Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-22
TEE RAILWAY FIGHl'.
A RAY OF LIGHT As TO THAT MYSTERIOUS
TRAFFIC AGREEMENT"
A Paper, 'Drawn by Third Party" Said to O' IN
Cincinnati for Signatures Of Wheeling Rail-
way PsOpls-Ths Elm Grove East
Wheeling Ordinance.

The publication, in the morning
papers of yesterday, OF the detailed
mans Of the Wheeling and Elm Grove
Railroad company, for new lines on
East Wheeling streets. caused interest
in the street railway matters to again
nredominate over other local topics, and
from this time on until the meeting OF
Council, next Tuesday evening, there
promises to be good deal Of railway
talk heard about town.
Several things combined, during the
day. to create quite a diversion in favor
of the Elm Grove project, and the gen.
tlemen interested in that line were very
actively at work. East Wheeling
people were especially pleased when 1t
was learned from undoubted authority
that it was contemplated to put electric
cars on the Elm Grove line, running
from Market and Eleventh streets
through East Wheeling and around to
McCulloch and Baker streets, near
the stocK.yarGs, where there would
be a connection with the main
tracks of the motor line, and
this feeling was added to when it also
became known that. despite the strong
denial Of Mr.. J. X. Jolly, printed In this
paper few days ago, as to the existence
of a traffic arrangement, that q paper
drawn with that object ia view between
the Ohio railway people and the Wheel
ing Company, had been written by some
one described vaguely asa third party,
and that il had been sent to Cincinnati
for the signatures OF Messrs. Champion,
KemDie, and others interested In the
Wheeling Company, and that, when
signed by them, it would be laid before
Mr.. ]. X. Jolly and his business asso-
ciates in turn.
1t was also stated, during the day,
that there would be at least one East
Wheeling ordinance-that OF the Elm
Grove Company-before Council, Tues
dav night: there might be two, grow
ing out Of an agreement between the
Wheeling aud Ohio Com panies, II one
was reached; and it was possible that
there would be three, as in the event OF
failure to agree, by the Companies
named. the Ohio railway ordinance, FOR
route through Wheeling, would be
reintroduced, with the East Wheel
ing and McCulloch street branch re-
stored, and the Wheeling Com
panv. for the sake of keeping up the
fight, might also put in an East Wheel
ing ordinance. Ii seems scarcely pos
sibe that three ordinances, or even
two, could be gotten ready 10 time Tor
Tuesdays session, as Mr.. H. M. Rus
sell, who is the attorney for both the
Wheeling and Elm Grove and the Ohio
railway people, is out Of the city, and
won't likely be back until this evening,
but the Wheeling and Elm Grove paper
may be ready, and will undoubtedly be
given start.
A gentleman who has been watching
this unparalleled railway fight with some
attention, said yesterday, regarding II:
THE action OF the Wheeling and Elm
Grove Company is one of Sef-preserva-
ton. They have been content 10 do
business in the East End, and out the
pike, but have made little money in times
past, as they have been put TO great
deal OF trouble apd large expense TO get
their line in good shape. When the
Ohio people SHE'D their ordinance for a
city right OF way into Council, 1T con-
tanned q clause providing for line
from Chapine street, out Fifteenth TO
McCuroch, and along McCulloch
to Eleventh. That line would
amount TO nothing by itself, and 1t
was at once recognized as being but a
stepping stone 10 something more. The
friends of this ordinance saw that they
would have the Wheeling and Elm
Grove people to fight as we'll as the
Wheeling Company, and the East
Wheeling line was hastily Topped Off
Ii was too late, however, as they had
given themselves away, and there was a
combination of those friendly to the
Wheeling Company, the Wheeling and
Elm Grove Company and the Wheeling
Bridge Company, which smotherod the
Ohio ordinance ia the First Branch Of
Council, under Mr.. Twins motion to
indefinitely postpone. And mark you,
the very next day there was a confer
ence about the traffic arrangement,
which Mr.. j. X. jolly has said
through the REGISTER he knew
nothing about. Then, there came
hints in the papers that the Wheeling
Railway Company was talking about an
East Wheeling route, and other rumors
that II there was q traffic arrangement
between the Wheeling ard Ohio Com
panies, there would be an East Wheel.
ing route anyhow. The Wheeling and
Elm Grove Company seemed bound to
be hurt, in any event, in fight 10
which IL had taken no original part, but
was content 10 go on and give good SER
vice out the pike east Of the city, and II
now proposes 10 give something better
in the way Of an East Wheeling service
than anybody else has yet proposed, put
on electricity and make frequent trips
in that end Of town, and yet be in posi-
tion TO take passengers from
any and all companies at the cor
ner Of Market and Eleventh
streets-especially those passenger:
brought from across the river, either by
the Wheeling Railway Company, the
Ohio people, or both-and shoot them
out the pike to Wheeling Park. For
one, l feel about this way about it: II
the Ohio railway people are to come
into Wheeling, let them stop at Market
and Eleventh streets, and make their
traffic arrangement there with the
Wheeling and Elm Grove electric line
or, If the Wheeling and Ohio people gel
up combination, By the terms OF which
the Ohio Company will not get an
-. $1,000 ~. Anhnnlircr thnn lnt III q