Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-03
TEE RAILROADS.
WHAT IS GOING ON AMONG NEARBY
LINES.
Information Of General Nature Of Interest t
West Virginians-LOcal aud Personal
Points From City Dspots.

o. R., has gone to Chicago on bust
ness trip.
The Baltimore and Ohio has began
the excavations for passenger station
at Harper's Ferry.
Conductor Tod Hobbitzell, OF the o.
R., is off duty on his vacation trip west,
his wife accompanying him.
John Nary. one of the B. &c o. plat
form men, who has been off duty Ill for
some time, is able to work again.
Operations have been resumed on the
wall for the Panhandle depot. Work
is to be rapidly progressed from this
time on.
Abbey Fink, the Panhandle billing
clerk, who has been of duty on his vo-
cation to Vincennes, Ind, has returned
to his home.
All the lines are anticipating heavy
local travel this week, owing to the
State Fair, aud have made arrange
ments accordingly.
Things in the union depot yards
again looks like OLD times. Fifty
freight and passenger. cars were
counted near the depot yesterday.
The 0. R. yesterday transferred
sixty.one carloads of stock to the Pan
Handle. The stock was being shipped
to Pittsburg from the interior of this
state.
Water for the engines along the
Fourth division of the B. 81 o. is getting
scarce again. The water train between
this city and Fairmont has again been
put on.
Yesterday was great day for bust
ness on the i. & o. freight platform.
Every day last week all the employees
made over time. One night they did
not finish until near IL o'clock.
A few days ago the Panhandle ball
team had contest with the business
men of Carnegie, Pa, at this place.
Engineer James McCurdy captaned the
railroaders, and Conductor Lafferty
second base. Score, 5 to % in favor OF
the business men.
d. A. Thurber. the baggage master
at the Panhandle depot, with his wife
and family, were at Maplewood Park,
down the river, yesterday on a little
trip.
The July accident report shows q
total OF 14S accidents, In which 81 peo-
pie were killed and $50 wounded. OF
the killed, 43 were employees, passen-
gers and II "others;" and Of the
wounded 95 were employees, AZ paSsen-
gers, and Is "others."
There is as nice looking coach as
L. 10 ha oil IA
at the Union depot. 1t is from the
Valley road, and was sent to the city to
be taken this morning at 9;45 a. m. TO
Cleveland, which will begin the W. IL
L. E. service to that city. The coach
will arrive in the city from Cleveland
every evening at $50 p. m.
The details of the plan by which the
Wheeling 81 Lake Erie is to secure con-
troll of the Valley railroad are made
public. The line of the Valley COM
pany extends from the Wheeling 81
Lake Erie at Valley Junction to Cleve-
land, ABOUT seVenty-five miles. and its
requirement by that company would
give it line of it's own from Wheeling
to Cleveland. The proposal referred to
looks to the retirement OF the existing
bonds of the Valley Company by giving
to each bondholder new 4 per cent
first mortgage which will be guaranteed
by the Wheeling 81 Lake Erie. and all
income bond of like amount entitled TO
the surplus revenue of the Valley Com
pany. The Baltimore 81 Ohio secured
controlling interest in the stock OF
the Valley Company In January. 1890,
and the road was operated as q part o.
the Baltimore 81 Ohio system until re-
ceivers were appointed In June, 1892.
Two passenger trains on the Chesa-
peake aud Ohio have been provided with
electric tail lights by the chief electri-
clan, Mr.. w. s. Greene. A parlor and
observation car is attached to the train
that leaves Cincinnati about noon each
day, the car being dropped at Hinton
and returning to Cincinnati next day.
The two observation cars that are re-
ouired to give this service are lighted
by incandescent lamps. The electric
wires are run to the tail light brackets
and one connection is made through the
other through the lamp base, which fits
in the base of thelregular lamp casing,
replacing the cup which usually holds
the oil and wick. II for any reason the
electric lamp cannot De used the oil
lamp may be substituted in the same
casing. The electric lights are very
bright The two cars are also provided
in the observation end with electric
fans, which are operated by the same
batteries that give the current for
lighting.
r. ia reported that the Baltimore and
Ohio is preparing plans for new locomo-
tive shops TO be located at Cum berland.
The company has had under considera-
tion for some time the question OF max
ing Cumberland to the Baltimore and
Ohio, what Altoona IS to the PennsJl-
vania Railroad, At Cumberland are
| located the company's rolling
mills which, when first built, were
| operated for time oy the company,
but which during recent years have
been leased to private companies that
| have operated the mills only at inter-
walls. Cumberland was for years an in
termediate station except that, since
! the construction OF the Pittsburg divl-
sion, it has been the terminal OF that
division. Now, however, it Is the ter
miual OF three divisions; one from
Washington to Cumberland, another
| from Cum bertrand 10 Grafton, and the
Pittsburg division. from Cumberland TO
] Pittsburg. Whether or not the new
shops are merely TO give facilities for
doing the Increased amount OF work
that will naturally be required al Cum
! berland on account of the re-arrange-