The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-24
LAST NIGHTS 0ouSoiL nEErlxo.
No Quorum In the First Branch-Impor.
tant Il. r. W. .Heport. Ete.

tant u. r. W. aeport. Etc.
Last night was the time for the regular
semi monthly meeting OF Council. As
usual there was a big turn out Of Second
Branch members and no quorum in the
First The business in the Second was dis
posed OF with dispatch and the table
cleared by . o'clock. Mr.. HarrelI, of the
First ward, made -one Of his peculiar
speeches in reference to the minutes-he
questioned their correctness. This put
CITY Clerk Bowers in a somewhat irritable
frame Of mind, and the lively way in which
he proved himself correc, and so convinced
the Council, and his muttered side remarks
were somewhat amusing. All the mem.
bers were present during the evening ex-
cept Messts. Dickman, Grogan, Jaeger,
Milligan, Mckinley and Rosenberg. PfeSi-
dent Hildreth presided.
The Board Of Public Works reported
that for the quarter ending September so,
1883, the expenditures had been as follows:
Weekly pay rolls for labor, which includes
general street work aud laying OF sewers,
SS,32S 70; repairs 10 sewers, $3.50 "a; ma.
cadamizng Wood street between Twenty
third and Twenty.fourth streets, S32S 90;
grading Coal street bstween Fourth
and Filth streets, Sl00; sharpening
tools, S24 u; ;printing, binding and Rdyer-
tising, SIG 80; office rent SO; toll to
Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company,
S02 q; miscellaneous labor, repairs and
merchandise, $52l 40; telephone rent,
Sl2 80; bridge repairs, labor, painting and
lumber, $l,55S 81; lumber for plank
walks and general repairs, S34l IL;
cobble stone, 81 0S1 AZ: salaries ol
of bosses, $40; salary Of janitsr, $6i; salary
OF clerk, $l00; street cleaning, balance on
contract system including 20 per cent
reserved, 81 600 81; street cleaning as done
by day labor, $S7S %; curbs and crossings,
First, Second and Seventh wards, ST, ,lS9 rs;
ditto, Third and Fourth wards, 81 9l6 "a;
ditto, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth wards.
S2,59l 10; matchmaking Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets and Wood and Eff
between Sixteenth and Observation-Disclosures,
81 400 55; macadamiz' ng Wood street be-
tween Thirty-thtrd and Thirty ninth streets,
S0l2 80; matchmaking Main and McCoI-
loch streets, 5000; general paving, 5,40o;
surveying, $50s; sewer pipe, s., ,76S SO; total,
$34 QI6 10. This was received and fled.
The Committee on Finance reroded
having examined the accounts OF Messrs.
Brady and Wilkinson, IL tlustees Of the Com.
promise Loan, submitted in settlement,
and recommended that the same be rati-
fed and approved; that the trustees be
paid the sum OF $50 O., being one.hali of
lper cent commission on $l3,03S 90; that
N. Wilkinson be paid $75 for services, sta
tionary, postsge and telegtams The report
was adopted. The statement OF the truk-
tees shows a balance III New York 10
new account Of S293 05. Ninety-two bonds
are still Outstanding.
The Committee on claims presented the
bill OF City Solicitor Erskine for $l60 for
services rendered, recommending It's pay.
ment. The report was adopted. The items
Of the bill were $40 Tor the ioresialiing case
Of city vs. Murdoch at two terms OF Cir
cult court; $50 for services as iuterpleader
aud injunction suit, in chancery, in Cir.
cult Court, Of city vs.. Eccles, Pendleton,
Robinson and others; Sl00 for services in
condemning streets OH lhe Island.
The long looked for report from the Com
mittee on Lights was presented last even
ing. The committee recommended that
mains be laid as follows: Jacob street, from
Twentyseventh to. Twenty-eiRhth; Jacob
street, from Eighteenth to Nineteenth;
Wood street, from Sixteenth to seyt nteenth.
Also, that twenty-one new gas lamps and
nine new oil lamps he erected. This report
was adopted by the Branch.
On motion, the rules were Suspended
and petitions for 'ccffee house licenses
taken up. Dominick Oberield was granted
license 10 keep &C flee house at No. 2346
Chapline sirser, with Peter Weltv and Sa,
bastian Voght as suretits. j. A. Kress was
granted license to keep coffee house at
No. 702 Marx ct street, with killian Krees
and II. Beiberson sssureties. D. 0berfeld
was allowed rebate on his license for col.
fee house at 702 Market street, he having
quit business there.
DR.. p. y. Martins bill OF IS 60 for vetin-
ary services in Fire Department was or
dered settled on basis OF $685.
The bond OF the newly elected Gas Trus-
tees, Dr. 7. II. Logan, Rsbert Simpson and
Thos. E. Lewis, was presented and accept.
ed and ordered fled.
The Bank Of the Ohio Valley asked that
the City CLERK issue an order on the Re.
ceiver for SS,363 20 in place OF several
email orders now held by the bank amount-
lug to this sum, and also that the CLERK
issue his order on the Receiver for &C
crued interest The Commercial Bank
asked that q similar order for $3.50 AZ be
issued on the Receiver by the Clerk in
place Of several small ones. Both petitions
were granted.
A resolution offered by Dr.. Wingerter
authorizing the Committee on Real Estate
to expend $75 in papering and cleaning
the Second Branch chamber was adopted.