Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-06
INTERESTING FACTS
Connected With the History OF the OLD ID
so. EmpIoyes-Other Railroad News.

so. EmpIoyes-Other Railroad News.
The net earnings OF the Norfolk and
| Western Railroad for the month OF
April were 1927, 1855, decrease OF $780,
! 600.
MeMechen will shortly be made the
end of the fourth division instead OF
Wheeling, and the trans-Ohio division
will probably end there also.
Christopher Smith, who lives on
Maryland Heights, opposite Herper's
! Ferry, is said TO be the Oldest living To-
connective engineer on the continent.
The West Virginia and Pittsburg rail-
road will be completed to Camden, on
the Gauley river, early in this month.
Camden is only ten miles from the IA
nous Salt Sulphur Springs.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
will soon be one Of the best ballasted
roads In this country. The crushed
J stone is filed In solidly between the ties
and clear out beyond the ends.
The railroad bridge has been COM
pleted across Elk ut the mouth Of
Laurel Creek and track laying IS being
pushed as rapidly as the inclement
weather will permit. Echo.
Two faithful old B., & o. railroad en-
ployse died in Martirtburg last week
James Mulligan, aged rs, for many
wears Superintendent of Bridges, and
John Linthicum, aged 81, who had run
an engine on the B. &, o. for over thirty
years.
The smallpox epidemic down the
river ia interferingt somewhat with
freight and Observation-Disclosures on por-
tion Of the Ohio river fine. The officers
of the Company are Working earnestly
N co-operate with thu local health au-
thorities in stamping put the disease.
The very wet weather that has pre-
vailed throughout ttt section through
which the Fairmont, tMorgantown and
Pittsburg is buildingsha has greatly him
dered active operate, ;, but this week
500 men will be put o. the work. The
Baltimore and Ohio has contracted with
Dewing & Son, Of Pcint Marion, Ohio,
for ], OOO, 900 feet OF bride timbers to be
used on the line.
The grading has been commenced on
the Beaver Creek road near DAVIS, but
only a small force is employed, and the
work is being done directly by the COM
pany. No contracts have been let. If
is proposed to build line from Davis
north to Stoney river, distance OF
about twenty-five miles, connecting at
the northern terminus with the West
Virginia and Pittsburg, near German.
There are now very good prospects
that a belt line will DO built around the
city of Parkersburg to connect the
Ohio River Railroad and the Baltimore
and Ohio. and to reach the heavier
shippers along the route. The project
is in the hands of active citizens, who
have interested the railroads in 1t.
The right OF way for the line has been
promised almost entirely without cost,
and the project is to take tangible form
within the next few weeks.
Work on the extension Of the Kan
awha and Michigan from Maiden to the
Gauley river, where 1t is to connect
with the Chesapeake and Ohio's Gauley
river extension, was commenced last
Wednesday week. The surveys were
finished the day before and the con-
tractor and his men were on the ground
to begin work the next morning. The
work on the Chesapeake and Ohio's
Gauley branch was begun few days In
advance, and work is to be pushed rap
idly on both lines.
The bridge over Elk river on the eau
ley extension OF the West Virginia &
Pittsburg is almost completed and a
work train was taken over it last Thurs
day. This bridge has been holding
back the work beyond the Gauley river,
which will now be pushed with all pos
sible rapidity. Trarklaying on the
Hickens division Of the Buckhannon
river extension Of this road has been
completed, and Blodgett 81 Co., who
were doing the work, have removed
their camp to beyond the Elk river
bridge. A contract has been made with
the Wrought Iron Bridge Co., of Can
ton, O., for the erection Of number OF
bridges on the Gauley extension.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is
having an elaborate display made for the
Exposition. 1t includes models OF roll
ing stock and motive power, also models
showing construction lof the first four
teen miles of road, which were opened
for traffic May "a, 1927, from Baltimore
to Ellicott Mills. i will show the
York" locomotive quilt by Phineas
Davis. The wagons" or coaches the
york" pulled, and which the horses
pulled before it was constructed, will be
represented by models on the strap iron
track. There will also be models OF
the 'Grasshopper" locomotive. The
first regular passenger coaches or
models Of them, will tlso be exhibited.
Samuel Doubleday Il the oldest living
employs OF the Baltimore 81 Ohio, and
William Ijams the neGy Oldest Double
day was the first fnisker ever employed
/ in railroad shop in che country, and
entered the Baltimore! Il Ohio service In
1880. Ijams was not; long after him,
and was the blacksmith in the compa-
ny's employ. Doubleday subsequently
became Superintendent Of the Winans
shops and Ijsms foreman Of the Winans
! smith shop. The forIher is eightV-two
and the latter eightylyesrs OF age, and
both were at the laying OF the corner
stone OF the Baltimore, & Ohio on the
| Fourth of July, 1sps. Christopher
Smith, who is over eighty, began with
the Baltimore & oIio in 1881, as a
driver, when there wji no steam power
on the road, and in Isl was a fireman
on the traveller" tlie third locomo-
time placed on the roJi. A year later
he became engineer % the "John Quin-
CIV Adams" one VI the earl
lest OF the grassGlppers engines.
Joseph York, Of Meadville, Pa,
became B. 81 o. nan in 1885, act