The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-14
Second Branch after the calling Of the
roll, the reading Of the minutes being dis.

ENchl EpLdLrt Ithf OUl SouotpTlebi SOlO w )
salaries, Sl,0I6 25; contingencies, 81
so 80; Compromise Loan, s. 59S 25 /; Loan
Of 1871, 5000; Loan OF 1881; S7,OO9 90;
Water Board, Sls,T45 SO; Gas Works. 81, :
46s OF: The appropriations for the Public
Building Loan and the Loan OF 1877 ara
both exhausted. Tho total appropriations
amounted to 1886 40 43; total expend-
lures to date, $l95 945 So; total balances,
Sl40.996 80. In the expenditures OF the
Board Of Public Works the contingent
and appropriation funds Of the Board are
ouly included, amounting TO $34, 402 IS
There has been expended out OF the 10
cent levy fund S., 1883 ~, making a total
expenditure by tho Board OF $37 $50 10.
The report was received and filed.
Bills aggregating the following amounts,
presented by the committees named, were
ordered paid: Markets, S27 30; City
Prison, s65 2S; superintendent Of City
Prison, SIP 20; Health, S37 IS; Fire De.
partment, 1918 ~; Accounts, S43S "a.
The Committee on Health sent back
bills amounting to $50 50, AMI asked that
they BIO refererred to tho Committee on
City Prison, claiming that 1t was the
proper committee TO audit them. They
were for dental work, drugs and presCrip.
tions furnished city prisoners. This part
OF the committees report created very
lively discussion between Mr.. Stanley, Of
the City Prison committee, and Mr.. CGld-
we'll, OF the Health committee. The
Branch refused to reterthe bills in dis
pute to the City Prison committee, aud II
Is now a question as TO which appropriR.
ton will be drawn on to pay the bills.
The committee on accounts in addition
TO presenting Its regular, bills asked that
the Clerk 0e instructed TO draw his order
on the Receiver for $3.50 in favor Of the @
D. 4 P. Telephone Company for rent oil
telephones used by the city up TO July,
1886, which was ordered done. A resolu.
ton offered by this committee was also
adopted, authorizing the removal OF the
telephone in use at the Water Works to
Clerk Bowers office and requesting the
Water Board to refund to the city the
amount of rent paid by the city for this
telephone since the organization OF the
Board.
The Committee. on Fire Department
was authorized, having requested it, to
place man in the Atlantic engine house
In place OF Foreman Snyder, who was 80
severely injured at the Logan fire, last
Saturday, until such time as Snyder
shall be able to be about again, both men
to be on the pay roll, and the Clerk to
issue orders for the salary oil the extra
man. In addition, the committee was
authorised 10 dispose Of and purchase Ger,
tain horses as in its Judgment may seem
best. IT. .Il.f,,e,. .,s5.s Ifl...F
This committee further asked to be au'
thoriz3d 10 instruct the City Solicitor
to institute suit against Gray & Smith,
| OF Martins Ferry, for $3.50 for scr
vices rendered at the fire on April s, that
destroyed their property Known as the
Commercial Block. Gray Il Smith are
willing to pay $l25, and claim that the
corporation Of Martins Ferry should pay
the balance. There was an extended dis.
cussion over this, respecting the advisa'
bility Of entering into a suit. Finally, the
matter was referred back TO the committee,
1t to confer with the Solicitor and act as
might seem proper after careful recon-
sideration Of the matter.
The Board OF Public Works asked that
the City Clerk be instructed TO issue his
order on the Receiver To pay out OF the
ten cent levy fund the sum Of Sl2S.5S
for curbing on the line Of the Chnpine
Eoa and Twenty seventh streets improv-
ment and the same was ordered.
The Board further asked for an appro-
priation to pay the following amounts:
VIM Stebbs, furnishing and setting curb
ing, $3.50; Q. Leonhart, laying brick eros
sings and cobble paving, SIZES; McNtsh-
q, Mi l. 7
E. Fsris, pitching and sanding streets,
g. 400 40; total, $3.50 03. The Branch
instructed the Clerk TO draw his order on
the Receiver for these amounts. az
An ordinance was adopted empowering
the City Clerk to draw his order on the
$4,000 appropriation made to the city by
the State for the payment Of all expenses
incurred in fitting up and insuring that
portion OF the Public Building occupied
by the city.
A resolution offered by Mr.. STANLEY
providing for the repair Of the roof OF the
North End lookup was adopted.
The following, oflred by Mr.. Gilliland,
was referred to the Health Committee:
Resolved, That the Committee on Or
dinances be instructed to draft an ordin-
ance forbidding the dumping Of night soil
into the Ohio River any place north OF the
Bellaire railroad bridge. :!
A number OF petitions were appropri-
ately referred. This Branch Concurred
with the First in its action on the P, w.
& Ky's petition and the report OF the
Committee on Coal Banks. eE' t.t
At 10 O'Clock both Branches had ad.
journed. .,
TIE FIRST BRANCH.
In the First Branch all the members
were present but Messrs. McGregOr and
Myles.
q On recommendation OF the Committee
on Coal Banks, Daniel Richie was granted
the right to mine coal on MCColloch street,
between Sixth and Seventh streets, lie to
enter into bond in the penal sum Of $500
to save the city harmless and to pay one
half cent bushel to the city. All who
mine coal on city property without per-
mission were ordered to be, prosecuted.
Mr.. Hoffman explained that Bitchie's
proposed operations wonld prevent the
carrying out OF plans 81. the City Water
Board Tor the building Of new basin, as
taking the coal out would remove the
foundation for such reservoir. In view Of
this statement the Branch reconsidered,
and referred the Committees recommend
alton to the Water Board for report.
The p, W. & KY. Railroad Company
submitted q petition for permission to-
construct a bulwark Of piles extending
from thesouth side OF the new road to the
river down the south end Of the wharf,
curying outward to the trestle spur track
between the river and the company's
freight depot, designed to protect the
depot from ice or food. Tho plan
contemplates bulwark about eight feet
above low water mark to the top Of the
piles, to be filled in with earth TO 1.-The,
level Of the depot and Water street. The,
Board Of Public Works recommended
that permission be granted for the con.
struCtion Of the bulwark, the company
agreeing that when completed 1t shall DO
the property Of the city. The branch
granted permission.
The action Of the. Second Branch was
cnncurred in concerning the Firn Dhnart.