Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-12
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the City
Railway Company, a corporation of the
State of West Virginia, has filed with
the clerk Of the City of Wheeling. w. Va.
who as such is one of the clerks of the
Council of said city, an application for
the granting by the Council of the said
city 10 the said City Railway Company,
Its successors and assigns. OF a fran
chise for the constructing. maintaining
and operating of a street railway in said
city. for a period of fifty years. on and
over all or any of the following streets
and alley tthe railway to be single track.
except where otherwise stated, and to be
operated by electrical power to-wit: Be-
ginning at the north side of the intersec-
ton of Coal and First streets. and run
ming thence in a southerly direction along
Coal Street to Alley 2: thence on Alley 2
TO Market Street; thence along Market
street to Tenth Street: thence along
Tenth Street to that part of Market Street
on the west side of the Second Ward Mar
ket Houses: thence along Market street
west of said Market Houses to Eleventh
Street; thence along Eleventh Street in
an e~asterly direction to Market Street
and down Market Street, west of the pres
ent street railway track on Market Street
to Twentieth Street. crossing Wheeling
Creek by a bridge next to and west OF
the present Market Street bridge, the
railway to be double track, from near the
south end of the stone wall between Mar
ket Street and the National Road near
the intersection of Market and Seventh
Streets. to a point near the Nortn slde
of the intersection of Market and Tenth
Streets: thence along Twentieth Street to
Chapline Street; thence arong Chapilne
Street to T~wenty-second Street, and along
Twenty-second to Eoff Street.: thence
along Eoff to Twenty-sixth Street; thence
on Tw~enty-sixth to Jacob Street; thence
along Jacob to Thirty-seeond stree;
Street; thence along Wood to Thirty-ninth
Street; thence along Thirty-ninth to NC
Street and west of the Baltimore ana
Ohio Railroad Company's tracks TO Forty-
third Street: hence westwardly along
Forty-third Street to where Wood Street
prolonged to Forty-third Street, would in
tersect the last named street. tnence 70
Wood Street south of Forty-third ana
along Wood Street south OF FortySeniru
to Forty-ffth Street; thence along Forty
fifth Street to Eoff Street: thence along
Eoff to Forty-eighth Street; thence aaons
Forty-eIghth to Water c stresr; Street shenfe
thence along Chapline Street to Thirty-
fifth Street; thence along Inlrty-niIn
to Wood Street; the railway to p %of aos and
Twenty-sixth Streets along TwentysslNen
Jacob, Thirty-second and WOOD s1reeos
to near the north sue OF w tned sstreets.
and the south one of such double tracks
on Tweilty-sixth Street. continuing IN =
street 10 Market Street; thence along
Market Street (~passing along that part OF
Market Street on the east side or the
Fifth Ward Market 1 a4usI P9,,w W. Com
n.on rack on Market ST. eet north OF
md rear Twentieth Street; $50 running
Eonnnapv,s track on Market Street oppo-
site Seventeenth Street in an .easterly Ill
rection across Market and along Seven
teentb Street to Eoff Street; thence along
Eoff TO Eighteenth Street; thence along
Eighteenth to Wood Street; thence along
Wood to Fourteenth Street; thence along
EoYrteenth to Chapline street; thence
Long Chapline TO Eleventh Street, run
ning east of the track of the Wheeling
and Elm Grove Railway Company on
Chapline Street; thence along Eleventh
SStraet and across Market Street to june
tjons with the City Railway Company,,s
track on Market Street near Eleventh
Street, the railway 10 pc 1N3eurIn I 'f and ON
Chanline from Eleventh to the north side
~ the intersection of Chapline and
Twelfth Streets; atso +h aao trsc Jao Of tbe last
named company on Fourteenth Street 70
a junction with its track on Nlghteenth
Street; and also alons WHY tweh tSe Iaet
namoJ company's tracks on Jacob Street
IN an e~asterly direction to McCohoch
Street and crossing Caidwen 5 run d 81
- direction along Twenty-ninth street
ond north of said run 10 the corporation
line of said city. And such app1caIlGn 10 70
80 annlicant, its successors ana as
s;gps Of a franchise to construct, mann
tain and operate such s NJ s4rsets here.
@aL@R mn CAt1
tnbafore mentioned as may be required
~ Inc husiness of the applicant, ITS sue
nossors or assigns, and to construct mill
cessoi I'D oDerate an overhead electric
aln n transmit electricity to proper
oossrs mon said company's tracks IN sala
IT, With the necessary poles ana wires
49, th1Safor and for the privilege TO sal1
onnanany. its successors and assigns OIL
connp;ttins the Ohio Rapid Transit Com
pe e, 70 run it's cars upon and use any
pportyon Of the railway III said city OF salo
ppUo4tI, galway Company, upon such terms
Cl'sraI he agreed upon between SAID
as nnaI;es. their successors or assigns,
eliaee of the single tracks OF sala
I az railway Company will be four teet
~ aioht and th~ree-fourths fnches' the
anu I'd guage. With such application
sS a. has been presented and filed WIN
sslnId clerk of the city of Wheeling a uralt
, "a Nv ordinance granting such FRANCHISES,
Uoihicb ordinance contains a more accuraes
WI ncinnte description of the location OF
a IN tracks of said applicant and a numpeI
VI y oonditions, provisions and requirements
oisIIoh nav be fully seen upon inspectloH
tharaof and to it reference is heIepg
enee and which ordinance said apphcant
I ia nsssed by said Council The frst
uvhI,ca ton of this notice is made on the
,potb dsv of August, A. d. 1901, and at as
LII . dav as practicable after the l4th
~ of September, A. D. 1901. at Whlc1
time this notice will have been puollsnSa
Cor thirty days, application VIII be MAJ
70 ,be Council of the City OF WheeHhS
for the granting of the said r~panS1lses'