The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-14
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MeetIag OF Several Committees at b
City BuIIdIDE Last Night.

OF Several Committees at the
City Building Last Might.
There will be a regular semi-monthly
meeting of Council this evening, and last
night there were several committees in
preparing business for this meet
ing.
The Committee on City Prison, with
Superintendent Maloney in attendance,
examined the bills presented and allowed
them. They also recommended to Coun-
ell the appropriation of $175 for the pur-
pose of roofing and flooring the prison.
The Committee on Cemeteries gave
certain instructions respecting the laying
down, of the water pipe to the Peninsula
Cemetery. They also directed the City
Engineer to proceed to lay out the remain
ing portion of the grounds into lots, SINH
Lar to those already laid out.
The Committee on Ordinances examin-
ed the newly complied ordinance book,
and passed q resolution authorizing the
distribution OF copies among members and
among the newspaper Offices of the city.
There have been 1000 copies of these
books printed by Baker & Co., for which
= bill of 1903 was presented and ordered
paid. Eight hundred of these books are
bound in paper and two hundred In half
cali. They were compiled by B. A. CALI
gan.
FIRE DEPARTMENT..
A quorum of the members of his Com
mittee mel in the First Branch Chamber,
and after examining the bills of the Chief,
&C., turned their attention to the consider
alton of plans and specifications of a new
hose house to be built on the Island, as
prepared by Mr.. s. NJ. Howard, the Rrchi-
tecE Mr.. Howard, in connection with
Captain Eccles, has just returned from q
trip to Pittsburgh for the purpose of in
specting the engine houses OF that city.
The exterior view of the plan of Mr.. How
ard shows a very handsome two-story
brick building. with basement, and at the
west corner front, q WI with an altitude
of seVenty-hve feet Sixty feet of this
tower will be utilized for the drying OF
hose, and b remainder will be used as q
belfry.
The basement will be used as a de.
pository of coal and sawdust, and along
one side of the room will extend an i'm.
mense trough in which the hose will be
washed and then elevated to the tower.
b first floor will be occupied as a re-
ceptacle for the apparatus stalls for the
horses, grain bins, bath room, closets,
sleeping apartment, &c.
The stalls for the horses will be situate
near the centre of the room facing the
reel. The doors of the stalls will be near
the reel, and will be opened automa.ical'
~. The southeast corner of the room will
be psrtioned of as a sleeping room for the
6remen, and this room will be Sxl2 feet,
and finished with closets, stationary wash
stands, &c. Opposite this room IN tie
other corner will be the grain bins, bath
room, &c, 7x10 each.
The second story will be occupied as 6
public hall to be used for ward purposes,
and will be 27x38 feet. At the southern
end of this hall there will be a NOW 27xlC
in which the hay for the horses will be
stored. The walls will be wainscoted tC
a height of about five feet.
The committee instructed Mr.. Howard
to make a permanent plan of the building
described, and to submit it at the mex
meeting of Council after this one, and tc
accompany it with al estimate of costs.