Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-06
A BUILDING BOOM.
GOOD PROSPECTS FOR A VERY ACTIVE
SEASON IN THIS LIMB.
Work on the Railway Tracks Beng Pushed
Union Bridge WOrk-Big Changes BY
the Western Unlon-Gen:ral.

Ire Electrical Railway Company Ii
making very good progress with the eA-
tension of it's lines on South Jacob Street.
considering the very uupropitious weather
lately. About thirty men are employed,
and the track has been put down about up
to Thirty-Ninth Street. At the temporary
bridge across tie creek, the gang of work
men has relsid the track ON the approach
TO the north end of the bridge in some
what better shape than at first, and the
old track which ran down the centre oil
the strest tn the ruins Of the st0ae bridge
has been taken up. No rails have ss yet
been placed on the bridge, but the sp-
prOaches once completed 1t will take but a
few hours work b. put down the iron on
the structure. The company is using
every endesvor to get the Main street line
in active operation again.
Railroad work of the union bridge con
tract, up at the Top mill is progressing in
very satisfactory way. At the west
portal of the tunnel a tremendous hole
has been made in the face of the bill, but
the gang of workmen have not yet gotten
under ground. The work on the excava-
ton for the shore pier of the bridge across
the river is being expedited, and earth is
being yanked out Of the big hole in a way
which will carry the excavation to bed
rock or firm foundation OF some kind be-
fore long As yet, however, the men are
working in made ground, and at depth
of eenty- five feet ashes and old bricks are
being excsvAted. This hole hiss bsen
walled mp with double thickness Of three
inch oak planks, enclosed in stout frame
of heavy timber to prevent oSving, and a
steam hoistiDg apparatus removes the
earth and dumps it into carts without a
second handling The earth is being used
at present to fill up the low ground Fear
the ferry landing.
A letter signed paige, Carey & Co."
was written and circulated in the north
end of the city some days since, until now
its contents have become pretty generally
known. twas addressed TO foreman OF the
firm and was to the effect that if said fore
men employed sny more Wheeling men on
Union bridge work he would be summsrily
discharged The letter had all the ear
marks of a bona fde one, and 1t has cre-
ated great deal of npius! criticism against
the firm and the Union bridge people
generally.
Feeling confident that there was some
thing crooked about the matter, d REGISTER
reporter called OF Mr.. Carey last evening
ard asked him about it.
THE letter is nothing more nor less
than a forgery" answered Mr.. Carey,
land a,n surpri 'ed people would take
any stock in it. /; was piece Of spite
work, being written by foreman named
Andersen. who was discharged some time
sincs. He has low skipped the
town, leaving the letter behind in the
hands of friecd who has evidently turned
il over TO the gentleman III whose posses
sion you ssy il now is Such an act OF
righteousness deserves no further notice. "
Manager Tracy, ofthe Western Union, has
had big force of linemen at work, during
the past two or three days, changing the
wires from the old Office up to the corner OF
Market and Twelfth streets, where they will
be handy to connect with the apparatus in
the new Office, which is TO be located in
the Grand Opera House building. Four
cables, one for ninteen wires and three for
ten each, are being strung along Twelfth
street, one of them clrryi0g the old B &
o. wires from along Water street. Another
caple, c0utsining nineteen wires, from the
West, will be carried up Tenth street from
the suspension bridge to Chspline street,
and down ChapliHe 10 Tenth. All the
Western Union wires are also being taken
off the National Road east f the city ard
consolidated on the poles along the Pitts
burg division Of the B. & o.
As the season advances the signs multi
ply tina. the coming summer is going to
see an unusual amount OF activity in the
building trades in this city. This will
esps cially be true of the Seventh ward,
where at least a dozen handsome dwell
ings have been contracted for-pTincipally
upon the territory south OF Zane street,
and very largely south of Ohio street.
South Front street viii see half dozen
new homes Installed along its sides. and
South Penn street almost as many. There
will also be considerable building in the
ex rene southern part Of the city, especial
ly in the Oald we'll Iun district, where the
low price of lots induced mauy thrifty
wage-earners to invest for a hoale Al
teretions and repairs will also be under
taken largely in all sections Of the city,
ard even now the carpenters are fairly
busy on small contracts Of this sort.
The certificate OF Incorporation Of the
Logan Drug Company was left for record
at Clerk Hooks Office yesterday. Tine in
cO5pOratOrs are Joseph A. Bell, PEBBLES
Tstum, O. L. Hubbard, Annie L. Logan,
E1genie Logan, Sophia W. Logan and
Irene II Logan. The capital stock is lin
tied to 500 900. in shares of 500, of
which SIT. 700 has been subscribed and
paid in. The cooperation expires January
81, 1899.
Washington county, Ohio, farmers ere
setting an example 30 Sic rest of the State
They held mestiaRs, discussed the road
problem snd ad bill introduced into
the Legislature. That bill is now law.
Friday, by comnou consent Of the citizens
representative Stricksr's bill for $500 coo
bonds to improve the county roads passed
the Senate.
The naileIs of the Bellaire Nail Works
harn IL q 1.-nz..a.Lic-a ~ tLa r,nnnl.a-