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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
COMING OF THE WABASH.
After Many Years 81 Assertion and
Rumor 1t IL Said the New Road A
Now 4 Certainty.

After Many Years Of Assertion and
Rumor 1t IL Said the New Road r.
Now . Certainty.
For at least a decade there have
been reports, rumors, predictions and
assertions that the Wabash railroad
would obtain an entrance into the
Wheeling territory, and at last the
project appears to be a certainty.
The Register, in common with other
newspapers, has heretofore published
the current Jews of this important
movement, and this morning can add
that George J. Gould and others. after
securing tonnage agreements with the
Carnegie and other immense steel in
terests, have agreed to the construc-
ton of a railroad line from Pittsburg
to this city where a connection will be
made with the Wheeling and lake
Erie road, which is to be leased, thus
obtaining access via that line to the
great western Wabash system, which
operates over 1000 miles of road. The
route of the new line will run from
the Consolidated Terminal Company,
Pittsburg, via. Carnegie, Bridgeville.
and Little Washington, thence prob
ably via. the Valley of Middle Wheel
ing creek to a connection with the
Terminal system in this city, over
which the Wheeling and Lake Erie
has a traffic arrangement extending
over a long period of years. The pro-
jected line, which is to be commenced
in six months, has been underwritten,
in the sum of SIS, 000, 600, by George J..
Gould, of New York, principal owner
of the Wabash: Colonel Myron T. Her
rick, of Cleveland, Chairman Wheel
ing & Lake Erie; Joseph Ramsey, Jr.,
of st. Louis, Vice President and Gen
eral Manager Wabash railroad; Sena-
tors C. L. Magee and William Finn,
Joshua Rhodes, M. K. McMullin, j..
Dawson Gallery, T. H. Given, A. W.
Mellon, of Pittsburg traction syndicate,
Chairman Francis L. Robbins, Presi-
dent F. M. Osborne, Secretary c. w.
Baine, Attorney A. NJ. Neeper, Pitts
burg Coal Company.
The line will tap a large area OF
virgin coal fields and will reach prac-
ticay every existing or contemplated
industry in this territory. on both
sides of the river, from which there
vii be a very large tonnage. The
new road will afford a short line to
Pittsburg, being stated as but fifty
miles long, but will be rather costly
to construct. The building of this new
line to Wheeling will be a welcome
and valuable addition to our railroad
facilities, and its completion will mean
much for the city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
GOV. WHITES APPOINTMENTS

PARKERSBURG, W. Va. February
Ex-Governor elect White to-day an
nounced that upon taking the Office OF
Governor he would appoint the follow
ing officers:
Secretary of State. W. NJ. o. Daw-
son, Charleston, re-appointment; adj
jutant general. S. B. Baker. Parkers-
burg; State bank commissioner, NJ. A.
Kendall, Parkersburg, present treas
urer; State librarian. S. ". Starks,
colored, Charleston; fish and game
warden, Capt. E. T. Smith, Hinton:
j~anitor. Rev. j. ". Grifiiths. Point
Pleasant; commissioner of labor. i.
V. Barton, Wheeling, re-appointment:
chief mine inspector, J.. W. Paul.
Davis, re-appointment; private secre-
tary, z L. Boggs, Charleston, reap
pointment
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

It empowers 4 minority Of the Di.
rectorate to transact business, which
may be legalized by the subsequent
assent Of members not present
1t places a tax, not upon the actual
capital OF a company, but upon its
authorized capital, a manifest gross
injustice which would obviously tend
to restrict enterprise.
It's general purpose is to extort mon
ey from those aggregations OF enter
prise and capital upon which the de-
velopment of the State will depend in
the future as it has in the past.
1t will upset in toto the status OF
corporations before the law, and rem
der void. all the decisions of the Courts
in the past.
1t is a radical departure from prece-
dent and established rule, will COM
pei a wholesale revision in the courts
and is without any proportionate COM
~pensation. While ostensibly a bill to
increase the revenues of the State II
is really a measure simply to augment
the fees of the Auitor and the Secre-
tary of State, which officials are al
ready drawing a fortune apiece from
that source in addition to their sal
aries.
1t is a law that is wholly bad and
stands as a fitting monument to the
late generally incompetent and reck-
less Legislature.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
A NEW TRUNK LINE FOR WHEEL
INC

Last week the Register published the
outline of a great railroad project py
which Andrew Carnegie proposed to
bring the Wabash by means of connec-
tions with the c. L. & w. and the w.
& L. E. through to Pittsburg and
thence on east to the Atlantic sea-
board, in order to gain better freight
rates, which the Pennsylvania and B.
& o. had refused to give him.
At that time it was thought that the
great deal by which Mr.. Carnegie sur
renders his steel interests to the Nor
gan syndicate was the effort of the
Morgan railroads to prevent this pro-
posed project by which their lines
would be paralleled by an independent
line across the continent. And it was
supposed that the buying out of Mr..
Carnegie meant the REIMBURSEMENT Of
his plans in that direction.
This view Of it is now shown TO
have been erroneous, since Mr.. Car
negie, who was not to be caught nap
ping, had already closed the bargain
with George Gould, the chief owner of
the Wabash.
The additional details of interest 10
this locality concerning the new trunk
line thus to be brought through from
the west, paralleling the existing lines
from the Pacific to the Atlantic will
be found on another page.
Wheeling's interest in the matter is
especially great since it is proposed to
bring the new trunk line direct
through this city over the Wheeling
and Lake Erie and thence on to Pitts
burg yer a connecting link fifty miles
long, construction on which is to start
within six months and to cost SIS, e0c,-
900.
The Importance Of this project to
Wheeling cannot be cver-estimated
and the city and IT. thriving in1us-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
win Meet stevens.

To the Editor Of the Register.
sir:-On page three OF the Register
of February Gath is to be found a
short article with the above caption.
Please allow a few remarks relative 70
the said article. Mr.. II. w. Rogers
is there reported as saying that he Ii
only too anxious 70 meet Stevens IN
a contest, under conditions imposed
by unbelievers-at least this must be
inferred when he boasts Of his $1,000
challenge. HoaS much he presumes
on the ignorance or common people
regarding spiritual affairs is to be
seen in his bravado and Wanting in
science.
Ii puts the writer in mind OF the
men when they cried out TO Jesus on
the cross IF thou art the Son Of God,
come down from the cross" he,
knowing full well that the populace OF
all beliefs and Of no belief, would be
on his side. IL his case Is 80 Impreg-
nable and his U 20 just. why could
his smpathizers not publish my arti-
Gle that / handed in TO the News
about two months ago. Why was Il
suppressed? Is that the way a great
cause needs to be upheld by the down.
right suppression Of the liberty OF
thought and speech II he
and his hackers are 80 sure OF VIC
tory as to forfeit $1,000 why the need
OF unfair methods 70 uphold their
cause? Must the truth forever run
naked through the world because
error stole truths clothes? Thrice
10 he armed who hath his quarrel
just-" AS TO the actual number OF be-
levers In the city. II In immaterial,
- truth is neve dependent on the
,mulfituds. FAIR rLAY.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
At the Jumping-On Place.

Rev. e. Randall, the evangelist, who
has been here for the two last Christ
masses, says that is longer than he ever
stayed in one place for the past thirty
five years, except when he was in the
penitentiary or the asylum. He says,
having been here so long, the commits
sioner was compelled by law to take
a little contract on him since October
1900. But this di~ not reach far enough.
1t only backed him for three lunches
a day, leaving him to fight this cold
weather for room-rent and fuel, which
costs from 81 to So per week in this
city. He wants to make it very plain
for those who have known him and
lbs work, that after thirty-five years
in evangelistic preaching out of seven
ty years, he will never become a pau
per in a poor-house. The bottom of the
river will get his carcass before that
will come to pass, and the same fish
which swallowed Jonah can have his
body. But eve to be vomited up on
land again.
P. S.-Please put this in verbatim for
me and obhge an earnest worker for
the Lord.
r PANDAJI.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
MINISTER CONGER DROPPED.

The Chinese situation must be relieved
of much of it's strain when Minister Con-
Observation-Disclosures.
On the contrary, the situation is so
strained that the administration has
probably decided it cannot afford to
have so dangerous a %blunderer as Min
lister Conger has proven himself to be.
in charge of diplomatic negotiations
for the United States.
The chances are ten to one that Mr..
Conger will never return to his Chinese
post. His leave of absence is a polite
name for his recall, and is a pretext
such as Mr.. Mckinley usually must
have when confronted by a disagree
able duty which can't be shouldered
onto some one else or a commission.
Nobody-with the possible exception
of the Wheeling NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that Mr.. Conger voluntarily asked for
leave Of absence at this critical period
of negotiations in China. He has long
been out of accord with the State De-
partment, and his impetuous and
t~houghtless conduct has seriously je-
cpardized the influence Of the United
States in the councils of the powers
at Pekin.
In removing him the President does
well. It is doubtful if it will improve
the situation, however, to appoint as
Conger's successor William ". Rock
hill, acting minister. The only promi-
nent act of Mr.. Rockhiils diplomatic
career in China was as grave a breach
of diplomatic etiquette as even Mr..
Conger could have been guilty of, and
consisted Of an %utterance upon his ar
rival at Shanghai Of a most undip!o-
matte and extraordinary TRADE against
the Chinese government, which found
its way into the press Of the United
States.
But Mr.. Rockhill is said to &c a IA
vorite with the State Department, and
of course, that settles 1.-THE admins
tration is notorious for playing favor
ies-so Mr.. Rockhill will probably get
the post regardless of the fact that his
appointment will i5e an open affront to
the Chinese government, to which he
must be persona non grata in a high
degree. But III imperial administra-
ton has doubtless become inbued with
true imperial contempt for the Chinese,
whom it probably regards as having
no rights which a truly great world
power is bound to respect.
Rockhill was sent to China as a sort
of spy on Conger, and it is said his let
tiers to the department caused the re-
call of Mr.. Conger, who was accused of
mutiny against the department and of
having cal0led to the President that he
knew more about the Chinese situa-
ton than Secretary Hay did.
Another characteristic act of the
President was the holding back of
Minister Conger's recall until after the
election, because Mr.. Mckinley feared
it would arouse hostility to him among
the missionary societies of the United
States, which might find voice at the
polls.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
A BAD LAW.

Elsewhere will be found the full
text OF the new law in relation to cor
porations passed by the late Legisla-
ture OF unfragrant memory. The Reg
lister has already referred to this
measure, which 1t is sufficient to say
recasts the entire code of the State
in relation to corporations. Among
IT. Objectionable features are these:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
E. D
SHE WILL 90 E
with Husband No. s. and Satisfy Her
Love for Western Life.

Special to the Register.
HUNTINGTON. w. Va, February
25.-Mrs. Annie Curtis, of this city.
was married for the fifth time yester-
day, her present husband being J. R.
Arnold, Of L~eayenworth, Kansas.
Arnold advertised for a wife in a mat
rimonial paper, and Mrs. Curtis an
sWered. Half a dozen letters were
written by each, photographs exchang-
ed and the wedding yesterday was the
elimination. Mrs. Curtis's former hus-
bands are all dead. She is quite
wealthy and good looking. She re-
fused to marry numerous suitors in
West Virginia, but accepted the Kan
sas man, she said, because she had
long had a fascination for Western
life.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

tries are to be congratulated on the
c5nsummation Of the plan which will
secure for us new and valuable rail-
road connections and increased facil-
tiles and open up additional territory
to the enterprise of our merchants.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
ELKINs AND THE L.Rop vr

That must have been an interesting
scene in the room of the Senate COM
mlttee on Interstate Commerce, of
which Senator Elkins, of West Vir-
glnla, is a member, when Mr.. Hugh r
Fuller, the representative of several
organizations of railroad employees.
boldly accused Mr.. Elkins of breaking
faith with the workingmen in the mat
ter of the railroad accident bill.
1t appears that in reply to inquiries
from labor leaders just before the No
vember election Senator EIkins wrote
a letter pledging his efforts to secure
a favorable report from the Interstate
Commerce committee on the bill re-
quiring railroads to report all accidents
on their respective lines to the Inter
state Commerce Commission. Since
the election, it had been impossible to
get a quorum of the committee until
Mr.. Fuller took a hand on behalf of
the labor organizations interested and
succeeded in getting a quorum togeth-
er. Mr.. Elkins was one of the six
members present and Mr.. Fuller, after
reading MI. Elkins's letter with sarcas-
tic comments, openly charged the
West Virginia Senator with bad faith
with the labor organizations. Where
upon, Mr.. Elkins. considering discre-
ton the better part of valor disappear
ed from the committee room before a
vote was reached.
The vote was favorable to the bill,
but probably Mr.. Fuller and those
whom he represents know tie ways of
boss politicians and the reliance to
be placed in their ante-elecion prom
ises somewhat better than they did.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
CONGRESSMAN HUGHES I'LL.

Special to the Register.
HUNTINGTON, February Coon
gresham James A. Hughes, of this
city, is very i'll. He has been coufr-
ed to his room for several dayA
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

During the last ten years, the Equit-
able has paid S23, 500, 297.5S in divi-
dends to its policy holders, which
largely exceeds the amount paid in
dividends by any other company dur
ing the same period. And after pay
ing out so much more than any other
company, there is left in the Equitable,
for further distribution at the dates
when it falls due. an amount larger
by many millions than that held for
the same purpose by any other COM
pany.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

Now that China has agreed 20 {he
terms of the powers even 70 The last
h~umiiiating detail, will Germany be
satisfied and call off Waldersee? And
will the rest of the powers evacuate
Pekin? Will these imperial despoil-
ers be able to leave their rich quarry?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
FELL INTO A FLYWHEEL,
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
MARIETTA, o., February 25.-Wil-
son Robinson, engineer at Nye's foun-
dry. fell headforemost into a RAPIDLY
revolving nywheel while oiling his en-
CINE this afternoon. His head was
crushed to a jelly. He leaves . wife
and two children.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

King Edward has chosen an Amer
lean painter-John S. Sargenr-ro
paint the portraits of himself and wife
in their robes of state. This selection
of a foreigner as court painter is like
ly to offend a large number of R. AS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
REGISTER AGENCIES.

WHERE THE REGISTER CAN BE
PURCHASED OUT OF TOWN:
CHARLESTON, w. Va. Richardson's
Book Store, Capitol Street, opposite
WASHINGTON, D. c. Queen News
Stand. National Hotel.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

In 1900 the Equitable wrote more
new business than in 1899, and the
outstanding assurance was nearly six
ty-f1ve millions greater than in 1899;
and yet its expenses were not only
less in proportion, but absolutely less
in mount than in 1899:
EXpenSaS TO INCOME
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

1900 II. 100,
100 ~. 900
Expenses to mean amount in force
- O.S9So
Increase in new business. .......S 3.7S4.4 All 90
Increase in outstanding assur-
ance 81, S5S, 956 50
Decrease in total expenses. 1851 "a
The surplus earned in 1900 was
more than eight and one-half millions,
a large increase " the previous
year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
CREDITABLE SHOWING
OF the Equitable Assurance Co. Of
New York.

The forty-irst annual statement Of
the Equitable of New York, which APP
pears elsewhere, is one Of which it's
policy holders should all be proud. 1t
shows an increase in almost every
thing except expenses of management
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26

Miners have little to gain by a strike
and lots to lose.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-26
DEI,1vERpD ny CARRIERS.

Stamps of the denomination OF W cents
and less accepted for amounts less thar
one dollar.
Correspondence containing important
news solicited from every part of the sur
rounding country.
Rejected communications will not be re-
turned unless accompanied by sufficaent
postage.
Tributes of Respect and Obituary No
tees, five cents per line.
THE REGISTER. embracing its several
editions. is entered at the Postofrice at
Wheeling, w. Va, as second-class matter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-01
MAcLAREN IN THE sLUMs.
r,,raotlng Rents and Giving to
Foreign Missions.

Foreign misslOhr.
Thu author of THE Bonnie Brier-
puehu tells a Stun story in the Cen
,,,rv II Is called Jasmine Court and
High Ranger Jasmine Court
Chestnut Street. belonged to an excel
lent maiden lady who supported mis-
sim work among the women OF India
with all of her spare means, and did
NOT 1,now whence her income was
Gathered. and would have been very
much Mortified if any one had told her
thar her own tenants needed her help
very much more than the women in
the zenanas. Her estate, with others
Of the same kind, was managed by an
agent. who was not any worse by ma
ture than other men, but who con-
sidered It to be his duty to spend as
little as possible upon the property,
and to get as n1;ica oa5 of it as he was
able, by unrelenting energy In secur-
ing the rent, and imperturbable cal
lousness to the misery of the tenant.
Very likely he was a deacon in chap
eli somewhere and not only paid his
own bills with regularity, but also gave
literally to the hospital collection, and
was very much beloved in his own
family; for half our sins are done vi
cariously or ignorantly, and we may
be as cruel as Herod the Great, and
all the time consider ourselves to be
kind-hearted, open-handed Christian
people. The agent would have been
very much ashamed If any one had
accused him of sentiment, and his poll
icy might we'll justify him from such
a charge; but even this austere man
had his lapses into poetry, although he
endeavored to make the muses. serve
the purposes of business. SO long as
the street, to which his property chung
like a child to the skirts of very un-
sympathetic mother, was called Back
Hooley Lane, he was quite content
that his court should be known as
No II, and, indeed, except for police
sheets and coroners inquests, it did
not really require any name. Chest
nut Street quickened the imagination
of the agent, and as occasionally he
had been told that his property was a
moral disgrace to the city-this from
the philanthropic visitors, and also
that it was a sanguinary pigsty-this
Slightly translated) from the inhab-
tants-he felt that something must be
done; and instead of cleaning and re-
pairing it, he covered all its faults as
with a garment by painting up in
black letters on white ground-the
only whiteness in the place: Jasmine
Court"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-01
rl,zh ugh Ice at west Point.

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee confesses to a
decided weakness for pranks when he
was a cadet during the years 1852 Sc,
at West Point. Il am sorry to say"
he eonfesses, that ' was one of the
wild boys at West Point; did not study
much. but could always be relied upon
to join in hazing or any other pranks.
admit, too frequently went down
TO the well-known Benny Havens' of
that day, and one night, owing to the
dummy which dressed and put In my
bed to represent me while l was alb
sent not showing some life and little
animation when the inspection officer
came around about midnight and
threw the light of lantern on the bed,
| was court-martialed for being out of
quarters between taps and reveillS and
sentenced to walk ten extra tours OF
Sunday guard duty ten extra satur-
day afternoon guard duty during the
time cadets were allowed to be out of
barracks, and to be confined TO the
plain of West Point for one year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-01
WINDOW DECORATIONS.

How perfectly beautiful" exclaimed
a visitor as she entered the favorite
sitting room of the chatelaine of a
charming country house. 1t was no
wonder she stood transhxed with adj
miration. Before her, nearly filling
one end of the room, was deep re-
cessed window and window seat, the
former with large plate glass sashes
that made the room seem part of a
fruit orchard beyond, which was just
bursting into pink and white silken
cushions to match a great semicircle
of hyacinths and tulips just outside
that blazed with color within their
setting of emerald green turf Their
soft tints of pink, yellow, blue, white,
purple, lilac and dark red were all ex-
actly reproduced in the piled up eush-
ions of the window seat.