Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-24
rnE wnEELIse AND ELM Grows
Replies to some statements By "Oloss
Observer"
49, !. 2 n. .l...i- 49,

Observer" makes some statements re-
garding the rates Of fare on our ROAD,
which are not only ridiculously raise,
but are calcuated-as was, no douot,
the object Of the writer-to mislead ana
prejudice the public.
"Obseryer. commences by stating
that he is ssa daily rider" on the Wheel
| ing Elm and Grove railroad, continues oy
| saying the rate OF fare Tor i've miles Is
thirty cents, and concludes with the re-
markable observation that this is roo-
Ding the working man from procuring
cheap homSkor himself"
Allow us tostate that no daily rlder
for five miles pays thirty cents per
round trip on our road, and any state
ment to the contrary is false. Wheel
ing Park Is five and half miles from
our station, by our line, or eleven miles
round trip, and our rate Of fare, rourd
trip, is but twenty-five. cents, while the
| round trip rate for Single ticket TO
! Elm Grove, fifteen mile ride, Is out
thirty cents. But no ''daily rider" pays
these prices, which are for occasional or
transient passengers. Ii observer 10
daily rider" and has ordinary business
sense, he either buys fifty trip DOOR,
good for himself or any member OF his
family until it is used up, or a Sixty
trip monthly ticket, good only for him
self mot transferable and rides Tor
small fraction Of the regular rates, as
| follows:
If he travels between the city and
Elm Grove. seven miles and a half each
way, or fifteen miles for the round trIp'
he pays but twelve cents ED way Oh
his fifty trip book, or but eight ana one
quarter cents each way on his sixty
trip card, or twenty-four cents for the
round trip in the one case, and sixteen
and one-half cents for the round trip In
the other, the distance being nfteen
miles. II he rides between the city ana
the Park, he pays ten cents each way
in the one case, and but six and one
half cents each way in the other, or
twenty and thirteen cents, respect
iyely, for the round trip. Ii ne
rides between Wheeling and Pleasant
| Valley he pays but eight cents
each way on the fifty trip book, and
but six cents each way on the Sixty
trip card, the round trip being nine
miles by our line; and If he rides De-
tween Wheeling and Aitenheln, ne
paws but six and one-half cents on the
| fiftv trip book, and but five and ons-
half cents each way on the sixty trip
card, and round trip distance being
seven miles, while If he goes to and
from Fulton, he pays but four and one
half cents each way, or nine cents Tor
the round trip. These rates not only
proye conclusively that the published
statement of ''Close Observer" are false,
but they will com pare favorably, viewed
in the light OF public interest, with the
rates of any other road.
The Wheeling and Elm Grove railroad
makes long hauls; it traverses, for the
most part, sparsely-settled section,
where people do not jump on and OH
the ears every few hundred yards, as In
a built up city. 1t starts, as rule,
with its load made up when 1t leaves
the city station, and passengers are
dropped of along the line until the
other terminus is reached, very few peo-
pie, as a rule, boarding the cars en-
route. for way station further ont the
line. Whether it's fare per mile is figured
| from the city to Fulton, or from the city
TO Elm Grove, the first named being four
and one-half miles round trip from the
city station, and the latter fifteen miles
| for the round trip, its mileage Will pc
| found lower than the average rate OIL
| fare paid In the city, or between the
city and Ohio towns, and 1T does not lie
in the mouth OF "Close Observer" to
disprove it by any such statement as
that published this morning, that he
makes daily rides" on our line at the
rate OF thirty cents for five mile round
| trip.
In addition to the Communication tick
| cts and books, referred to above. the
road issues school cald emitting the
holder to two rides every day, for ". 80
per month, or five cents each way from
Wheeling to the Grove, and also a spe-
| cial rouud-trip ticket, allowing stop
offs at all stations on its liRe. The
ticket must be used the day 1t is pur-
chased and with it the owner can stop
off at Fulton, and taking later motor,
stop at AItenheim, and again at Pleas
ant Valley, and again at the PARK, and
! still later at Elm Grove, returning to
the city on any train he likes, and stop
ping off again, he chooses, all the way
back to town. \School and Sunday
school picnic tickets to the Park are
also issued at the very owrate OF fifteen
cents for the round trip, including ad-
mission TO the Park. There Is very lit
tie of robbery" about any OF these
| rates.
The Wheeling and Elm Grove Rail
road Company feels that it has been OF
some benefit to Wheeling, and it objects
to untruthful Statements regarding its
operation. 1t is owned by gentlemen
who are all citizens of Wheeling, and
whose interests in Wheeling are all
larger outside of the roa6 than In it..
This being the case, they will be care
full to do nothing to iDjure the commu.
nifty In which they reside and have their
business interests. and they will be
quick In the future, as In the past, to
do what is possible TO benefit the CON-
munity and the people living along the
| line of the road. 1t has been liberal In
many regards, an instance being It's an
nual excursions to all che orphans in the
institutions of this city, regardless OF
creed, to and from the Park, free OF all
charge. Other like instances OF li6er-
atty can be recalled by any OF your
readers with very little effort.
One thing more. A writer In this
mornings REGISTER states, that when