Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-13
NEW ADvERTIsEMENTs.
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 to 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 (the railway to be single track.
except where otherwise stated. and 10 be
operated by electrical power). to-wit: Be-
ginning at the north side of the lntersec-
ton of Coal and First streets. and rum
ming thence I'm 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 North side
of the intersection of Market and Tenth
Streets; thence along Twentieth Street 10
Chapline Street; thence along Chapltne
Street to Twenty-second Street, and along
Twenty-second to Eoff Street; thence
along Eoff to Twenty-sixth Street; thence
on Twenty-sixth to Jacob Street; thence
along Jacob to Thirty-second Street;
thence along Thirty-second to Wood
Street; thence along Wood to Thirty-ninth
Street; thence along Thirty-ninth TO Nc
Colloch S rect; thence along McColloeh
Street and west of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad ~Company's tracks to Forty
third Street; thence westwardly- along
Forty-third Street to where Wood Street
prolonged to Forty-third Street, would in
tcrseet the last named street; thence to
Wood Street south of Fofty-third and
along Wood Street south of Forty-third
to Forty-fifth Street; thence along Forty
fifth Street to Eoff Street: thence along
Eoff to Forty-eighth Street, thence along
Forty-eighth to Water Street. thence
along Water Street to Chapline street;
thence along Chapline Street to Thirty
fifth Street: thence along Thirty-ttth
to Wood Street; the railway to be double
track from the intersection of Eoff and
Twenty-sixth Streets along Twenty-slXth,
Jacob, Thirty-second and Wood Streets
to near the north side of the inte.Sec-
ton of Thlrty-fifth and Wood Streets;
and the south one of such double tracks
on Twenty-sixth Street. continuing in a
westerly direction along Twenty-sixth
II " VIC htI ANh(1 e'Cf6
Market Street (passing along that part OF
Market Street on the east side of the
Fifth Ward Market l1ouses), to a juno
ton with the said City Railway Com
pany's track on Market ueet north OF
and rear Twentieth Street; ESQ running
from functions with said city Railway
Company's track on Market Street oppo-
site Seventeenth Street in an easterly d.
rection across Market and along Seven
tenth Street to Eoff Street; thence along
Foff to Eighteenth Street: thence along
Eighteenth to Wood Street: thence along
Wood to Fourteenth Street: thence along
Fourteenth to Chapline Street; thence
along Chapline to Eleventh Street, rum
ming east of the track of the wheeling
and Elm Grove Railway Company on
Chapline Street; thence along Eleventh
Street and across Market Street to juno
lions with the City Railway Company,s
track on Market Street near Eleventh
Street. the railway to be double track on
Eleventh Street east of Market and on
Chapline from Eleventh to the north sue
of the intersection of Chapline ana
Twelfth Streets: also along Jacob street
from a junction with the track of the last
named on Fourteenth Street to
a junction with it's track on Eighteenth
Street: and also along T~wenty-nlntn
Street, from functions with the laS'
named company's tracks on Jacob street
in an easterly direction to McColloch
Street and crossing Caldwelfs run at Nc
Colloch Street and continuing In an east
erlv direction along Twenty-ninth street
ana nOTI0 OIL Sdlu run " IN
line of said city. And such application IS
also for the granting by said Councll 10
said applicant, its successors ana as
signs. of q. franchise to construct, mann
tain and operate such switches, cross
overs and connections on the streets mere,
inbefore mentioned as may be required
for the business of the applicant, It's sue
cessors or assigns. and to construct lnea.s
tain and operate an overhead electIlG
system to transmit electricity TO prope,
cars upon said company's tracks IN salu
city, with the necessary poles ana wife
therefor, and for the privilege to sdls
company, its successors and assigns Vi
permitting the ohio Rapid Transit Com
pany to run it's cars upon and use any
portion of the railway in said city of sald
City Railway Company, upon such lelnd
as may be agreed upon between SUI
companies, their SUCCESSORS or assigns;
The guage of the single tracks OF say
City Railway Company will be four ltst
and eight and three-fourths inches. tne
standard guage. With such appncau4h
there has been presented and hled VIII
said clerk of the city of Wheeling a draIt
of an ordinance granting such trahcnIsva,
which ordinance contains a more accuI"oF
and minute description of the location y.
the tracks of said applicant and a nunlueI
of conditions. provisions and requirenleits
which may be fully seen upon inspecuSr
thereof, and to it reference is herep.
made. and which ordinance said anpIlcant
desires passed by said Council. me NJ
publication of this notice is made on tns
18th day of August, A. ID. 1901. ana az ~
early a day as practicable after the l4tm
day of September, A. d. 1901. at Whlc4
time this notice will have been puoHsnsN
for thirty days, application will be maui
to the Council of the City of Wheeling
for the granting of the said franchises
CITY RAILWAY COMPANY,