Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-14
FROM THE RAILROADS,
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL THE LINES OF
WHEELING.
Mysterious Survey About the B. & 0. Depot-Ths
Messing Of the Freight Agens-EOes
About Employees and Officers.

ABOUT employees: Check Clerk
George Chew. of the c., L. & W., Is
able TO be on duty again after an ILL
ness. Harry Myers, of the W., B. 81
! T., is at work after an attack Of grip.
Edward Dugan, B. & o. operator, is
/ still not able to resume work. b. A.
! Riley, a B. & o. operator, has returned
/ from a trip to Chicago and is stationed
at Warrington. Yardmaster B. j..
| Patton is at Moundsville attending the
funeral of his brother-in-law, Ernest
| Jasper, a brother of w. r. Jasper, a
/ former yardmaster of this city, G. NJ.
Hite, B. & 0. employe, denies that he
/ is 70 be married. G. h. Trevey
Z. & O. brakeman, is taking vaca-
tioD. General Yard Master w. IL.
Jamisou is home from business trip 20
/ Newark. II. Z. Beard, assistant yard
master, will resume in few days after
a painful illness. John Navy, b. &
O. platform man, has bad attack OF
grip. G. w. Stevens is home from
! trip to Clarksburg. George st. Meyers
and wife are home from trip TO Pitts
burg. Harry Fitzgerald, Panhandle
clerk who has been sick, is again on
duty. A. r. Fink, also a Panhandle
clerk, is on duty after a sickness.
Thomas J. Kinds, the Ohio River Rail-
road conductor, is on duty again. Capt.
w. w. Wickham, Of the same road, is
on duty again.
A few days ago corps Of B. & o.
civil engineers came to this city and
spent three days surveying around the
depot. They took careful measurements
in the yards about the depot, and in
front Of it. The B. & o. officials here
claim they do not know the import Of
the surveyors. Many were the ques-
/ tIons asked the engineers, but they
kept stolid silence. 1t is a belief
among many that new depot was the
object. A person in authority TO know
stated that it was only question OF
| time till a new depot would be built
here, but be thought it would not be
soon, considering the dull times.
The Local Freight Agents Associa-
ton Of Wheeling territory hald It's re-
cent monthly meeting at Wheeling
Park. Ten agents from the city and
vicinity attended, aud their hospitality
was shared by their chief clerks in a
most elegant supper. The regular
monthly business was transacted. The
group of railroaders returned on the 10
O'Clock motor, having had most en-
joyable occasion. The next meeting
Will be held at the usual place.
TRAVELLING men in the city: T. r.
Laying, OF the Big Four, was among his
friends in the city yesterday. w. V.
| TafTner, Of the c. B. & O., and 81. M.
Matthews, also of the same road, left
yesterday morning after a business
trip to the city. George I. Bishop,
general agent OF the "Clover Leaf
Route, was in the city on business yes
terday.
STATE OF trade: Business is reported
stationary in the w. B. e. T. freight
department. A similar condition pre-
walls with the w. & L. E. and the c.,
L. & w. in the some departments. B.
& o. passenger traffic is dull and the
freight business is little brighter. Pas
senRer traffic on the Ohio River road
continues good.
Andrew Palmer, the w. s. E. G. con-
ductor, was strolling in the engine
house at the depot yesterday when he
fell into a large box filed with water.
There was four feet of water in the
box and he says it was real cold. 1t
disabled him for time.
Frank Richey, Panhandle brake
man, fell about a week ago, and badly
injured his foot He caught cold in the
injury, and is laid up, suffering much
pain. Itwas necessary to procure cab
yesterday TO get him home.
Allan Young, the we'll known w. B.
& T. employe at the Union depot, fell
through a trestle distance of several
feet a few days ago and was painfully
bruised. He is of duty as a result.
Samuel Harris, an accommodating
B. & 0. platform man, will be married
ia the holidays Edward Baker, also, of
the B. q o. freight department, is to
wed q popular young lady soon.
The large new travelling crane to be
placed near the Panhandle freight de-
pot will be ready for operation next
Monday. The stone foundation was
completed last evening.
Last Tuesday cars jumped the track
in the 3. & o. yards. Both freight cars
were wrecked and a couple OF railroad
ers made a narrow escape. The switch
was also damaged.
Brakeman Frank Jones, of the Pan
Handle, reported to have fallen mystic
riously from train last Tuesday night,
did not fall, but only got left at Wheel
ing Junction.
>. c. Beatty, yard master OF the Pan
Handle at Golfers, is able to work
again. NJ. J. Flnnerty, night yard
master at the same place is on duty
again.
THE Panhandle work train will be
taken of next Saturday evening. The
funds appropriated have been used.
The work will be- resumed next spring &.
Big preparations are being made for
the b. & 0 railroaders' ball al Mounds
VILE the 2Oth OF this month. Many
railroaders will attend from this city.
The skating rink craze has struck
Steub5nville with a violence. Many
WeIisburg rairoaders 60 there very
frequently to enjoy the sport
Manager H. Z. Weisgerber, OF the
w. Il +. G., is In PlttSburg on business.
c. o. Brewster, receiver OF the w. B. &
T., is In the city.
Z. J. McGown, assistant chief clerk
at the Panhandle freight Office, will
spend the holidays at his parents home
in Phiiadelphia.
H Hammond, formerly Pewiky
operator, now of Mansfield, Pa, who
has been visiting his friends, has re-
turned home.
Charles Schul, the popular c., L. &
W. employee in the freight house, viii
be married during the holidays, il is