The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-09
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Another Card from "Foarth Ward" on tho
Subject.

Another Card from "Fourth Ward" on tho
Subject.
To he Editor OftN ih..tlio1n1.
SR:-"Caldwell' Run" in Wednes-
dsy'r paper, is entitled to vote of thanks
for the proof furnished of the result OF
the Board OF Public Works oiIicious med
ding with matters which are not in their
line OF duty. 30 evidently labors under
the impression that the part Of Twenty
ninth street, east of Woods, is 10 be EN-
braced in the move made by the Board.
This is not the case at present. but Il
Council orders the Market street lot sold
and the work on Tweniy.ninth street
west OF Woods 10 be done and paid Tor out
Of the proceeds OF this sale, as compro-
mise between the Caldwell heirs. who are
parties TO the present unsettled injunction
suit, and the city, it will be but Il short
time until the property owners on that
part OF Twenty-ninth street, east OF
Woods, can secure the sale OF the Court
House lot aud the expenditure OF the pro:
ceeds in Strengthening the run in front OF
their property, by entering suit against
the city, and securing the services OF Il
few ward politicians iu Council TO lobby o
compromise through that body. Great ia
the power OF small politician.
1.-THE Board had asked for permission
10 apply the proceeds OF the sale OF the
Market street lot 10 the improvement Of
TWenty.ninth street, east Of Woods, will
agree with &c. E." that that the money
would have been expended 10 far better
purpose than ia now proposed. Thatpart
Of the street is tho eastern outlet for the
southern portion OF the city, and over II
comes q large trade for the Eighth and
Sixth wards. The work proposed by the
Board would not, when done, add 10 the
benefits to be derived from the improve.
ment OF East Twenty.ninth street, as the
travel to and from the Eight ward passes
mp and down MCColloch, and that to the
Sixth goes up Woods to Twenty.eight aud
thence down to Eof. 1t is not likely that
the making OF roadway thirteen and one.
half feet wide, along the edge OF ditch
twelve feet deep, would induce farmers
and others to seek change OF routes.
&c. r." also proves another thing-that
is. that the proposed improvement will not
benefit any one outside the few persons
interested in the suit against the city. He
asserts that no good will result to the
Fourth ward, or any other pergons outside
Of the citizens on Twenty.ninth street,
by this outlay OF the city's money and
calls any one who opposes 1t "a dog in the
manger." Exactly; let's look at that dog
The lots over which Caldwell's run, be-
tween Woods and Chapline, flows, front
on the streets, running north and south,
and are six in number. As near as can
be ascertained from the Assessors books,
their average valuation is $500, or total
of 81. 500. The highest assessment Of any
improved lot in Caldwell's addition, with.
In square Of the run, is $3.50 Take this
as the assessed value Of each OF the lots II
the run were removed and the result will
be $500, or an increase in value oil
s., 900, giving Is cents revenu9 to the city
Tor an outlay Of $4,000.
The property along the route mentioned
in my former article mot placing any val
uation on the Gas Works. which is proba.
bly, worth as much as all the rest OF the
city's property is assessed at Sl32, 200, and
pays direct tax Of 1901 every year 10 the
city. In this list OF properties is included
every manufacturing establishment south
OF Bells Foundry and north OF the creek
except the Central Glass Works. The
employment given to hundreds Of men in
these establishments assists in the collec.
ton OF the citys revenues from other
pieces Of property in different parts Of the
city.
The city has, within a week, finished
the paving OF EofF street, directly through
the centre OF the plot Of ground on which
the Board now proposes to dig a ditch, at
right angles to this paving, and make two
little streets thirteen and half feet wide.
This work cost about $50, 900, and now the
same part Of the city asks for Sl5, 900 more
and calls the Fourth ward "a dog in the
manger' for asking for anything at all.
For the paving OF Eoff street the lots to be
improved by the run Strengthening paid
81 so; the Fourth ward property paid
Sl32 20. But the Fourth ward is the dog
in the manger. II it is, it is a very good
breed OF dogs for city provements.
All Fourth Ward" asks is fair play.
For years the property in that part Of the
city hes been taxed for improvements in
all other parts OF the city and has received
less than any other ward. Water and gas
u!ains have been laid TO and street itn-
provements have been made in the Eighth
ward to the amount Of moro than $1,000
and Improperly on theroute now askingior
Improvement, paid one hundred and TWEEN
tieth OF the cost each and every year, and
when stop is asked TO the expenditure
of money in the southern part Of the city
in making foolish attempts to compromise
suit which has no bottom in it, tho howl
is tried to be raised that Fourth Ward"
Is selfish and unwilling to see other parts |
Of the city "beaulhed."
II Council honeatly believes that the
digging of the proposed ditch on Twenty
ninth street, isbettsr for the whole people |
of the city than the making OF an outlet
Tor oil the factories north Of Wheeling
Greek we will, with one or two exceptions,
then be content. II Council thinks that 1t |
is better financially for the city to receive
eighteen cents each year, the increase
from taxation on the Caldwell lots from
which the run will be taken, than to save
not less thRp three thousand dollars every
year in furnishing supplies to the City
Gas Works-well and good.
II Council thinks that people believe
acknowledgement canals thanin fostering
and encouraging our factories, which are
really Wheeling. and without which there
would be no Wheeling, lot them 20 on
with this Board OF Public Works illegiti-
mate bantling. FOURTH WARD.
Wheeling, NoremJerT.
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