Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-02
THE RAILROADS.
NEWS CONCERNING WEST VIRGINIA COR
PORATIONS.
And Local Notes Mainly Of a Personal Ma
turs, Cleaned From City
Lines.
Local bnsIness Is rapidly growing.

| stand, visited MISS Ellie welsh, Vi war
renton, yesterday.
Conductor b. S. s. Smith, Of the w.
& L. E.. is preparing to go for a grand
hunt in u few days.
The force Of carpenters will again re-
sumo work this morning on the Ter
minal extension to Benwood.
The through freight traffic over the
| Ohio River Extension has almost
doubled within the past month,
Conductor Chef Campbell, OF the c.
L. & W., has 3 very painful hand,
| caused by a boil or q carbuncle.
Conductor Charles Fitch, OF the
Wheeling and Lake Erie, will go for a
visit to the Worlds Fair in q few days
VIII Sheetz, one Of the n. & W. fire.
men killed during the recent Roanake
riot, was buried in Shepherdstown on
Friday.
The Norfolk and Western railroad re-
ceived three handsome combined Dag
gage and mail cars Tuesday afternoon
They were built by the Pullman car
works of Illinois.
]. A. Hunter, who had been In the
active service Of the B. 81 o. railroad
for 2s years, until recently, was In town
last Thursday, the visitor OF Aston G.
Dayton. barbour Democrat.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie yard en-
CINE, with a full crew, will be put on
| again this morning, with S~teubenville
as headquarters. This engine has been
off for six weeks. The reason for this
is that tie Mingo steel plant Is to re-
sumo.
The B. & O. will run popular Worlds
Fair excursions on the 4th, 10th, 18th
and cath, trains leaving at $50 a. m.
and $3.50 D. m. This series will be the
last during the continuance OF the Fair,
and a big demand for tickets is antici-
pated.
NJ. S. Gillet, formerly the efficient
ticket agent at the Terminal depot,
came down Yesterday evening to see
his old friends and to call or particular
lady acouaintances. He is now freight
and passenger agent of the W.. 81 l.. h.,
at S~tubenville, is doing well and has a
/ good position.
R. D. Cook, the genial express mes
senger, who has acted in this capacity
on the W.. & l.. E. road for the river
division for the last eight months, will
take a route from this city to Toledo,
O., on the main line, next Thursday.
He now lives at Steubenvllle, but he
will remove to Toledo soon.
The express train from Toledo was an
hour late yesterday morning, and that
Q~ood-natured conductor, A. A. Gsus,
took a run up to Warrenton to walt.
He entertained a good audience during
the wait by telling OF wonderful things
seen at the Worlds Fair. The delay
was caused by the failure in making a
| connection.
Recently Yardmaster G. W. Morning
ton, of the Terminal railroad, got a
severe bruise on his left hand In ad-
justing a coupling pin. The bruise got
worse and worse, and Is terribly
/ swollen and painful. A physician has
been consulted and he says blood poison
ing has set in. Mr.. Norrington Is In
capacitated for work.
The net earnings Of the Baltimore
and Ohio during the present month, 1t
Is said, will show an increase over Sep
tember. 1892. This Is due TO an extern
siye Worlds FAIR business and q reduc-
tion of expenses. The reduction OF ten
per cent. on the salaries OF officers and
all employees, except trainmen getting
$3.50 a month aud over. will be taken
out OF September salaries.
The Norfolk and Western railroad has
advanced its agent at Wyoming to the
,sFirst Grade" class. This has been
done on account of the increased ship
ments OF timber from that point. Com
missions to the agent asst month
amounted to $500, while the regular
salary TO an agent amounts to about
one-fourth that much. The railroad
will not be censured for economlzlng in
this case.
On the Terminal road, near the B. 81
o. bridge, yesterday morning, a passen-
ger train was stopped to put William
Webster, q colored man Of East Wheel
ing, of. He tried to jump off back.
wards before the train stopped. de
took a dangerous header into a pile OF
cinders, receiving painful injuries. The
injured man got up, and they say In
getting cinders from his eyes and face
he rubbed flesh of as we'll.
A serious rumpus is said to have
taken place at Gray, on the line OF the
Norfolk and Western, a few days ago
between the crew Of a freight train and
a gang Of tramps, IN which pistols,
clubs, rocks and all kinds OF weapons
PLAYED a conspicuous part. Several
lacerated heads, broken noses, black
ewes and bruises were the result OF the
melee, and the bum contingent was
beautifully done up. The Norfolk and
We stern trainmen report considerable
trouble form gangsof tramps going both
east and west.
The engineers et the Baltimore and
Cumberland Railroad Company are still
at work upon plans for the best location
OF the route according 10 the surveys.
During the winter it is said that hnan-
cial arrangements for building the road
will be completed, and that active con-
~struction will be commenced early In
the spriug. The road will extend from
Cumberland, where It will connect with
the West Virginia Central, 10 a point
on the Cumberland Valley branch OF
the Pennsylvania, near HagerstoWn.
1t is reported that serious tron-
BILE Is brewing on the line OF the Nor
folk & Western railroad on the Kenoya
division. II appears that differences
exist between those In authority and
trainmen which is likely to result in
the importation Of cheap labor to carry
on the'freight traffic on the line. In
that case there Is q likelihood that the
powerful Federation OF Labor Employees
will interpose and call out every person
connected with the running OF trains.
The Norfolk & Western railroad has
had mora or less trouble on this dlvis-