The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-15
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
SECOND BRANCH.

Gil was held last night The President
being absent, Mr.. Pollock was called to
the chair. Present-Beltz, Erskine,
Hoge, Handlan, Hanke, He'll, Kingdom. |
Long, Leasure, Myles, McGaw, Pollock,
Reitz, Garden, Vogle, Warner, Wa
.terhouse, Wilkinson.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
STREETS AND ALLEYS.
The committee on streets and alleys,
reported in favor of paying bills amount
ing to Sl,1400S. Also recommending
that George Crumbacker be instructed
TO remove within four days, all mud and
dirt caused by the building of
the sewers on END and Main
streets; also for the chairman OF
the committee to advertise for $4,000
feet of lumber to be used in flooring tho
18th street bridge.
The report Of the committee was
adopted.
The report of the Street Commissioner
asking for an appropriation of Sl,Ol 81
for the payment of hands for work done
on the streets and alleys, dne during the
month of February was received and
the amount ordered paid.
A special report from the committee
on Street. and Alleys, recommending
the payment of $l25 to II. h. Brown,
for damages By the death of his horse,
caused BY falling into the 22d street
sewer, and that s6250 be charged TO
George Crumbacker, contractor OF said
sewer, was adopted.
| MORE LIGHT.
The committee on Lights reported rs
follows:
To the Mayor and Council:
The committee on lights would report
that the extension of gas mains, as rec
commended by the Gas Trustees, should
be adopted by Council, with the follow
| inE changes OF the streets or which the
main should be laid; and also change
in the manner of crossing the river 10
| the Seventh ward: Say l2-inch gas
main from the corh err of Seventeenth and
Market across the Market street bridge
to Twentieth, and an S-inch main up
Twentieth to Chapline, down Chapline
to Twenty-seventh, up Twenty-sevonth
to Eon, and down Eotf to Thlrty-third.
! Saw an 8.inch main from the l2-inch
main on Twentieth, down Twentieth to
the river, across the bed Of the river to
the Island, and up the bank to South
Front street. From that point lay q
G-inch main up South Front to Zane
and west on Zane to Huron street. By
this plan the building of gas tank and
holder can be dispensed with. The sup
posed cost OF this extension will be
about $1,000 To cross the bridge with
two git ch pipes will cost about $1,000,
and will require tank and holder,
which will cost $4,000 ut the least. By
coming on the bridge the city will lose
every year 5000, the present price paid
by the Bridge Company for gas,
and will have TO furnish gas for
both bridges free Of cost, which will
amount to 5000 per year-the first cost
OF making and distributing the gas
! burned ON the two bridges. These two
items will amount TO $500 per year, to be
paid b. the city to the bridge company,
for the privilege of laying mains across
the eastern or suspension bridge-an
amount sufficient in six years to pay for
the first cost of laying II main through
the river. The committee are of the
opInion'that the river route will be the
speedieSt one Of supplying the Seventh
ward with gas, rs the main can be laid
across the river in one half the time q
tank and holder can be built.
The committee would recommend
Council to give authority for advertising
for street lamps for the current year, and
slso for fifty gas posts. The proposed
extension of the mains will probably re-
quira large quantity of both lamps and
posts and 1t is probable they can be con-
tacted for now on as good terms AS at
any time hereafter.
Believing that the loan to pay for the
extensions can be had ut II less rate of
interest than y per cent-the amount
fixed by your ordinance-thc accompany
ing ordinance to amend that ordinance,
so as TO make the interest to be paid on
the bond per cent, is offered for your
consideration.
The placing o: n gas post on the north
west corner of Market and 22d streets,
and on the corner of Main street and
alley one and posts and oil lamps on the
northeast corner OF 3Sth and Woods
street, on the corner Of 10th lstreet and
alley G, and on the corner Of alley g and
alley 6, is recomn ended to Council.
The following resolutions are offered
for your consideration, viz:
Resoirsd, That the Gas Trustees be
authorized to advertise for, contract for,
and lay gas mains to the Eighth ward,
in accordance with the recommendations
of A. Brown, superintendent. as amended
in his report.
Rcsolred, That the Gas Trustees be au.
thorized to select and purchase lot in
the Eighth ward, on which to erect
gas holder, but that they be required to
report the site selected and price to be
paid to Council for its approval.
RcSoircd, That the Gas Trustees be au-
thorized to advertise for, contract for and
lay gas mans TO the Seventh ward, as re-
commended by \. Brown, Superntend-
ent and amended in this report, provid-
ed, that Z. j. Stone will grant the right
of way across his property from the
pank OF LDe river 10 SCulH 'FRONT.' street
in the Seventh ward.
Reso'red That it is not expedlenl to
purchase a lot and build holder in the
Seventh ward.
Resolved, That the Gas Trustees have
power to make all contracts necessary for
the carving out Of the above work and
that all contracts made by them be re-
ported 10 Council for approval.
RcSo,red That the City Clerk sdver-
tise FOR bids for furnishing lamps for the
use of the city on the public lamp posts
for the ensuing year and for bids for fifty
gas posts. The lamps and posts to be OF I
pattern and weight furnished by A
Brown, Superintendent.
Resotred, That gas posts be placed on
the northwest corner of Market and 22d /
streets and on the corner of MAN street /
and Alley one, and oil lamps
and posts be placed on the northeast cor
ner Of SSH and Woods streets, on the
corner OF alley c and 10Th street, and on
the corner of alley c and alley G.