Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-27
GENERAL NOTICES.
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the City
Railway Company, corporation of tho
State of West Virginia has fled with
the clerk of the City of Wheeling w. Va,
VINO 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 Compan@.
its successors and assigns of n fran
chi.e for the constructing. maintaining
and operating of a street railway in said
city. for a period of fifty years, on and
over AL or any Of the following streets
and alley (the 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
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 easterly 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 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
Streets; thence along Twentieth street to
Chapline Street; thence afong Chapline
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 10 WOO
Street; thence along Wood to Thirty-ninth
Street: thence along Thirty-ninth to NC
Colloch Street: thence along McCollocn
Street and west of the Baltimore anu
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third Street; thence wgestwardly along along
Forty-third Street to where Wood Street
prolonged to Forty-third Street. would in
tersect the last named street; thence 10
Wood street south of Forty-third and
along Wood Street south of Forty,third
to Forty-fifth Street; thence along forty
fifth Street TO Eoff Street; thence a ,
Eoff to Forty-eighth Street; thence along
along Water Street to Chapline Street;
thence along Chapline Street to Tnlrty-
fifth Street; thence along Thirty-hith
to Wood Street the railway to be douole
track from the intersection of Eoff and
Twenty-sixth Streets along Iwenty,slAt n,
Jacob, Thirty-seeond and Wood Streets
to near the north side of the intersec-
ton of Th1rty-fifth and Wood streets;
and the south one of such double tracks
on Twenty-sixth Street, continuing IN a
westerly direction along Twenty-sixth
street 10 Market Street; thence along
Market Street passing along that part OF
Market Street on the east side of the
Eth Ward Market liouses), to a juno
ZION on, with the said city Railway Com
pany's track on Market Su Get north or
and rear Twentieth street; $50 runhIng
from functions with said City Railway
Companv's track on Market Street oppo-
site Seventeenth Street in an easterly d.
rection across Market and along Seven
teenth 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, run
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
tons with the City Railway Company's
track on Market Street near Eleventh
Street. the railway to be double track on
EIeventh street east of Market and on
Chapine from Eleventh to the north side
of the intersection of Chaplne and
from junction with the track of the last
named company on Fourteenth Street to
a junction with its track on Eighteenth
Street and also along Twenty-ninth
street from functions with the last
named companys tracks on Jacob Street,
in an easterly direction to McColloch
street and crossing Caldweus run at Nc
Colloeh Street and continuing In an east
erjv direction along Twenty-ninth Street
and north of said run TO the corporation
line OF said city. And such application is
said applicant, its successors and as
signs of a franchise to construct, main
- and operate such switches cross
S~ars nd connections on the streets here
inhafore mentioned as may be required
for the business of the applicant, It's sue
ceeaors or assigns, and to construct MAIN
t.in and operate an overhead electric
.ntsro to transmit electricity to propel
csrs ,,non said company's tracks In said
citr with the necessary poles and wires
thsrefor and for the privilege to said
comnany. its successors and assigns. of
nermittipg the Ohio Rapid Transit Com
panv to run it's cars upon and use any
pportion of the railway in said city of said
sray be agreed upon between said
"or,nanies. their successors or assigns.
Tha euage of the single tracks of said
Iity railway Company will be four feet
40 eight and three-fourths inches, the
tandard euage. With such application
,hare has been presented and filed with
saia clerk of the city of wheeling draft
- on ordinance granting such franchises,
which ordinance contains more accurate
ond minute description of the location of
the tracks of said applicant and number
~ conditions provisions and requirements
hitch NAV be fully seen upon inspection
thareof and to 1t reference Is hereby
mada and which ordinance said applicant
aasires IA ssed by said Council. The first
nuhl,cation of this notice Is made on the
iotb dav of August, A. d. 1901, and at as
aariv a day as practicable after the 14th
Gav of September, A. D. 1901, at which
time this notice will have been published
for thirty days, application will be made
to the Council of the City of Wheeling
Tor the granting of the said franchises.
CITY RAILWAY COMPANY.