Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-02
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AGAIN.
A General Discussion Of The Matter La Tsning,
and an Adjournment Taken I
Monday Afternoon.

The Council Committee on WI .rves
met in the Chamber Of the First I anch
OF Council, last evening, for TIL pur-
pose Of hearing and considering the
proposition from the Pittsburg, Wheel
ing and Kentucky Railroad Comply,
10 be allowed further grant atkhe
north end Of the wharf, at
and near the foot Of Eleventh
street. 20 be used for railroad par
poses, and particularly 10 aHgd
the Company the necessary room Iof
the construction OF new depot-Some
thlng the Railroad Company has been
anxious 10 DO for two or three years
past. ,,,.,..
There were present, IN addition 10 the
membership Of the Con- mlttee' Clty 90
lieitor White, W. =. HUBBARD, sUen'
Alfred Caldwell, j. ID. Ewing, wharf
master Crockard, Henry X. List, Joseph
Sueidel and Daniel c. List.
Mr.. Dobbins, President OF the Board
NJ Commissioners, briefly stated the OBJ
iect Of the meeting. the matter having
reached Council and the Committee
through the Board, and the subject thus
Introduced, MIR. w. 2. Hubbard, for the
Railroad Company, submitted a plat OF
the locality about the foot OF Eleventh
street. The plan, as Mr.. Hubbard ex-
plained IL, asked for piece OF ground
west of the present railroad track from
the Hotel Windsor alley north, the strip
beinQ eight feet wide at the alley,
twenty-one feet wide at the loot OF
Eleventh street, and eleven feet vide at
the north end OF the proposed grant,
about midway between Eleventh street
and the steel bridge. Along the river
edge Of this proposed grant II was pro-
posed TO build stone retaining wall,
and east Of the new tracks a covered
train shed will be built, about 500 feet
long. Still east OF this shed, at the foot
OF Eleventh street, the new depot
woufi be built After an examlna-
ton Of the plat, very general discus
sion of the matter ensued, Whartmas-
ter Crockard expressing the reasons
which actuated river men 10 oppose the
grant. Chief among these reasons was
abe claim that with the proposed retain
ing wall In existence, there would be no
place for boats to land, except right IN
the mouth OF Twelfth street. where the
street was low, and In high water land
ing could not be affected. Mr.. Crock
ark also URGED the view that already rail-
roads had encroacissssS3 E5Jn Goth Ire
north and south ends OF ,he
wharf, and now il was proposed
10 still further hamper and Ie-
strict river commerce.. Mr.. Hubbard
combatted these views, urging that
there was room enough on the river
front for both the boats and the rail-
roads, aud gave his reasons for that be-
lief. During the discussion Mr.. Dob
bins recalled that before the paved
wharf was extended below the
Hotel Windsor alley, there was enough
room for the river business, although 10
was three times as large then as now.
To this Mr. CrOckard retOrted that the
ubpaVed portion was used about as
much as the paved portion.
Among the propositions discussed was
one 10 cut of q corner OF the property
az the southeast corner OF Water and
Eleventh street, move the street little
east, aud the proposed tracks cOrre-
spending distance east, thus relieving
the north end Of the wharf, that
much. Mr.. Hubbard thought this
would make an Objectionable curve In
the track. but said he would have TO
consult Mr.. Becker, the CompanY'S en-
gineer, on the matter.
After some more talk, the Committee
adjourned until Monday afternoon AZ 3
o'clock to go over the ground.