Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-02
our CITY HALL.
The Tour Of the Committee on
Real Estate.
The Apartments IN the Southern Half
Of the Building Apportioned Out
Among the Various De-
partmeats,

YeSkea'ay morning al zine o'clock the
Commatee on Real Estate of the City
Council assembled at the city building
preparatory to making tour OF the Capitol
Building henceforth to be known as the
City Hall with view of recommending to
Council the permanent location of the
various departments and officials OF the
city government, add preparing an estimate
of the probable cost Of fitting up and fur.
nishiDg the building for use by the mum.
eipality. Theparty WIS made up Of Messrs.
Myles, chairman, and Doboins, MeGregor,
!. Peterson, and Cruise, of the Real Estate
( Committee, Mayor Grubb, ChiefofPolice
Smith, Clerk of the Court Darrah, and Com
mittee Clerk GalHgan. Accomplish exsuina-
ton of the building was made, and after
mature consideration it was decided to
recommend to Council the following scheme
for the south half of the structure.
Commencing with,the basement the con-
mittee located the Police Court in the south
east corner in the room formerly used BY the
Public Library, and lstterlY es document
room. Across the hall, on the east side, the
large apartment will be filled up with cages,
water closets, and all necessary sccommcda-
lions for the reception of prisoners, while the
small room in the extreme southeast corner
will be fitted up for female ward. The
room between this and the hall, on the
south side, will be the private apartment of
the lookup keeper and his assistant. Pris-
oner8 viii be taken in through the basement
entrance at the south end
Coming up stairs to the. first floor, the
outer office of the School Superintendent
will be given over to Clerk of the Municipal
. Court Darrah. The room Immediately in
the rear will be the private Office Of the
Chief of Police, the Office occupied by the
State Treasurer being his general office and
police headquarters. The south stairway
to the basement, leading to the lookup, will
thus BIZ lust at the door of the police room,
making very convenient arrangement.
Next to the office OF the Chief Of Police,
on theleast side of the central corridor, will
be located the City Collector, in the room
No. Is, used by Treasurer D Brien as pri.
vate Office, and latterly occupied by the
Janitor. Crossing the hall to the west side,
the Water Board will be installed in the two
private Offices of the Auditor, one to be used
as general Office and the other for the
sessions of the Board The Auditor large
office will be divided by glass partitions in.
10 three unequal parts. Commencing on the
south side of the entrance, a partition will
run across the room, east and west, the
southern portion of the apartment thus cut
off being turned over to the Gas Trustees.
Then, starting in the centre of this parti-
ton, another will run north to the norther-
most Of the two posts supper ting the cell
ing and thence to the east wall, the L.shaped
room thus formed being used jointly By the
City Clerk and City Receiver, with prob
ability of desk room being reserved for His
Honor the Mayor. The space enclosed by
these three partitions, opposite the en-
trance, is designed as a public lobby, en-
frances leading into each Of the two offices.
On the second floor, the Board of Public
Works is provided for In the two apartments
occupied BY Clerk Long, of the Court Of
Appeals, where Of course, Clerk Galligau,
as committee clerk and clerk of the First
Branch Of Council, will also hold forth.
The First Branch of Council will be given
he chamber occupied by the Supreme
Court. and the Second Branch the Senate
chamber. The Senate document room and
he adjoining apartments will be devoted to
committee uses.
Tbs disposes of The south half Of the
building except the third floor, which the
commitlce did not apportion out. No pro