Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-06

liShed some inside information about
Baltimore and Ohio plans in this city
and vicinity, including the fact that
there had been talks with number of
influential citizens, and that a confer
ence had been arranged tor the 10th of
May. This publication greatly anus
ed the InJelhgencer at the time, which
was beat on the news. and it editor
tally, after B. 4 o. officials had asked
the manager of that paper TO say moth
ing about the circumstances, took adj
vantage of the absence OF the manager
from the city, to poke some alleged fun
at the Register, and for two days it
made merry The Register was re-
quested by B. & o. officials to omit any
reply, and complied with the request,
and after time the Intelligencer sub
sided. The Register was right from
the first, however, and the conference
this paper had forecast was held, on
or about the 10Th of May. Before that
time however, B. & o. surveyors had
been hard at work in this city, and the
Register was generally informed as to
what was going on. The official re-
quest, however, was observed, but has
expired by limitation, and the Register
this morning prints some more excluS-
i've B. & o. news.
At the outset it may be stated that
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, from all present available infor-
nation, will not build a new passenger
station in Wheeling. Instead, it will
use the Union station of the Wheeling
Bridge and Terminal Company, all
trains arriving and departing from
Market and Eighteenth streets. The
present B. & 0. property, on South
street, will be used for freight business
exclusively, and in the course OF time
the present facilities there will be en-
larged.
To make use of the Union depot there
are two plans, either one of which may
be adopted.
One is for the B. & o. to run a track
from the present yards south of the
creek east along the south bank of the
creek, from Water street to point east
of the Market street bridge, and thence
cross the creek by new bridge to the
Terminal yards east of the Union depot.
The company already owns about all
the property on the south bank of the
creek essential for this purpose, except
a piece of ground at the south end of
the Main street stone bridge, on the
west side of Main street, belonging now
TO the Goshorn estate. Negotiations
have been attempted, through other
parties, for the purchase of part of
this property, but they have not mater
ialized, for reasons not here necessary
to state. This property acquired, the
B. & O. would run line from its yards
south of the creek. on the water front,
east along the south bank of the creek,
crossing Main street at the south end
of the stone bridge, continuing along
the creek on B. & o. property to Mar
ket street, crossing that street at the
south end of the bridge, and thence
cutting across the creek diagonally to
the north bank, landing in the Termin-
al yards. The effect and practical
working of this would be that trains
from the east or west. over the main
line. bound for Pittsburg, would run
right into the Terminal grounds, back
down to the station, let off and take on
passengers, and then pull right out over
the Terminal tracks to and across the
Peninsula and strike the present Pitts
burg division tracks east of the tun-
mel.
This is the plan understood to be ia
vored by the Terminal Company.
The other plan, understood to be IA
vored by the B. & o. management over
the other is for B. & o. trains to strike
the Terminal at Thirty-third street,
rvn thence through the Chapline hill
tunnel to, the creek. build a "Y' there
which would permit trains to be turn
ed. and thence run into the Union sta
ton. 1t is understood the Terminal
opposes this, because it wishes to keep
the Chapline hill tunnel and the track
south of it clear for existing and future
freight business, and would much pre-
fer that the B. & .. construct the indie
pendent line along the creek. Another
probable reason is that the Terminal
would get just as much money from the
B. & o. for the transfer of cars from the
Union station east. as it would If the
use of the Chapline hill line was includ-
ed, and naturally prefers the least ser
vice for the same money.
A large party of B. & 0. officials, in
GLIDING Receivers Murray and Cowan,
Assistant General Manager OF Mainten-
ance of Way Daniel Willard, and 9TH
ers, are expected to arrive in the city
to-day. when it is probable additional
facts regarding this important local
matter will be available.
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