Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-11-24

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smslgsmste them all. Ii would be
grand thing for Wheeling, and a most
profitable thing for the company that
would accomplish it.
Wheeling is now directly connected
with Benwood by line Of electric rail
way, sad by the proposed new bridges it
is proposed to connect Wheeling with
Bridgeport and Martins Ferry in the same
manner, namely, by a line Of electric cars
the suspension bridge being too weak tc
carry them.
The REGISTER advises that Beilaire be
taken in also, and Wheeling linked 10 that
city by a similar line of street railway.
We should then have practically one city
OF about 20, 600 population figure that
ia rapidly growing.
The towns across the river are growing
as rapidly as any in Ohio. Connect them
all with Wheeling by Inns Of street rail
way that will bring this population within
a few minutes ride of the heart of this
city and We shall soon have general pop
ulation that will rival Pittsburg
Since the electric railway has directly
connected BenwoOd with Wheeling the
travel between the two towns has been
more than trebled, and is increasing at
such a rate that the railway company is
pushed 10 accommodate it and is con-
stautly getting new cars. 1t needs no
prophet to foresee that the same thing
would be doubly true Of our Ohio neigh
bora. Connect them in the proposed
manner by means of bridges and fast
street railway and we should shortly have
ten of our Ohio neighbOrs visiting Wheel
izg where one comes now.
This fact is pregnant with meaning to
Wheeling trsdesmen. If they could step
onto a street car and be in any part of this
city in a jify, our 10000 neighbOrs Just
across the river would frequently come
over to "shop" and promenade about
Wheeling, where, now, they visit US only
on few and special occasions.
The suspension bridge company need
have No fear of any dimiuutiOn in their
business on account of the proposed
new bridge. They already control the
Bridgeport and Wheeling travel and will
continue to control it, as theirs is the di-
rect route, with which the new enterprise
will not conflict, for the reason that the
latter line will not strike Bridgeport. In
fact, the new enterprise which is to
bring Wheeling and Martins Ferry and,
We hope, Bellaire-clOser together, must, if
anything, benefit the suspension bridge
company in the general and great increase
of travel from the Ohio side to Wheeling,
which it is bound to bring. Pittsburg
has had experience Of this kind. Every
bridge from Pittsburg to Allegheny is do
ing much more business now than ever
before and each succeeding bridge and
facility but served to increase the travel
ever the old bridges Had Pittsburg re-
NAMED ccntented with the old connections
between the sister cities, Pittsburg would
not be what she is, though Allegheny
would probably have a more important
than she has, instead of
being, as now, absorbed By Pittsburg
Though the material advantages are
mutual, as would be the case with Wheel
ing and her Ohio neighbOrs linked to-
gether in a ike msnner-all would ben
eft.
The proposed new connections between
Wheeling and her Ohio neighbOrs are
bound to come, and the suspen-
sion bridge company will benefit by it
proportiOnately with Wheeling.
Wheeling is the metropolis of this neck
Of the woods. There is no reason why she
should not be the fountain head and i'm
mediate center.
This being true, the REGISTER advises
the gentlemen at the head of the new
bridge project not 10 leave out our priuci-
pal neigh bor, but to build their bridge to
the Island, and thence one to Martins
Ferry, and also 10 build another from the
lower point of the Island down toward
Bellaire. Let as take them sll in. The
extent of the convenience 10 our Ohio
would be exceedingly great and
the profit to Wheeling prOpOrtiOnately
large.