Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-04-01
KIMBERLY's PLAN
For Improving the Gas Works.

TUT hwPAO'Ae
Yesterday afternoon, while sirollina
through East Wheeling and admirins
the rpsxed landscape formed by the
hardening mud in the bouleyaros OF
that delightful section, a representative
OF the RrarsTIR happened upon Coun-
Gilman Kimberly. The Manchester
statesman froze to the newspaper man
and explained humanitarian device he
had lust completed for preventing
mules, during entry driving, from fall.
ing and barking their shins. Then he
said, pointing to EoH street, between
Sixteenth and Eighteenth: There,
the Gas Trustees have gone and had that
street macadamized, when not q man IN
East Wheeling asked for it. And it'll
all be charged up TO the Fourth ward.
The Trustees said in their report that
they had eleven cars OF coal at the
Hempfiell depot and couldn't haul II
because the streets were so bad.
Why didn't they say they
were too niggardly to pay even
a fair price Tor getting 1t done2 Who
could get that coal hauled for eighty
cents hundred?"
Then, alter q pause ~ don't ike
this new plan of spending $4,000 oil
SOC, 900 on the gas works Improvement.
I've got little plan OF my own and when
the matter comes up in Council I'm go
ing to yentilate 1t. =,
Don't you know, MIR. kilnberl ",
suggested the reporter, shat whenever
you antagenize the gas works people
they attribute oit your feeling on the
Browne bounceH
THE Dickens they do! Oh, pShaw
that's dead issue. When the matter
was alive | fought my share. but that 5
all over, now, and anything say say
as a Councilman and citizen. You
Just come and look at these works with
me.
Tie led the searcher for truth up the
alley toward the coal house OF the
works, and then took stand, Stretch
ing out his arm like the hazel twig
diyiuing rod pointing TO gold, lac mo
toned up the alley and said: 1T was
more trouble to lay the water pipe out
here than for any place in East Wheel.
ing: the gas works pays not cent OF
water rent, and yet il the water works
wants a barrel OF tar it has TO come
down with the cash. Pretty way OF
doing But" sweeping his arm around
until the hand was directed toward the
Amick property, Here's what we want
to talk about. What in the nation does
the gas works want with all this ground
and all of the Reid property on the
other slider Why, they'll turn all East
Wheeling into a gas works, 10y Saturn!
Now they have room enough right
where they are This thing of building
a new holder over there is all wrong.
What we want are two more
holders. one on the Island and one in
the Eighth ward" and he eXpatllted
upon the benefits To inc derived there
from.
His plan OF Improvement is about rs
follows: Extend the coal house iity
feet further west and build an inclined
plane to it, so that carts can be driven
up aud the coal dumped in without
useless handling. The handling, Mr., h.
asserts, done unnecessarily, constitutes
a large part ui the expense aud the
waste hv slack. why said he, their
railroad scheme will be an endless cN-
pcnsr. even If at all practicable Ii
they'll give me S25,0O0 and that is less
than their road will cost Ill guarantee
to put these streets in such condition
that my hauling plan will be plainly the
best.
Then he wants the exhaust house
changed, the smithy and the dilapldated
hmc-huusc removed and the western
retort house extended to meet the coal
house, giving the necessary producing
capacity and bringing the house conve-
nicnt to the coal. The lime house he
thinks can hc put. with the smithy, un.
der the incline, ecoRomizing space and
making everything about the works
compact and conveniently near.
These plans he fully explained and
will, no doubt, argue at some length be-
fore Council, when the committee re-