The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-04

Union bridge project. rs The eomn}s,;on
o! inc Bridge and Terminal, meant n
release OF wheeling from the yilc bonI.
ave IN wh'ch that company hal held he,
tnr nearly forty years. TGr B,ltimor" .
Ohio company las been too shrowd IN
openly fight this enterprise, but ,rnN IN IN
hrr Selfish policy, sho now /, ,nakr". n
movement TO cripple and make lao far n
she can), the use Of tho terminal road n
hardship instead OF a bencii. to our busi'
ness community.
an n attorney VI that company employs
'he City Engineer to make Il d,al OF n
proposed SECOND track on Sixteenth
street., west OF Market, to the creek
oahR. Armed with this and an ordir.
ance granting the uss OF Sixteenth street
70 the company. he goss 10 the Chair.
man OF the Committee on Contracts
notifies him TINT tho city IA pla"i"un n
part oil the north abutment OF tl,e aIa;n
I'rret bridge on ground belonging 10 Tho
Baltimore Il Ohio company, AMI pr-
poses that Council pass tho ordinance
'or the privilege OF using n patch II
ground lying on the bank and In tho btd
Of The creek. The Chairman calls h.s
committee together and almost unani.
mously tho ordinance Is endorsed and
its passage recommended TO Council
the reason for charging this business en-
the Democracy Is that the attorney. ny
engineer, chairman OF the committee
and four OF its members are Dsmurr IT,
We do not claim that this movement n
party one, but politics have so con
rolled our city Affairs in this and the
asst Council that tho majority hns In, n
. 'uncil. A u
The Committee on Contracts, at its re.
'ent session, had no evidence before
t that tho Baltimore & Oaio c,mpany
'%ned the ground. The city has ha1
possession nf the most ol il Tor thirty
'ears Tor sewer purposes and for ten
'eats ior drainage from the water main.
The part referred to Is on the bank cf
he creek. So far as tho part in the bed
Il the creek is concerned, it is extremely
doubtful ii the Baltimore 4 Ohio COM
'any owns one foot of it. 49,
Ii the Baltimore 4 Ohio com,anv..
tile to the gtound is good, would it net
's more like u business transaction 10
ny to the company. the city wishes 10
'uy this ground aud will give you your
rice ior 1t, and in tho event OF refusal
ssll, then 50 on aud condemn it, than
or standing committee OF Council.
'lthout any authority, to hold STIR
hamber sessions with tho attorney of
be Baltimore & Ohio company and at
smpt to sell out the city, when peopIe
moose them to attend to our public
fairs? f0~
It is said that the company intends IN
uild stone wall down each side OF tho
reek from Main street to its present
assenger depot, place Il DOR over ths
ed ot the creek aud make new depot
yer the creek and ou the ground re-
emily purchased on the north bank of
nc creek. ii this Is true, then the new
'ack on Sixteenth street viii! be used
,r standing passenger trains on, aui
hereby obstructing The way over the
lain street bridge. There Is not half
pom enough for an ordinary passenger
ain IRON the present passenger station
yer to Main street.
When the bridge is completed with
~ PtSoSns oSh ou clAteeutl Gtfeet, the
'aer track from the east side Of Nam
treet on Sixteenth 10 South and tho
treet car track on the bridge, the ap-
roach from upper MAin street wit ps
6strncted enough, without the addition
{ this second track.
The object Of the B. & o. Co. is too an.
'arent-with the present track. the nro.
'osed switches on Sixteenth and South
treets and this additional track on SIX
een,h, the hauling OF freight from tho
Jnion passenger depot on the creek
ank. east Of; Market, will be made go
Troublesome that many shippera will re-
use TO have goods sent over the ros,Is
sing that depot. The county OF Ohio
las SSO9, GOO invested in that bridc, and
criminal. The B. 4 o. company has IT.
moved from the city her shops and ey-
rythlng else which could bs taxed to
sslst in paying the subscription to the
Bridge company. Willthe people coun-
enance move on the part OF the B. 4
}; company to cripple an enterprise ia
'hlch the county has 80 large an invest.
lent?
Wheeling, Sept. 3.