Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-19
THB UPS And Downs
or A STREET RAILWAY TRACK in A SINGLE
DAY.
A Force Of Board Of Public Works Men Tear up the
Objectionable Track a: Forty-third Street.-The
Company Secarss an Injunction and Re-
places the Rails-A Motion
10 Dissolve.

terday.
All day crowds OF citizens stood about
that war worn battle field, watching in
the morning the operations Of a gang
Of city workmen who were engaged in
tearing up the Objectionable car tracks,
and again in the evening observing a
force of nearly one hundred street rail-
way worKmen laying them down again.
Between times they watched force OF
police and Deputy Sheriffs pacing to
and fro, and all the time they wondered
what would turn up next.
The REGISTER yesterday morning,
contained the Information that the
Board of Public Woaks had at last tired
Of waiting upon the Railway Company
to carry out the order of Council to re-
move the tracks as originally laid down
and replace them upon the lines plat
ted by the City Engineer, and had is
sued orders to Superintendent OF Streets
Brandt to take gang OF men to the
spot and tear up the rails and ties.
Bright and early Superintendent
Brandt and gang Of ten men were On
the scene, and while curious crowd OF
citizens looked Oh the B. Z. w. men
made an attack upon the east track at
the Forty-third street corner. Before
the first rail came up, car, upon
which uperintendent Nj. Lotus, OF the
railway, stood, appeared on the way up
town, and the car was run on to the
rail at which the men were at work and
there stopped. There was brief
but somewhat pointed interchange
OF remarks between Supeerintend-
ent Lotus and Superintendent
Brandt, and then the street car was run
on up Eoff street, and the rail was
yanked out Of the ground and thrown
into the east gutter. About this time
another car, With Superintendent Tuck
err, of the car barn, on board, came up,
and for a time 1t seemed as though the
car was to be driven right on, although
one rail was missing. The car was
brought to stop, however, and after
view OF the scene and some discussion
among the railway men on board, the
car was run back TO the barn. During
the remainder of the day transfers
were made on Jacob street, between
Forty-thlrd and Forty-fourth streets,
and the work Of demolshing the track
proceeded without interruption, al
though very slowly, until about four
o'clock in the afternoon. Repairs being
made TO the b. 81 0. track at Ford's
crossing necesSitated a transfer at that
point, another was made necessary at
Twenty-irst street, still another at
Fourteenth street, and at various times
there were more shifting of cars and
passengers about to meet the necessi-
ties of the situation. Cars had to be
run both ways on Main street as
far north as Fourteenth, where they
were switched of to Market street to
turn around the loop.
During the morning President Jacob,
Manager Jolly. superintendent LOTUS
and Others Of the Street Railway Com
pany held conferences, which ended in
the filing of an affidavit before Judge
Campbell, praying for an Injunction
against the city of Wheeling and the
Board OF Public Works, restraining
them from further interference with
the railroad tracks. The papers were
prepared about half-past three o'clock
and placed in the hands OF Sheriff
Franzheim, who served notices by his
deputies upon the Mayor and members
of the Board, and then the Sheriff and
Deputy Garden jumped into a buggy
and drove to Forty-third street, where
Manager Jolly, superintendent LOTUS
and Attorney John A. Howard, repre-
senting the property owners OF that
portion of the city, had already assem-
bled. II was after four o'clock when
the Sheriff arrived on the scene, and
soon afterwards the patrol wagon, with
Lieutenant Terrill and Officers West,
Lukens, Minkemeyer, Devlin aad Moran,
went scurrying down TO the scene, to
do what might be necessary to preserve
tha peace, as there were threats among
citizens that ii the Railroad Company
undertook TO replace the rails again
they would be torn up.
During the afternoon Superintendent
Lotus had given orders for the assem-
bling of a force Of track hands at For
ty-third street, and at FIVE o'clock they
appeared. eighty strong. This force
went to work in the presence Of two
or three hundred spectators and in just
about two hours they had the track
replaced Just about as it was in the
morning, and after eight o'clock cars
were running over the line as usual.
Last night City Solicitor Robert
White was preparing papers prepare
tory to going into Court to-day with
motion to dissolve the injuntion, which
will bring up the merits Of the case in
legal manner.
A brief history Of this difficulty is as
follows:-
There is a clause in the ordinance
granting the franchise to the Railway
Company, which, in effect, gives it the
right to lay down all necessary switches.
Under this and the general right to lay
down tracks, the Company ran its line
down Jacob street, TO and across Forty
third street, and then on down the west
side of Jacob street for distance Of
about two hundred feet south OF Forty
third, where junction was made with
the track running up Jacob from Forty
eighth. This latter track paralleled the
two hundred feet of track spoken of
above to the south line Of Forty-third
street and then curved to the east into
Forty-third street and ran on to
Eoff street. Jacob street below
Forty-third is quite narrow, and the
citizens living along the square between
Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets
complained that the double track, as
they termed it, or the switch, as the
Railway Company people call it, left no
room for wagons 70 stop in front OF
their places of business, and that they
were thereby seriously incommOded and
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