Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14
NEW ADvERTIsEMENTs.
NOTICE

Noii,E-
Notice is hereby given thai the city
Railway Company, a corporation OF tie
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 70 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 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 tina
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 to
Chapline Street; thence along 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 TO Wood
Street; thence along Wood to Thirty-ntnth
Street; thence along T~hirty-ninth to Me-
Co11orh Street. thence along McCOil0ch
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
tersect the last named street; thence to
Wood Street south of Forty-third ana
along Wood Street south OF Forty,tniro
to Forty-ffth Street; thence along Forty
fifth Street to Eoff Street: thence along
Eoff to Forty-eighth Street: thence along
| Forty-eighth to Water Street; thence
| thence along Chapline Street to Thirty
fifth Street; thence along Thirty-htth
to Wood Street; the railway to be double
track from the intersection of Eoff and
Twenty-sixth Streets along Twenty-sixth,
Jacob, Thirty-second and Wood Streets
to near the north side of the intersec-
ton of Thirty-ffth and Wood Streets;
and the south one of such double tracks
| on Twenty-sixth Street, continuing in a
westerly direction along Twenty-stxth
Street 10 Market Street; thence along
Market Street (passing along That part OF
Market Street on the east side of the
Fifth Ward Market uouses), to a juno
ton with the said City Railway Com.
pany's track on Market Stl Get 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
| teenth Street to Eoff Street; thence along
Eoff to Eighteenth Street: thence along
| Eighteenth to Wood Street: thence along
| Wood to Fourteenth Street: thence alons
| Fourteenth to ChaDline 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 june
| lions with the City Railway Companys
track on Market Street near Eleventh
Street, the railway to be double track on
Eleventh Street east OF Market ana on 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 last
a junction with it's track on Eighteenth
Street; and also along Twenty-nlntn
Street, from functions with the last
named company's tracks on JACOB Streei,
in an easterly direction to McColloch
Street and crossing Caldwelfs run at Nc
Colloch Street and continuing in an east.
erly direction along Twenty-ninth street
and north of said run to the corporation
line of said city. And such application IS
also for the granting by said Councl 10
said applicant. it's successors and as
signs, of a franchise to construct, MAIN
tain and operate such switches, cross
overs and connections on the streets mere,
inbefore mentioned as may be requlItu
for the business of the applicant, It's sue
cessors or assigns. and to construct, MAIN
tain and operate an overhead electric
system to transmit electricity TO pfopI,
cars upon said company's tracks IN sas
city, with the necessary poles and WIZ
therefor. and for the privilege TO say
COMPANY. its successors and asslgnS' u
permitting the Ohio Rapid Transit Com.
pany to run it's cars upon ana use atS
portion of the railway in said city, OF sau
City Railway Company, upon such teln3
as may be agreed upon between sau
The guage of the single tracks OF -
CITY Railway Company will be louf ~
and eight and three-fourths lnches' ~
standard guage. With such applcaIVbb
there has been presented and hied ~
said clerk of the city of Wheeling a ui@.e
of an ordinance granting u franchlae,,
which ordinance contains a more acSul"s
and minute description of the ioca.ionh
the tracks of said applicant and a nunlnta
of conditions. provisions and requirements
which may be fully seen upon inspeo.atIJvy
thereof, and to it reference is NEE
made, and which ordinance said aDpitant
desires passed by said Council. Inc NJ
publication of this notice is mace on Nv
18th day of August. A. D.. 1901. and d, ~
early a day as practicable after the ~
day of September, A. ID. 1871, at MA
time this notice will nave peen ~ made
for thirty days, application VIII ne M NJ,
to the Council of the City OF Wheea"S
for the granting of the said franchises
CITY RAILWAY COMPANY,