The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-02
CITY COUNCIL.
Second Branch.

Second BTanchs
A special meeting of the City Council
was held last evening. In the Second
Branch, Prest. Forbes occupied the chair
present Messrs Altmyer, Baird, Oald.
well, Clatof, Crawford r, List Nc.
Adams, OBrien, Phillips, Salisbury,
Simpson, Steger, Tolivar and Weisgerber.
The minutes Of the meeting held on
Goth ult were read and approved.
A resolution was referred TO the Com.
mittee on Streets and Alleys for report,
lnstructing the Street Commissioner 10
set curbstone In front Of VIM. Paxton's
property on Main Street.
The Committee on Contracts to whom
were referred the bids for sewer and fll.
Ing on Jefferson street, reported the fol.
lowing.
ReSOIued, That the contract for O four
foot sewer on Jefferson street be awarded
TO w. Q. Hamilton and VIM. Armstrong,
at their bid Of 50 per lineal foot, and the
Mayor Is authorized and directed to Ihave
the contract executed as recommended by
the Committee on Contracts.
ReS0lped, That the contract for filling
the excavation on Jefferson street with
material 10 be taken from Washington
street and It's extension east Of Market
street, be awarded to - Us the lowest
and best bidder, at bis bid Of 90 cents per
cubic yard, and the Mayor Is authorized
and directed to have the contract executed
as recommended by the Committee on
Contracts,
The contracts above referred TO were
read.
The resolution In relation TO the sewer
was referred TO the Committee on Streets
and Alleys, with instructions to receive
bids for a wooden sewer, four feet square.
The blank in the second resolution was
filled with the name Of George Ankle,
and was then adopted. The contract
submitted was approved.
Mr. O'Brien offered the following {:
ReSo!Ued, That the City Attorney is here.
by instructed, as soon as the repairs to
Jefferson street are completed, TO proceed
legally to collect from the Pittsburgh,
Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad Com.
pany the full amount Of the cost Of said
repairs, Adopted.
The Committee on Railroads submitted
the following report: To the Mayor and
CITY C0dnea! The Railroad Committee,
which was instructed 10 ascertain and re.
port as to where the responsibility for the
damage to Jefferson street rightly be.
longed, and what party is responsible for
the repair. of sAid street, would report
that from all the evidence which could be
obtained, there is no doubt OF the Pitts.
burgh, Wheeling s. Kentucky Railroad
Company having been the cause oil the
damage to the street, and also, that the
company Is responsible Tor the repairs,
but in consideration Of their willingness
to make the damage good as far as the
Committee think the company able 10 do,
the Committee would recommend Coun.
Gil to accept the offer of the railroad
company. The Committee offer the fol.
lowing:
ReS0lUed, That the Committee on Streets
and Alleys advertise for proposals for the
five loot nine inch sewer under the Pitts.
burgh, Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad,
and the stone facade at the west end OF
the sewer and the paved water table to
the river, and contract for the same with
the lowest and best bidder.
The following paper was read in con.
nection with the foregoing report:
To the Chairman Of the Railroad Com.
mittee:
The committee on the part Of the Pitts.
burgh, Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad
Company beg leave to report that their
company will pay in cash to the city of
Wheeling Tor the purpose Of repairing
Jefferson street and the railroad, caused
by the bursting of the city sewer, by
the late heavy rains, as compromise or
settlement Of the same, the sum Of eighteen
hundred dollars, with no acknowledge.
ment Of any lawful or legal right to pay
the sameO provided the city will agree
upon their part TO continue under the rail.
road track, at their own cost and expense,
a good and sufficient sewer, not less than
five feet in diameter, double brick, protect.
ing the same at the western terminus with
good and sufficient stone slope or wall to
the river; also, to make fill over the sewer
up to the level or plane Of the railroad
track. This is all to be done under the
direction OF the railroad engineer.
LEwTE APPLICABLE,
JOHN MCLURE,
To1ngn;ftss