Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-08
THE RAILROADS.
GENERAL NTELLIGENCE OF THE LOCAL
LINES.
Movements Of Railway Officers and Employees
Traffic Notes. and Miscellaneous InfOrma-
ton of Current Events.

B. ]. Patton, Night Yardmaster at
the B. & o. yards, is on the sick list.
Earl Knight, car recorder ,of the B.
& O., is home from visit TO ST. Mary's'
C. 0 Brewster, President of the W..
B. & T. Company, is in the city from
New York.
Traffic, passenger and freight, oyer
the Ohio River and Pan-Hsndle roads,
is very good.
Last Tuesday was one Of the biggest
days for baggage in the history of the
B. q o. in this city.
W. 81. Jamison, General Yardmaster
at the Junction, was in st. Clairsvllle
yesterday on business.
The w. & L. E. base ball club is
ready to accept challenge from any
other railroad line in the city.
Frank Agnew, conductor in the B.
& o. yards, is home from Cincinnati,
where he spent a weeks vacation.
Thomas A. Kinney, Panhandle en-
gineer. will leave to-day for his vaca-
ton, which he will spend In Cincinnati.
j. E. Terry, general passenger agent
of the c., L. 81 W., was in the city yes
terday in the roads business interests.
John Rhieldaffer and Hannibal Forbes
have purchased tickets over the B. 81 O..
for Chicago, They will leave this morn
ing.
w. r. Woodford, general passenger
agent of the c.. L. 81 W., was in town
this week. His headquarters are Cleve-
land.
New ties are being laid at the B. & o.
depot, within the depot limits. Fore
man Patrick Horn is conducting the
work.
The big coal trade over the W. & L..
E. for lake ports still continues. The
average is nearly one hundred car loads
daily.
Samuel Patton, car inspector at the
Junction, was called to Wheeling yes
day by the death Of his mother 'in-law,
Mrs. Connolly.
O. R. Wood, Travelling Passenger
Agent OF the w. & L. E., was in town
yesterday transacting important bust
ness for his road.
The Brooke county grand jury has re-
turned eleven indictments against the
Panhandle, for obstructlng and de-
Stroying property.
Chas. Hirsh, formerly of the B. & o.
shops, has accepted position as bag
gage master at the b. & o., vice Chas.
Thompson, resigned.
Indications are that large crowd OF
Elks from this city will go TO Cleveland
and Detroit over the w. 81 l.. E., the
seventeenth of this month.
Last Tuesday evening a car load OF
Italians arrived via the b. 81 o. from
Pittsburg. They were taken to Par
kerSburg yesterday morning.
C. A. Wilson, general superintendent
Of the w. Il l.. E, was in town yester-
day by special car. Mr.. Wilson went
to st. Clarsvile yesterday afternoon to
atted to legal business.
The afternoon Chicago train over the
c., L. & w. from this city, is having a
good trade. The train has been run
ming ten days, and has never yet been
late entering Chicago.
Last Tuesday an unusually large ship
ment Of -four for export passed over the
Terminal. w. & L. E. and the B. & O..
systems for the East. There were
twenty car loads OF the flour shipped
from Toledo.
Last Sunday the B. 6 0. decided to
have the Pittsburg Sunday excursion
train to leave the depot at o'clock in
the morning and not $50 as before.
Forty-six persons were left by reason Of
the change. The train will leave here
after at 6 o'clock.
j. V. Braden, freight agent Of the o.
r. R. and P. II. roads, left this week,
accompanied by his son Earl, for Chi
cage aud the Fair. Next week Mr..
Braden will be In Milwaukee, in attend
ance at the National Freight Agents
Convention to be held In that city.