The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-06-24
ITS PROGRESS lsIOCHED.
1ho terminal Railway Company Aban.
dons its Union Station Plau, on Account
OF tho Tack Factory AwnrI-A Serious
d.

A"o Aerm'nh' hallway Company Aban
dons its Union Station .Piau, on Account
OF tho Tack Factory Awnr,l-A ssriou,
Setback. IH'
There has been good deal OF specu,
lation about tho effect Of The award Of
HS,l3O, made by the Commissioners
last week In tho case Of the Terminal
Railway Company, against the Norway
Tack Company. It was known that
Judge Cochran, President Of the Ter.
minal Company, had offered the Tack
Company $4,000 for the ground, and
the discrepancy between this and
$4,000 was 30 great that there was n
good deal Of anxiety 10 know how the
resul It would DO received by the railway
people. HI
Yesterday Judge Cochran returned to
INC city from n visit 10 his homo at
Toledo. An lSTELLidEycEa reporter
called on him last stevening. and asked him
how the company regarded the award
Ihe iirst Information had OF it,"'
SAID tho Judge, twas In n letter from
Col. Bissell. He expresses his aston;sh.
ment at the figures, and gives it as his
view that we ought not to accept the
award: I teleeraphed him my concur. |
renee in that view. He says he has
written to Mr.. Abbott TO change all tbs
plans, leaving out the Union station at
Market and Eighteenth streets and the
approaches 10 1t. The Colonel remarks
In his letter that Mr.. Arbcnz still has his
property, and the Tack company can
keep theirs. We changed our plans,
you remember, radically, on account OF
the hitch at the Arbenz place, mud VIC
will have 10 change them as radically ut
the tack factory, but Colonel Bissell 70.
ters here to one feature which has con.
ISOLATION in tho will have about $500.
O00 less money to raise ON account OF
this change"
II suppose" said the reporter, at is
TOO early to Say what you will d." o..
Yes; but We can say what we won't
10. 1t would be great pity to convert
property go valuable for manufacturing
purposes as the Tack Compauy's turns t!
out to be, to such mean use as u mod.
ern union railroad station, and 30 we
will not build it. l offered the Tack
Company SCI. 900 and the vacant lots OIL
.iie Southwest corner of Main and /
Twentieth streets, better site than
heir present one, they to take off their I
buildings and machinery; or $4,000 )
'ash for the bare ground, without the t
OF on Main street. WIS advised then 4
hat my offer was high. We have aimed j
o be fair with the people here, and have /
.ald Ia many cases twice as much for .
property as 1t was worth, but in this case /
re shall simply drop that part Of our t
'roject which required the Tack Com. T.
'any's ground" .
THAT will be severe blow to Wheel.
ng's hopes" oh
And it is a severe blow to us, but we
annot help that" .
It will be regarded as a public calamity ),
the award OF the Commissioners does :.
way with the projected double track {
toel bridge over Wheeling creek and q
he elegant modern union station at t.
larket street, but under the circum. p
tances OF course the Terminal Company. y
annot be criticised for its decision. Nor q
las any suggestion been heard that r
GEMS to offer any other solution Of the t
|ifficulty than that arrived at by the
company.
1t was learned yesterday that Judge
cochran has written aletter to the Balti. il
more 4 Ohio company on the subject OF E
the strajghtenisg OF Cald-
velrs run to the river. Tho city has y
contracted to have it straightencd to the '
lley west OF Chapiine street. Judge
cochran proposed to the Baltimore & =
Ohio company, il the latter would con-
inue the work under its tracks at once,
hat the Terminal company will pay
'art Of the cost, furnish material for
old embankment and build the em.
'ankment where the old bridge now t
>. This would very much improve the t.
property on both sides OF the new h
hanuel. -,