The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-09
TINE cIr1zENs, sAr.
Meeting at the Academy Of MusIs SatuF.
day Night 10 Take Action Looking 10
the Improvement Of the water supply


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the ImDFOyement of the water EunnIy
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PREAMBLE
The present water works and Its mode OF
management having been provided when
Wheeling was comparatively village, and
adapted only for the limited requirements
and wants OF that period, while the growth
Of the municipal corporation In buildings,
population and manufactures has clearly
demonstrated that the water works and their
present manner OF management are insult.
cient, unsafe, uncertain and inadequate for
the increased demands and necessities Of
the city In its present development, and u
regular system and organization being now
an imperative necessity upon which the
water supply and consumption shall 10 con.
Quoted and become well ordered, uniform
and uniailing; and
WHEREIs, The frequent breakages OF ma.
chinery, the repeated failures to maintain
the supply the want Of order In repairs
and additions and Of timely execution
thereof, the present deplorable condition OF
important streets for want Of seaSonable lay.
ing OF the large new water main, the un.
reasonably prolonged inconvenience and
annoyanccs thus caused to ali using
vehicles, and to citizens on foot as well; the
stoppage Of our factories and mills time and
again for want OF water, throwing thousands
OF our wOrkingmen out OF employment, d.
minishing the aggregate product Of our
manufactures and thus inlicting serious
pecuniary loss on every class OF the people,
and gensibly hindering the general prosperi-
ty, and the repeated exposure Of the entire
community to the awful calamity of whole
sale conflagration, have made 1t only too
apparent that general reform isneeded, and
TINT it is impossible for single individual,
however well qualified, by his unassisted ef.
forts TO arrange, oversee and regulate the en-.
larged water works projected and already
partly built, the repairs additions and ex-
tensions Of such works, and of tho many
miles of pines, with their multitude of de-
tails in contracts, consumption, employment
Of men, accounting and other necessary mat
tiers.
WHEREAS, The liberal appropriations upon
the streets and alleys OF the city have hereto
fore resulted in extrayagant expenditures
with but inadequate and disappointing re-
suits, which II Is the sense Of this meeting
are to be mainly ascribed to the influence Of
party politics.
WuEREAs. The general nop.partisan scheme
upon which the city gas works are run com.
mends itself to Judgment and experience,
now to separate the merely business depart,
ment OF the city from politics, and 10 place
them on non-partisan and effective basis
for the public service, It Is at this meeting
Resolred, Efrsi That committee consist.
ing of one member from each ward be and
are appOinted to confer with the Joint com.
mittee on legislation OF the CITY council. and
in copippction with them 10 mature recon-.
mend. advocate and labor for legislation md
amendments to the city charter from the an
proaching session of the Legislature. designed
Ia remedy the evils referred In will fhcse
resolutions.
Second. That such legislation should nro-
vide for the appointment by the CITY Coupcil
of n board of three Commissioners 10 manage
utder rules and regulations to be nCGntGd nv
the board md approved NV the ConnriI tLe
wnter works and hines. repairs, improvements
and additions thereto, The supply OF water In
CONSUMERS, Including the recent of the reve.
nues from water rents and Tho works. To
account 10 Council for money collected and
Ilisbnrspd by them and IN emnIov and jis.
charge n SUPERINTENDENT and s,ich other ofIj.
Gers. agents and servants. as NAV be necessary
such officers to be approved md ConIIrmeI
by Council the whole system as to The water
works 10 be upon the general nlan mon
which the gas works are now operatsd ted nv the the
city,
Third: That n similar board of tbroo com.
missioners should he nrovidGd for N be
elected by the Council for the manarcmcnt
of and 10 contract for the Improvement
cleansing, care and repairs of tho streets and
ALLEYS OF The city, to employ an engineer and
such other officers and employees as NAV be
necessary in the premises, 10 supervise the
execution Of such contracts and the disburse-
ment Of all moneys for or upon the streets
and alleys such officers 10 be appointed and
confirmed by Council. f0''' W '''''
Fourth: That the present system OF oper.
ating the gas works under board of trustees
chosen by Council Is wise and iudicions nrII.
dent and economical. and should he sane.
toned and embodied In the legislation con.
templated and continued thereby.
Fifth: Thatno member Of the Citv Council
should hereafter be eligible for election or
appointment as a trustee or commissioner on
any OF such boards.
Sixth: Tint our county REPRESENTATIVES, In
the Legislature, and The Senators from his
district, are hereby earnestly requested to use
ali ii, cir influence and their best efISrts IN
obtain the passage of laws carving into
effect the Recommendations OF tie Fesolu.