Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-01
RAILWAY RECORD.
BUSINESS IS Rapidly Picking Up Since the Coal
Snike-All the News from the Railroads.
Movements Among Employees.

In few days the newly improved rooms
at the 3. q o. yard Office will be COM
pleted. The front one is fitted up in the
neatest OF shape, and will be used for
the telegraph operators This room is mt
ted up with new tables, and is neatly
painted Behind it is the room for the
conductors, which is also neatly apart
mented The hallway leading to the
rooms, which are on the second floor, Is
painted handsomely, and the railroaders
are proud Of the improvements made.
Harry Legge, one of the p. & o. clerks,
left yesterday morning 10 enter the great
road race from Pittsourg TO Johnstown,
which is to come of to-day. There are
none among the railrOaders OF the city
who DO not wish MIR. Legge high stand
ing in the race. II he takes the first prize,
he will not come home till Monday, put II
he IS not successful, he will return this
evening. Mr.. Legge has been in practice
for some time for the race.
Charles Schul, of the c., L. & w. plat
form, made a very narrow escape last
Thursday evening during the play. OF the
electrical elements. He tells IL himself.
He was at the home Of his best girl and
was standing beside the telephone n
binding flash of lightning came and the
flames from the 'phone b!azed out four feet,
he says. He was slightly stunned but was
on duty yesterday Us usual. He considers
that ne made the narrowest escape OF his
life.
The remains of Otto Bowers, the B. & o.
fireman, who was killed by the accident at
Twenty-fourth street by jumping from the
passenger engine last Thursday, Will be
buried this afternoon at one O'Clock at the
Peninsula. The burial will be from the
house of his mothcr-ln-law at 2652 Market
street, and the funeral will be in charge or
the Brotherhood of Locomotive tiremen.
Yesterday there was one Of the mos:
successful excursions or the year given oy
the Z. l.. x. w. The event was given by
the English Lutheran Church, and was
Sunday School excursion. The special
consisted of seven coaches filled and the
baggage car. Charles Belknap, the pas
seuger agent accompanied the excursion.
The picnic was held at Maple Grove.
Genial John Kamm, the d. 81 o. gateman,
has one of the finest collections Of rare and
old coins in the city. He has the souvenirs
framed now, and there are over 200 Of
them.
Abouta all the employees of the w. ~ l..
f.. who were laid off during the coal strike
have been restored 10 their positions again.
About two hundred Of them had been laid
off.
A number of the railroaders Of the B. 81
O. will 90 this evening TO McMechen TO
take in the concert 10 be given by the
ladies of that place IN Miller's orchard.
Soloman Prettyman, of the Panhandle,
is of duty IN attendance at the funeral OF
Il relative in Ohio. William McNary IS
doing his work Of receiving clerk.
Yard Conductor +. f. Agnew (Pompl,
of the 3. Il o., worked his last day yester-
day before ais vacation OF one week. lie
will 20 Nortl for on extended trip.
Coke is coming to the city again over the
b. N q. Within the last four days twenty
loads have come to the city. The usual
run is forty carloads day.
Charles Maney, of the Baltimore Il
Ohio, has been appointed the NUMBER
taller from this city TO BenWood, vice
Miles i. Sweeney promoted.
Master James A, the son of A. G. Stew
art, bill clerk of the b ~ o., has gone to
Martiusburg to spend his vacation with
his grandparents.
Genial Sammy Peat, master car in
spector at the Union Depot, will leave to-
day for a visit of few days to his home in
Toledo, Ohio
Mrs. John Kamm, wife of the b. e o. en-
ploye, accompanied by her mother, has
gone for a trip for the haaJed season near
Darlington.
William +. Boyle. Eastern Passenger
Agent of the AtchisOn and Sante te rail-
road was in the city Thursday on business.
J. e. Terry. general freight and passen-
ger agent of the G., l.. ~ W., was in the
city Thursday on business.
Il. Heckmeyer, of the B. & o. platform
force, is oil duty, and is at MS home with
a bad attack of typhoid fever.
Ohio River Inspector Baily is at Park
ersburg, where he was called by the serl-
Gus illness of his mother
I'D. Lippincott, OF the Ohio River. with
headquarters in Pittsburg, was down yes
terday on business.
Business in all departments of the w. &
/. h. since the coal strike was settled Is
rapidly picking up.
John Graham, of the b. & o., who was
injured by d recent accident, is able 10
walk about again.
w. f. Doyle, passenger agent of the
Santa Fe line, was among his Wheeling
patrons Thursday
Robert Purcell of the B. & o. plat
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his work again.
ID. Il. Hughes, travelling freight agent of
the Great Northern, was in the city yester-
day on business.
Thomas Dunbar, agent of the Union
Depot, is i'll, but Is still able to attend 10
his WORK.
Abbey Fink. of the Panhandle, is of
duty at the bedside of his mother who is i'll.
William Turney, of the w. b. u T., will
90 to Pittsburg TO spend his Fourth.
Fred Sankey, the Pan Handle passenger
agent, was in the city last Thursday.
3. ~ .. Checking Clerk Adam Medley,
who has been i'll, is some better.
The Pan Handle night yard engine is
still of owing to hard times.
George Wnissen, Of the United States
express. is off duty ILL.,
W. V. TatIner was q Wheeling visitor