Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-13
BY DAYLIGHT.
THE COUNCIL RAILROAD COMMITTEE TO
MEET THIS AFTERNOON
To Examine Inb the Additional Railroad LsgiS-
latOn at Present Psrding-fhs Features
Of the Ordinances.

Chairman Farrell, of the Council Com
on Railroads, has called his COM
mittee 10 meet this afternoon at two
for the purpose Of considering the
railroad ordinances awaiting the action Of
the committee. One of these documents
is the Baltimore and Ohio ordinance,
granting to that company the right to lay
across Twenty-frst street and Alley
II, on the South Side, to afford the COM
pauy some much-needed switching fseii-
ties, and the other is in the interests OF the
Wheeling and Harrisburg Company, which
is very DESTROYS Of changing ita line around
the creek, from the Peninsula to the inter
Of Chspline and Twentieth streets
The lsst-named ordinance Was presented
in the First Branch Of Council Tuesday
night, and is the one examined and en-
dorsed by the SPECIAL Railroad Committee
of the Chamber Of Commerce, as motel in
the proceedings of Council, published in
the REGISTER yesterday morning.
Several considerations have impressed
the W. & II. Company with the necessity
of making these changes in their line
around the creek. One Of these was the
of the Seventeenth Street bridge,
was contemplated in the ordinance
originally passed by Council in the inter
ests OF the Company, and another was the
massage under tie eastern arch Of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad bridge at the
The route under the arch CT the
bridge only allowed the ". d II. Com
about II 5 feet of clearance for their
cars, and in order to obtain this they were
compelled to lower their rssd-bsd to q
point only 39.5 fact above the bed Of the
creek, which exposed them to annoyance
from floods. The pending ordinance al
lows the Company TO make a cut through
under the tracks of the B. Il D Company
the eastern cad Of the bridge, closing up
the gap thus made in the B q . line
with an iron truss or visduct, extending
between the eastern bridge head and the
bank e the west portal of the tunnel.
This allows the w, & II. Company to gain
all the space between the top OF the east
arch Of the bridge and the plane of the B.
& 0 track, which is something in the
neighborhosd of ten feet. This great gain
in height will allow the W. u b. to raise
their tracks about seven feet above thee s.
foot level spoken Of above, aud will at the
same time allow them two or three feet
additional clearance over Whist would be
he case by going undes the arch. Leaving
the tunuel bridge, and coming around to-
ward the mouth of the creek, the new line
of the road does not strike the old line
until the shal p bend in the creek isIeached,
a considerable distance south Of the tun-
mel, where the new line crosses the old,
but soon recrosses again, toward the bill,
q point near the ice house. At the soap
factory, further down, the lines are again
identical, but between the soap factory and
Rey mann's ice house the new line leaves
the old for good, passes back toward the
hill, skirting close to the brewery stables,
whereas the old line ran ont on the bank
of the creek.
There is another big change at the Sew
pnteenth street bridge. The old ordinance
contemplated the raising of the bridge by
the Railrosd Company, to allow the pass
aga Of cars under grade. The new Or
dinance allows the line to pass a consider
able distances east of the old, and just east
the east end of the bridge, where it
crosses at grade. The line, going south.
passes just along the esst side Of Reymann's
boiler house, instead Of on the west side,
and 30 runs along to the mouth of Coal
run, where it cuts across the present little
bridge across the n in a diagonal way.
The third great change is at the Whitaker
mill, where the new ordinance allows the
to run between the mill and the
hill, instead OF between the mill and the
creek. The proposed change keeps the
next the cliff, from the mill clear
to the intersection of Chspline and
streets, where, as has been said
the new and the old lines become coinci-
dent.
Tnis ordinance has received careful
scrutiny from the Chamber of Commerce
aud is by that body recon-
mended for passage.