The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-15
CRY COUNCIL.
Regular Monthly Meeting Last Night
A Corner on Sewer Pipe Unearthed-
Kimborley's sixteenth Street Project
Gets Another Rest -varIous Matters
Considered.


This Branch was called to order BY ].
W. Wait, who called Mr.. Simpson to the
Chair.
DR.. Logan came In before rollcall and
assumed the duties OF his Office.
The following members were present:
Arkle, Goodiellow, Haller, Hamilton, JEFF.
iersOn, Kimberly, Larkin, Meyers, Nc.
Nash, Pollock, Simpson, Wait, Water.
house and Logan IA.
The minutes OF the last meeting were
read and signed.
The application Of William Reineke, TO
keep coffee house, with Henry Hanke
aud Charles Hartman as snretles, was
taken up, under suspension oil the rules,
and license granted.
The resolution Of Mr.. Kimberly, In rela.
ton TO Sixteenth street, was 6rst taken up as
unfinished business. The resolution re-
ceived majority vote at the last meeting,
but requiring two.thirds vote, laid oyer
until this meeting. The resolution was
adopted, by q vote OF 10 too.
The Gas Trustees reported that they
had organized by electing Dr.. George
Baird chairman and had made the follow.
ing appointments: James NJ. Dillon, to
be Superintendent, Harry Caldwell, TO be-
Secretary, and S. +. FariS, Collector. Mr..
Kimberly stated that the Trustees were
continually ignoring the Committee on
Lights and wanted the report referred 10,
and after approving the appointments,
the remainder Of the report was 80 refer.
red. without a reading.
The Street Commissioner reported labor
bills amounting to $500 95. The Com.
mittee on Streets, Alleys and Grades re.
ported an additional aggregate Of 81 ,S44 63.
Both were ordered paid. The committee
then offered long list OF resolutions, Or
dering various improvements, which were
adopted.
The resolution to award 10 Hamilton &
McGranahan the contract for the Twelfth
street sewer, was rejected.
The Committee on Water Works made
Its monthly report and enclosed that OF
the Superintendent. The bills Of the for.
mer were S235 "a and the latter S72S93.
The committee recommend the laying OF
a4inch pipe on Thirteenth street, from
Mccullough TO Baltimore, which was
adopted. 1t also reported an ordinance
fixing water rent for 1879 as follows: For
each inmate OF adwelling 80 cents and q
per cent OF rental value, drug
stores, 8 parent OF rental value;
ordinances l2 per cent; boarding houses
per cent; coffee houses 10 per cent;
private baths, each person % cents; public
bath, $40; fountains, $40; street hose, 81
for first 20 feet aud 10 cents for each ad.
dilional attachment; grocery hose, IS for
first 20 feet and 10 cents for each additional
foot; water closet, $40, and running con.
tinually, SIS; horse, 81; carriage or sulky,
81; running soda fountains, $40, dry, S.;
stores or offices, l per cent Of rental value.
The ordinance was adopted.
The Committee on City Prison reported
bills amounting to 1921 Oh, which were
ordered paid.
The Committee on Accounts made its
usual report. 1t had examined the &C.
counts Of the Clerk and Receiver and
found them correct. The various bills
reported were ordered paid.
The Committee on Cemeteries reported
that it had met and examined the sales OF
various lots and recommended that they
be confirmed. A bill for painting was
ordered paid.
The City Sections report was received
and filed.
An ordinance levying tax on real es-
tate and personal property and tithables
was read and adopted. The rate fixed is
so cents on the 500 valuation Of real es-
tate, the same for personal property and so
cents for each tithable.
The bill OF N. Edwards, sealer OF weights
and measures, was read and ordered paid.
The ordinance giving the Central TeIe.
phone Company right OF way through the
city was read.
Mr.. Warehouse offered the following
amendment: Provided the city have the
right to connect with and use the wires
free Of charge. The amendment was
adopted BY vote OF s to .. The blank,
for the height Of the wires above the
ground, was filled with twenty feet. The
ordinance, as amended, was adopted.
The report OF the Committee on Mar
kets was read and adopted, and the bills
enumerated amounting to 1929 Al were or
dered paid.
The resignation OF Chas. II. Deiters was
accepted, he having removed from the
city.
Ed. Norton was granted the right to keep
billiard room.
License was granted to Edward Christ.
man rs aOctl0neeF.
A petition Of the teamsters OF the city
for an increase OF wages was referred 10
the Committee on Streets, Alleys and
Grades.
Various other petitions and resolutions
were read and appropriately referred.
At 1915 this Branch adjourned.
First Dranch-MayOr Sweeney.
This Branch came to order at half past
eight o'clock.
The following members answered to
their names: Messrs. Boring, Butterfeld,
Canadian, Cowan, Criswell, Hall, Hughes,
MCAdams, Riester, SChambra. Schultze,
Simpson, Stone, Wilson and Zoeckler.
The minutes OF the last meeting were
read and signed.
A message was received from the
Second Branch authorizing the laying Of
some old water pipe on the upper end Of
Market street.
A resolution adopted by the Second
Branch in reference to the ceiling OF the
Second Ward Market House was tabled BY
this Branch.
The petition OF W. B. Simpson for
leave to tap the Eoaf street sewer at Alley
IA, and granted by the Second Branch was
conCurred in by this Branch.
A resolution from the Second Branch,
authorizing the employment OF Work
House prisoners in the grading OF Alley
Five, east OF Market street, was concurred
in.
The bond Of VIM. Reineke, as keeper
of acoiIee house in the Eighth ward, with
Henry Hanke and Chas. Hartman as su-
reties, and approved by the Second Branch
was received by this Branch and concur
red in. ..T
The resolution Of Mr.. Kimberly, OF the
Second Branch, and adopted by that body,
in regard to the Sixteenth street improve.
ments, was ruled out OF order by the May
or as ii did not have the requisite number
OF votes in that Branch.
The report Of the Committee on Streets,
Alleys and Grades came up from the Sec.
ond Branch and its action, with the ex-