The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-08
IS A GO, SURE enough.
The B, & o, Shops here have
done Their last Work.
ABANDONED OR REMOVED
AT oncG-Employes Given the Choice
OF Removal to Grafton or Dis
charge-All Engines 10 be
Repaired at BeIlaIre,


The last work that will be done in the
Baltimore & Ohio yards in this city for a
long tlme-perhaps in all time-was
done last night at 70 o'clock, The shops
will be dismantled and abandoned, The
report is that they are removed to Bell
aire, but as a fact there is not a great
deal to remove, The engineer was in
structed to coat his engine thiCkly with
white lead, to prevent its rustiug. 1t
will stand idle until the company has
use for it, here or elsewhere. Such ma
chinery rs it is thought best to remove
will DO taken to Bellairc, Grafton or
Piedmont,
Notice OF the change was yesterday
given to the employees here, The ap-
prentice boys in the Wheeling shops
we're given their choice, il they desired
to finish their trade, OF going to Grafton
or Piedmont. OF the other men, some
will go to Grafton, one or two to other
shops Of the company, aud tho rest will
be discharged,
The torty-nine engines Of the fourth
diyision-irOm here to Grafton-whiCh
have heretofore been repaired and kept
up at the Wheeling shops, will now be
taken to Bellaire or Grafton, rs is most
convenient, when in need OF repairs,
Even the yard engines here aud at Bell
ARE will be kept in repair at Bellaire,
The only force to be retained hereis one
machinist and one assistant, who willdO
such light work rs docs not nGCessltate
running m engine or car into %theshops,
and one or two "hostlers," or men to
clean cars.
Mr.. Alex Laird, 1t is understood,
though not officially, will remain here
and have charge OF the "round house"-
II there is one round, Henry Weisger-
Der is reported to have been master
mechanic OF the BelIaire shops,
All OF these changes were made yes
terday by General Manager 0dell. HC
and Capt. Walters, the new Superinten'
dent Of all lines east OF the Ohio river,
Master Car Builder Grieves, Capt,
]. +. Legge, Superintendent OF the
western divisions OF the main line, and
Al. Cromwell, Superintendent ofmotivC
power east OF the river, spent b part
OF yesterday here looking over the field
and seeing to the changes. B. 4 0,
officials were retiCent, saying the gentle
men named were here only to become
familiar with their yards and property
but the information on which the fore
going is based is from such q source Us
to leave no doubt OF its reliability.
1t leaked out last evening that Second
Vice President King was here on Tues
day. His presence was kept very quiet,
and the object OF his visit, further than
| that he was making a tour OF inspection,
could not be learned.
Mr.. W. II. Harrison, OF Newark, Sup
crintendent OF Motive Power west OF the
river, arrived in Wheeling at G O'Clock
last evening, and j. W. ShowaCre, an
other official OF the company, with head
quarters at Baltimore, arrived later. A
conference was held at the Hotel Wind
sor last evening between the visiting
and local officials, but Of course the pur'
pose and result were private.
Messrs. Cromwell and Grieves left for
Baltimore on the II go o'clock train last
night. In reply to questions asked by
an lNTELLIGENCER reporter rs to the OBJ
iects and outcome OF the conference they
had been participating in, they declined
to give any satisfactory answers. Capt.
Cromwell, however after being told
what information the lNTELLIGENCER
had in its possession relative to the re-
moval OF the shops, said:
"Well, l presume you know what our
alleged shops in the city are? 1t is n
matter OF impossibility to do anything
like satisfactory, thorough engine repair
ing here, and has been for q long time.
For the past four or five years, the bulk
Of the engine repairing on the Fourth
division has been done at Grafton, and
l expect that hereafter all Of it will be
done there. The engines on the Pitts
burgh, or Hempield, division have the
principal work on them done at Glen
wood, and the Ohio locomotives never
have come over here for repairs. You
can readily understand that with the
primitive and limited facilities we have
here, it Is impossible for satisfactory en-
CINE repairing to be done"
"When will the reduction and trans.
fer Of the Wheeling force take placer"
"This week."
"What will you do with your exten.
sive property here on which your alleged
shops have been maintained2"
"You must not understand that We
are going to do away entirely with our
Wheeling force. We will still keep
wipers and other labor OF that class sta.
toned here, and some other employees"
at has been rumored that with the
completion OF the Wheeling & Harris.
burg's Union bridge and terminals, you
would be forced 10 build a northern Y
TO your Bellaire bridge, and that when
that was done the likeliest thing in the
world for the Baltimore & Ohio 10 do
would be to establish yards and shops
on tho property II has occupied for so
many years, and on the property in the
lower part Of the Eighth ward recently
acquired. What al you tell me as To
that?"
-"That Is something that Is in the FL.
ture. The B. & 0. in the past has always
hoped that some satisfactory arrange.
nents could DO made with Wheeling
whereby 1t would feel Warranted in
erecting extensive shops here, but those
arrangements have never yet been made,
and tho company, az | understand 1T
feels that II cannot longer wait to have
them made, and that 1t Is n need.
less expense to maintain n thorough re.
pairing force here when under existing
circumstances the work can as well BE-
done at Grafton, Bullaire or Glenwood,
at Il less expense. In making the
change, as many OF the Wheeling EN-.
ployCs affected will be given a chance to
remain with tho company as can DO
given places"