Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-04
b. & O.'s INJUSTICE TO rrIXc


ANoosIiCE To WHEELING.
Inc Board of Trade railroad COM
mlttee ana the city are to be congrat-
LATED upon the careful, thorough and
dispassionate manner in wb;ob tho NIL
merous grievances of Wheelinp against
the B. & o. were presented 70 General
Manager Underwood in the commit
tees communication to that Official
The glaring facts are marshalled in an
array that must at once impress unon
the management of the Baltimore and
Ohio the real nature of this citv,s
grievance and the outrageous discr;m-
nation against Us. The fact that
West Virginia towns equally distant
from Wheeling and Pittsburg are given
every facility for doing business with
Pittsburg while practically cut off in
the matter Of communication with the
merchants of the chief city of their
W State, is a sample OF the rank in
justice that Wheeling has so long put
up with from the B.. & O.. For ex-
ample, the committee points out that
under the present schedule it is pos
sible to leave C~larksburg, go through
Fairmont to Pittsburg, transfer to the
Panhandle, and reach Wheeling more
than an hour sooner than can be lone
by coming to Wheeling direct from
/ -1ycnh1,rn hy rua ~ EoirroAn M
,ver the B. & o. A passen-
ger leaving C~larksburg in the cary
morning goes promptly through to
P~ittsburg without delay, but he canno
possibly get to Wheeling before APO
p. M, while the last train on which
ne can return leaves at 4:50 p. M,
giving him no time to transact bus
mess, And yet Clarksburg is fifty
miles nearer to Wheeling than to
says, comment is unnecessary. The
connections with Morgantown are still
worse. The University city although
equally distant from Pittsburg and
from Wheeling, has three good trains
q day to and from Pittsburg and but
one to Wheeling. and as this one rare
" makes connections it is seldom pos
'''lH to get to Wheeling earlier than
1'.'' D.. m. Even though by dint of
extraordinary good luck the connec-
,'oA az Iajrmont is made it is still
,D'p0'>-1.1 TO get to Wheeling before
Nv y III. Result: The people of
~~'.sahfoNr find it impossible to trade
IN wheeling, whose merchants in con-
sequence nave lost a large amount
OF business and a paying trade that
had been built up at much labor and
cost.
These are but sample ir,tancas Of
discrimination by the b. & O against
Wheeling Coming and going w,oel-
ing gets the worst OF i; in a territory
naturally tributary TO this cir, and
whose inhabitants from State nrido
alone, other things being equal wo,,Id
prefer to trade with the principal eitv
of their own State to taking that trado
outside the State.
1t is not charged that the B. 4, n
has Intentionally Disseminated against
Wheeling, for the loss to the road
proportionately is as great as 1t is to
the city, but the effect IS precisely the
same as if a systematic course of IN
Justice and discrimination had been
deliberately pursued. And in no par
acular is this more in evidence than
IN the total lack of depot accommo-
"atlons suffered by the city ever since
Inc destruction of the old ~ramshackle
SIed at the creek by mood. In the Ian
s"dse OF the committee on this point,
f0iEapS the shortest way to charac-
IcIlZe the stopping place which has
oeen used for the past five years or
"oie' Is to say that it lacks a single
s'oN1nlng feature. SO hidden away
NAT 1t needs a guide +, locate II. with
" lamp OF any kind to light the
P'tcaeh at night. or so much as a
20 Keep the traveller out of the
"Ud' so small that if is so.roo1r ode-
S~1'e 70 the needs of a hamlet of four
".so' where a community of sew
thousand is to be served - is tho
In unvarnished truth to 49, -
;. olsgrace to the railway Nv wb;cn
"seu' a source of disgust =, ~.
paos,hg traveller; an outrage ~ 49,
.eop'e OF Wheeling, and an intn.-
their interests" Nto
to d,s = diflcult for Wheeling neon'A
temper b., .nis subject without losinsa
out the committee has .na