Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-07

AMI OlSoOOoED AMI lOOh-
ED OVER THE SITUATION GEN
ERALLY-THEY REACHED THE
CITY SHORTLY AFTER NOON,
AND TOOK A CARRIAGE DRIVE.
LEFT AT las P. MOTHER Of
FICIALS ARRIVED JUST BE-
FORE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT,
AND WILL LEAVE THIS MORN
ING.
AS was exclusively forecast in the
Register of yesterday morning, the high
officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company arrived in the city
at 1925 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
The party included Receivers Cowan
and Murray, Chairman of the Board of
Directors E. r. Bacon. Mr.. Solomon,
one of the financiers of the road, and
ex-senator j. N. Camden.
Carriages had been provided in adj
vance for the visitors. and soon after
their arrival they left the private car
and were driven to the high bluff at
Twentieth and Eoff streets, from which
point of vantage they enjoyed a BIRDS
eye view Of the city, and incidentally
Of the property of the Terminal Rail-
way Company, lying along the north
bank Of the creek. From this point
the party were driven down to the north
side of the creek and thence through
the city as far east as the Peninsula,
where the general lay of the land was
carefully inspected particular attention
being given en- route to the territory
along the west bank of the creek from
the Terminal property at Wood street
north and east to the line of the Pitts
burg division where it turns toward
the East Wheeling tunnel. About half
past one o'clock the party arrived
back at the private car, and soon after
wards departed eastward, Senator Cam
den being dropped off at Fairmont last
evening. About ten o'clock last night
another private car, containing, among
others, General Superintendent William
Gibson, headquarters at Pittsburg, l..
r. Brockenbaugh, General Freight
Agent, also of Pittsburg, and others,
arrived in the city yards, and re-
manned here during the night. This
party will probably join the receivers
this morning, and the entire staff of
officials will proceed west.
Register reporters saw several of the
officials yesterday and last evening, but
they were reluctant to talk about rail-
road matters with any specific detail,
| and would neither confirm nor deny the
story that it was the intention of the
Company to avail itself of the passen-
ger facilities afforded by the Terminal
Company. The fact that an inspection
of Terminal property was made during
the brief stay here is very suggestive,
but was explained by one of the Off
Gals, who said the object of the car
rage drive was simply to show Messrs.
Solomon and Bacon the general lay of
the land in Wheeling This could have
been done to good advantage, however,
without going to Twentieth and Eoff
streets, or to the Peninsula. There
are many more pleasant drives.
One of the officials said that while
action on the part of the company as to
Wheeling was still uncertain and not
matter to be talked about with any
approach to detail still the patience Of
the Wheeling people was known and
appreciated, and that when operations
were undertaken here Wheeling would
be correspondingly benefited and amp
ly rewarded for the patience shown. No
definite statement of any nature could
be extracted from the officers, however,
and even pointed enquiries as to pos
sible Terminal arrangement provoked
nothing tangible by way of reply. Gen
erallties were almost exclusively dealt
in, and it was left to the imagination
to divine whether the company will I'LL
timately construct passenger station
in this city, or do business upon Ter
minal property for some years to come.
One gentleman, close in his relations
to B. & o. interests, said, after reading
the article published in yesterdaiH
Register, that there was evidently one
error of detail, and proceeded to ex-
plain that il the company made use of
the Terminal station for passenger traf-
fic, it would not use the Terminal lines
for Pittsburg traffic, except for the dis
lance between the depot at Market and
Eighteenth streets, and the bridg9 over
the creek at Whitaker's, and when ask
ed to explain this, said the company
would construct a line of its own from
point on the north bank of the creek
opposite the Whitaker mill around 10
connection with the present line OF
the Pittsburg division west Of the tun-
mel bridge, thus avoiding not only the
heavy grade on Sixteenth street, but
the glass house" grade as we'll He
also said that this plan included the
widening Of the tunnel for double
track. This is mere detail, however,
in any arrangement which may includ-
the Terminal plant or any part of it as
factor in the future plans of the
company.
With matters in the present situa-
ton, it is impossible to say with any
degree of exactness what the outcome
will be, but the visit Of the highest Of
ficials of the company to this city. at
this time, was certainly not without an
object, and there is a general feeling
among those who keep track of the
movements of the company that defn-
lite action Of some nature is not far re-
moved.
Quite number of citizens called up
on the railroad men yesterday. and
many more were disappointed in not
seeing them, owing to the breyity O.
the visit.