The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-07

uAAku 4h AAs SbNAAAaAi ~ @SANAN
formerly OF Wheeling. was in the city
last evening, On route homo from the
south. The Judge had quite q trip in
the "sunDy Southland" Starting with
the G. A. h encampmsnt at Louisville.
that was followed up with Knoxville,
Chattanooga and Atlanta. Speaking Of
hii trip last night no said that he was
pleased beyond description at the treat-
ment accorded tho old veterans Of the
blue at Louisville, He had thought no
city would ever decorate 80 finely as
Pittlburgh in September, 1894, but
LouiIville easily ocIIpGod the display
mado In tho Smoky City.
While In Louisville party was made
up to visit the birthplace Of Lincoln,
about sixty miles away from the city.
The party was in charge OF Colonel
Shorley, Of the committee Of arrange.
ments, an old confederate, by the way.
Among the prominent G. A. Il, men who
went were Captain ], A. Is. Adams, Of
Boston and Colonel LaWler, OF Illinois,
DQLU DHut VI kuG We
A. r., Judge Cochran and others.
ave found the old cabin to be OF but
one room, with one window and one
door; there was no ceiling, the rRttera
Wore smoky, and the wall was full OF
ChinkS, but there was not man whose
we'll OF sentiment was not overtioWing.
The tears atraamed down nv face as l
thought Of Lincoln, the martyr, aud l
said: Gentlemen, II these teara DO un.
manly, am not aShRmed, and several
replied, we would be ashamed OF you
II you Wero ashamed And then
old Jack Adams, who has suffered
years OF pain from old wounds, stepped
up to me and said: Judge, II could
find tho man who caused these wounds l
could hug him and share with him the
last dollar | polseIS. There wasn't q
man Of Us but was bottsr for that visit"
Judge Cochran was interested in the
re.opening Of the CounellsvillO railroad
project. He 10, By tho way, Que OF the
directors in the old Connellsville &
Wheeling company. He thinks that
Whesling is making great mistake in
delaying at all the construction OF thin
road, which he says 10 Of more impor.
tance than anything else ever proposed
here, with the exception OF the lermi-
nal road, OF which he was the chief pro-
motor. 'Beiore left Wheeling" said
the Judge, ~ made careful estimates
from figures secured from iron manu-.
iacturers hero Of the savings in freight
charges that q road to Conpellsville
would bring about found that every
year Wheeling pays Sl2o,OOo more in
freight on the coke used bere, than
Pittsburgh iron manufacturers pay for
the same amount. That Sl20,00O repre-
sents the interest on the amount OF
money necessary 10 build road from
Wheeling TO Connellsyille. 1t should
be built, by all means"
"What is tho present situation re-
gurdIng the Cleveland & Wheeling right
Of way which you purchAIod recentlyT
Was asked.
"YoS, l bought up that road at tho
sale in Stoub8nville last August am
hoping that Wheeling will get another
road to tho lakes through that route.
There are two projects In connection
with this line. Ono Is to build tho liu0
to ShOrrardSville and connect with the
Cleveland, Canton 4 Southern road, and
the other to connect with the Lake
Eric, Alliance & Southern at Bergholtz.
The chief object Of the building OF this
road, aside from reaching Wheeling,
wauld be tho tapping Of the rich coal
folds OF eastern Ohio. Take the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie; that roads proata
havo doubled since 1t extended TO
Wheeling and tapped the coal fields oil
Belmont and Jefferson counties"
"Thorc 10 a third project that intor.
ests Wheeling" said Judge Cochran, "in
which AM Interested. 1t 10 the pro.
ioct Of a canal to connect the Ohio river
and Lake Eric. And taken In Connec.
ton with the scheme to improve aud
deepen the Ohio river from Pittsburgh
down to Cincinnati, it becomes doubly
important. ain chairman OF the com.
mission that asks tho adoption OF tho
Toledo Cincinnati rouio for doOponed
canal. With thni canal built | would
expect TO see coal brought down the
Ohio from Pittsburgh aud down tho
Kannwhn to Cincinnati, scnt through
the canal and up tho lakes to Duluth
without change OF bottom
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