The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-10-28

over 100 Miles OF Track Now Dis
triouted Throughout the
Wheeling District.
question. WHY is Wheeling the
great metropolis OF this community
We must turn TO the uneXCelled street
railway systems which prevail here
rev. II any, cities OF ike size IN
the whole country can boast better
facilities for transporting passengers
or every walk in Ike. The service Is
quick and satisfactory and the cost
OF riding on the cars OF the companies
operating in the city is SO casuuabic
as 10 be easily within the means of
the most humble
These factors nave been pre-emi-
nent In building Wheeling up 20 its
present high station as shopping
and Industrial center. Thousands OF
persons who reside I'm surrounding
towns, some Of them fifteen and TWEEN
" miles distant. are enabled 20 ride
back and forth to their work I'm this
city daily. and residents ~ the CITY
proper likewise earn their livelihood
by working In other towns reached
by the trolley systems. Shop cir.
day laborer mechanic and capitalist
depend on the street railways OF the
community 20 carry them back and
forth from the scene OF their duties
TO their home.
Wheeling's large department stores
are patrouized BY customers from
throughout the vicinity who ride 20
the city 20 shop with no more thought
or distance than p school child on ifs
way TO school The ride 20 the city.
tho shoppinc and the return home
has become so common as TO be a
necessity TO many The shouners.
knowing the proximity 20 the !arce-
and better stocked stores OF Wheel
ing, have neglected the merchants IN
their home towns and consequently
the merchants have grown dlscour-
aged. and relinquished their business
20 superior competitor Thus. To
wheeling business men have rea-ar
lucrative returns from a first class
system OF cheap and exnodIent trans
pOTtauOn as offered daily 10y the
street railway companies
In a thousand and one different
ways the street car service has con-
uibuted 20 the development OF the
community and has acted as "A lin
which connects every city. town. ham
let and populated district At taa
same time tho transp orfdtion faclu-
ties have acted as q magnet which
has served 20 draw the uopulace Ci
the community toward Wheeling ami
as result WLctitr-'s 1900 pOrg-
latiOn has been sw,ilst. from n bust.
ness STANDPOINT 20 more than -Hu. nI.
people who In some way or arOthr-
transact business here
Wheeling has kept abreast o. tina
In street railway development Al
present the system OF oue-a'iO1 err-
T'u-'' hv The local companies Is
modern in every respect Every new
innovation or invention in tie street
car world that would make for bette
service has been adopted On This city
and although b. has been only quar-
ter Of q century since electricity
a. gu b. ar... a
people as means az prouollIrs Their
cars, they now have every aI~aufae
AFFORDED BY the most advanced metl-
DDS % operat on known
First Company In Wheeling
This city IKE many others has wit
messed tho street car develop from 90
infancy 90 IFS pres.- maturity. The
first company 20 operate 90 Mheelin ,
was known a. The Citizens street
Railway Company - Nl--ir. ans
IL was granted charter by tho VIE
Enia general assem- bly, on tho 1.fl OF
January, 1866" DU .he 18Th az AUGUST
1866 %" same company secured d
franchise from 't. cry council -rtut-
ing exclusive ri-lfs 90 construct and
maintain a railway ON Mls.UrL
streets. for q period OF fifteen years
After The franchise expired 10 vas
renewed. on S"pt"mb Der H. 1-s-. hIt
was modified -O permit ether COM
panies 90 Operate also
This first street railway limo. Ike
all others Of Ifa Ilr. WH. l horse car
line. 10 ran from Bridgeport across
the Island fo faH -l.p,ra Son bridge.
down Tenth street 90 Market. them
south on Market fO TW'rtt. -ns.rI.
turning lp Twenty 90 CHAPLIN.
and running I. lance scout. u0
Chapllrn 20 IT, terminus Four miles
Cout'tfl'"i tho rlf.fs U 'ears of the
inadequate old system. bur- until tho