The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-21
rKn 1upORrANT MATTERs

Considered by Council COmmlttOss-Ths
Camden Company's Pipe Line and the
Elm Grove switch.
At the last meeting Of the City Coun-
Gil resolution was presented by Mr..
Farrell, at the request Of Judge Cochran,
President Of the Bridge and Terminal
Company, requiring the Camden Con.
solidated Oil Company to remove from
the streets a pipe line which counectsits
refinery ON Nineteenth street with the
Baltimore & Ohio yard. north OF Seven
tenth. This pipe line has been oper.
ated for seventeen years, having origin
ally been laid by permission OF the City
Council, the ordinance granting the
right specifying that Council might'at
any time require the company 70 remove
Il upon giving sixty days notice. MT.
Farrell's resolution was in view Of this
proyiso, and required the removal Of the
pipe in sixty days.
The resolution was referred to the
Committees on Railroads and Streets.
Alleys and Grades, Jointly. These Com
mi.tees met together yesterday in the
chamber OF the First Branch Of Council,
to consider the resolution and also the
proposed ordinance grantngto the Elm
Grove Railway company the right to lay
a switch from its track east Of Eoff street
ON Sixteenth to the west side OF Six
teenth street along the = & 0. property
Chairman Farrell presided, and Messr9.
Brock, Caddle, Jefferson, Campbell,
O'Kaue, Irwin, Kenny and Filan were
the other membera OF the committee
present. City Solicitor Riley looked on,
while Mr.. W. P. Hubbard and President
r. Il, Cochran represented the Bridge
and Terminal Company, and Mr.. Isaiah
Warren and Judge ]. ]. Jacob the Cam
den Ooniolida.ed Oil Company.
Councilman Happy was an interested
observer, and the Wheeling & Elm
Grove Railway Company was repre-
sented by General Manager Gillelen
Mr.. Rsymann was also present, anc
, james McAdams and Mr.. J. +. Clatol
were on hand to look alter their inter
ests as owners OF property on Sixteenth
/ street near the location of the proposed
: switch.
Judge Jacob, on behalf Of the oil com
r psuy, objected to the removal OF the pipI
i | line, and advanced the idea that as thu
' railroad company had changed its NAM
r from one indicating general system Il
the local title, "Tho Wheeling Brldg
and Terminal Railway Company
must have changed It's plans 10 includ
only the local lines.
Responding to this Judge Cochran
u said the new name was chosen becans
]. the company desired TO make Wheeling
!. as prominent as possible iu.the acheme
% q was the aim to do for Wheeling AMI
this State and the country at large wha
the Richmond Terminal system ha
done for that city and State and tina
IS section Of country. There was Eailroat
. with a local name which had yet owe
e 5 600 miles OF railroad tracks; he bad re
e gently made the statement that 1t ha
,, over BOO miles, but he had since learnet
y that Il had ten times that much. IN
change OF the name here did not indi
cate the abandonment Of the prolect Il
h build a road to Couneilsviite, nor ha'
that project been abandoned.
Mr.. Hubbard said the oil compan,
!, was endeayo,ing to delay and embarras
;. the railroad by appealing the case In tn
7 Circuit Court here to the Suprem
y Court Of Appeals. That company ,woult
doubtless set up as one thing tending t
!. increase the value Of the refinery, IN
. existence Of this very pipe line, whlcl
it had by grace Of the Council: !
Council would order the removal OF tn
pipe he felt sure the case would not b
It appealed. The Terminal company de
sired simply to gain time.
The committee took up the matter o
5 the Elm Grove Company's desired Six
/, teenth street switch, and after the OF
dinance presented by the company hat
p been read through the committee ant
{ the Others present adjourned 10 tho sitt
OF the proposed switch. Here Meeers
4 McAdans and Olator explained thei
reasons for opposing the switch, aud Mr
/. Gillelen showed why 1t was importan
Z for the company to have It.
/ Upon reasaembling in the City Build
/, II ing the committee considered the two
propositions before 1t at some length
j When 8 vote was taken on the pipe:linI
removal resolution, the COMPUTED
! agreed TO recommend to Council that Il
I adopt the resolution with the provisc
that 1t shall not be served on the oil
! company for sixty days after the date O.
! it's passage. AS the company has sixty
days in which to remove pipe alter the
, notice is served, this would give 1t toul
months from the passage oil the tesolu'
ton by Council. :,
The members Of the committee all
voted to reject the Elm Grove switch
ordinance except Messrs. Brock and
o'Kane.