Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-17
rHn RAILRoD WORLD.
Notes OF Local and West Virginia Lines
and Their Employees.

management to add an additional
passenger car to the Elkins-Cumberland
land.
1t is reported that C. P. Huntington
| stated at Huntington last week that he
would have cars running to Logan Z.
H. before cold weather. This is i'm
portant If true.
This morning a large additional force
Of men will be put to work on the Ben
wood extension OF the Terminal rail-
road. The work is being pushed In
very energetic manner
The freight business seems to DC on
the increase on all the local lines, and
particularly on the Ohio River and
"Pewiky." More freights come and go,
too, on the Plttsburg division OF the b.
g. O., than for good while back.
j. E. Jones, of Bsllaire, received on
Saturday evening the confirmation OF
his appointment as general foreman OF
the B. & o. shops at this point, to sue
coed A. z. McDermott, who goes TO
Chicago to accept similar position
There is talk of the Norfolk and
Western moving their machine shops to
Bluefeld, Mercer county, this State. on
account of the willingness OF the people
| of Roanoke, Va, to give hunoreo
thousand dollar subscription to the
Chesapeake and Ohio to como to their
place.
A string OF fatalities has struck the
brakemen on the G. & o. railroad and
within very short period several have
been seriously If not fatally injured. IL
is the superstition OF railroad men
where an accident happens two others
will follow and IL there be anything In
this belief 1t certainly has been fuihlied
in this instance.
Wonder why the Panhandle Rail-
road Company does not have better ac-
colnmodations for its passengers at
Wheeling Junction? There is much
changing of cars at that point, and
with no guide boards or any one to an
nounce the departure of trains, 1t is q
puzzle to strangers to know winch
train to ake.-HancoCk Courier.
The report that has been circulated
that Captain Ham Rose, the popular b.
& O. passenger conductor, had been Of
fered $40, 600 by the South Penn Com
pany for q tract Of land he owned near
! Cherry Camp is said to be fake, and
was started by Captain Ed Pickett In
order to get even with Captain Rose for
a huge Joke he had on Captain Ed
Parkersburg Journal.
The B. & o. railroad is moving right
along with it's improvements at Harper S
Ferry. The old Potomac hotel is being
torn down to make room for the new
track, and the livery stables Of Messrs.
Jones and Cummins have been demol-
isbed. Several gangs Of workmen are
blasting the way for the tracks at the
foot of the bluffs, and all the work Is
being pushed rapidly. The tunnel on
the opposite side of the river is about
half finished.
Cololonel Parter, superintendent OF
construction of the West Virginia Gen.
trial Railroad, has forty men engaged In
changing the line OF the North and
South Branch county turnpike about
twenty miles from Cumberland. The rail-
road at this point will zig-zag the old
county road, and portion OF il had to
be condemned. Within the next two
weeks, it is said, five hundred men will
be put to work on the bed Of the pro-
posed extension OF this road east.
A special train of sixteen cars left
Baltimore last week loaded with full
size reproductions Of historical locomo'
tiyes for the Baltimore and Ohio ex'
hibit at Chicago of the worlds rail-
Ways. Other carloads preceded them,
and this week Major J. g. Pangborn
expects to forward another train load
OF reproductions, together with num-
Der of original old engines. In all there
will be ffty-eie bit examples showing the
evolution and development OF the loco
motive.
For some time It has been claimed
that the Norfolk and Western would
acquire the c., p. e. V. road and thus
get a line into Cincinnati from Ports
mouth, but 1t now seems that deal
has been made between the three c
road and the c., P. & V. For several
wears the three Cs have been negotia-
ting for the Ohio and Big sandy line
from Ashland to Richardson. IL seems
that this deal has been made which will
put the three Cs into Ashland. Now
the c., p. & V. will be extended up to
Ashland and a through line formed be-
tween the South Atlantic and Cincin-
natl.
The recent action Of the Norfolk and
Western in surveying general side lines
and track roads TO newly open coal
fields along the line, has given rise TO
the reports that such feeders will be
put down at any point on the line where
the investors will establish such indus
tries. The Norfolk and Western is rec
ognizing the necessity Of catering tothe
wants OF the capitalists. and Is in con-
sequence gaining not only good will ont
good and steady business. Hall a doz-
en- new sites are already selected by op-
orators upon the line as locations OF
great worth that will be worked with
out stint as soon as the necessary ar
! rangements can be made. The Nor
folk and Western is preparing 10 put
down branch lines to all OF these al
ready established and now in operation.
To Mr.. Charles Dunlap, formerly OF
Wheeling, now General Superintendent
of the Rock Island railroad system, the
following is a gracious tribute: 1.-The
| Headlight believes there is no man In
Western railroad circles who is more
popular with the general public person
ally and in official relations, and held
In higher esteem by the employees Of the
road, than Mr.. Charles Dunlap, General
Superintendent of the Rock Island rail-
way. He is asproaehable and genial,
as common as an old shoe run down at
the heel, and though he insists on thor
ough system in all railway details, nc
employe has ever known the big and
kind-hearted General Superintendent tC