The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-01
THE CITY LANDING:
WHAT lrlsA NowAAT IT SHOULD BE.
Til. Pressing Need for Some Alteration. and
BepaIrs-rhs IrJastles Of Dlvsrtlns Wharf
R.vssuts to Other usss-Ths Gross Neg
het II Has Suffered Prom Recently.

During the year 1882 as shown by Clerk
Bowers books and his annual statement the
money collected from the public landing or
wharf amounted to $22Ss7S, The wharf
master receives no salary, but instead com.
mission on the amount thathe collects. The
Clerks books show that last year these com
missions amounted TO SiG7 81; further than
that, they do not show that any other monies
were paid out on account OF wharyeS. what
little repairing was done, and 1t was very
little, was done by the COMMITTEES on stFeels'
Alleys and Grades and the Board OF Public
Works, and no separate account was KEPT,
but II is safe 10 say that 1t did not come near
The amount paid in by the stearnboetmen.
The Board is not under the city's charter,
Obliged TO do any work on the, lhvee, except
when ordered but owing 70 the fact that
the revenues from the wharf go to the Board
IL has on several occasions done some
patching aud repairing, and last summer the
Uomlnittee did some work. AZ. .Gt,fl
The levee is atpresent in o bad eonurhon,
and IL win be still worse when Spring opens,
The cobble stones that were used when II was
last paved were too small for the purpose
They would have done we'll enough probably
for street, but on sloping bank whefe
they are almost constantly under the pressure
OF heavy drays and trucks, that 30 down and
come UP III slantiDg direction, the wheels
often being tightly locked, they are soon
forced out and deep holes and ruts formed
that are ruinous on teams and Veratious 70
pedestrians. Thelevee Is al present tn'such
a condition that 1t takes q very strong team
OF horses 10 haul up full load. During
riie steamers are obliged 10 putout spars, and
these force the stones out by the wholesale
eteaniboattnen are loud IN denounctnB
the landing They q iim that as they pay o
good round sum into the city treasury ina!
they should have good Wharf one paved
with big stones that would stay IN tneit
place, aud above all. new aud reliable chea:
mel gauge marks The present ones are old,
aud the marks almost obliterated from the
stones, 10 many places entirely so. Those
In posi- iouto know, ssy thai they are not
reliable, owing 70 q change III . sand bar,
The WhsrE Committe ofthe.C Council oilSsi "
was ordered to put new MARKS down, ou!
AID not as Il was rumored that the United
States SiguRl Service was going 10 DO that
w0fK. Where that rgmor sprung from no
one seems knows. Nothing MaEe was ever
heard Of It until few nights SINCE Wien
the Wharf Committee was = ip ses'
sion. the Chairman, Mr.. Kimberly, wanted
resolution reported to Council, ordering maFEs
ont down tEan the runior was again men
TONED, and the committee refused 10 take
action. ,s,.F ,,iN,
Kimberly offered the resolution anb referring
to the signal Service, reAarked that " tas
body waited to have marks put down In that
cheap manner, the Council would be grey
headed before 1t was done. HIS resolution
was referred to the Wharf Committee. Good
substantial marks made out OF railroad iron
could be placed iu position for abopt 30. II
could not be done while TIE water Is Of the
present stage or until the weather hecomeS
waTm and The river Is low, say in July or
August Then they should be put In and
theleyee generally oyerbauled and placed In
good repsi., thereby giving the steamboat
men return for their money and atordlng
business men easy and safe access TO the boats.
Action could be taken by Council now aud
then there wonld be no delay at theiproper
time.
nermitted 10 move its track few feet to
the west ut the northern end in order to give
IL more platform room at the depot In do.
ipg this The road was Obliged 10 builta small
retaining wall, and that wall, together with
widened platform, blocked up q small road.
way used by teamsteIs In reaching the "oId
Reliable" wharf boat. Considerable eom-
plaint Is made about the wharf at this point.
1t Is very steep, and place should be ieyeien
oil and repayed in order TO accommodate
business interests. The Council on Fuesdsy
night ordered paved roadway from the
north and OF the paved portion to the lumber
landing. This roadway could be an extern
sion Of the drive mentloped above;
During last fall the Board Of Public Works
made small wharf on the Island attbeeast
end OF Ohio street, andthe Ordinance conf
mittee has been instructed TO amend tue
wharf ordinance 30 % to- include II, aud the
landing at the foot OF Twentythird street as
public landings. -,
The Wharf COMMITTEES Of the former Council
paid very little attention to the leyee. Once|
during toe progress of the State Fair itroased
itself and Investigated the skitf lines. II also
discovered that a pile OF lumber had been zee !,
standing on the levee for so long time that
no one Knew who it belonged TO; the commit
tee ordered 1t sold and raked Uncle Joe
Forsythe. over q little for allowing 1t tore
main there for so long TINA. The present
committee Is composed OF good men and has
a Iva oh afrmAn. r. TH N & r.