The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-25
AFTER il]HESB0A:
sDAIE VERY INTERESTING QUERIES
Thrown ntths Board Of Public Works By the
City Council Last Evening The Most !
IA Pertinent Inquiry Win tho Board
Il {Answcrst and What II II Does Not Z. Y

City Council Last Evening The Most
Pertinent inquiry Win tho Board 4
u iAnswerst and What Il II Does Not g "
During lull in The proceedings in the
First Branch Of Council last night Nj.
Bingell, Of the Eighth ward offered the
following, which was adopted without
any comment or discussion. =,
Resolved, Tint tho Board OF Public
Works DO and tits hereby directed 10 give
10 this Council, Mt lis regular meeting on
Tuesday evening next, October, PSI in.
formation on tho following points, Vi.
First, VIII the aggregate, cost OF the i'm.
prorements proposed and commenced by
the Board OH South Huron ami Virginia
streets exceed tho sum of $1,000? g.
Second, Has the Board, in providing for
such improvements, entered into any con.
tract for any sum exceeding 81, 1000? y
Third, Has tho Board, In providing for
such improvements, entered into any con.
tract whatever, md II 50, has the Mayor
signed such contract, or Ind IN opportu.
nifty to sign sucl, contract? ahi9 s52d
Fourth, II the Board has. made any
contract for such improvements, Is 4
plcdging any money, In payment for
work done or to DO done in fullillment
thereof, other than tllat which the board
anticipates receiving. from tho ten cent
levy recently provided for by Council. il
In tho Second Branch i motion was
male to concur. DR.. Jepson, in sup.
porting this, said that the bricks used In
paving the streets referred to In the reso.
luton; were those ordered by Council for
the EolF street improvement In the Eighth
ward, when it went into the wholesale
business Of ordering paving, at the same
time having an empty and owing treasury.
| lie said that he bud seen the contract
signed by the Mayor ut that time, and TIM,
It was stipulated then that the bricks
were to. be used on Sixteenth and -Eof
streets. President llitdreth took the foo,
and argued ably in favor Of the Island i'm.
provement. 4 running discussion va.
carried OH for few minutes by members
at times in rather warm style, and then
i motion to lay the motion TO concur on
the table was made and lost. {tgii.,'
The discussion was then renewed. Mr..
Gleason and the other Eighth ward mem.
bers were very much in favor OF the
adoption OF the resolution. Mr.. Gleasoa
Told OF an agreement made between DR..
Baird and Col. Campbell at the time the
Chapline street improvement was made,
by which DR.. Baird was to stick to
Col. Campbell and see to it that the next
ten cent levy fund should be expended on
/ the Island. The motion to concur finally
prevailed. La sl-.,. ,,,,iT y N -. =,
!. All the members who voted for it claim.
ed to have nothing against the Island OF.
the contrary they wanted to see the Island
improved, J, but thew also wanted apparent
" to get alter the Hoard and find out il il
could not be disciplined little. aJi(
There were variety OF opinions ex.
pressed as to what the Board would dc
with tho paper. Several thought that il
would quietly pigeonhole it and let Coun.
ell whistle for its desired answer. They
said that the board Ind the power to OF.
pend the revenues Of the ten cent levy
fund wherever it thought proper on I'm.
improved sections without being obliged
to. so to Council for. permission, aud that
In view OF this faet it would quietly ignore
the paper, .=r5 et, .iT5N
A member OF the Board could not be
found lust evening". SO what the Board
thinks OF the paper, is not known. Mr..
Bingell was approached by reporter and
asked what his idea was in offering the
paper, lie said: In the first place, the
residents along the line Of the Island i'm.
provcment have not subscribed cent
towards it, and in every other case where
brick paving has been done the citizens
have subscribed towards it. When the
Foil street improvement was ordered by
Council it was made contingent on the
citizens living along tho route rails.
ing one thousand dollars toward the
work. That money; has been raised
and the brick was ordered : the Mayor
signed a CONTRACT for them and they came.
| Now the Board takes them and carts them
over to the Island. What do propose
doing next Tuesday night? Why, if the
Board don't make a report or makes one
that isn't satisfactory, I'll move that it be
restricted from doing any further. work
anywhere, and think that such resoiu-
ton would 60 through ta {t25
The Island improvements very much
needed one, by the way-is being pushed
rapidly forward, and is universally pro-
nounced the very best job Of brick paving
that has yet been done: =. = VI rs z >,
Next Tuesdays session will probably
be an interesting one. AZ