Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the City
Railway ompany a corporation OF the
State of West Virginia, has hled 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,
It's 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 to he
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 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 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 NORM HlQs
oil the intersection OF Market anu ohN
Streets; thence along Twentieth street 10
Chapline Street: thence afons Chapllne
Street to Twenty-second Street, and along
Twenty-second to Eoff street.: thence
on T~wenty-sixth to Jacob Street; thence
along Jacob to Thirty-second street,
thence along Thirty-second to Wood
Street; thence along Wood to T~hirty-nlnth
Street; thence along T~hirty-ninth to Nc
Colloch Street; thence along Mctolloen
Street and west of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company's tracks TO Fort
third Street; thence w~estwardly along
Forty-third Street to where Wood street
prolonged to Forty-third Street, would IN
tersect the last named street; thence 70
along Wood Street south of Forty,third
to Forthwith 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 Stfeeti
thence along Chapline Street to Thlrty-
fifth Street; thence along Thlrts,nIbln
to Wood Street; the railway TO be dounls
track from the intersection OF Eo11 ana
Twenty-sixth Streets along Twenty-slNtn
Jacob, Thirty-second and WOOD streets
ton of Thlrty-ffth and Wood streets.
and the south one of such double tracks
on Twenty-sixth Street, continuing IN a
westerly direction along Twenty-sixtn
Street 10 Market Street; thence along
Market Street tpassing along that part OF
Market Street on the east side OF me
Itfth Ward Market IiouStSji W " -
t;ou with the said City Railway Com
panv's track on Market St eet north OF
and rear Twentieth street; $50 running
from jrrctions with sald Wy aadIway
site Seventeenth Street in an ~easterly d.
rection across Market and along Seven
teenth Street to Eoff Street thence along
Eoff 10 Eighteenth Street; thence along
Eighteenth to Wood Street: thence along
Wood to Fourteenth Street: thence along
Fourteenth TO Chapline Street; thence
IN IlAv~nnfh StFnpt rim
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.
tions with the City Railway Companys
track on Market Street near Eleventh
Street. the railway to be double track on
Chapline from Eleventh to the north side
of the intersection of Chapline ana
Twelfth Streets: also along JACOB street
from a junction with the track OF the Iast
named mpan on Fourteenth street 70
4 junction with its rack on Eighteenth
Street; and also along Twenty-ninth
Street, from functions with the iast
named company's tracks on Jacob stree,
In an easterly direction to McColoch
Street and crossing Caldwelis run at Nc
Colloch Street and continuing in an east
erIv direction along Twenty-ninth Street
and north of said run TO the corporation
line of said city. And such appacatlon Is
also for the granting by said Councll 70
said applicant, its successors ~ ii
pms OIL a ~ ~
tain and operate such switches, cross
overs and connections on the streets mere
irhefore mentioned as may be required
for the business of the applicant, us sue
cessors or assigns. and to construct NAM
tain and operate an overhead eleVLrli
system TO transmit electricity to pfopti
cars upon said company's tracksE IN sald
civ with the necessary poles and Wis
therefor and for the privilege 10 sali
connanv its successors and assigns. OF
nermttting the Ohio Rapid Transit COM
many 10 run its cars upon and use any
norton of the railway ri said city OF saH1
ritv Railway Company. upon such terms
az NAV be agreed upon between SEA
eomnanies. their successors or assigns;
The giIage of the single tracks or sa1
Titv Railway Company will be four feet
and eight and three-fourths lnches' tns
standar guage. With such application
there has been presented and filed WIN
said clerk of the city of Wheeling A graft
of an ordinance granting such franchises,
which ordinance contains a more accura5S
and minute description of the ocatlon 2
the tracks of said applicant and a numper
~ conditions, provisions and requlrementS
which may be fully seen upon lnspectlot
thereof and to 1t reference is hereog
,node and which ordinance said applicant
desires passed by said Council. The nrst
nubl;cation of this notice is made on the
iofh day of August, A. d. 1901, and at a
carly n day as practicable after the l4th
day of September, A. D. 1901. at Whle5
time this notice will have been publfshed
for thirty days, application will be nlaus
to the Council of the City of wheeling
g. A. - a1tfno IF tba Gaid franchises.