The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-29
A FRHH FOOT BRIDGE
at by the New Wheeling
Bddge Company,
THE COMPANY is ORGANIZED
And Secures the appointment by
Council Of Committee to Com
slider the Feasibility of Max
Ing the bridge Free.


incorporates are ], Elwood Hughes, n,
B. Scott, John Mcclure and Henry
schmulbaCh, each holding one share OF
the par value Of 500 each, and w. D.
UpdegraR, W, p, Hubbard and John NJ.
Sweeney, each holding two shares, q
total so far subscribed to the capital
stock Of $1,000, while the privilege is re-
served Of increasing the stock by sales
OF additional shares from time TO time to
$4,000 in all,
The incorporators met yesterday pur'
suant to notice, and organized by choos-
ing as directors Capt, John Mcclure, w,
D, Updegraff, John NJ, Sweeney, w. P,
Hubbard and Henry schmulbach, The
Directors completed the organization OF
the company by electing Captain Nc.
Lure President, Mr., SchmulbaCh Vice
President, ]. i, Hughes Secretary and
N. B, Scott Treasurer.
The company last evening intimated
to Councllthat 1t was prepared to make
TO the city one OF the most captivating
offers ever made to any municipality,
The company's communication was first
presented in the Second Branch by Mr.,
Seeley, the well known member from
the Fifth ward, The communication
read as follows;
To- ne Aoaarable, Inc Mayor and the Council Of Ire
CIV u lPAHlfngi
We have now completed the plans for
new and first.class steel bridges connect.
ing the city to the Island and to Ktna-
vile, and propose to proceed at once to
their construction; and as II has been
suggested to us that many citizens de-
sired the city To secure free tEansporta.
ton for foot passengers to and from the
Island, we would respectfully request
that your honorable body appoint a
committee to confer with Capt. John
Mcclure, Henry schmalbach and John
NJ. Sweeney, committee appointed by
our Board Of Directors for the purpose.
Respectfully yours,
]. Z. HudHEs,
Secretary Wheeling Bridge Company.
This was accompanied by maps, plans
and drawings Of the proposed bridges
and their approaches. They show a
bridge crossing over the main channel
OF the river, which, with It's approaches,
starts on this side Of the river from a
point In Eleventh street near Main, and
on the Island side at the intersection OF
Ohio and South Penn streets, and Is
! 1928 feet long. The bridge proper has
three spans. The shore span on this
side of the river Is designed to be 225
feet in length; the channel span 525
feet the Island shore span 2g5 feet the
approach from the shore to the ipterseC-
ton OF the streets named, 71S feet, The
height OF the channel span above mean
low water, is 90 $40 feet; above high
water, 40 feet; the height Of the city
shore span above the P. O, & st, L.
tracks, 40 feet.
The plans call for q bridge with a
twenty:tiYe.foot roadway and two seYen'
foot sidewalks. Iron stairCaseg are pro-
yided for pedestrians who desire TO
reach the bridge from South Frontstreet,
saving them the walk back to South
Penn. The plans show the trusses TO
be capable OF sustaining great strains,
aud yet make graceful structure.
The second bridge crossing from the
Island TO Etnayille has also three spans,
but OF course Is not so long nor expensive
a bridge 10 the one over the main chan
mel. Il Is planned to run from q point
near the upper end OF the Island to q
point near the Ktna mill, crossing the
O. L. & W. tracks overhead.
This bridge, like the one over the
main channel, Is designed to afford ac-
commodqtion for a double street car
track, and will also have two sidewalks.
The drawings were all handsomely done
and attracted general attention,
Capt, John MoLure, AR. John d.
Sweeney and Mr.. w. D. Updegraff, OF
Pittsburgh, were present at the meeting
last night Watching the proceedings, but
did not have much to say.
Mr.. Sweeney was asked early In the
evening what was in the wind, and in
reply stated that the article In Yesterday
mornings INTELndENoEH relative to
the kick being made by the Island peo-
pic about paying heavy tolls on the sus-
pension bridge had given tho new COM
pany an idea or two that might BIO made
10 result in benefit to the city, the COM
pany and the people at large.
Mr.. seeley aid not speak Of any great
length, but what he said was very lnnch
to the point. There was offered 0 change
for the city To do what she should have
done long ago-afford her citizens free
way from one part Of the city TO the
other, aud no time should be lost In ac'
cepting. He moved that q committee
consisting OF three from the Second
Branch and two from the First, together
with President Cruise, disappointed as the
committee requested in Mr.. Hughes let.
ter. The motion went through with .
rush, and Messrs. eeeley, Maxwell and
Harrell, ofthe Second, and Terrell and
Robinson, Of the First, were appointed.