The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-11
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Some Further Facts on the Proposed
Fire Department ation-A Ialk
WITH the Chief.


lie places and on the street corners, was the
coming investigation Of the official career OF
VIM. Eceles, Chief Of the Fire Department.
The announcement in yesterdays papers fell
on the general public like a thunder clap
from. q clear ky. True, some bad predicted
that such thing might como to pass some
day, and these knowing ones were snpreHely
happy Whenever an opportunity Afforded L.
self for them to say, ~ told you Bo.n In.
Vulnerable stories were told, and rs they
passed from mouth TO mouth they became
Ing very little was said by anyone except
Clerk Galligan. He was approached by an
lSTELlgENCER reporter yesterday at noon,
and asked how things were progressing.
With q vigorous pull at his long moustaGhs
Barney replied:
"WeIli the getting up OF this investigation
appears 10 have been saddled on Tue, and
I'm golHg 10 put II through. Attic meeting
Of the committee Monday evening shall
prefer charges In writing, according TO the
ordinance, aud think that ECcles will 60
Council will demand his resignation. Ora
craft says lie must go; DunDing says SO
Hoffman says 30; Sclultze says so, and Hal.
Ter says 30; there's majority, and l think
will say 80. !, am hearing OF new things
every hour and am following them up
AT this point Squire Schultz, who had been
Standing BY, said! II shall attend the meet
lug Monday night, you bet" The Squire,
who Is member OF the committee, has not
attended meeting since that memorable
night, about wear ago, when he failed to
get that 200 feet OF cotton hose promised
him for his pet,-thc Eighth ward hose com.
pADy &An1 left, accusing the committee Of
having acted dishonorably, and ordering
Galligan to tender his resignation 10 Council
as q Committeeman. The hose was sent down
about a month afterwards and the resigna.
ton was never sent In, but still SchHltze
Stunned the committee. He and Eccles
have been sworn enemies ever since.
At the time SChultEe made his remark,
Galligan dashed across the street In answer to
TO gesture from James st. Myers, one Of tho
principals In the North Wheeling trouble Of
about nine months ago; and they disappear.
ed around the corner arm In aFla The re.
porter then Strolled cut to East Wheeling,
and almost the first person encountered was
Chief EcCles. He said:
swell, I'm In for another racket, l see,
and"-0nd here he proceeded To express his
opinion OF Barney GAlligan In no measured
terms. As soon US the reporter got chance
he asked the Chief what be had to soy about
the charges
II don't propose, myself, TO say much, but
wish you would take a trip with me about
town. was the reply, and, the reporter con.
senting, the first visit was paid 70 3tr. Kratt,
OF Walters & Kraft horreshoers.
The question was asked Mr.. X. II EccleS
had his horse shod at the city's expense.
The reply was: "0nCe, sir and this is how II
was. | believe 1t was before this Council
was eleciel-it was when Mr.. EcCles Ind his
little black horse. He had 1t shod here one
month, and the bill was s.. | sent col.
lector out with 1t, and hereturned il and said
that Mr.. EcCles had said that he thought the
city ought to pay it."
Eccles-"I never had the bill presented to
me-"
Krait-"WSll l thouSht the city ought to
pay 1t as the horse was used IN the city's
service, and so l charged il in The Vigiianfs
account, as that company had nothing for
that month. That was the only case. run
an account with the city, and one with Mr..
EccleS The city has nothing to do with the
latter account, and that's what shall say
and questioned me pretty sharply yesterday,
and said should take all bills TO him and
not to Eccles. Now, thought had to take
them TO Eccles, so he could make his report
After hearing this statement the Chief led
the way over the creek. He spoke about
has horse feedingat the city's expense. This
horse was present 10 him, and is used BY
the Chief in making his daily round of the
houses. It Is used for the city's benefit, and
the Chief thought, like u good many others,
that the feed was nothing more than Just
compensation. In most cities the Chief Is
furnished horse and buggy by the city.
Kulls carriage factory was the next place
visited, and Dave Kull was found in any
thing but pleasant mood. Holding copy
OF the Register in his hand, he, as soon aS lie
saw our reporter, read the following state
ment OF Councilman Hotlman's:
''Eccles is the department and has run this
thing and left the committee in the dark too
long. Here, tor.inStanCe, he bought six large
lamps without authority OF the committee,
or council, or anything else, and fourof them
are lying down at kairs now. Two OF them
were put on the Eighth ward reel, and he
brought in bill of $50 for them, but the or
iginGl invoice was never brought in aud we
didn't know where they come from or what
they COST
"Now,n said Kull, throwing down the
paper, that man Hoffman don't know what
he Is talking about When got the con.
| tract to build the North Wheeling reel the
price 10 be paid was 500, and that price In.
Cluded everything down to the cheapest
leather strap. wanted TO make nice Job
OF tt as a kind Of an advertisement, and de-
cided to put on IN elegant pair Of lanterns,
as they show of any wheeled vehicle ! had
to go to New York 10 ordersome Of nv
things, the lamps among the rest, aud the
Chief, Schultze and Ed Dunaway decided
to go with me. Well, we got to New York,
and schultze produced q list Of things, whips,
ETC., that lie wanted for the Eighth ward
reel, among them two big lanterns.
| We knocked around New York a
day or two, and one morning ! told
plies. Schultz said, YOU might as well buy
my two lanterns asked him what he
wanted, and he said the best, so l got two
gold-m0aated ones, like those wasgoing TO
put on my reel. l brought home the four
lanterns, put two on the North Wheeling
reel and sent In bill for Schultzes Ian
terms, The committee refused 1t, and there
[pointingl are SChultzs lanterns on NV
hands. wrote the other day TO the New
York firm TO know what they would allow
mo. Now what do You think Of HofIman's
stOryY
Mr.. CriSweli was next visited, and in his
presence Chief EcclcS told the following,
which he corroborNted: an August order
ed two hundred pounds Of zinc from Pitts.
burgh, as had the moulds and could make
my battery zines. myself. l waited on il as
long as ] could, and rs II didn't come, ]
bought pig zlHc Of Noah Beck. About six
weeks ago l received bill for the 200 lbs,
amounting to $l1 Oh. | wrote back that /
had not received the zinc, and they sent out
tracer and found 1t on the platform at the
depot in this city. asked the railroad ofIi.
ciats why was not notified, and the reply
was that 1t was not their business TO look
after freight on which the charges had been
paid, Igot the zinc last Tuesday. Now
never patd the charges neither did Mr.. Girls.
we'll Clerk Bowers or Receiver Dunnaway,
As for getting the zinc already nodded In
New York, cheaper than can make them,
here are the figures In each mould is five
pounds. buy the zinc at six cents Der
pound-thirty cents each; in New York thew