The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-21
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
TUESDAY EVENING, Feb. 20, 1872.


SECOND BRANCH.
The Second Branch met in special
session.
Pressnt-Messrs. Altmyer, Baird,
Gator, Caldwell, o. J. Crawford, Hobbs,
Hubbard. List, Logan, Laucas.
er, McAdams, OBrien, Phillips, J. G.
Smith, Porter Smith, Simpson, Sails
curry, Sheppard. Weisgarber, and Presi,
dent Forbes.
The proceedings Of the last meeting
we're read, approved and signed.
An amended report Of the committee
on Streets and Alleys was presented.
1t was adopted.
The special committee on Sixth street
bridge reported that, in their opinion,
the petition of the Crescent Iron Com
pany to change the location Of the
proposed bridge from Fifth to Sixth
street, should be granted, provided the
Crescent Iron Company protect the city
from all damage from the change OF the
location OF the bridge from Fifth to
Sixth street, and offer the following
resolutions:
Resolvsd, (The Board of Supervisors
concurring,) That permission is hereby
granted to change the location Of the
bridge proposed to be erected at Sixth
street to Fifth street, and the appropria'
ton heretofore made to the Sixth street
bridge is transferred to the Filth street
bridge, provided the Crescent Iron
Company pay the additional sum
necessary to erect the proposed wagon
and railroad bridge at Fifth street. and
that said company erect suitable foot
bridge and provided further, that the
said company shall secure the city
from all loss or damage from the ac'
ceptance of any bid or bids for the
erection Of a bridge at Sixth street.
RESOLVED, That permission is hereby
granted to the Crescent Iron Company
to lay a track along Fifth street from
the depot of the Wheeling, Pittsburgh
and Baltimore Company, to and across
the Fifth street bridge, the said track to
conform to:the grade Of Fifth street to
Lindsey street (the grade from Linds
lev street to the creek not being estab'
lished, the company may make it con-
form to the grade OF the bridget and
permission is also granted said company
to run an engine and cars over said
track to and from their mill; provided
the trains shall not run at faster speed
than six miles per hour, and shall be
preceded by a hagman, and provided,
also, that the city shall have the right
to make a side track from said track to
the city Gas Works, and shall trans
port cars loaded with coal and other
material for use ofthe Gas Works over
the track of the Crescent Iron Company,
free ofcharge. Adopted.
Restored, That should any company
or companies in future desire to use
the track of the Crescent Iron Company
the privilege is guaranteed to them
provided the Crescent Iron Company
receive fair proportion Of the cost OF
said track.
Rcsolvsd, That the city Solicitor be,
and he is, hereby ordered to prepare a
deed guaranteeing to the city the right
Of way over the grounds owned by the
Crescent Iron Company from the east
end OF Webster street to the south end
IF Fifth street bridge, and from thence
to the east end of their grounds, and
present it to the Crescent Iron Company
for their signatures. Adopted.
The committee on Railroads made a
report in relation to the petition OF
Lewis Applegate, Esq, President OF the
Wheeling and Kentucky
Railroad Company for. grounds on
Water street on the wharf, for depot
purposes, and offered the following:
Resolvsd, That permission is hereby
granted to the Pittsburgh, Wheeling
and Kentucky Railway Company to
erect a passenger depot on that portion
Of the wharf directly south ofthe Ferry
House." seventy.fve feet south and
twenty feet east and west; the depot to
have on the outside a four foot plat
form on the west, south and east sides !;
provided, that the track Of said railway
shall be supported by masonry or trestle
work from the head OF the wharf to the
point where it strikes Water street.
Adopted.
Rcsolvsd, That permission is hereby
granted to said company TO erect q
freight depot on the lower end of the
wharf, commencing at the north side
of Quincy street, running south one
hundred and fifty feet, and west sixty
feet the east side of said depot to be
fifty feet distant from the freight depot
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company; and permission is also
granted to said company to lay track
or tracks along the ground lying be-
tween their depot and the Baltimore
and Ohio depot and also on the ground
living south OF their depot, and from
their depot across the wharf to the
river; provided, that nothing in their
grant shall prevent the city extending
the paved wharf south from its present
terminus, or using her right to wharf.
ing privileges in front OF the freight
depot If she should desire TO do So.
Adopted. =,
Resolrsd, That the said depots shall
be used as Union depots by the Pitts
burgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Com
pany and any other railway company
Or companies desiring to do so; pro-
vided the Pittsburgh, Wheeling and
Kentucky Company receives a fair
proportion of the cost of the erection or
Of the value of said depots, at the time
Of the joint occupation from the other
or companies. And the track
Of the Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Ken
lucky Company shall also be used by
other companies desiring to do so, the
Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky
e.,