The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-25

"hNNAANk Wv AANt fSsRNH"h- So -
business way-It Means a "Groator
Wheeling"
Readers Of tho ISTELLEdESoER are ia.
milIar with the fact that there is now
in course Of construction an electrical
railway between BenwoOd aud Mounds
vile, connecting tho BenwoOd terminus
Of the Wheeling electrical street railway
with tho Mound City" but compare
lively few Of them know OF the maGni.
tudo OF the enterprise, or what 1t means
to the people OF Wheeling, tho people
along the route OF tho road, aud the
people at the Moundsville end OF 1t,
financially aad socially. Very few, in
deed, in Wheeling, know, except in u
f%ragmontary way, that while thOy have
slept, so to speak. men Of money and
nerve have been Wide awake. They are
meR who have been quick 10 see an op.
%portunity for the investment OF capital,
which would not only give them fair re-
turns, but provide transit between
Moundsviile and Wheeling for the ac-
commodation OF tho great aud increas'
ing population strung along tho Ohio
river at and between those points.
They are iar.seoing men, and whom they
viewed tho land OF promise comprised
in the above territory, they were not
slow in making up their minds that IL
promised great deal moro than appear
cd on the surface.
These mon OF enterprise behold >
population OF probably G0,0OO soul OF.
cupying, within the limits OF twNivemiits
on tho east bank Of thu Ohio riyerl0
territory rich in al! that oes to make
up a wealthy community, and VITA
bouudless possibilities before It. Two
railroads connect tho four or 6yo co~ :
muuities that 90 to make upthis BIZ
community, and have contributed tn
develop the growth that has occurred,
but there Is need OF another-R rapid
transit route from one euI to tho other,
connecting oil tho communities, which
have grown into each other aud have
finally become one city extending from
the upper end Of Wheelingt to the south.
ern boundary OF NJ oundsville-R route
that will afford easy aud frequent
means OF travel and mako tho innabi'
tantS Of tho intervening territory Que
people, and tho territory itself ono city.
0nly a street railway" can do this, and
it 10 being done.
NEW ERA.
In doing It's work the electrical rail.
way will contribute its share towards
bringing about a new ora for every in.
terest-tho steam railroads already In
operation. tho manufactures already
established and to be established, tho
merchants OF the new and greater CITY
that will grow ~, and the surrounding
farming community. Moro than that,
the plans Of the gentlemen who are at
the head OF this enterprise Contem plato
n now resort for tho people Of this Rroat
Community aud tho greater community
yet to como, in tho shape OF u park,
situated within easy access to the whole
population-a park that will DO cen.
trally located, and tho chief beauties Of
which arc already provided by nature,
aud upon tho improvements OF which
more than $4,000 are to bc expended
within tho next few months. Add
to this the S2OO,0OO Of ex.
ponditurO that will DO ropru.
Sented when the electric line shall
have been COMPLETED and you have an
idoa Of tho magnitude Of tho enterprise
that has boon undertaken and is being
prosecuted by men who have had tho
nOrvO to surmOnut what appeared to
some to b. nh insurmOuntnblO obstacle.
This obstacle was what is known as
"lho Nartows," tho grnat hill dividing
MCMOChon and GlondAlc-th0 ono thing
that for generations appeared to stand
in tho way Of Moundsvillo aud Wheel
ing growing into each other. Tho
obstacle has boon removed, for tho now
electrical limo not only climbs over the
hill and forms n connecting link, but
Is u monument 10 tho OnternfisO OF its
promoters aud tho skill OF iti engineer,
who, by tho way, Is Mr.. q, @. Smith, OF
Wheeling,
THE halfway COMPANY.
Tho promoters Of tho electrical rail.
way which promises so much for tho
future Of Wheeling md hor noighbot.
ing towns, mud to create tho Grcntar
Wheeling Of tomorrow, arc mainly
Marshall county aud Wheeling mon, III
tho list Of ~stogkhuldors are some OF tho
solIdOst business mon Of this city. Elk.
Congressman benjamin Wilson, Of
CtnrNsbnrg. Inns boon tho lilo Of tho
work, however, aud to lila onOrry and
perseverance 10 largely duo tho
fact that tho scheme was placed
on u sound aud sure footing. Tho
campany Ia organized Rs faIlaws' pte'I.
dent, H. f. Peabody, Of GIoulllr; score.
inry, II. NJ Lpwi., II MonndsvillOj treas.
iirOr, NJ. Il. Cox, oI Monndswhlai dirOc.
tors, u. r. Peabody, NJ. L. Cox, H. VI.
Lows, A. Pierce aud John W, Burch.
lnNl. Aside from these gentlemen, who
liavO tho active infringement, nrO such
chlct promoters NJ Colonel Wilson, L.
H. DObbinq, u Wheeling and others,
anil tito mdnnot In which thOy have
RuCcoBtod IN pushing forward tho wotl,
until ~, nov nSsnrol TINT tho rnal
will hO rnmulolOl and In running order
within slSty " ninety dnye, will uppcnf
from what iullowai
Yesterday tit lSrEtiturSerW fnpte'
sentative, In company with oilicre,