The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-08
The Contemplated Market street
Bridge across wheeling Creek.

Bridge across wheeling Creek.
Editors IIteLigeneer
BY the published proceedings of the
last meeting of our City Council, see
that the subject of building a bridge
across the creek at Market street, was
referred to special Committee of three
from each branch, with instructions to
reportat the next meeting, /. e. on next
Tuesday evening.
This action OF the Council is, to say
the least, queer. Last year when ne NJ
twenty-inch water pipe was to be i9iu
across the creek, and the idea OF Dullu-
ing a new bridge was advanced, II was
at once put down as impracticaoISl anu
the present stone bridge delareo 70 De
sufficient for every purpose;
This wear the subject has been found
of such, urgent Importance that it Is In
PRODUCED at a special meeting of the
Council called to elect Health Officer,
and sent TO "a committee to be reported
on In seven days.
Is there "a Darkey in that wood pile"
or not, Messrs. Editors7
II seems to me that there is one, and
a big one too.
1t Is well known that there is an
effort being made to have Fulton street
graded and MacadamiZed and n bridge
built across the creek near the Mound,
so as to make good road TO the City
Cemetery.
The faith OF the city is pledged to the
persons who bought lots in that Gene
terry to have the road leading to it kept
in good order, and that they shall have
all the advantages the owners Of lots
| in the other cemeteries have.
The present road Is acknowledged by
every person to be nuisance, and eve
ry one who has examined it agrees that
it is u waste of money to repair it any
| more. Besides that, it is outside of the
corporate limits of the city, and the
council has no right to expend dollar
on it.
The grading and matchmaking of
Fulton street Zone of the city streets has
become matter of necessity. For If it
is not done, the citizens will be COM
PEELED TO abandon the Peninsular Gem
etery as burial ground.
The friends OF the Market street
bridge well know that after pay
GERS and the other expenses OF the
city government, that there will not be
enough left of the city revenue for this
year TO pay for both Jobs. In fact, the
bridge alone will more than absorb the
balance. In which event, some more
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stock will
have to be sold to pay the contractors.
BY being so very prompt in bringing
the bridge before Council, they hope to
kill the Fulton street Improvement
and put an honest penny in some of
their own pockets. tits now given out
that the proposed bridge is to be an
Iron one, and not iStOTe AS it certainly
ought to be.
Some of our foundries are all pre-
pared for making that kind of'work,
and of course they will get the work to
do, as our Council will pay our own
men AN extra price sooner than let q Job
go abroad
It looks very much as if the whole
proceeding was intended to put fat
job in somebody's hands, and pay for
the same with that $4,000 of stock in
the h IL o. X. Road, and also to pro-
mote the interests of some of the other
cemeteries at the expense of the city.
II the Democratic party is being us
ed to promote the interests of few in
dividuals, and if it, as party, has no
more regard for the plighted faith of
the city to its own citizens than pres
ent appearances indicate, the time GER
tninlY will soon come, when it will fall
to pieces from sheer rotteneSs.
#-. s- DEMOCRAT.