Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-16

nletelv changed and made so impractlcapie
for train operation by the proposed %. q
n route that if il is carried out my ADVICE
ne engineer of our Company Will De 10
abandon any line on the north bank OF tne
creek and thereby any attempt to furulsh
passenger and local freight facilities for
the Terminal system, and TO operate IL
wholly for bulk freight business, as at nrst
intended. leaving the Ohio railway lines
and other lines seeking entrance to the Guy
to settle the question of terminal faclliues
for themselves"
"What practical location would be avail
able for any other railway or terminal COM
pany in the city in the event of the propos-
ed B. & o. route being adopted"
Il have studied the whole ground over
along the river and creek banks from
the Top mill to the southern city limits,
and cannot now see any goou
solution of the situation suggested by your
query. Any good union termlnai mus
have practically level ground of sufficient
extent to give passenger, freight and tram
wards on a line of sufficient length to allow
of handling the engines and cars, and the
Ohio river bank or Wheeling creek banks
are the only grounds Of this character SUM
GENTLY near the centre of the city to suit
the public convenience The Ohio river
bank is already crowded beyond all prac-
tical limits by the B. & O., Pewiky and
Ohio River lines, and the proposed b. y y.
route would take up the available station
grounds on the south bank OF wheeling
creek, and make the north BANK unavall-
able for station purposes by occupying
grounds necessary for train yards, and cut
ting across at grade any approach from tne
opposite creek bank"
n. g tho
posed concessions to the Terminal Company
practically give them command OF the Ter
minal business of the city"
Undoubtedly this Company TO which such
rights are given will have the most desira-
BILE position for business, and it is for the
citizens of Wheeling TO settle now for all
future time as to whether their interests
will be best secured by placing this situa-
ton in the hands of strong and neutral
terminal company, in which the city ana
county is largely interested, whose inter
ests are wholly in getting as many differ
ent lines as possible TO come in ana use lts
terminal facilities, who is able and willing
to provide all the needed facilities as needed
and who has never yet failed to do all and
more than its agreement with the city and
county required; or whether the city shall
turn over for the second or third time the
command of the situation to corporation
whose interests are antagonistic to the en-
trance of any competing line into the city,
and who has already been granted two OPP
portunities by the city to solve this.
problem, and allowed the grants TO lapse.
The plans outlined by the Terminal Com
pany are not laid out in the interest Of any
special railway, but would afford ample
and equal facilities to any railway desiring
to use them, the Terminal Company being
a neutral party having no interest in any
railway coming into the city, and offering
the same terms to all for the use of its IA
cilities, and the growing feeling among
railway men is that terminal companies are
the true solution of the question of termi-
nal facilities in any important and grow
ing city, as it is impracticable in many
cases land especially in city of the rough
topography of Wheeling) for each of sew
eral lines to secure terminals desirably sit
uated with reference to the business cen
ters while terminal company can furnish
each of several lines with most ample
terminals at far less cost THAI each line
could provide separate terminals of its
own