Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-30
THE UNION d
The Trades Assembly VIII Lend Its Sup
port to the subscription.

The TTaOeb aBeCulbAy WIN AGHN ~ SF
port to the subscription.
A special meeting of the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly was held yes
tsrdsy afternoon, at Trades Assembly
Hall, to take further action in reference to
the Union bridge matter. 1t will be re-
menbered that at last Sundays regular
meeting resolutions were adopted asking
the Wheeling & Harrisburg Railway Com
pany, having the building of the bridge in
charge, to add a footway to the bridge and
fix the toll at not above a certain point,
and also requesting that home labor be
employed in preference to foreign labor.
In case the company pledged to grant
these wishes the w~orkingmen represented
in the Assembly promised to give the sub
scription of $500, 900 to the capital stock OF
said companp, their earnest and hearty
support at the polls on the day of election.
These resolutions, as all know, were sub
mitted to Judge Cochran and he commu-
nicated with the capitalists, whom he rep
resents, with a satisfactory result.
The attendance at yesterdays meeting
was equally as large if not larger than last
Sunday, and the statement of all present
was as strongly in favor of the bridge.
President John Corcoran presided and in
the absence of Secretary Ehmann, j. d.
Burt acted in that capacity. After the
object Of the meeting had been stated the
following communication from Judge C0oh-
ran was read:
JANUARY %, 1888.
John Ehmdnn, Esq Secretary Of Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor assembly, Wheeling,
W. Va.
SIR:-Yours of January % is received,
officially advising me of the action taken
and proposed by your Assembly respecting
the bridge, &c, to he built by the Wheel
ing aud Harrisburg Railway Company, Of
w. Va, at this city.
Answer has been delayed awaiting
engineering and other important data,
Since obtaining which and after careful
consideration of all tie interests to be
affected, the assurances requested by the
parties you represent are hereby given.
Respectfully,
K. H. COCHRAN, President
w. & II. r. r Co., of W. Va.
Some discussion followed the reading of
the communication and ii was all favor
able to its acceptance. A resolution to
the following effect was then presented
and unanimously adopted:
ReSOlred, That the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor Assembly accept the assurance
given by r. Fl. Cochran, President of the
| Wheeling and Harrisburg Railway Com
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him will be granted, and that we agree
to lend our hearty and earnest support to
the subscription of $500, 600 to the capital
stock of said company, and ask all Union
men in Ohio county to do the same.
Some other business OF nc importance to
the public was transacted and the meeting
adjourned.
The footway to the proposed bridge will
be a great advantage to Wheeling people,
as well as those of Martins Ferry, and ali
will be glad to hear of the concessions
made by the company. Everything is now
in splendid shape to rush the subscription
through at the polls next Saturday. No
one with the city's or county's interests at
heart can afford to allow this matter to 20
unnoticed, and all should turn out and
vote.
Judge Cochran was seen by a REGISTER
reporter last evening and expressed him
self we'll iatisfied with the action of the
Trades Assembly. He says that if the
the vote next Saturday is favorable active
work will be commenced on the bridge as
O as matters can be gotten into shape,
and that will not be long. He says that
Mr.. Lindenthal, the engineer Of the
bridge, wants to make it three spans in
stead of five, and assures him it will be
every whit as substantial aud lasting.
Mr.. L. is very much interested in the
bridge project, and it is very probable 1t
will pe built under his direct supervision.
Judge Cochran and Mr.. Lindenthal spent
the afternoon in climbing up over the hill
through which the proposed tunnel to go
and taking a view of the ground.