The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-09
.HOULT BRIDGE
A SURE GO NOW
CONTRACTORS ARE NOW Rush.
ING PREPARATIONS TO BEGIN
WORKABLE RICHMOND
DEFENDED.
Ry our Regular correspondent.l

ing preparations to begin work on the
bridge here. Several carloads Of ma.
terial II machinery arrive every
day. Yesterday two light locomotives
came. They are to be used to handle
the immense amount OF dirt neces.
sary to make the I'LL to approach the
bridge.
To-day some powerful derricks ar.
rived. The contractors are expecting
derrick boat and barges from Pitts.
burg any time and say they should
have been here.
Meanwhile they are busy putting
up buildings and slantles to shelter
employees and keep supplies in and
such purposes. To-day they put sew
eral negroes and Italians at work
grading off for o track from the rail,
road across Elijah Hoult's lots to the
lock. The B. and o. put in a switch
for this some days ago and built a
track to the edge of their right of way.
Several car loads. of large cast iron
drain pipe has been received and dis.
Itributed for c~ulyerts at the various
small streams. Taken all in all If
this is only a bluff on the part of the
B. and O., as many still assert, 1t is
a splendid imitation of the real thing.
Affairs at the Lock.
We notice an article in yesterdays
Times" under the title head of ma.
- -
rionite" regarding affairs here at the
lock that is timely and hits the nail
on the head. We have been itching
TO hit somebody a Jolt about that, but
as we don't like to NEEDLE have kept
quiet: but as the Times" man has
let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.
we can hold in no longer. He is right
In saying the people of Hoult are
much excited. We never saw more
excitement over a political campaign.
people have dropped everything and
come in from out in the country to
get to sign the petition asking that
Richmond be retained.
AS many of your readers have not
seen the article in the Times" we
Will just state that there has for
some time been a vengefui feeling on
the part of the lockmaster, Glasscock,
at No. 10, against ALI Richmond. his
helper or lockman. This i'll feeling
eliminated a short time back in a long
list of charges against his subordi.
nate, all of which charges the people
of Hoult say we're either false or
greatly exaggerated. Major seibert,
of Pittsburs, gave Richmond a chance
to reply to the charges as was Just
and proper and the matter was dis.
missed, both men getting called
down. but more especially the man
bringing the charges. This stirred
his anger and aroused his vengeful
feeling to a greater pitch than ever
and since then he has made things
d~isasreeable for his helper in a thou.
sand and one little ways a mean-spir.
tied man a when clothed with a lit.
tie brief authority. The other day
Richmond received notice from ]. E.
Callard, assistant engineer at Nor.
santown to go to Lock 10 and have
house here vacated by the 18th OF
August. In all these affairs the lock.
master has plainly been backed by
Assistant Engineer Callard and people
are losing much respect for such a
plainly unfair official, and a sus.
picfon grows that he is a man in the
wrong place or rather the wrong man
for the place, as he has not the calm
judicial mind hat looks at both sides
of n case and suspends Judgment till
both sides have been heard, but flies
into a passion and passes judgment
without elaboration.
The people. of Fairmont might be
accused of acting on a personal friend.
ship for Richmond as he is from that
city, but no such charge can be
brought against the people of Hoult
as they<did o know either man till
they came here to begin their duties.
and the people are moved only by
that innate love of justice that Is sec.
ond nature to every American; the
love Of fair play n a square deal.
We do not wonder at Richmond for
not wishing to go to Lock 1S as he
has children to raise and there is no
church or school house nearer than
Little Falls OF the opposite side of
the river, a mile. and a half below.
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