The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-13
NEW RAILROAD ORDINANCES
The Ii. q o. and ". 4 n. Both Have New
Measures to be Acted on.

NOluLhltVep VI NhiilOaupt W WAASh ha9
been referred for report two ordinances,
one from the Baltimore & Ohio road and
one from the Wheeling & Harrisburg,
has called his committee to meet at the
Public Building at . o'clock sharp, this
afternoon, for the purpose Of making an
inspection trip-g0ing in person over
the ground specified in the two ordi.
nanCes. This evening the committee
win meet and deliberate over the ordi-
nances, aided by the inspection they
will have made, and make up their re-
port for Council.
The B. & o. ordinance grants to that
company the right to cross Twentieth
street, west Of Main street, with one
track, and TO cross alley II, which is the
alley running east and west between
Twentieth and Twenty.frst streets, at
points west OF Main street, with two
tracks. The company OWNS the
property on both sides Of Twentieth
street, and also on both sides OF alley II,
fronting at the points where the cross
ings are desired and extending west to
their tracks in Water street.
The proposed crossings do not inter-
fere with any known plans Of any other
road and would not interfere with city
travel, Tor the reason that teams have no
occasion to go through that part of the
street or alley. The crossings are de-
sired in order that the company may
be enabled to reach its property front.
ing on the street and alley, which is
now lying idle, and lay thereon tracks
on which some twenty cars may be ac'
commOdated for loading and unloading
purposes. This ordinance has been
read once in the First Branch and was
referred on motion Of Mr.. Handl&n.
The Wheeling & Harrisburg ordin.
ance is quite lengthy one. II amends
sections l, 2and Z Of the original ordin'
ance granting it n right OF way along the
south bank OF Wheeling creek and
across the Peninsula TO the tunnels
through the hills back OF the Top Mill
The ordinance was presented in the
First Branch last Tuesday night, nc
companied by the hearty and
unanimous recommendation that
it be adopted, from the speCia
committee OF the Chamber OF Com
merce.
The amendments contained in this or
dinance are numerous and contemplate
several decided changes in the route as
originally granted. Commencing at the
cornerof Main and Twentieth streets and
going west on Twentieth some minol
changes are proposed in the manner o.
approaching by means OF cut in that
street, secured by stone retaining walls
with guard ratings, the tunnel under
Twentieth street from the west side oi
Market to point in Twentieth east o.
Chapline. Market Ond Twentieth streets
at their intersection are to be raised foul
feet 10 permit Of the tunnel, and proper
~ graded in all directions, and the Mar.
ket street bridge il to be raised four feel
and the northern approaches graded us
originally provided for.
Emerging from the tunnel east OIL
Chapline street, the line, instead oil de
fleeing to the north and passing in the
rear OF the Arbenz furniture factory
and along the extreme edge OF the creek
bank and north OF Whitaker's mil, as
now provided for, is made to
continue along Twentieth street
till the mill property is reached,
when it passes to the rear
or south OF the works, at the base OF the
cliffs at that point, and where already
there has been some eXcavatiug done.
This, however, is not city property, but
the line is given so that readers may
follow it. This line back of the mill is
the one, by the way, that the Baltimore
& Ohio desired when it was trying for a
route.
From the mill to Reymann's brewery
several changes are made SO as to estab-
fish better grades and road bed. At the
brewery instead OF passing to the west OF
the boiler house and under the Seven
teenth street bridge, which it would
have been obliged to raise, the road asks
to 20 between the malt house and boiler
house and cross Seventeenth at the east
endsof the bridge, making good all dam
age that may be done TO the bridge or
street.
Continuing along the creek till the
Baltimore & Ohio stone bridge isreached,
instead OF going under the east arch it
is proposed to connect the east end OF
the bridge aud the tunnel for the Balti-
more q OnlO Win III iron Truss uIluSe
and pass under this bridge. This removes
the road higher up IRON the water and
has other advantages. The B. 4 o. is
understood to consent. Continuing out
to point on the Peninsula road be.
tween the cemetery gate and the road
bridge the line crosses the road over
grade, but the ordinance fails to give
any idea as to the altitude of the over
grade.
In case Council passes this ordinance
as it is presented, the company will
have much more practical and easily
constructed route. In the original it is
provided that the company shall at all
times in the future keep Twentieth
street over its tunnel and along its APP
proaches properly paved and repaired.
There is nothing OF this kind in the
section as amended. The crossing OF the
Elm Grove road, and also road, in
Fulton, is provided for and also fifteen
foot roadway north OF the tracks on
Twentieth street east Of the eastern out
let OF that tunnel.