The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-10
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
TUESDAY EVENING, April 9.
SECOND BRANCH.

The Second Branch met in regular
session.
Prsssnt-Messrs. Baird, Clayton, Cald-
we'll. o. J. Crawford, Hubbard, Kan
mer, Logan, Lancaster, OBrien' Phil
Inns Steger, J. G. Smith, P. Smith
sbeppard, Viewig, Weisgerber, and
President Forbes.
The minutes OF the previous meeting
were read, approved and signed.
The Committee on Accounts rresen:-
ed a report on certain bills and offered
the following:
Pesolyed. That the bills enuumera-
ted in this report, amounting to $6io.22l
be paid. Adopted.
Rssolred That the bill Of Hannah
Mclaughlin, amounting to $lS022, for
bedding burned at her house, be re-
jected go,
llAmeuded by ordering the bill to be
paid, and adopted.
The Committee on Fire Department
reported the following resolutions:
RESOLVED, Tha: the bills named in the
renort of the Chief Marshal for the
month Of March, amounting to $G3. 46,
he paid to the several parties therein
named. Adopted.
Resolved, That the Committee on Fire
Department and Board OF Control be
authorized to cell the three horses now
in use at the Atlantic engine house to
the best advantage, and purchase three
others to replace them. Adopted.
Resolved That the Committee on Or
dinances be directed to consult with the
Board Of Control, and report an ordi-
nance at as early day as practicable
regulating the boiling OF tar, benzine,
&c, within the limits Of the city, and
storage of naptha, kerosene, benzine,
benzole, and other inflammable oils,
within the city. Adopted.
The Committee on Railroa Is made
the following report:
By resolution OF your body, passed
some time since, the Committee on
Railroads was instructed to employ a
competent engineer TO make a survey
and estimate Tor railroad bridge across
the Ohio river, within the city limits.
By the kindness OF Mr. Mccullough,
the committee WAS enabled to secure
the services of Mr.. Linton, the engineer
of the G. Il P. Railroad Company, who
made a survey and furnished the accom-
panying estimates for a bridge from a
point a short distance north of Craw,
ford 8 mill, across the bar at the head
of the Island to the bank at Yves; street,
in the First ward.
The committee paid so to the party
accompanying MIR. Linton, but he
charged nothing for himself, as he was
sent bv Mr.. Mccullough to make the
survey. The SO paid by the commit
tee was for the hotel bills and services
of an assistant surveyor, a rodman and
an axman.
The following i the estimate made
10y Mr.. Linton:
Channel span, 800 feet in the clear
wing spans, POO feet in the clear,
Total length of bridge, 223O feet.
Grade descending from channel span
towards both shores.
Foundations and masonary .SjSS, go
Superstructure, channel span
iron, wing spans, wood.......s2O6,25O
Grading missionary and bridg-
ing streets from landing to
Wheeling end of bridge.....".s6O,jt1
Two miles of track, super
structure, &c..................-.sEi,]O ~ N
Ohio side appendages, &C.,. S-6,9&
Total. sSV3,of
The following petition on the subject
was presented:
At a meeting oithc corporators Of the
Wheeling and OHIO Union Railroad
Company, held on Monday, April Stb
among other things, the following reso-
luton was adopted;
Rcsolyed That the officers OF this
board prepare petition, asking the
CITY Council to instruct its Committee
on Ordinances to prepare an ordinance
providing for submitting to the voters
of this city a proposition to subscribe
$350,000 to the capital stock Of the
Wheeling and Ohio Union Railroad
Company, and present it to the Council
at it's first meeting; and that the same
persons prepare petition to be pre-
scented to the Board OF Supervisors Of
this county, asking for the submitting
of a proposition to the voters OF phiu
county to subscribe 100000 to the
capital stock OF the same company.
In accordance with the above rc~oIu-
ton we petition your honorable body
to order your Committee on Ordinan-
ces to prepare an ordinance as requested
by the co-porators, and report 1t to
Council at the next meeting.
A. WILSON, Chairman,
G. BAIRD, Secretary.
The following was adopted
Rcsoipcd, That the thanks of the
Council are hereby rendered to Mr..
Isaiah Linton, Engineer Of the Cleve-
land and Pittsburgh Railway Company
for making the survey and furnishing
an estimate OF the cost of railroad
bridge over the Ohio river.
The report of the Committee on
Railroads and estimate of Mr.. Linton
were received and filed, and the petition
of the bridge corporators was referred
to the Committee on Ordinances. with
instructions to repot the required ordi-
nance.
The Committee on Police were au-
thorized to purchase a small gum hose
for the use of the lookup.
The Committee on Lights reported
that the reports of the Commissioners
and Trustees of the Water Works are
correct, and that they be received and
filed. Adopted.
Bill OF S32l.60, for lead purchased Of
St. Louis Shot Tower Company, was
ordered paid.