Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-28

| council, the petition, ordinance and
map OF the recently organized Subur-
ban hallway Company was presented
in the First Branch, and was referred,
as is usual with such matters, to the
! Committees on Railroads and Streets,
Alleys and Grades, jointly, without
| reading or debate. The committees will
| get together at some time in the flu
ture, to go over the route, as was done
! last week with the proposed extension
| OF the Wheeling and Elm Grove rail-
way ordinance.
The petition presented in behalf or
this company is as follows:
ITO the City Council of the City of Wheel
ing
Your petitioner, the Suburban Electric
Railway Company. respectfully shows
unto your honorable body that about
three months ago a project was set on foot
to build an electric railroad over certain
streets and public highways in the city
Of Wheeling, and from thence eastward 10
the town of Elm Grove. or the vicinity
| thereof. Since that time a Company has
been organized and incorporated under
the name of the Suburban Electric Rail-
way Company, for the purpose of carry
ing that project into effect. Following
are the persons constituting the Board OF
Directors of that Company, to-wit: n. +.
Whitaker, George w. Woods, Platoff Zane,
Charles NJ. Frissell and u. Randolph
Hicks. y. L. Whitaker has been elected
President of said Company and y. Ran
dolph Hicks secretary thereof. The Com
pany has agreed upon the line which is
shown by the map herewith fled marked
Exhibit A.. An ordinance has been pre-
pared granting right of way over so
much of said line as lies within the limits
of the city Of Wheeling. Said ordinance
is herewith filed, marked Exhibit b 1t
will be seen the ordinance is the same,
except as to consequential changes. as
that which was passed by the City Coun-
ell of the city of Wheeling on the 9th day
of August, 1857, for the Wheeling Railway
Company.
your petitioner prays that the Ordin-
ance may be passed by your honorable
body. And for this it will ever pray, etc,
SUBURBAN ELECTC RAILWAY Co,
by ]. 3. Sommerville.
Its Attorney"
The essential portion of the ordin-
ance is contained in these extracts:
Sec. 1-* The streets on and over
which such right is granted are as fol-
lows: Beginning at the intersection Of
First and Coal streets in said city, and
running thence southwark to tho alley
between Fourth and Fifth streets. which
runs at right angles to said Coal street;
thence eastward along said alley TO Mar
ket street; thence southwark on Market
to Eleventh street; thence eastward on
Eleventh street to Chapline street: thence
southwark on Chapine street to Fifteenth
street: thence eastward on Fifteenth
street to McCulloch street; thence north !
ward on McCulloch street TO what is
known as the Fulton or Peninsula road; |
thence along said road to the corporation
line OF the town of Fulton.
PROVIDED, That the said Suburban |
Electric Railway Company shall IN good |
faith. actually commence the work of
making said railway track within six !
months from the date of the passage of |
this ordinance. and have the same COM !
pletcd and street railway cars in good |
faith running on the same within fifteen !
months from such date on Market and |
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them. for a distance of 22O rods at least. |
and that the cars or other vehicles placed !
or run on said railway snail be propelled |
by electrical power. to be applied accord |
ing to any system now in use in other |
places and which may be adopted by the |
Railway Company with the approval of |
the Board Of Public Works and the Com |
mittee on Streets, Alleys and Grades; that |
the gauge of the said railway shall be five |
feet and two inches. and not more or less; |
that the wagon tread of the rail shall be |
three inches in width, and that said Com |
pany shall charge only a five cent fare /
for adults upon its line in the city Of |
Wheeling.
Sec. THAT the Council of the city Of !
Wheeling. or other corporate authorities |
of said city. shall and will not. during the |
term of fifteen years from the time of tho |
passage Of this ordinance. tax the capital |
stock of the Company belonging to the !
Company. or the railways or tracks, cars, |
motors. depots or standing grounds OF |
the Company nor will the Council or !
ohter corporate authorities of the said |
city tax any other property OF the !
Companv. real or personal at a |
greater or higher rate than they tax like |
nroperty belonging TO others than SAID |
company: and that the said city authori- |
ties shall and Will not during the said |
term of fifteen years. lay or levy any |
tax. charge or burden upon the tolls. !
fares. profits or business of the said |
Company. or upon persons or property |
because or by reason Of the same being |
carried or conveyed, or intended to be |
carried or conveyed on the railway OF |
cars OF said Company.
As was stated in the ordinance and !
shown by the map, filed in connection |
with the papers the track Of the new |
companv. runs down Market street. !
from n point midway between Fourth |
and Fifth streets to Eleventh street,
and thus parallels the existing |
track of the Wheeling Railway |
Company. from Tenth to Elev-
enth street. along the Second ward |
market house. From Market and |
Eleventh the road follows Eleventh 10 !
Cbapline. and down Chaplne to |
Fifteenth. out which it runs to Nc |
ColIoch. and thence along McColloch |
n the bend in that street at the foot |
Of the grade near the stockyards, where |
II narallels the Wheeling and Elm |
Grove Company whose ordinance is |
now pending Reaching Fulton, the |
line runs east through that town by |
wav of Centre street, and thence cuts |
into the National road at the east end |
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