West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-09-14
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF WEST
VIRGINIA.
A New Railroad Enterprise Under
Way.

The directors OF the Central
Railroad Company Of West Virginia
met last night at the rooms Of the
general office IN the W~hitescarver
building, and elected the following
officers : Hon. Geo. 9. Sturgiss,
Morgantown, president; Capt. Geo.
NJ. Whitesesrver. Grafton, vice
president; X. L. Defries, Wheeling,
general manager; T.. e. DAVIS,
Grafton, secretary and treasurer,
Congressman A. G.. Dayton, Phil
ippl, attorney. Besides the officers.
there were present George and
Andrew Harden and Charles NJ.
Uornwell, all Of Barbour county.
The meeting lasted several hours,
and plans were discussed for the
early grading of the road. The
line of the road will run from
MoIgantown to Charleston, the
right of way and survey having
been completed as far as Belington,
Barbour county, at which point
the road will be in operation
The route from Morgantown will
be by way Of Reedsville, Preston
county, and will cross the b. &
o. not far from the Hardman
switch; will again touch the b. &
o. at Thornton, Six miles east Of
Grafton; from there through the
country by way of Nestorville and
M~eadowville to Belington. The
survey has not been made further,
but the route from there to Charles
ton will pass through the richest
mineral and tin berlands in the
State. Arrangement will be made
with the b. & o.. by which the
road will enter Grafton over it's
line from Thornton. This will
give Grafton a direct outlet to the
southern part of the State.
Some of the big patent medicine
advertisers pay immense sums for
advertising, and when q popular
author makes a great reputation,
he Eat get almost any price he
asks for his writings. Here is an
instance in which the }. @. Aver
Company, of Lowell, Mass, the
well known sarsaparilla firm, tried
to get q good ad. out Of the English
author, who attracted 50 much at
tention recently in this country,
while very i'll in New York CITY:
On juno 9th the j.. G. Aver
Company offered Mr.. Rudyard
hipling $1,000 for a poem Of eight
lines, two stanzas. The poem was
10 have appeared in the fortheom.
ing Ayers goth Century Book. On
June 10th Mr.. II. If. Mcclure
teIegraphed the J. G.. Aver Com
pany that Mr.. HIpling had posi-
lively refused. If the poem had
utilized fifty words, the offer Of
the D. g. Aver Company was at
the rate of $40 a word, and if the
average word consisted of five let
ters (for Kipling is fonder Of short
Saxon than of lengthy Latin) the
offer was at the rate of 81 a letter.
Quite a number of eminent
patriots are being doomed for the
Republican nomination for Cover
nor Of this State next year, and it
may do no harm TO thus tickle
the fancy Of these gentlemen and
their friends, but it is no use. for
them to loose any money or sleep
over 1t, as the matter has been
liked long ago by the machine and
the nomination agreed upon. The
red headed Secretary of the Repub
lican State Committee, Hon. AL.
bert b. White, of Parkersburg and
Second Term Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue for this State is
the man. Now mark this down
and remember what we say.
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And now 1t seems that Charley
Elliott,the Brazton county warrior,
who got the best appointment in
the new regiments being raised of
any West Vlrginian, has been try
ing ever since TO back ont. He
was a Major in the Second W. Va.
Regiment, and was appointed a
Major in the new 47th Regiment
OF Volunteers, merely as q matter
OF politics, since he has no military
record to amount to anything.
Now no claims that the Republican
campaign cannot ran without him.
and that Senator Elkins wants
him here next year to help bIm
capture the Legislature.
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Bikins is making arrangements