Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-02
FAIR PLAY.
A Friend OF the Bridge Calls Attention
to Several Things.

To the Editor Of the E'g'Et@.
SIR.-Whllc the ordinance i'll reference
70 Ohio county, subscription to the pro
nosed bridge and terminal road was under
Consideration by the Board of Commission
ers, an ugly rumor, that an effort was be-
ing made by two Of the Commissioners TO
defeat the proposed subscription, caused a
very bad feeling in the minds Oi large
numbers of our most prominent CITIZENS
toward those gentlemen. The Star Cham
I,s, Committee meetings held by them,
from, which the other members Of the
BOARD were excluded, seemed to give color
70 the report OF their secret opposition to
the ordinance. The gathering OF the large
and substantial lobby IN the B1ard's room
on the morning OF the passage of tie ordI-
name. showed the deep interest our ship
ners and manufacturers took IN the passage
OF the ordinance, and the unanimous action
of the Board removed any feeling of i'll.
will which might hay. been i,lt toward
the suspected members
At the meeting oi COuncil, last Tuesday,
a member OF the Board, wha is also II
member of Council, offered resolution,
asking the Baltimore and Ohio company to
take its track OF Sixteenth street
and place it on Seventeenth
There was no communication from
that company asking for the privilege at
moving its tracks. Council, last summer,
paid s.. 0Oo for part OF Seventeenth street
over which the track would pass, II mo, eel
from Sixteenth stI t, aud contracted iu
pave the same street Il cost "f u 1900
The cost Of the chang 10 the railroad .,u
panv would not ; ,rs- than 81 lHu u0
500 O3O
Al this same meeting Of Council na oD.
dintnce was adopted compelling tur Htlll.
more aud Ohio Company to place gait a.
the intersection Of Sixteenth -tr,et with
Main, Market, ChipIuc, Eotl umd Jacob
streets thus making the moving oi trains
with present ruul" reasonably safe II the
ordinance Is enforced. After all this, have
We a member al Council, apparently with
out request from anybody, asking an ,m-
UrobUbj, thing of the Baltimore and Oni"
Company? But the want OF motive "u his
part was not 20 great as at first IT seemed.
He hal been in CunltrrICe with Il high
official of the Baltimore and Ohio Conf
pany, and was taking the frat step in a
scheme t. defeat the building OF the bridge
and terminal road The ScyentrrnDh street
route was orly a blind. The Baltimore
aud Ohio company does not want Ia 20
there, Int does want to 20 up the south
bank Of The rleJ X, over the same routr Coun-
Gil gave her two years ago, and which she
never used Let that route hc given her
and the building of terminal road 10 the
lower part ul TIE city and Brnwood will
only he accomplished after years OF lItsl-
ton.
This matter is now in the hand. OF the
Railroad Committee of Council and we wish
to say to that committee that all that the
friends Of the bridge ask il iair play at
their hands. We do not ask any star
chamber sessions of your committee, but
ask that when Your committee meets that
You gryc an opportunity for all Interested
parties tp be present Honesty and tar
dealing never ask Ia 20 into room and
pull the blinds down before Transferring
business, Whil, trICkury and double deal
ing always do It you gentlemen believe
that the interests Of the city will be- pro-
NOTED by placing obstacles IN the way o!
any new road wishing to come here, and
that placing the means Of 80 doing in the
hands OF the Baltimore and OhIo Company
is the best thing, vel and good But you
will please to consider that you are public
servants and as you Discharge he trust
placed in your hands 80 viii your ~"wurd
he
1.-THE people 10 not want the bridge and
terminal road let them say -, but dn not
try 10 iurr-tuI their artlun by preparing
obstacles to carrying ou' their wishes if the
vote ON tn. ordinance is favorable. Make
haste slowly" wa gool motDo sometimes,
BRIDGE.