Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-04
TRAFFIC. AGREEMENT
REACHED BETWEEN Tbs WHEELING AND
OHIO STREET RAILWAY COMPANIES
Fares to This City From Points On the Other Side.
DOube Track Arrsngemsntin Martins Ferry.
Other Details Of The Contract

Other Details Of he Contract
Superintendent A. NJ. jolly Of the
Wheeling Street Railway Company aud
Superintendent ]. K. Jolly Of the over
the-river company yesterday affixed
their signatures to traffic agreement
which will result to the mutual advan-
tsge OF both parties to the contract. aud
will be received with pleasure by the
travelling public. A REGISTER re-
porter yesterday saw Messrs. j. h and
a. NJ. Jolly and secured the terms OF
agreement. The contract binds the
two companies by the terms OF its
agreement for ten years, and both agree
not 10 enter into any such contracts
with other rival roads during that
time.
The contract provides for carrying
and transferring passengers from one
road TO the other, and division OF the
fares received. The Wheeling Com
pany agrees to carry passengers trans
ierred from the Ohio Company, and to
receive as fares transfer tickets sold by
the latter and vice versa. The agree
ment provides that the fare from all
points touched by the Ohio Company,
to the city OF Wheeling, shall be 10
cents, except that in cases OF passen-
gers between Bridgeport and Wheeling
Island. or between Martins Ferry and
the Island, on cars OF the Wheeling
COMPANY, and not transferred to or
from cars of the Ohio Company, when
the fare may be five cents. In other
words the agreement means that pas
sengers from any point in Belmont
county touched by either road, will be
brought into Wheeling for 10 cents
All fares collected from passengers
transferred from one road 10 the other
will be
EQUALLY DIVIDED
between the two companies. All fares
from passengers carried over the new
bridge OF the w. IL B. Bridge company,
over the back channel OF the river,
whether passengers are transferred or
not, will be equally divided between the
two companies.
The present Zane street track OF the
Wheeling Railway Company will be ex-
tended west over the back river bridge,
and the short line cars will probably
take that route, instead Of continuing up
to the new steel bridge. The Wheeling
company agrees to put down tracks TO
tho new bridge as soon as the company
gets permission, and no cars OF the
Ohio line will run over the new bridge.
At Bridgeport a waiting room will
be provided for passengers, she expense
to be divided equally between the two
Com panies. Both Companies agree TO
have one car at the transfer station at
least every fifteen minutes, this insuring
fifteen minutes service. 1t Is under
stoop that a temporary arrangement
will be made for the transfer OF passen-
gers at the new steel bridge, 10 continue
until the other bridge is completed.
The traffic arrangement between the
two Companies is to go into operation
upon the completion and operation OF
ali lines of railway on the Ohio side, and
completion Of the new bridge across the
back channel OF the Ohio.
LOOP IN MARTINS FERRY.
Another interesting clause OF the con-
tract provides for the use by both COM
NAMES of the individual tracks In Mar
tins Ferry. This means that loop line
will be provided for both companies
between Buckeye street In Martins
Ferry and the new steel bridge.
The Ohio Company also agrees TO
make no further effort TO get into the
city of Wheeling, and the Wheeling
Company in return agrees not to ask Tor
right Of way through the streets OF any
municipality in Belmont county, except
TO extend It's Martins Ferry tracks
northward.
This amicabe arrangement settles
the controversy between the two com
panies, and the public generally, on
both sides Of the river, cannot but be
satisfied, as excellent facilities will be
afforded to reach Wheeling FROM all
suburban towns, and vice versa.
The work on the new bridge pro-
crosses very slowly. Next week 1t is
expected that work will be commenced
upon the-frst span with the structural
steel work, but IL will not be finished
for some months.
THE OHIO COMPANY
will have its road in operation by the
Goth OF this month. Eleven cars Will
be placed on the road, with two extra
trucks, the intention being TO give
Is minutes service for all points on
the line. The new cars will DO larger
than those Of the Wheeling company
and will be vestibule cars.
The power house between kiTkWood
and West Wheeling. is practically nm
ished, and some Of the machinery Is In
place. The three $50 horse power gen.
orators have been installed, and the
three IT'S b. p. boilers are In position.
The engines, three in number, and l75
h. n. each, have arrived, and will be IN
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