Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-14
THAT RAILROAD ORDINANCE.
An Important Communication ON n Very
Important Matter.

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An Important Communication ON n Very
Important Matter.
n, he Editor o. ne Register:
LAST February Ohio county voted three
hundred thousand dollars TO the stock OF
the W. & q. Railway Co. The contract
between thu county and the Company
that the Company's money
shall be expended in building s terminal or
bet road ,cithia this city. and gave the w. q
II. Co eight months 20 commence work In
Soon after this action of the county our
Council unanimously resolved that Il ioouid
do all IL could in aid of the building Of a belt
road To carry out this pledge Council
some time since passed An ordinance giving
the W. & q. Co. q right of way along the
south bank Of the creek down
Twentieth street to Alley A. The
Committee on Railroads will present
IN Council this evening, an ordinance
granting 70 the W. & p. j. Co. Tor b. 90
Co. q right of way along the south bauk
of the creek to connect the main tracks OF
tbs B. go. 90. with the Pittsburg division.
This ordinance contains the following pro-
vision, intended to carry out Council
nledses to the W. & 81. Co.: ut is further
provided that the Wheeling and Pittsburg
Junction Railroad Company shall procure
from the B go Railroad Co. o crossing
of the said B. 4 D.. Railroad COmpany's
tracks. south of Twentieth street for the use
of the W. & II. Railway o. Of W. Va,
subject to such regulations as may be agreed
upoa 6y arbitration, the eraet location Of such
CROSSING TO be determined By the arbitrdtors as
,oeu rs ,chether the same shall be al grade, I'm
der orade, or overhead crossing"
This section ths paid agents OF the b. q
o. Co in and ont Of Council, are comoin
ing TO have stricken out and will make an
effort to have il done this evening.
If this is done, all hope Of a bridge u
belt road will be destroyed unless Council
secures q crossing of the B. 60. tracks
south of Twentieth street. No connection
can be made with the Ohio River and p,
W. & Ky.'s tracks within the city, with
ont wears OF litigation, beginning at our
| Circuit Court and ending in the Supreme
| Court of the United States. In addition
to this, all cars from the o K and r., X.
& K. roads would have to pay trackase
| charges to the B. & o Co. for passing over
its tracks to reach the belt road ut Alley
A aud Twentieth street. No capitalist
will invest in the stock of the W. q ID. Go.
if one-balf of it's probable income is com,
PEELED to be divided with the B. q D. and
It's business subject TO such restrictions
and delays as that Company may choose to
place upon it.
The only objection the B. & o. en-
ployes give to this crossing Is that the COM
pany does not wish a crossing OF Its tracEs
in its yard. which being interpreted means
Water street south of the creek. No such IN
tentioa crisis on the part Of the W. Oh. Co.
| But to demand that the w. q ID. 20.
shall state at this time, where a crossing is
desired, is equivalent to notifying all
property owners along the route, to the
crossing, to he up and fixing exorbitant
prices on their property. The b. & Co, ls
| the first one which would do this, and it is
unfair for her employees in Council to apk
it of the w. d III. Go. Is not the pro-
vision that the place and manner OF cross
| ing shall be submitted to three arbitrators,
one of them to be chosen by the B. 40
| Co. and he to have q voice in selecting the
third arbitrator, asuficient safeguard for
that Compsny's interests9
We know that many Of our citizens,
wearied by the long delay in beginning
work on the bridge and belt road, have
lost faith in the enterprise. To such we
would submit the following dispatch, re-
ceiyed by one OF our c~itizrns a few days
since:
"Col. Bissell will be In Wheeling within
two weeks, when work will begin strong
See that our rights are not intertered acith /"
[Signedl W. A. LYNCH.
Here is another, received since the above
was:
"Hasty adverse action by Council will
defeat the bridge. Our preparations for
building are completed
L. II. COCHRAN.
To those of our citizens, who, IN the
plepitude OF their wisdom, assert that the
W. & Ii. is only a paper road. we wish TO
say if this is so, why does the b. d U.
Company object to q provision for a cross
ing of its tracks by a paper road? Can 1t
do any harm to leave the crossing provision
in the ordinance. Is not this action OF the
3. & O Company proof that the Company
knows that the bridge and belt road will
he built unless Council can be persuaded
TO do something ghich will drive away the
capitalists who havs agreed to furnish the
money to build them.
We submit that as there Is still one
month Of the time given by the County
| Commissioners to the w. & II. Co. to COM
mence work, and Council is pledged to aid
the W. & III. Co. all in its power, it is but
right to pass the ordinance as it WAS pre-
sented by the Committee IN Railroads
This crossing Of the B. & o. tracks beIo'o
Twentieth street can in DO wav interfere
| with the binding of the W. & p. j. Co.'S
tracks up Wheeling Greek, nor will q cross
ing at a point selected by disinterested
arbitrators interfere with the operating Of
the tracks on the main stem.
Let Council pass the ordinance and then
wait to hear from the B. & o. Co. through
its President aud Directors, and let it not
be influenced by the unauthorized threats
of its agents and employees, in and out Of
Council, who seem to be seeking to gain
notoriety at the expense and to the injury