Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-17
MISUNDERSTANDING
Ii the Construction Of the Wheeling
and Elm Grove Road.
Everything is Being Done in the
Best Possible Manner, and Whom
the Work is Completed the Pike
Between the City and the Park
Will be- Like a Street-SOme De-
tails of the Present Situation.

The reconstruction of the Wheeling &
Elm Grove railroad, and it's traESforma-
ton into double-track electric line is
working wonders, out east OF the city,
and when the work is finished the old
residents won't know the locality along
so much of the pike as Is traversed by
the line. The improvement will be gen
eral and marked, and will benefit not
alone the railroad company, but every
property owner and every farmer Who
has occasion to use the pike for purposes
of travel or teaming. AT least thirty days
more work will be required before the
Ane will be in working order; 1t may
wen be the first of September before the
,oad will be ready for the cars as far as
Wheeling Park; but once 1T is done, 1t
fill be found in the best possible shape.
livery detail of engineering and construc-
ZION has been in charge of Messrs. Brown
: Hazlett, and aided and abetted by the
bntractors, the results so far attained
)re splendid. The county authorities and
he town of Pleasant Valley has also had
hand in some features of the improve
pent, while in many instances private in
lividuals have facilitated the work, par
tcularly when it's wide scope was compre-
tended.
AT the power house. on McColloch
rtreet, the walls are we'll up and large
Iorce of men are at work placing the
)oiler plant In position. The bridge over
The creek between Baker street and the
Peninsula is completed. the ties are down
and the rails will be laid to-day. The wire
can be strung in a couple of hours, and
then the electric cars, which now stop at
the end of McCulloch street, will run
to the entrance to the Peninsula ceme-
terry. The track has been laid down
across the Peninsula, and one span of the
Fulton bridge was finished last night and
the other will be up in a few days. In
Fulton the track is down along Centre
street, and the railway company has
paved the full width of the street, making
handsome and well drained street.
From the east end of Centre street the
track is down through the Thompson
fields and up to the pike, where one
branch of the "Y'' has been connected
UP with the main tracks on the north side
of the pike, at Stackyard Hollow. From
there on to Woods run the double track
is ready, and much of it has been paved.
The new double track bridge over Woods
run is completed, the tracks are down,
and everything is in good shape. AS has
been stated, the right of way question at
Echo Point has been settled and a large
force of men are at work there, both on
the right of way and at the masonry
construction at the east side of the Point.
The new curve at Seibert's is in use, and
the old track has been abandoned and
torn up. Through Pleasant Valley, from
Seibert's to PaXton's. the full width Of
the pike is being paved with the Spillman
block paving, and much of the work is
done. Curbing has been set and the old
road looks like a city street. A good deal
of grading has been done along the pike,
from Seibert's to Greenwood, and the
paving is well advanced all along, while
the remainder of the material is on the
ground. Many humps have been cut off
and dips filed and the result will be to
make. hauling very much easier, while
both mud and dust will be largely abol-
ished. From Greenwood to the Park the
new track is nearly all down, and much
of it has been paved, but good deal of
special work remains to be done in the
vicinity of the Park entrance, in the way
of switches, etc, to facilitate the hand
ling of cars. Little work has been done
east of the Park, so far. but it is possible
this will be pushed right through this
fall, as soon as the eastern portion of the
line Is completed.
The great improvements now under way
will inevitably do a very great deal to
hasten the building up of the country
along the pike, particularly from Alien
helm to the Park, and it requires no
great stretch of the imagination to see it
densely populated at no very distant day.
The new railway is bound to hasten the
extension of Wheeling in that direction
as nothing else ever did, and the next
five or ten years will see wonders wrought
in that regard.