Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-29
FROM THE RAILROADS.
ITEMS FROM THE OENIERS OF WHEELING
AND VICINITY.
Condition of Trads-OOmparisons With Last
Ysar-Nsws From Golfers and Other Neigh
boring Places-NOtss About Officials
and Employees.

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the engine house.
L. A. Rose, an Ohio River conduc-
tor, is off duty on q vacation.
T. R. Ridgley, Panhandle agent at
Wellsburg, is visiting friends at Pitts
burg.
Mrs. D. L. Richey, wife Of the Pc
wikey yard engineer, is visiting at Col
Tiers.
! Mrs. T. A. Kenny, wife of Pan
Handle engineer, is visiting in Steuben-
vile.
John Ross, an operator at Wheeling
Junction, is home from trip to Pitts
burg.
D. A. Thurber, the Panhandle brake
man, is on duty again after painful
illness.
The W. & L. E. is making good pro-
gress driving piles from the w. B. IL T.
Junction South.
J. D. Lippiucott, commercial agent
OF the Ohio River, Of Pittsburg, was in
the city yesterday.
Expenses in the Golfers shops are
being reduced. The crews are making
but five days week.
Miss Annie Lingan, sister OF Pan
Handle Brakeman Blngan, is visiting
frieLds at Collins, this State.
The w. & E. G. R. R., is arranging
for bus line from Triadelphia to Elm
/ Grove to connect with the trains.
Engineer T. A. Kinney, of the Pan
Handle, left last evening for Mansfield,
Pa, to attend the fueral of a nephew.
Last Tuesday night the o. r. c. gave
grand dance at Chicago Junction.
The order never held more successful
ball.
The w. & L. E., will run special
holiday coaches beginning this evening
and continuing till the second OF next
month.
Jos. Hannahs, an Ohio River conduc-
tor, was able to resume work yesterday,
after an Illness of several months OF
typhoid fever.
Miles j. Sweeney has been promoted
to B. g. o. car recorder, vice Earl
Knight, resigned. This is substantial
advance for Mr.. Sweeney.
Brakeman B. j. Lingan and Platform
Clerk NJ l.. Prince, Panhandle en-
ployes, will leave tomorrow for a hunt
ing trip to Pennsylvania.
Miss Kate Kerrigan, of SteubenVllle,
is visiting friends at Golfers, this
State She is a sister-in-law OF 0. w.
Conley, Pan Handle brakeman.
Fireman Thomas Cusick got the big
gest coal premium ever paid on the p,
! w. d X local for last month. This
premium is for the saving OF coal.
Mrs. R. NJ. Thomas and daughter
Miss Eva, of this city, are visiting IN
Martinsburg. They are the family of
the accommodating B. IL 0. platform
man.
1t was rumored in Ohio River railroad
circles yesterday that there was to be a
cut Of ten per cent. in wages on that
line soon. The rumor could not be
verified.
The B. of R. T. will give big ball
at GAINESVILLE next Monday night. Ar
rangementS are being made TO make 1t
big success. A large crowd will at
tend from Wheeling.
Local B. & 0. freight traffic IS dull.
This is caused by the firms taking
stock. The dullest time this year has
not been as dull as a corresponding
period last year, however
1t is said, that the business done this
month by the q. S. Express Company
ia this city will be as large as the cor
responding month of last year. The
business done goes beyond expecta-
tions.
Agent r. R. Ridgley, S. Medium
phry, operator, and William Jones, as
sistant agent, all OF the Panhandle, Of
Wellsburg, were presented each with an
elegant Meerschaum pipe by friends q
few days ago.
Last Wednesday night an Ohio River
car standing on the freight house
trestle was broken open and robbed.
Eggs, potatoes ard flour valued at $50
were taken. The police have been
notified and there is clue.
The w. B. & T., now has its tracks
for the extension laid as far as Bloch
Bros. The work is being rapidly
pushed. By the middle of next month
the extension will be completed 70 the
county line. Rails to complete the ex-
tension to the city line have been re-
ceived.
A change Of time on the W. & L. E.
will 20 into effect next Saturday or
Monday. There will be but little
lchanges in the running OF passenger
trains at this end of the road. No.
will arrive little ea:lier and No. s
will depart an hour later. Other
changes are not yet definitely arranged.
Personal Roemer, secretary
OF the w. & E. G. railway, who has
been indisposed for several days, is
about we'll again. Coss Wade, a track
man of the w. & E. g. railroad, is of
Idutv, sick. P. B. Hunt, travelling
freight agent OF d. S. S. & A., was in
the city yesterday. c. 5. Belknap, Of
the c., L. & W., was in the city on bus
liuess last Wednesday. r. NJ. Crawford,
agent Of TIE c., L. 81 w, of Grafton,
To-, has returned home after visit In
this city, Harry Former, B. & o..
brakeman on the "Blue Line" left last
night for a business triple Cumberland,
Md. Captain Redman, OF the trains
1O5 and loo. B. & o., is of duty. Philip
EIlery is filing his place. and Conduc-
tor Grim is doing Mr. Ellery's work
Edward Weisgerber. q B. & o. official.
of Ne wark, O., was in the city yesterday.
G. F. ChamberlalD, Of the w. B. & T.
Office force, is home from trip to Chi
ieaqo. AL Young, OF the w. B. & T.,
who has been of dirty as the result OF
an accident, is agairl on duty. CoRduc-
tor L. Grow, Of ny B 4 o.. and wife,