Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-28
fDHNEW RAILWAY CO.
ITS ORDINANCE FOR A LINE THROUGH THIS
CITY,
Presented in Council Last Night and Referred
to OOmmities-WOrk to Be Commenced in
Two Months and Completed in Six
To Cross the Suspension Bridge.

The new electric railway Company.
which has been so energetically build
ing It's line Oh the Ohio side Of the river
for some months past, last evening pre-
sented it's ordinance to Council for
right of way across the Island, and
through the city to the corner OF Nc
Culloch and Eleventh streets, around
the hill, with a ''loop" through the CEN
trail part of the city. The ordinance
came up in the First Branch, and was
referred to the Committee on Streets.
Alleys and Grades, and Railroads, for
and report. The company
has entered into an agreement with the
Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Company,
and the SHspen sion bridge will be prac-
tically rebuilt.
Section one of the ordinance, after
specifying that the grant on the part OF
the city is to j. K. Jolly, A. K. Leyda,
P. d. Nicols, A j. jolly and +. l..
Jolly, specifies the route OF the pro-
posed new tracks as follows:
Commencing at the eastern END OF
the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Com
pany's bridge over the Western
channel of the Ohio, river,
and running thence along
Zane street to the intersection of Zane
and Wabash streets, In the Seventh
ward of the city of Wheeling, ana
thence along Wabash street to its inter
section with Virginia street, and thence
along Virginia street to the western end
of the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge
Company's suspension bridge, and from
the eastern end of the said
bridge, on Tenth
street, to its intersection with
Main street, and thence On Main street
to its intersection with Eleventh street,
and thence on Eleventh street to its In
terSection with Chapline street, ana
thence on Chaplne street to its Inter
section with Fifteenth street, and
thence on Fifteenth street to its inter.
section with McCulloch street, and
thence on McCulloch street to its inter
section with Eleventh street; and
from the said intersection OF
Fifteenth and Chaplne streets,
running thence on Chapllne
street to its intersection with Sixteenth
street; thence on Sixteenth to its inter
section with Main street, and thence
crossing Main street to South street,
and along South street to its intersec-
ton with Fourteenth street; thence
along Fourteenth street to its interSec-
ton with Water street, and thence along
Water street to its intersection with
Twelfth street, and thence along
Twelfth street to its intersection with
Chapline street.
1.-The said grantees shall
maintain upon the said streets a single
track on each except on Virginia street,
on which there shall be double track,
which shall run along the centre OF
Wabash, Virginia, Fifteenth, South
and Twelfth streets, and on Main street
shall have its eastern rail at distance
of six feet six inches from the eastern
curb line of Main street, and on Sixteenth
street shall have It's northern rail six feet
five inches from the northern curb line
of Sixteenth street, and on water
street shall have its eastern rail- eigh-
teen feet from the curb line of Water
street. and on Chapine street shall run
in the center of the street, except that
between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
street it shall dverge to the east suffi-
GENTLY to permit curve into Sixteenth
street, at the north side thereof, with a
radius of fifty feet, into Eleven
tn street, at its intersection
with Main with radius Of forty-fve
feet, and shall cross Market street
with reverse curve having radius Of
fifty feet from the first and tifty-tve
feet from the second curve, and shall
curve into Chapline street from
Eleventh with radius of tifty-five feet,
aud into Fifteenth from Chapline with
a radius of fiftY-five feet, curving with
the same radius out OF Fifteenth TO the
left on Chapine, and into Sixteenth
with a radius of forty-five feet and into
Main street, from Sixteenth with a
radius Of forty-five feet, and then along
Main to South, curving into South
street with a radius Of fifty feet,
and the curves at the intersection Of
South aud Fourteenth streets, at the
intersection OF Fourteenth and Water
streets, dU Jue luleIccCliOu vi NdJoI
aud Twelfth streets, and at the inter-
section OF Twelfth and Chapline streets,
shall each have a radius of fifty feet"
It's then provided that the grantees
shall in good faith actually commence
the work OF making the said railway
track within two months from the date
of the acceptance Of this ordinance, and
have the same completed and street
railway cars in good faith running on
the same within six months from such
acceptance, said cars to be propelled by
electrical power.
1t is also provided that the fare shall
be FIVE cents upon the line in Wheeling,
excluding the "Back" river bridge, and
from any point on its line in this city to
any point on the line in Bridgeport,
Martins Ferry or Bellaire shall be but
ten cents There are the usual safe
guards on the part of the city, require
ments for paving and repaving, etc.
The city reserves the right to amend
the ordinance at any time, but is not
10 revoke any of the rights and privl-
leges granted by the ordinance.
A CONTRACT MADE