Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-06
.THE RAILROAD WORLD.
LOCAL AND NEARBY LINES RE-
VIEWED.
The Movement Of Local and Suburban Employees
Construction Notes and Miscellaneous
JOuingS

The Movement of Local and Suburban Employees
Construction Notes and Miscellaneous
JoaingS
W. c. Glazer, of the B. & o., is home
from trip.
The O. R. is repairing trestles at
Darlington.
c. T. shary is braking on the o. R.
temporarily.
The B. of R. T. will meet tonight at
K. OF P. Hall.
Engineer Charles Duval, OF the e., L.
& W., is of duty sick.
Jas. Jasper, of the B. & O., is now
braking on a passenger.
Conductor Thos. Grady, Of the B. 81
o., is taking a vacation.
The Wagner sleeper on the G., L. q
W, was taken off yesterday.
Panhandle Conductor w. B. Dickey
is at Bloomfield, o., on visit.
The o. r. will make a change OF
schedule in a couple Of weeks.
Victor Stewart, an o. r. brakeman,
is home from visit to Erie, Ia.
The wreck at Glover's Gap, yester-
day, held No. freight four hours.
Conductor Chas. Ebert, on the o. r.,
is now on y through run temporarily.
Night Waterman Alban Lowe, Of the
Panhandle, is out Of the city on visit.
Conductor Hoblizell, Of the o. R., and
wife are home from visit to MurrayS-
vile.
Ben Smith, formerly conductor on the
w. 81 L. E., will take train on the u,
L. 81 w.
I'D. Legge, of the B. & o. clerical
force, is home from pleasant visit to
Chicago.
John Foster, formerly operator at
Grafton, mas been transferred TO Ros'
by's Rock.
Engineer T. J. Murray. of Steuben-
Vile. was seeing his friends yesterday
in this city.
ANDY Handy Gordon is now on the
O. R. on a through run. He is bag
gage master.
Freight shipments on the o. R. are
not so large, by reason OF the boats
running again.
The c., l.. & w. will take of IS and
SO, and run them to Bellaire instead OF
Wheeling, in about week.
Dudley Gibbons, foreman at the Pan
home at New Martinsyille.
FL. Hinde, of the o. R., is afflicted
with a sore hand, the result Of the re-
cent wreck at Moundsville.
The 0. R. now runs six miles per hour
within the city limits. Formerly the
speed was ten miles an hour.
Bamford Creel, formerly passenger
brakeman on the o. R., is now 0raKlng
on a local freight on the same line.
Conductor Criswell, Of the w. & L.
E., was in the city yesterday among the
railroaders. He lives up the river.
The O. r. is not hauling so many
deadheads on their freight trains.
Men in great numbers have gone to
work.
IA Armstrong, inspector at the
Union depot, has now full charge there.
He is making things quite different
there.
William Wilson, formerly B. & O..
employe, now a salesman for Bloch
Bros, was in the city a few days ago
on a visit.
Mrs. Thomas Bartlett, of Littleton, is
visiting her son-in-lsw, n. +. Rowand,
the accommodating night baggage
master at the Union depot.
Cant. VIM. Bowers, of the o. R., had a
curiosity in tie form Of large white
owl presented him by a friend. This
unusual bird is attracting general
attention.
The new gravel train on the Pan
Handle at work between Benwood and
Wheeling Junction. is making good
progress. About thirty men are given
employment.
The 0. r. is handling numerous
theatre troups these days. The prin-
cipal recent tronps are: South Before
the War, Spider and Fly, Hi Heary'S
Minstres and Granda Squears.
p. S. joyce is home from Chicago,
feeling a little sore, but otherwise well.
He spent most OF his time. the boys
say, riding donkeys on the streets Of
Cairo. He is a B. & o. employe.
The local freight agents OF this city
and vicinity held meeting Saturday
afternoon at the W., b. ~ 1. offices.
There was q good attendance present
and matters of importance were dis
cussed.
III. Suther, former yardmaster at
Fairmont, has resigned his position.
he has gone into the restaurant BUSH
ness at Fairmont. Fine billiard rooms
are attached. F. Il. Sapp has taken
his place.
Train 80, on the B. & O., West
bound. ran into an open switch al
Glover's Gap yesterday morning. No
one was hurt, but the engine was
badly damaged and three cars were de-
molished.
New tracks are being constructed on
the O. r. between Point Pleasant and
the X. 81 NJ. Junction. The tracks are
in excellent condition for the winter.
Neat waiting rooms have been built al
Owl Hollow aud Stewards Crossing.
The o. r. is handling immense guam
titles OF coal by reason Of the boats not
running up the Kanawha river. This
road now takes coal at the Glendale
mines. There are complaints against
this coal. however, by reason OF its
smoke and dirt.
Chas. Mccormick, road foreman OF
engines of the Panhandle, held an ex-
animation yesterday afternoon at the
freight Office. Several engineers stood
a six hours examination on air brakes.
They were engineers Kinney, Boyd,