Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19


Eleven Overhead Tracks.
The legal representatives Of the Ma
tional Tube Company managed to get
| the City Council of Benwood to pass
two of its ordinances at a special meet
ing of that body, called for the pur-
pose. There is vacancy in the Coun-
Gil, caused by the removal of one mem
Der to McMechen, leaving but seven
members. 1t was 1870 o'clock when
six members assembled for the meet
ing, and it was one O'Clock yesterday
morning when the ordinances were fin
ally passed and the body adjourned.
Under the grants made by Benwood
Council, the National Tube Company
will use all the streets and alleys from
Bogg's Run to Forty eighth street,
Wheeling, between the continuation of
Jacob street and the B. & o. railroad
tracks. On the west side of Jacob
street continued, it will occupy all the
territory from Second street, which in
tersects Jacob at the Drover's Home,
down to Boggs Run
No portion of Jacob street will be oc-
cupied. The company will take what is
now Third street, running from White
mans across the B. & o. tracks at
grade, and will open up new Third
street. The new street will start on
Jacob, little north of Whiteman's and
will run diagonally toward the B. & o.
tracks, passing under the tracks and
connecting with Marshall street on the
East Side. The point at which the
street goes under the B. & o. is just
north of the north abutment of the B.
& o. bridge across Boggs Run.
The matter of elevating the B. & o.
tracks two feet at that point, has been
taken up with the B. & o. officials 1t
is said that it can be accomplished to
provide gradual grade within a quar-
Company's tracks will follow Jacob
and the new Third streets, and thereby
avoid the present dangerous B. & 0.
crossing at Whiteman's.
The ordinance making the grants re-
ferred to was passed by the six members
of Council without a dissenting vote,
and with the exception Of one slight
amendment, was practically the same as
it came from the committee The Ma
tional Tube Company pays Benwood
$4,000 and this sum, or as much of it as
may be necessary, will be expended in
eighth down to Second street in Ben
wood
Benwood Council also granted to the
National Tube Company the right to
cross Jacob street with four bridges,
none of which shall be less than IA
feet high, and nine more such bridges
across the new Third street. They will
be single track bridges, giving the right
for thirteen tracks in all. If the B. &
o. company raises its tracks, the bridges
will be higher than IA feet The Ben
wood G Connecting Railway Company
has the same rights as the National
Tube Company, but it is under
stood that if one company constructs
the tracks and bridges, the other will
not. In other words there cannot be
more than thirteen tracks, and none of
them will cross the streets at grade.
1t is the intention to build one of the
proposed bridges across Jacob street at
Whiteman's in the very near future.
The other three across Jacob street may
not be built for many months. The
bridge referred to is necessary to reach
the new furnace, which is one of the
largest and best equipped in the coun-
try. and will soon be started in opera
ton.
Mr.. VIM. H. Hearne, in an interview
with a Register reporter yesterday,
stated that he was not in position to
talk freely at this time concerning the
plans of the National Tube Company,
with reference to further improvements
to the big plant in Benwood.