The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-18
PASSENGER
SCHEDULES
CHANGING
On the wheeling Roads, Several -.
coming RReStivo commonslhg
sunday Morning.
THE "OHIO VALLEY EXPRESS
ssrviee Between Pittsburgh and cla-
Clnnat, via ths Ohio 1ivss
Read Begins Monday.

To-moFrow the pasUenEor schedules
change on several wheeling railroads,
including the Baltimore q Ohio, Ohio
River, Pan Handle, Cleveland q Pltts-
buFgh. and Cleveland. LoFaln 4 Wheel
ing. Most important are the chanEel
on tho Pan Handle and Ohio River.
which arc made In conjunction for tho
purpose OF inRugurating the new "ohio
valley Express" service between pitts-
burgh and Cincinnati. via the Ohio
River.
This train will leave Pittsburgh for
Cincinnati at 7:l5 a, M, reaching
Wheeling at 10 a, nv ana Cincinnati q
7eO p. m. Leaving Cincinnati at s a.
M, the north bound train reaches
wheeling at 7;'b p. m. and Pittsburgh
at p,4O ,. m. 1t will include parlor ana
chair cars ana will be elegantly equps
ped. Patrons along the Ohio River
| road have hailed the new service With
| delight. The first trains will come out
on Monday, the service not including
| Sundays,
The changes on the Ohio River road
arc as follows:
South bound, leave wheeling a. fol-
lows: No. /. Parkersburg ace6mmoda-
tIon, 7:g0 q. m, daily; No, ., Ohio Valley
Express, Cincinnati, 10 a. m, daily eH-
cept Sunday; No. q, kenOVa, u;lb q, m.
daily: No. 3, Parkersburg, S;46 p. M,
daily: No. g. Parkersburg, q p. M.
daily.
North bound, arrive at Wheeling NO.
4, SlsterEville, 9;lb q, ln., daily except
Sunday; No. g. Parkersburg, 1850 q. "a.
daily; No. IA, Kenova, S;4b p M, daily;
| No. 3, Parkersburg, $3.50 p. M, dRllys
No. 1e. Ohio Valley Express, Cincinnati,
| 1928 p. m.
on the Pan Handle, according to tho
new schedule, there win be q now Pitta-
burgh train, leaving Wheeling at II 9.
m. and arriving at Pittsburgh at 1905
BY tho new schedule there will BE
three Ohio River trains that Will 80
through to Pittsburgh without change
| Of cars at Wheeling, via the Pan HAns
die. The time between New York and
! wheeling, via the Pan Handle Is Bh0rt-
ened thIrty-d minutes, Leaving this
city at 1855 pSm,, New York Is reached
/ at 3 3, M, running tiIne twelve hours
and twenty-five minutes. From Par
kcrsburg to New York the time IL cut
two hours and thirty minutes. the runs
ming time by the new Ohio FtiVer-Pnn
| Hnndie schedule being fifteen hours,
A new passenger schedule goe9 into
/ eIfect on the Cleveland, L,oraln q
Wheeling tomorrow. Schedule is as
North bound-Leave bridgeport at
| $40 n. M, D. M, 4:l0 p. M, arriving at
| Cleveland at 1l;40 O. M. $50 p. M, and
at Masslllon al 1913 p. m.
South bound-LeaveS CleYeland eE
7:l0 a. M. y. M, and Massillon o S;S0
D, M, arriving at Bridgeport at 1:lb p.
M, $3.50 p. m. and $3.50 a. m;
time tomorrow, but the new schedule
had not been announced yesterday.
Cutting Down Grades
The work Of cutting down tho
grades on the Chicago division OF the
baltimore & Ohio railroad will be be-
gun at once and most OF the heavy
work viii have been completed BY
spring. The general plan Of Baltimore
and Ohio grade improvements conten-
plate nm eighteen foot maximum grade
from Chicago to Baltimore, except over
the mountains. where helping engines
have to be used. The Chicago division
work includes reductions between TIFF
nm. Ohio, and AttIca, where a twenty
eight foot grade viii be reduced to
eighteen feet, for a distance Of sixteen
miles, the heaviest cut being at Re-
public. About $4,000 cubic yards Will
Sc excavated. Loss s. Co, Of Chicago,
have the contract. AT Teegarden, Ind,
there are 17b,0OO cubic yards to be re-
.ssl,,sn kRln t1lalH ID fF,OVVp tVgRV1
ty-eiEht to sixteen feet, LosB & Co. also
having this contract Between Garrett
and Ripley, Ind, there will be a re-
location OF the line for seven miles, re-
ducinE a twenty-Gix foot grade 70 alx-
teen feet, both east and west bound.
These reductions viii cost about $780,
600, but will allow an increase Of near
ly so per cent in train loading when
they are completed.