Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-05
THE RAILROAD WORLD.
What is Being Done by West Virginia
and Nearby Lines.

and Nearby Lines.
Work will soon begin on another large
. building for the b. & o. at Benwood.
The B. & o. and Panhandle each had
big excursion business from Pittsburg
yesterday.
Only nineteen miles of track remain
to be laid to complete the Ohio and
West Virginia road.
The B. e. o. will abandon after
Wednesday, trains Nos. 200, 201, 202'
2O3, 2O4, POS, and 206, on the Washing
ton, D. c., branch.
All the roads entering Wheeling will
have big passenger business this wees
on account of the State Fair, and tbs
week will round out the summer excur-
sion business very nicely.
The railroad bridge at Powhatan, o.,
is expected to be completed in few
weeks, aid the road will be open Tor
travel by October /, when trains Will
run from Belaire along the Ohio river
to Powhatan.
The compilation of the July accident
record shows total of - people killed
and $50 wounded. OF the killed 30 were
employees, 5 passengers, and IL
"others." OF the wounded II were en-
ployes. So passengers, and Is ''others."
Clarksburg is to get her much talked
of railroad depot at last, and work will
be commenced on the building immedi-
ately. 1t will be erected jointly the b.
so. M. r.. and W. Va. and 81 p. Rail-
road Companies. The Clarksburg En-
n.irer says S236, 600 will be expended on
The work.
Senator Camden, in an Interview in
the Baltimore Herald, says that the
Gauley extension OF the West Virginia
and Pittsburg Railroad will be COM
pleted by October /, which will finish
the work for the present. The next
step. he said, would be to build an eX-
tension to connect with the Chesapeake
and Ohio.
The Pennsylvania company is work
ing big force of men between Pitts
burg and the Ohio river preparing the
road-bed for another track. Work on
the additional trackage made necessary
to handle the Worlds fair business is IN
a very forward state, nearly all the la
Dor connected with the widening OF tun-
nels in Eastern Oeio having been COM
pleted.
1t is reported that the Chesapeake
and Ohio is about to have trouble with
It's telegraph operators. The Order OF
Railway Telegraph Operators is strong
on that system. and the Grievance Com
mittee Of that order lately prepared
schedule OF wages for consideration by
General Manager Stevens. This pro-
vded an increase ranging from So toSlO
per month. This application has been
forwarded to Grand Chief Ramsey, o.
r. r., for approval, when it will be
sent to the Chesapeake and Ohios Cen
eral Manager.
1t turns out that the press dispatch
announcing that foreclosure proceed
ings had been begun by f. X. Stearns,
OF New York, on a mortgage OF $3.50, 600
on the property Of the Terminal Com
pany, was misleading. According to
the representatives Of the companies in
New York, the foreclosure proceedings
are only friendly suit brought by Mr..
Stearns against the Martins Terminal
and Ferry Company, which is subsidiary
TO the Wheeling Bridge and Terminal
Company, in order TO secure some real
estate property lying in Martins Ferry.
The report of the Chesapeake 81 Ohio
for the fiscal year, ending June so last,
is out with commendable promptness,
and gives full details Of operations and
finances. On January last we pub
lished some notes on the cOmpany's lines
and management, concluding that "the
traveller who goes over the road with
his eyes and his mind open cannot fail
to be deeply impressed by the holiness
of the projectors and the Skill of the en-
gineers Of the original lines and by the
great promise of the present property.
The report before us shows that this
latter impression was well founded.
Gross earnings have increased in the
aggregate, and also per mile of road,
being now twice what they were in 1857,
the last year of the receivers.
Gross earnings per mile
were S7,76O in 1890, $500
the next year. and 5000 this
year. Net earnings have increased in
sLllt RItdlcI ptOpOl Iioil OCN"uSO NSSH
omieS of operation have been made pos
sible through liberal yet judicious ex-
penditures of money. The funds for
improvements have been received from
the sale of bonds, but also to an impor-
tant degree from net earnings. About
$500, coo was taken for this purpose In
1891 and about $780, 900 in the year just
closed. Bridges have been rebuilt and
trestles filled at an expense Of SlS5, 600;
balasting has been steadily carried on;
S156, 900 was paid for 75-lb. rails, exclu-
sive of labor; $3.50, 200 was expended up
on new stations, and similar work and
extensive rem ewals of equipment made
at cost of S225, Goa remarkable
record for road that was in such d
condition four years ego that trains
enough to earn interest on its debt
could scare ely be moved over tie road.
BEECHAM's. PILLS sell well because