The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-03

CITY
special session Last Night-Yarious Mat.
terA PertaJnIng 70 Health, Police, Fire
Department, DC, Considered.
Second branch.
After d protracted effort TO obtain a
quorum last night, and after The roll had
been called twice, the Sergeant was direct.
cd toarrest and bring in absentees. Finally
about $50 a quorum answered to their
names rs follows: Caldwell, b. F., Del.
tiers, GOodiellow, Handlan, Houston,
Kimberly, McNaSh, Peters, Pollock,
Reeves, simpson, Wait and Logan, Presi.
dent.
The minutes Of the last meeting were
read and adopted.
REPORTS op C%OMMITTRSs.
Mr.. Cracrait, Chairman Of the Police
Committee, submitted the following:
In the matter Of the petition Of Rich.
ard McCmcken, asking for a remission Of
a Police Court fine, It was deemed mex.
pedient u interfere. i.
They also recommended the payment Of
$95 % to Alexander Wallace for boarding
INDECENT city prisoners from June 10, 1873,
to June 80, 1870, which was ordered paid,
They also also allowed the claim OF j. s.
Armstrong, amounting to $40 so, for work
upon the cells Of the Eighth Ward Hose
House.
Also the sum Of 500 81, to Klevis, KRAFT
Il Co., for lumber for the Eighth Ward
Hose H0ugB.
This report was adopted.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
WHEELING, ". Va, Sept, I'd, 1870.
To- Mt Mayor and CNmct Of HE City Of
Wheeling:
G%RNTLEMEN: Your Joint standing Com.
miltee on Fire Department met and ex'
amined O statement furnished by Mr. 9.
G. Kemble, showing the condition and
amount Of Indebtedness against the con:
tractors Armstrong Il Snyder, builders oil
the Eighth ward hose house. According
to the showing Of Mr.. Kemble, there Is
still due aud unpaid to various sub-con.
tractors and others the sum Of S5l5.7l.
The committee do not deem II necessary
TO 20 iDtb the various causes which have
produced this result, as they are generally
knowa, The committee is OF the opinion
that the house 10 cheap even by adding
the above amount to the contract price,
and would say further that the contractors
have in no way sighted their work, The
committee recommend payment Of the
several amounts named in the statement
furnished by Mr.. G. @. kemble, and
which Is herewith submitted.
Res0lr6d, That the amount Of S5l5.7l be
paid to tbs various parties named in the
statement Of 9. g. kemhle as being yet
unpaid on the construction OF the Eighth
ward hose house.
Respectfully submitted,
". @. HASpLAs,
Chairman Committee on Fire Department,
Upon the adoption Of this report CON
siderable discussion ensued upon the pro
priety ofpaying the bills Of Messrs. Arm
strong and Snyder. Mr.. Robert Simpson
was opposed to the payment Of the bill as
"a contract is q contract" and he did moi
think the city should go behind it.
Upon the question the ayes gnA nays
were demanded as follows:
Yeas: Messrs. Goodfellow, Handlan,
Houston, Kimberly, Meyers, Reeves and
Watt.
Nays: DIessrs. Caldwell, Alfred, Oald
well, =. F., Deiters, MGNas4, Refers, Pol
LOCK, Simpson and Logan-s.
SUITS AGAINST rue CITY.
A communication was read from Mayol
Sweeney, announcing that two summons
had been served on him in the cases OIL
: Wm. s. Campbell and W. S. Campbell ,trus
tees aud Theodosia McGinpis VS.. the City
Of Wheeling, and laying the damages a
4, $3.50; and also that oil Becker, heir.pt
. law Of Barbara Becker Va. the City o.
, Wheeling, laying damages at 5000. The
: first Of these suits is brought on account o.
damages alleged 10 have been sustained by
a delay that the city caused in the erection
Of the house cornsF Tenth and Market
streets ;andthe latter or accoApt9f an over
flow Of a cellar in East Wheeling, on ac'
, count Of alleged negligence ofcity officers
Referred to the Committee on Claims fol
!, report.
r A petition was presented from many
. physicians OF this city, 10 the Committee
on Health, setting forth the prevalence o.
diphtheria in the Fourth ward, and also
setting forth clearly and explicitly the
local causes superinduCing it was read. II
; recited that acCumulations Of animal and
vegetable matter, existed in various por'
tiOns OF that ward; and also that from
the nature Of the ground out there that
+ refuse was not readily carried of, mol
would 1t be until a proper and effective
rvuton, nj nnrnroUn vrou odnptoj ond oIur
!, other causes. The petition was oil, great
length, and closed by imposing the re
~sponsibility Of placing that ward in q
proper sanitary condition upon the com
mitlCe and calling attention to the value
Of q single life as compared with the
trilling cost Of the improvements neces
sary TO the obviation Of these troubles.
Referred TO Committee on Health.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
BY Delters: That the Street Commits
stoner be instructed 10 cause the Elm
Grove Railway Company to lower its track
as heretofore ordered, and that all holes
and ruts be filled with broken stone and
the cutters repaired.
ByPeters: That a sewer be opened i'm.
mediately on the northeast corner o.
Main and Twenty-third stress, by the
Street Commissioner.
By Handlan: That the Committee on
Fine Department ascertain and report t
Council the cost Of q suitable bell for the
Eighth Ward Hose House.
By Pollock: That D. E. Donel DO paid
90 per cent OF his contract money for roof
ing the Second Ward Market House as
the work progresses.
By Kimberly: That the Street Commits.
sionor be and is hereby ordered to i'm.
prove Twentieth Street from Chapline to