Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-06
COL. JOB ABBOTT,
VICE PRESIDENT AND CHEF RNGINEgR Oh
THl TERMINAL COMPANY,
Talks to the Register" Concerning the Pending
Controversy Over the 100000 Of Bonds
and Makes Very Plain ExpOsi-
ton Of the Situation.

turned from the East on Wednesday,
where he went for consultation with the
Eastern shareholders after the meeting
Of the County Commissioners Finance
Committee on August Goth. He met
the leading holders in Boston and New
York, and reports them as very much
concerned at the delay in the payment
of the last 100000 due on the Ohio
county subscription, on what seems to
them to be technical and trifing
grounds, entirely at variance with the
broad and liberal spirit in which they
have acted in their dealings with the
citizens of Ohio county. To REGIS
TER reporter, yesterday, Mr. Abbott
said:-
ut has always been understood by
the men interested in the Terminal
Company that the desire Of Ohio county
in making the subscription to the Ter
minal Company, was to secure the con-
struction of railway bridge over the
Ohio river, with terminals on the Ohio
side and In the city Of Wheeling, which
should be owned by neutral company
that would offer equal facilities to all
railways on the Ohio side for entering
Wheeling, and would afford the greatest
facilities for traffic connections for the
manufacturers and rail ways in Wheel
ing, and until the meeting on the Goth
ult., it had never been intimated to
the Terminal Company that Ohio
county ever expected that company or
ANY PARTICULAR COMPANY
to build a railway from Martins Ferry
to BowerstOn.
1.-THE agreement with Ohio county
was drawn with the utmost care in the
interests of the county, and was specific
in requiring the Terminal Company to
build the Ohio River bridge and termi-
mails in Ohio county, and no where tntl-
mated that the Terminal Company was
to build the BowerstOn line; but simply
specified that the last 100000 would
not be paid until new railway had been
built from the Ohio River bridge to
Bowerston ready for the passage of
trains.
"When the matter Of building the
bridge and terminals was brought be-
fore the Eastern capitalists in 1888,
there were two parties
ALREADY IN THE FIELD
for building the Bowerston line, the W.
& L. E. Ry, and S. p. & o. Ry., in
neither of which had the eastern capt.
talists who have furnished the money
for building the Terminal work any in
terest whatever, and as it was under
stood from good authority that the w.
& L. L. Ry. had placed it's bonds for
the construction Of the Conversion line
under contract binding that railway
to complete a line from BOwerston TO
Martins Ferry with the proceeds, 1t
was thought safe to assume that this
Bowerston line would be built without
the aid of the Terminal Company, ex-
cept so far as the terminals in Martins
Ferry were concerned, which would
put the Terminal Company in much bet
ter position to build such q bridge and
terminal system in the city Of Wheel
ing as would be ample to meet any fu-
ture requirements.
'Under this understanding of the sit
uation and what seemed to be the re-
quirements for meeting any wants like
~ to arise for a long period, it was de-
cided by the late Col. Bissell and his
Eastern associates to treat the whole
matter in
A BROAD AND LIBERAL SPIRIT,
and not in technical and strict man
ner limited by the express terms OF the
contract, and on the very start, the
Ohio River and Wheeling Creek bridges
and the Top Mill and Mount Wood tun-
nels were changed from single track as
first contemplated, TO double track
structures, thus involving in this work
alone, with the necessary constructions
on the Peninsula, more than the sums
required to be spent by the county
agreement on either the ohio River
bridge or the terminals in Ohio county,
so that the whole OF the great outlay
made by the Terminal Company on its
city branch line from the Peninsula
down Wheeling Crock through Chap
line Hill tunnel to its South Wheeling
connections with the B. & o., Ohio Riv
err, and p. w. w. & X. railroads has
been made wholly outside of any obliga
tion OF the Terminal Company in its
agreement with Ohio county.
again in carrying out its implied
agreements with Wheeling, the Ter
minal Company have
GONE FAR BEYOND
anything ever agreed or suggested in its
original inception, which contemplated
line down by Whitaker's mill through
Twentieth street to a connection near
Twenty-third street with the b. e. o.,
Ohio River and p, w. Ky, railways,
with grade crossing on Main street in
the center of the city, and without Of
fering any means of relieving the city
from the difficulties incident to the b.
& o. Railways operating on its present
! lines, with numerous grade crossings
and heavy traffic in streets in the center
| OF the city, whereas the double track
line built by the Terminal Company
through Chapline hill tunnel at an ad-
ditional outlay OF over half a million
dollars, avoids all interference with the
streets in the center Of the city, and will
eventually enable the b. 4 o. Railway
to handle all its through business
| through the city without any important
grade crossing, and no grades and cur
nature less than those on its main
lines.
1.-THE same spirit OF liberal treatment
was pursued by the Terminal Company
in the matter Of the Union station on
Wheeling creek, where 1t is expanding
over half million dollars, which was
NEVER ORIGINALLY CONTEMPLATED
by any agreement with either the city
or the county, and where il has gone TO
a large extra expense in providing tenn
pOrary station buildings with superior
| accommodations In order TO give the
public immediate benefit from this cen