The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-11-17

: To the Editor Of the Intelligenccr:
Sir-What is the matter with the Nc
Colloch stree, route 10 the Nationa!
road? why do auto!sts fight their WA!
along Chaplino or Market streets
through veNatinus congestion, trailing
after the blOCkading trolley cars. IN
stead Of going around the hill and thus
escaping the delays and heavy grades
Incident to the other way out? The so!u-
Ton Of this riddle IS go simple that II
seems TO have escaped the attention OF
the powcrs-to-be in affairs municipal.
Sixteenth street. leading into McCoi-
loch has been recently paved. and fIt-
tccnth, another tributary. IS IN gooc
condition; and now Fourteenth, a third
artery feeding traffic into the same
lhoroughfare. IS being put into first
class condition, and still. the oostlna.r
motorist will continue to use the Wheel
ing hill route.
Ru, why? We'll, II you must know, II
IS because Of the ahominable condition
Of the street between the tracks or the
%l-n,lev line on lower McCOlloch street.
hryond ;hc turn after passing the troll
lev barns. From there on. there are
TWO tracks and, while the roadway be-
side them is IN passible condition, the
part which the trolley line should pave
and which The dear public is compelled
TO use because of the fact that a few
cars arc always parked along tho curb,
IS IN a friGhtful state OF disrcpair. de-
structive OF al vehicles which bump
over Il. TIC be sure, an expenditure OF
some small sum. such as 500 or so
would relieve Il and admit Of its free
use. hut why DO anything demanding 30
small a sum? Why wash in Jordan and
be clean? It's entirely too simple. Let's
pave a few more streets leading into a
street which Is IN most admired dis
order" and demonstrate our ~hickhead-
cdrcss still further. II. per contra, the
city & Elm Grove company could DO
coaxed, caj0led, ~bamboozled, persuaded,
or otherwise induced. to send a few re-
pairmen there for n day or two, the al
most abandoned McColloch street route
would be made available, R consumma-
ton devoutly to be wished. but will It
be? All. there's the rub. Maybe. after
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets are cut
through, and another expensive pave
I.nent laid along the hilltop from no
where 10 nowhere. It may occur TO tho
regnant powers OF the city that SO smafl
a matter may DO worthy OF attention
It's the roadway between street car
tracks which makes calamity Of so long
life hero IN tho important city OF
Wheeling IN this. the twentieth century
of progress. We e1pend some million Of
good dollars in admirable streetways
and render It all largely nugatory ana
a tragic joke because Of the fact that
traffic does not use It excepting for
parking. No. old dears, It doesn't. It
drives in between the tracks aforesaid
because the good parts arc occupied by
tho parkers. and you bump along Chap
llne street and bounce along Main. and
YOU jolt along Water, and you cuss a
deep refrain. but what's the use? The
old legal maxim: "Cbi Jus, hi reme-
dunn" where there's a right, there's a
remedy. seems played out in this case
for. whereas, there seems TO be a right
70 have the company do !ts paving. the
remedy utterly fails.
And. isn't there some contingent puno
from which could be filched some tr!fle
for small street repairs? For instance.
tho depression at the foot OF Fourth
street In Fulton. One man, in an hour.
could fix IT. but there II IS. exactly in
the line Of travel. And tho intersection
OF Market n Main with Sixteenth:
Ehue. But we are going to repave