Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-07
THE SPIDER Web
HOLDING OUT INVITATIONS TO TIE FLIES
or COMMERCE.
Progress Of Work on New Railroads in the
State, and Vicinity Of Whssling-Rail-
road Notes.

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| forward rauidly. At its session last
week the county commissioners of Ran
dolph county, w. Va, passed an order
permitting the company to use the
county roads for road bed, not only
to cross, but TO lay the tracks along the
highways. The road is thirty-nve
miles in length, following the valley OF
| Dry Fork of Cheat river all the way.
II begins at Hendricks and will extend
10 Job, the center OF rich timber
| country, of which the owners OF the
road own sc, 900 acres. At present the
| timbering operations are carried on
| chiefly at Brett, but when the road is
completed the mills will be moved
to the terminus OF the line.
All the 3. s. o. trackmen Of the
Wheeling and Pittsburg and Fourth
! Divisions organized themselves as a
| local association OF the brotherhood OF
| Trackmen, and took the step Tor mutual
interest and protection. The organlza-
ton was effected at Walther's Hall, at
r wenty-sixth and Cbapline streets.
| Twenty trackmeu belong TO the new
association. Michael Brannen and
! David Henderson conducted the steps
which made the men members OF the
the Brotherhood of Trackmen.
The Parsons Boom and Lumber Co.,
| OF Parsons, Tucker county, w. Va,
will, on May l, begin the building OF
standard gauge railroad from Parsons,
| up Shaver's Fork OF Cheat river. i've
miles to the Winchester timber lands
recently purchased at that point. The
road will be used chiefly for stocking
the mills, but will also do general
| traffic business.
Dav after tomorrow, at the city OF
! st. Paul, Mimi, the biennial convention
| OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
| gineers will convene. A number OF per-
sons will go from this city and locality
to attend. The convention will en-
brace all the roads Of the country. w.
j. Duffy, of McMechen, is delegate,
and has already gone to attend.
! Work was begun last week on new
narrow gauge railroad between Pickens
and Mayton, Webster county, dis
lance OF IL miles. The road is to open
a tract of tim Der land recently pur-
! chased bv II. Calbach 81 Sons, OF Leban-
on, Pa, who are building the road.
| Two saw mills are to be built this sum-
mer TO cut timber.
w. r. Lowe, the accommodating en-
! gineer OF goo on the Wheeling and
| Pittsburg division, and wife will leave
this evening for a trip so st. Paul,
! MINI. Mr.. Lowe while there will take
| in the convention Of the Brotherhood
| of Locomotive Engineers of the United
| States. They will be gone two weeks.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
! Company has awarded to w. w. BoxleY,
of Greenbrler county, w. Va, the con-
| trcct for filling in a high trestie ABOUT
| two miles in length and varying from
twenty TO fifty feet in height, near Paw
ley's creek, In Summers county, w. Va
A well known B. 81 o. man OF Wheel
Ing tells of patent hem 5 nest he has
at his home. He has box, with nice
nest In it, nailed up in his coal shed.
| He keeps no hens, but In some myster-
ious manner, he calls it, gets three or
four good fresh eggs every day.
II. f. McNabb, yard clerk, and Ben.
]. Patton, yard master, both well known
! B. & o. men, were not on duty yester-
day. 1t was found that they had taken
day off aud were spending it near
Moundsville fishing. Luck did not
come their way on the trip.
The Panhandle railway has not had
a single reduction in wages since the
depression began. Men have been COM
PEELED to work fewer hours in instances
but 10 cuts. The railroaders are thank
full for this.
The township trustees OF SteubenvilIe
have traded 1875 shares OF old Pan
Handle stock for 63715 shares OF main
line stock. 1t is claimed Steubenville
township lost money by il, and the peo-
pie are kicking.
Mary E. Ward, of st. ClairsvIle, has
brought suit against the C., l.. q W..
Railway for $4,000. Mrs. Wards hus-
band was killed by a c., l.. IL w. train
at Belaire on the twenty-third of last
January.
The Town Council o. Elkins, W. Va,
will let the contract, on May 5, for the
erection of fifty foot steel bridge over
Buffalo run, a large creek which passes
through the town.
John Cummins, the we'll known B. &
o. engineer, accompanied by his wife,
will leave next Friday TO attend the
convention OF railroaders there.
Mrs. Frank Duvsl, of Welsburg, re-
ceived 81, from the Panhandle
| Railway company for injuries she re-
ceived in a wreck on the line.
George B. Turner, agent Of the W. &
L. E., is home from attending the fun
eral OF Oscar Tounsent; buried at Cleve-
land last Friday.
Sidney Dillon, OF Bridgeport has
accepted position in the Cleveland and
Pittsburg employ at Wellsville, Ohio.
Alfred Virgins. of Pittsburg, was an
extra brakeman on the B. IL o. excur-
sion train TO this city yesterday.
The 3. & o. morning train from
Pittsburg yesterday had four well filled
coaches Of excussionists.
Charles Hirst, the popular B. & o.
baggage master, was at Grafton yester-
day for visit.
The w. b. & T. will run trains to-
day over the extension to the Riverside
iron works.
Last week was good one in the B. &
o. freight platform.
A child OF Thomas Gallagher, Of the
B. & o., is quite Ill.
"ALABAsTISE" at Kurner & Chew's.