The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-15
To CONSTRUCT
NEW TERMINAL:
IN WHEELING
MODEM NTERURBA STATION
WILL BE BUILT TO ACCOhno-
DATE River AND RAIL TRAVEL.
SURVEYORS Rave BEEN ACTiVEo1
ENGAGED IN WORK ON FAh1oos
c~EETs NEAR RIVER FRONT.
500, ooo coNcRETE sU1IDN1G A8UT-
TING HARBOR LINE ON XIV
SIDE TO PENNSY DEPOT.

U-bce1inc Is 70. have L modern river
rail and interurhan terminal II the pt'ns
60 through which are contemplated AT
present Since the talk of IN" revival %
river navigation and the lauhc"Ine VI
tht Liberty Transit company OF ehts
c;tv one could hear vague rumors OF II
modern terminal for this city. but III,
enterprise seems to be an assured 1act
just now.
Che wharf for the past week, ouS! with
their instruments drawing lines up
down and across Water street I" lie
river from Twelfth street 10 the Penn
:sylvania depot. and when ASKED Wnas
;rhey were surveying for maintained 4
,<snhinx-likc silence and looked at the IN
Er1sitor with a blank stare and went on
HneasurinS and figuring without saying
j. word. 49,. ,,a,s ~ ~,
krrn.inal has leaked ocS, and it calls for
3 stuo 900 concretc building aoutting the
harbor line on the river side and en-
kending in to the Pennsylvania tracks
Tho building is to be three stones
nigh on the railroad side and five on
THE side toward the river. and on TINS
SHsde viii be a number Of electric ele-
@ators running from the top story to the
syvater line at convenient intervals,
(which can be loaded and unloaded from
Two or three parts Of the boat at tne
SANE time. 4 switch Is to be run into
Che b<tilding from the Pennsylvania
hraoka and will. have a capacity OF -FOUR
freight cara, these cars can be snunteo
Elrect to the elevator shafts ana the
River and rail freight exchanged. taxing
4 he consiSnments out Of the car onto the
elevator which can be adjusted to the
height Of the car floor: the elevator
with it's freight will then be lowered 10
hhe level of the steamboats, deck ana
A1he freight taken off on the boat. Inc
Elevator will be of such power ana ca
-pacity for a big freight truck to drive on
loaded with freight from the street any
lowered to the boat deck level and tie
truck .unloaded right on the steamboat
Or vice versa.
Tho river will be dredSed to enable
1he boats to tie up to the side Of the
building, the river side OF which will
make q straight up and down wall with
the necessary rings to tie the boat.
There will b. doorways for every ele-
Sator on all floors and the elevators can
b. Accommodated to the height or the
river.
4 great portion Of tho floor space will
be used as a warehouse to accommodate
Incoming freight and city and interur-
ban shippers.
The present tracks Of the West Flr-
rinia Traction company which are. on
twelfth. Water and Fourteenth streets
will no the means of getting interurban
freight to the terminal as the city has
forbidden the traction company from
taking tho rails up. keeping them there
FOR the terminal which they saw IN the
future. 4 switch will he run into the ter
minal from tho electric line which Will
take care Of up and down town and out
the pike freight.
The gentlemen back Of tho project are
very reticient about the project and re-
fuse TO talk but secrets leak out and
il is said that tho Chamber of Commerce
the city and the Liberty Transit COM
pany are tho hackers of the proposed
terminal. but whether all or, only part
are interested. none will positively says
When the terminal is built. the city
will lose it's only breathing spot. for
Riyerriew park viii. have 70 make way
for commerce as a portion or possibly
all of this pretty little park Will De
covered by the big concrete building,