| on the line within six months after that
date, and be completed within two years
After the commencing Of the work unless
Iinterfered with by litigation, and the
Council is to be the Judge Of what extra
timo shall be allowed by reason Of such
The Baltimore & 0hio's ordinance was
amended 30 as to provide for the fling OF
an acceptance OF the ordinance by June l
and the commencing OF work within ak
months from that date, and the comple-
ton Of the work within two years, with
the same exceptions as regards litigation
inserted in che other roads ordinance.
The ordinance presented by the B. &
10, was an amended one, differing
from the one presented to Council in that
| Il provides for crossing Market etreet un-
der grade and the raising OF the Market
street bridge four feet. There were DIFF
ferences in the ordinances OF the two
companies as to changing the grades
at both ends Of the bridge. Those
differences after o long and
wesrisome discussion were adjusted TO
the satlsfaction Of about everyone and
provisions inserted as to the sharing OF
the expense of raising the Market street
bridge and changing the grades, by the
two companies in such manner that no
great trouble about that question
Is likely to arise In the future. The two
roads passing under Market street as pro-
vided, will cross each other at grade about
$50 feet east OF the eastern mouth OF the
proposed tunnel Of the Wheeling 4 Har-
risburg through and. under Twentieth
street.
In accepting its ordinance the Wheeling
( Pittsburgh Junction Company binds
itself to have removed from both Six.
teenth and Seventeenth streets the pres
emit HempAeld track and to secure from
the B. & D. an agreement for the Wheel
ing &lHarrisburg to cross its tracks at some
point south Of the creek. II is
thought that the Baltimore & Ohio will
accept the ordinance as revised by the
committee, agreeing thereby to remove its
tracks on Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets, in the hope Of being granted at
some future time new right Of way
through another part Of East Wheeling so
as to enable 1t to reach the large manuiac.
turing establishments located there.
In going over the ordinances no end OF
minor amendments were made, such as
providing for the care Of gas and water
pipes disturbed, etc. Several warm dis
cussions were had and considerable fun
occasioned.
The probabilities are that Council will
adopt the ordinances as reported by tho
committee, and that both companies viii!
accept and proceed to work at once.