Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-28
TEE RAILROADS.
GENERAL INFORMATION FROM NEARBY
CORPORATIONS.
Local Intelligence, Construction News, the Accident
Record, and General Gossip Of the
DspOts and Yards.


DspOts and Yards
George Maxwell, the Panhandle car
inspector, is home from visit TO Pitts
ourg.
G. ID. Gibbons, of the Panhandle. is
home from business trip to Pitts
burg.
The B. & O. platform forces made
over time last week. The full force is
now on.
Andrew CASTOR, an O. R. baggage
master. has moved from Parkersburg to
this city.
Michael T. CoDnors, one Of the Pan
Handle brakemen, is visiting at Dins-
more, Pa.
john Henuershot, of the o. R., will
be on duty this morning after being of
on vacation.
withdrawing is being done at the B.
& o. platform, improving the looks OF
things generally.
1t is stated the railroads have made a
"poop rate to Washington City, for the
Knights of Pythias conclavs.
William McNary, one Of the clerical
force at the Panhandle freight office, is
the owner of a handsome new bicycle.
J. G. Tomllnson, the we'll known
agent OF the Panhandle, is having his
residence on the Island greatly i'm
proved.
William McCrady, the well known
Ohio River coach cleaner, is off duty,
and will take his whole family to the
circus to-day.
The Directors of the Baltimore &
Cumberland road appear to have taken
no action on the bids for construction,
submitted ia March.
The Junction shops will be on in full
all this week. There is lots Of repair
ing being done now, caused by the
heavy shipments Of coal.
]. Rafferty,, of the b. & O.. has gone
on another fishing trip. He always
has the best of luck and is the leading
fisherman of the b. & o.
A. Rice, one of the best known among
the conductors Of the o. r., will leave
in a few days for visit to his son john
uie, who lives in Parkersburg.
Captain w. W. Wickam, Of the o. R.,
is of duty, suffering from an indisposi-
ton. He is thinking Of going TO Mt
Clemens, Mich, to benefit his health.
Over two hundred carloads Of coal
was handled on an average every day
last week in the b. ~ o. Junction
yards and about seventytiVe in the
yards Of this city.
The b. Il 0. has not yet decided
when the operations on the building Of
the new freight and passenger depot at
Benwood Junction will be begun. The
depot may not be begun this summer.
William Lehew, formerly Of the Pan
Handle freight office, now of Wellsburg,
was in the city yesterday on pleasure
trip. This popular young man is still
in the employ Of the Panhandle at that
place.
The accident record for April shows
twenty eight killed. Of which number
seventeen were employees, three passen:
gers and eight others, and eighty-eight
wounded, of which number fifty-nine
were employees, twenty passengers aud
nine others.
Forepaugh's show arrived in the city
yesterday morning at 2:20 o'clock over
the o. Il. from Sistersville, and was
brought in three sections Of forty-tve
cars Engines 81, % and % brought
the show. All the cars are now on the
Pan Handle tracks near the North
Wheeling bottle works. Ten Of the
cars are for animals, and the re-
mainder are fiat cars.
Panhandle men were not q little sur
prised yesterday when they entered the
ward office and saw the bulletin. IL an
nounced in big letters that Genial +. ).
Speer, OF the Freight Inspection Blu
reau, would join Forepaugh's show as
one OF the slack wire performers. Some
of the railroaders regarded the matter
as a joke, but it is known that Mr..
Speer has considerable skill In wire
walking. He could not be seen as TO
the import Of the bulletin.
Chief Engineer r. II. Cobb, and
party OF directors of the Ohio Southern
and those interested in the Columbus,
Lima, Milwaukee railroad, have re-
turned from trip between Lima and
Defnance to inspect the graded road
bed Of that company built a few years
ago. IL is understood that negotiations
ars now pending for the sale OF the
property Of that railroad to the Ohio
Southern. The distance from Lima TO
Defiance is about fifty miles. The ex-
tension to Defiance will give the COM
pany a connection with the Baltimore
and Ohio line into Chicago.
The title of +. w. Grieves, Master
Car Builder OF the B. 4, O., has been
changed TO Superintendent Of Car De-
partment, with headquarters at Camden
station, Baltimore. The duties OF the
Superintendent OF Car Department will
be the same as those heretofore dis
charged by the Master Car Builder.
The title OF Walter Ancser, Supervisor
OF Floating Equipment, has been
changed to nperintendent OF Floating
Equipment, with headquarters at Cam
den Station, Baltimore. In addition TO
the duties heretofore pertaining to the
Supervisor OF Floating Equipment, the
Superintendent of Floating Equipment
will have charge of the repair and
maintenance Of the company's wharf
dock, pier and bulkhead properties.
He will report to the General Superin-
tendentS of the districts wherein the
properties are located.
AT WHEELING Pack.