Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-25

There were three petitions before
,.,ppcil last night for street railway
ranchises-sufficient to indicate that
when the matters come up for final de-
Elimination there will be a hard fight
il that body.
The Panhandle Traction Company,
vhich proposes TO connect Wheeling and
}vsllsburg. asks for a right of way
4,wn Coal and Market streets to Tenth.
The petition of Henry Schmulbach and
o.bers-was published in full and exclu-
sjyely. in the Register two,weeks ago.
leaders will remember that they ask
mr. right,of way from the northern to
s51thern limits OF the city, with a
ranch extending out Twenty-ninth
rect to the corporate limits. 1t has
cen understood that this branch would
Ia extended up the road running paral-
lel with right hand run" to Mozart
Park on. the summit of the hill
The only new application was that Of
Nr n e. Whitaker and others, extend
ing from the intersection of ChapliAe
and Twenty-ninth streets along Twenty
ninth street to the corporate limits
This is the same grant asked for by
AR Schmulbach and his associates.
All the petitions were referred TO
three committees jointly. Under the
state law they must be published for
sixty days before being acted upon, so
that II will be two months before the
real fight takes place. The amendments
offered in the First Branch may be re-
earded as an indication of the dispssi-
ton of some members of Council.
The petition of the Panhandle Trac-
ton Company for street railway fran
chise represented that it obtained a
franchise from the counties OF Brooke
and Ohio for road from Wheeling to
Wellsburg; and that in order to prop
erly accommodate its patrons 1t is nee
essary to continue the road from the
northern corporate limits of the city
down into the business district. 1t was
signed by Howard Hazlett, president,
and was accompanied by an ordinance
providing for the grant OF the proposed
right of way from the corporate limits
down to point north of the northern
terminus of the Wheeling Traction Com
pany's line, thence east to Coal street,
along Coal street to alley 2, to Market
street and south on Market street 10
Tenth.
The ordinance provides that the work
Shall commence within one year and
the road must be completed and in OPP
Grafton within two years. The COM
pany agrees to charge not more than
five cent fares in the city of Wheeling.
Mr. Fair stated that he understood
the ordinance had been filed with the
City Clerk. and he moved its reference
to the committees on ordinances, streets
alleys and grades and railroads jointly
Some Of the members were disposed to
insist upon the reading of the ordinance,
hut were not so insistent when they
learned its length. Tt was represented
that this course was compliance with
the law, and that the ordinance cannot
come up on final passage for sixty days.
In the First Branch the application
from Henry Schmulbach, F. ]. Park
and others, for an electric railway
franchise, as published in full exclu-
siyely in the Register two weeks ago,
was referred jointly to the committees
on ordinances, streets, alleys and
grades, and railroads, with an amend
ment by Mr.. Warehouse, that the
committee be instructed to provide
for special assessment on the pro-
perty of the company similar to that
paid by the w. & Z. G. Ry., and that
they safeguard the paving of tracks
and streets as ordinances may require.
A new application for franchise was
offered in the First Branch as follows:
We, the undersigned, respectfully petit