Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-20
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Work Inaugurated or Mapped
Out for the Present Summer
By the City AuthOrities---The New Brick
Pavement Contracted for---New Sew
ers, Curbings, Crossings and Gut
tiers - At the Gas Works.

In anticipation that Council at its next
meeting, will make the usual ten cent levy
for new paving purposes, the Board of Pub
lie Works has already mapped out the i'm
movement to be made Herewith, and con.
tracted for the completion Of the same. The
Board recently contracted for the delivery
of SOC, 900 paving brick, of the kind already
put down on our streets, and yesterday
THE FIRST INsTALLMESr
of Fifty thousand were delivered at the up,
DER end Of the wharf and the work of IN.
unloading began. A portion of these will
be used in putting down crossings and paw
ing cutters, no actual work being done on
the new street until the levy has been
passed by Council.
In regard 10 the crossings and cutters, it
is proposed by the Board, whenever a cross
ing is found in bad repair, to remove the
stone flags, aud put down section of brick
pavement in lien thereof, this work being
persisted in until all the crossings in the
city have been changed from the
old to the new order of things, only, it is
hoped, to be gradually absorbed in
NEW BRICK PAYMENTS
to be laid from year to year.
In the same way cutters of brick are to
be put down where no paved water conducts
now exist, and also in those cases where
bOuldered cutters require extensive repairs.
Work of the former description will, within
few days, be commenced on Thirty-htth
and Thirty-sixth streets, where 1893 feet OF
new curbing has been put down. These
bricked cutters will be about four feet wide,
making q total OF eight feet along the streets
and this, taken in connection with the brick
crossings, will greatly reduce the area to be
bricked when
THE PAVING OF THE WHOLE STREET
is undertaken.
The new pavement contemplated by the
Board is on the South Side, and is to be
continuation of the present Chaphne street
Improvement. Starting at Twenty-fourth
strest, the pa yement will be run down Chap
line street to Twenty seventh, up that thor
oughfsre to Eotf street aud thence south to
Thirty first street, where it will be ended for
he present. This will make about ten
thousand square yards Of new brick, cover,
ing eight squares, and will be vast i'm
provement over the mud streets with which
the population has been obliged to put up
for all these years Yesterday the Board
was busy sending out notices to property
owners along the streets named to put in
gas and water service pipes, as after the
psvements have been laid no permits to dig
p the street. will be granted exceptin cases
of absolute necessity.
On Thirty'ffth street new sewer OF
twentY,inch pipe is to be put put down, the
material for which arrived from up the river
Yesterday. This sewer will run from the
river to alley F, and has been long needed
to drain that portion of the city.
AT THE GAS WORKS.
Work on the excavation for the new hol,
deris being pushed day and night by
large force of men, under Messrs. Haley
and Brooks. Ground was first broken on
Monday morning, and already good
showing has been made. The well for the
tank will be one hundred and eighteen feet
in extreme diameter and tweny-eight fee
deep, making something like $4,000 cubic
yards. Much of the soil taken out will be
used in making bricks, Will. the refuse
from near the surface will be dumped into
depressions in some Of the streets and used
for filling at some of the yari0us low points
on the creek bank.
The new gasometer vii hold 475,00G
cubic feet, and will double the storage o.
he works, now about $780, cubic feet
The excavation will be completed by thu
middle OF July. In talking with Captain
Dix n, the courteous and ooiging Supsrin
tendeut of the works. yesterday, he express
I'd much satisfaction at the thorough man
ner in which
THE EXTENSIVE REPAIRS
lately made in the retort houses had been
completed. The works, he said, were Jog
cling along smoothly, and all hands wert
having a temporary lull, the consumption
being Just now at about the lowest p0in
reached during the year. Christmas nigh
was the turning point in the heavy mid
winter demand, about twenty-five thousand
cubic feet being burned on that evening
above the consumption of any other day IL
the year. he always bresthed Sigh Of
relief when that day was over, as he knew
that was the severest test 10 which thu
works would be put. The new retort house,
he Superintendent said, would be
partially completed bV the erection of two
benches of retorts during the summer
months, the building of the others being de-
frrrtd until later date.
THE WATER WORKS.
Superintendent Mr.. James Riddle, has
completed the putting down of the new
main on Water street. near Forty.frst, aud
work in his department is little slack at
present