Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-11
WHEELING RAILWAYS.
BUSINESS BETTER" IS TEE WORD WHICH
COMES FROM EVERY CENTER OF TIE CITY.
All the Latss; News From the Hons Lines-Work
Actively Begin Cd the Nsw Wall for the
Pan Handle DspOt-Psrsonals About
Well Known Railroadsrs

The thirty-frst of this month is the
time set for the grand picnic and out
/ Ing at Mozart park, 30 be given by the
mem bers of the B. of Il. T.. OF Wheel-
ing aud locality The body have planned
big event, and nearly all the arrange
ments have been made. Large num-
bers OF railroaders, with their friends,
are expected to be present from fark-
ersburg, Pittsburg and Glenwood.
feature Of the picnic will be the novelty
OF the attractions, and the committee
having IN charge the arrangements have
done much to provide this feature.
There are 10 be all FINDS OF novel races,
such as wheelDarrow, potato and sack
races. There will be bicycle race and
good prizes are offered. A condition OF
this race will be that none will be ad-
mitted TO it who has ever ridden wheel
before.
"It pays to treat the newspaper man
! right" said a well known manager OF
one of the Wheeling lines few days
ago, to friend. This manager is one
O.. the best known railroad men in the
entire country, and there is not city
+, where he goes that he is not welcomed
by kind words from the representatives
OF tho press Farther lie said: when
ever l meet representative or the
press | try to treat him kindly, and /
always, when it is possible, try TO make
the employees under me treat the re-
porters in the same manner. Then,
most asSuredly. we lose nothing by
this" Those words on the part OF the
manager were elected by hearing one
Of the Wheeling officials tell Wheel
| ing newspaper man to go away and
not bother him."
MAT" Gordon, of the c. L. e W., in
Bridgeport, very accommodating gen.
tleman, is at the headquarters OF the
line In this city, in the place OF Charles
Q. Porter, the Chief clerk, who is now
on his wedding trip. Mr.. Porter went
to Steubenvile and got married, and
did not tell the boys az the Office thing
about it. He is now In the west on his
tour. and will soon return TO the city
and go to housekeeping on the South
! Side. His fellow railroaders think that
treat will be eminently In order after
| he comes back, being as they were kept
in the dark in the matter. Mr.. Porter
| Is one of the most accommodating young
men Of the city, and there Is not
| Wheeling rairoader who does not wish
him, happiness and prosperity.
Tomorrow a new time card will go
into effect on the w. IL l.. L. This
! change was not as great as was antici-
pated. IL was thought that some new
trains would be put on, but this was
not done. Many people think that
Sunday train 10 Stubenville on Sunday
mornings is badly needed. There Will
! be but two changes. Now passenger
! leaves the city al 1870 2. IN. for Mas.
| sillion, and after to-day il will leave
| the city at 4:40, ten minutes later. In
! the evenings there is train arrives in
! the city from Toledo at 5:45; by the
new time card, this train will arrive In
the city al 500 p. IN, twenty-five minutes
! earlier. There is little cnange in
the running Of freight trains.
The REGISTER railroad man was talk
| ing with one OF the officials OF the Pam
| Hale yesterday afternoon. Asked as TO
the condition of business, the official
| pointed to u train entering the yards,
having forty cars, all loaded down. 1--WE
are having old time business again."
| said the raiiroader.
Tomorrow the Pan Handle will run
another excursion from Pittsburg TO
this city. They expect 200 persons
down tomorrow. These excursions are
becoming very popular, and persons
from all along the line Of the Pan-Han-
Handle from here TO Pittsburg patron
| lie them.
On the first day Of next month it is
the intention of the management OF the
| c., L. & w. railroad TO run the first
train over the new extension OF the line
into the city OF Cleveland, from Mallet
| Creek. distance of twenty-five miles.
The work is rapidly being pushed.
Edward O'Donnell, formerly the bag
gage master at the Union Depot, Is now
seen on the streets conducting Pony
express" In other words he goes over
the city on the pony seeing that the az
fairs of Burns 81 Church, the express
men, are rightly conducted.
Business is better in the 3. IL o.
Wheeling yards than it has been for
some time. All shipments are heavy.
They handle forty car loads OF coke
and fifty car loads OF coal there each
day. All the employees OF the yards
are making full time.
r. K. Brown, the assistant engineer
OF the maintenance OF way of the Pan
Handle, was in the city yesterday on
business pertaining to the building OF
the wall for the new Panhandle depot
He has his headquarters at Pittsourg.
T. j. Blair, son of A G. Blair, gen.
eral manager OF the W. & l.. E. railway.
who has been in the city for couple OF
DAYS, left for his home in Toledo, o.,
yesterday. He is private Secretary to
bis father.
Mrs. NJ. L. Prince and son, the family
OF the genial emploYe of the Pan-Han-
die, are home from visit TO Holidays
Cove, w. Va, and Pttsburg. They
have been gone for the last six weeks.
The Uniformed Rank OF the K. OF P.
of this city will go to the meeting OF
In Il