Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-08-04
MARTINS FERRY.
A Newsy Budget from the Big Town Across
the River.

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pie who are of the opinion that the Board
of Education is acting in a manner which
displays considerable short sightedness IN
continuing to build new school house on
the school property in the First ward,
when it is taken into consideration that 1t
is within one hundred feet of the new Ter
minal Railway. Your correspondent TOOK
the trouble yesterday to discover as nearly
az possible all the facts in the case. What
effect will the railroad have upon the value
of building within q hundred feet OF
railway track 70 school purposes? lie
Bridgeport, az will be seen by refer
ence to the Bridgeport letter in
tO-dsy's paper, the Cleveland, LoLain
and Wheeling Railway yards in Bridge
port, located more than one hundred feet
from the Kirkwood Methodist Caurch, has
proved such nuisance to the church me
yards are used on Sundays that the Trus-
tees complained to Superintendent Town
send, and declared that they are SO much
annoyed that it is next 10 impossible to
conduct seryicesi in the buildi1g.
While in Bridgeport l stepped into the
building occupied By the Offices OF a. J.
Baggs, r. J. Alexander and Charlse j.
Heiniein. Trains nearly hundred feet
away made such 81 uprosr that coryersa-
t,On had to be discontinued while they
passed, and the smoke from TIE lOcOmO-
lives poured into the building and around
it until everything about the place is be-
griumed with SCOT, aad even the furniture
bears its stain. The trains are closer to this
buildisg than they will be to our new
house, but the general effect will be the
game on q smaller scale. This terminal
railway, as its name Adicates, will be USED
almost exclusively for shifting cars and
msking up trains, and The yards will ak
tend IS far as the school house at least.
This feature makes the proximity OF the
school building that much more objection
able for the reason that the annoyance will
be almost continual. Again, the lives OF
the children who attend the school will be
continually menSced by the presence OF
railway trains. True, O0losel Bisell has
made an overhead crossing st Fifth aAd
Centre streets, and has promised to bald
a fence, and has ehoHn a disposition to
look out for the safety of the children, but
how long will Mr.. Bissell De here 10 look sf-
ter such matters, or Tor that matter, be may
not in year be connected with the
railway at all. The natural tendency Of
all children, ID to place themselves, uneoa-
sciously perhaps, il danger, when danger
exists ct all. Fences, overhead crossings,
nor any other device will keep them of the
tracks any mora than paternsl admonitiOn
will keep them from bathisg Ia the river.
We already have several Thousand dollars
worth Of property located in this undesira-
bic position, but that does not excuse the
ioepardizing or as much more, and there
are a great many people who are of the
opinion that the property already there
will before long have 10 be abandoned for
school purposes. 4 member Of the Board
of Education yesterday, said: We will 20
on and put up ths building and If the rail-
road INJURIES us we will make them pay for
it. Very good idea If it is only practical
bic. WHAT are the possibilities IN the
case? Railroads are al0ays looked
upon as easy prey for the
would be damage collector, and 30 they
are when the Railway has not the best OF
the case IL this instance tEe Railway
company uses It's own ground exclusively
except at the crossing of Fifth street, aud
there it hss sahefed Council by buying
for the city new street and going ever
the intersection Of Fifth and Centre on an
overhead crossing. Every possible safe
guard has been thrown around the tracks
In the vicinity Of the school building and
it is only a matter Of conjecture what e
iury of twelve men would do in such a
case, besides q court might refuse to elbow
a Jury to give damages under such circum-
staNces. But this argument only holds to
the land and the building now there. Sup
pose the new building is put sud ita neSr-
ness to the RsilWsy units it for
the successful operation Of a school?
What are you going to do? The rail
road is there first, and it would be not wise
to sue the Cleveland and P.ttsbucg road
for damages to new building erected
eloag side lts tracks. TIE next question
is, what is % be done? There are several
answers. Allow the present crowded con-
dition of tls schools to exist until such
time as il ID demonstrated that the rail
rOsd will prove q nuisance or otherwise to
the building already there before you
spend five or six thousand dollars more.
Only the foundation has been commenced,
and IT would be wisdom to eubsidzs the
contractor and hold The work off than to
run chances for extending tbs whole price
of the building for naught. Another Is 10
wait ard ses if damages can be collected
on the old building and the ground before
Won make an acknowledgment that you
dome expect damage by putting up new
house where it ID bound to be worth less
than cost, if the old one suffers. Our
town is in many ways prOverblal for its
slO@ness, and we are of the opinion that it
should keep up its reputation in this mat
ter at least.
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It "a -uu0red here tnat the Republican
I Committee hat meets ia this city on Au-
gust seventeenth will possibly, if not prob
ably, depart in a very peIcsphble degree
from the rules which custom has caused to
govern such bodies Heretofore it has
been customary for Conventions of both
parties TO nominate for each Office, some
one of the usually numerous individuals
who have Beforehand announced them
selves willing TO serve tie county in some
capacity. This season, 80 usual, the self
STYLED candidates have ridden The
county in the effort to create santi-
mens in their favor. They have az usual
set up the pins and ali no doubt think
they will succeed in having chosen as del
eestes the mem who have promised them
support 10 the convention. There are,
however, large number of people who
are of the opinion that the Office should
hunt ths man, rather than allow the man
to hunt it, and that the Office will receive