The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-11
5THBI UIION.!..BE}RIDGEgCO.
Explains ID Detail j llto;theE Com
mittee on Railroads
HOW slT8WANTS no EXTEND
It's Limo Of Terminal Railway on the
,ssoutli sltlcgafter{ Getting Under I
ia Chapilncliill..pnrtlal Straight: \
Gnins of Caldwcll's l.uli.

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III very interesting meeting of the
Council Committee on Railroads was
held last evening in the chamber Of the
First Branch Of Council. The meeting
was held fol, the purpose Of hearing from
the representatives oil the Union Bridge
Company, which desires additional priv.
ileges from the city for tho extension OF
It's terminal railroad facilities on the
South Side, ms tols the extent
and nature Of those privileges. There
were present Messrs. Terrell chairman,
kenney, kreiter, Ankle, Seeley,t Tracy,
Faris and Brandfass,; OF the committee,
City Solicitor White, MI. "a. White, gof
the City Engineers office, President
Cochran, Colonel 4 Bissell, Chief En-.
gineer J0bA bbottand Engineer Durham,
OF tho, Union Bridge Company, Mr..
Frank J.B Hearne, Mr.. John Bodley.
President Cruise, OF the Second Branch
Of Council, Mr.. w. p. Hubbard, OF coun-
sci Of the company, and three or four
Councilmen not members OF tho com:
Inittcc. t5ii s! ~,
The attention Of the committee was
called TO the fact that large tracts Of
land situated in the Sixth aud Eighth
wards were recently purchased by Mr..
Frank J. Hearne; for the company; tho
company. desires to occupy this land
and b to that B end has s started +; q
tunnel through Chapline hill to reach
1t; to use the property after. reaching
itthe company. must have the right TO-
cross streets and change grades, An or:
dinance which had been prepared grant.
Ing the rights desired, was read by Mr..
Hubbard what the company wants
from tho city and desires to do is set
forth in the following synopsis OF tue
ordinance: 3. 4; $50 ..s
WHAT TIE COMPANY WANTS.
There are to be two tracks running
from point on the Oompany's line near
the works of the Whitaker Iron Com.
pany, thence by tunnel under Chap.
line hill and emerging into an open cut
near aud south OF Twenty.seventh street,
and west OF Moysten street; thence by
curve to the right, to and under Wood
and Twenty.eighth streets at their inter.
section, then by, q tangent to the inter.
section OF Eotfand Twenty.ninth streets,
crossing Jacob street about midway be-
tween Twenty-eighth and Twenty.ninth
streets; thence TO and across Chapline
street, about midway between Twenty
ninth and 5Thirty.ilrst streets thence
by q curve to the left, to and across the
Baltimore Il Ohio railroad at grade;
thence TO and across Thirty-third street
ut its intersection with the line OF Alley
Is 10 connection with the p, W..& KY.
and the Ohio River roads; thence with
one track Immediately east OF the tracks
OF the last named two railroads, To the
south corporation line Of the city. 3
& One track is desired from point near
the southEportal Tof the, Chapline hill
tunnel (starting in Wilson street, thence
TO the east side OF Woods street, under
Twenty.eighth street, TO and i across
Iwenty-ninth. street; thence into and
along Woods street to a point about $50
feet south OF Thirty.frst street; thence
BY! curve to the left to and across
Thirty'second street, to Sand across
fhlrty.third street to the easterly side of
McColloch street; thence by; one track
down the easterly side Of said McCol-
loch street Immediately east OF the east
erly of the two main tracks OF the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, to Thirty-seyenth
street: thence by reverse curve to Wet
eel street at Thirty.eighth street; thence
down 3Wetzel street to the southern
boundary line Of the city. & z,S5:.,S,
HOW STREETS MAY De CROSSED.
a switch, or spur. track is asked for
from point about opposite South Wal
nut street between Twenty-ninth and
Thirty.tirst streets on Woods street, run
ming thence northwardly across TWEEN.
ty.ninth street, west Of Woods street, to
the property OF said company, which
lies between Woods and Jacob Streets
The company may, for the purposes
aforesaid, make the necessary cuts, fills
and excavations, aud may excavate and
occupy SO much of:Wilson street as lies
between STwenty-seventh and Twenty
eighth streets as may be necessary to en-;
able the company to support the slopes
OF its cut, subject, however, to the con-
sent first obtained Of the owners OF the
property abutting on said portion OF
Wilson street and tho company NAV
pass it's lines under Twenty-eighti street
and Woods street, and at the respective
places OF crossings may raise Woods and
Twenty-eighth streets not exceeding six
and one-half feet, and shall construct and
maintain ut said crossing OF Twenty:
eighth and Woods streets for the full
width OF each street, suitable iron or
steel bridges. ~ 3:t5fsF3
GRADES TO he CHANGED. Il x y
81 The grade ofJacob street shall be con:
formed to the grade OF !. said railway at
the point OF crossing, and the grades OF
Eotf and Twenty.ninth streets, at the
point of said intersection and railroad
crossing, may; be raised not exceeding
two feet, to conform them to the grade
Of said railroad, and the grade OF Chap:
line street may be raised not more than
one foot to conform it to the grade Of the
road at that crossing, and Thirty.third
street at the point OF crossing, may be
raised to such height as may be neces.
ssary to enable the company to conform
its grades : to the grades Of the main
tracks OF the Baltimore 4 Ohio, the
Pittsburgh, Wheeling & Kentucky and
the Ohio River roads in that yicinity,l
All openings OF ;streets or ways 10; the
Ohio river, which are required of the
Pittsburgh, Wheeling 4 Kentucky rs to
its tracks from Thirty.third street to the |