The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-04
TIE BOARD OF pusLIc WORKS
Comes Back ut Mr.. sweeney, whose
Grievance was Aired Yesterday.
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Comes Back ut Mr.. Sweeney, whose
Grievance was Aired Yesterday.
To the Editor Of the lnielllgeneer.
siR:-ws are sorry Mr.. Sweeney griev.
ances are 50 great, thati bis indignation and
wrath at the Board Of Public Works he &C.
riously considers moving his works to some
live place like Martins Ferry" Martins
Ferry has no wharf which he could gobb!e
and use for his own private benefit, but 1t
may be some citizen over there owns piece
NJ ground lie could pick up aud use. HIS
.r;sySnce about the part OF our wharf
Which he has appropriated To his own US,
although he acknowledges that II Is Il part OF
ne public wharf, even II 1t Is not paved, was
caused by q contractor who was paving Main
and other streets late last fall. The streets
Vgre In bad condition, the fall season was
rapidly passing into winter, and obtaining
gravel with which TO pave was almost an
T6e Board OF Public Works under the i'm.
preston that that part Of the wharf belonged
10 the city, and at that time knowing 1t to be
unused except by boats which laid there TO
avoid paying wharfage, used the gravel TO
pave streets. This was done before MI.
Sweeney concluded that that part Of the
WHAT would make good boat yard, which
lie could use free OF charge. He says that Is
part OF the wharf, although unpayed. The
ordinance on wharyes sAyt: All Doals,
barges, &c, which land at the wharf shall
nav certain rates per day according TO their
toipsge," but following the long established
usage of his firm he has concluded 10 gobble
that place, aud now forsooth threatens to
rnsb over 10 Martins Ferry and leave this
ioTssken town because three crankS" have
offended him.
Lucky Wheeling! Unfortunate Martins
Ferry Good bye, Mr.. Sweeney!
Did Mr.. Sweeney In branding the proceed
ipps Of the BOARD Of Public Works as "high
handed outrsges" have 10 his mind that
the Board OF Public Works had compelled
his firm TO fill up pit fall In the pavement
In front OF their old grounds In North Wheel
ing, which they had been ordered tn do time
and again by the old Street Commissioner,
and positively refused TO do2 Or, was 1t their
bring compelled TO pave a. their present loca'
ton worrying him? Or, was 1t the effort the
Board OF Public Works made TO keep his hrm
from riding high handed over the telephone
and Western Union Companies, locating the
electric light poles and stretching their wires
tbat troubled bin? There is certainly some
thing more than the digging Of few holes In
the wharf working on him.
There Ia one part OF his communication In
YOUR paper that certainly is too small and
detestabie to meet the approval OF any man
who understands II, and IL lisa matter oil
surprise that your reporter published 1t, Tor
he Knew that the insinuation about the
Board OF Public Works Was as false as 1t was
mean; that part about charging him wharf.
age Is referred 10.
The truth about It Is, that Mr. Sweeney EN-.
ployed the Chairman OF the Committee on
Wharyes to do part Of the heavy ha7ling to
his boats. Although the cobble stones placed
on the wharf 10 no way obstructed tue roads
over which hauling has been and Is now be-
ing done, the chairman, who has always
been an avowed enemy OF the Board OF Pub
lie Works and misses no opportunity TO how
his animosity, called the Committee
on Wharves together, Us he exp essed IT
40 get after the street board" and alter two
efforts having succeeded Ia getting meeting
OF his committee be laid the sins OF the Board
OF Public Works before It. When he was
through Mr.. Hall offered resolution 10 turn
over the wharf aud Its repairs 10 the Board.
This report the chairman refused 10 sign
owing to some Misunderstanding among the
members OF the committee, and II was re-
committed by Council at It's last meeting,
with the whole matter from beginning 10
end. The Board Of Public Works had moth.
ing to do with It, and had no knowledge, OF
Mr.. Halls intention TO offer such resolu'
ton.
The Board OF Public Works Is not COM
PEELED by the act creating 1t TO take charge
Of the wharf, and !, Is very apparent that
Mr.. Sweeney Is afraid 1t will consent TO do SO,
and compel him to pay wharfage. His inter
view with your reporter is to pave the way
for Council to reject the propositions
Of the Wharf Committee and allow him to
continue 10 future to iatten at the city's ex-
pense and be free from the obligation which
the man who brings load Of cobble stones
or melons TO his part OF the wharf Is COM
PEELED to discharge.
In conclusion. the Board OF Public Works
tenders It's thai * TO Mr.. sweeney for the In:
formation about the lost cobble stones, and
agrees with him that II a private corporation
were TO run as he proposes to run the wharf
Ibis part OF IT, the city to keep 1t 10 repair.
and be not 10 pay for the use OF 1t. ut would
be ruined In six months" b. T. W.