The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-09
THE FlNANoE coMMITTEE
Coca IGto Star Chamber Session to Consider
tbs Estimates.

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For nearly q month the estimates oteI-
psudituIes necessary in the various city
departments for the year ending DeCsm-
ber 81, 1885, have been waiting for the
action OF the Finance Committee, to
which they were referred, as required by
ordinance. Late yesterday afternoon the
committee was very quietly called TO
consider these estimates, the intention
evidently being 10 keet the meeting dark,
Mr.. Gilleland, chairman OF the Committee
on Markets, and the Board Of Public
Works having expressed o desire to be
heard respecting their estimates, were
notified TO be present. Reporters were
present without notification. The full
committee was on hand; Mesars. Hid.
reth, chairman, All. Caldwell, Motfat,
Warehouse, Peterson and List,
The meeting was called to order IN the
private office Of City Clerk Bowers, con-
Venient TO the books and papers, Mr..
Gllleland was allowed to speak, His
committee had asked for 1880, $500 for
repairing roofs and 5000 for enclosing
the Filth ward market square, Mr., Gille-
land spoke forclbly in favor Of granting
these items, and clearly showed the neces-
sity OF doing something TO better theCon-
ditiou OF the Centre market.
MessTs. Bell and Egerter, Of the Board
OF Public Works, we're present, and Mr.,
Egerter spoke for 1t. The Boards esti'
mate as reduced by the Committee on
Streets, Alloys and Grades, calls for $60,-
0Ol outside OF an estimated contingent
fund Of $4,000. That committee reduced
the estimate $4,000, which amount was
calculated for the paving Of streets exclus-
i've Of the 10 cent levy for paving new
streets.
Mr.. Egerter said the Beard desired to
repair Main street from the stone bridge
up to Twelfth street, and Market street
from the iron bridge up to Eleventh was
in such a condition that 1t was almost
an absolute necessity to pave 1t. These
were two important pieces OF work the
Board desired 10 do. In relation TO new
paving, the Board had estimated that to
continue the Loft street improvement
from T~Wenty-third to ThiTty-nilth streets
would cost $4,000; to pave Chapline from
Sixteenth to Eighteenth, Eighteenth To
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Jacob would cost $4,000; to pave North
Main street from Seventh TO Fourth would
cost $4,000. The estimated revenue
from the 10 cent levyit it was made would
be $4,000. This would pay for one OF
these improvements and with the balance
and what could be squeezed from the
contingent fund and the $4,000 asked for
II that was allowed, 1t might be possible
to make another one OF the improvements.
MIR. Caldwell wanted TO know what 1t
would cost to pave in East Wheeling from
Sixteenth down Eof to Eighteenth and
thence oYer the balance Of the route as in
dictated above, thereby leaving Oh the
line Of paving the. Tack Factory, Redman
Bros. and BOdley Bros, establishments,
lie said 1t would save two squares OF paw
ing and improve the Atlantic engine
house property, The Board had made no
such estimate.
MIR. Caldwell also wished to know why,
In making an estimate, the Board had not
estimated from Ninth to Fourth street.
Mr. Caldwell's property lie at the corner oil
Mainland Eighth streets.
To the first question the answer was
given that all petitions and resolutions
about the matter had indicated the route
they had prepared an estimate for. To
the second question the answer was that
from Ninth to Sixteenth street 1t was
already Cobbled and well piked, and II
WAS thought that those. two squares could
walt.
Included in the Boards estimate was
$1,000 for new iCurbs and resetting old
Curbing, and $1,000 for gutter and crossing
paVlng-$lG,000 in the two items; there
was another item OF $4,000 for brick for
doing this work. MI. Egerter explained
that this year when cutters were laid they
would be seven feet wide, thereby allow
ing a driveway in bad weather. These
cutters would be laid in dirt streets, which
Ia winter time are almost impossible.
A seven-foot gutter on each side
would enable, one TO drive along them
very nicely during the winter, would not
make 1t necessary to pave the streets for
q long time, and when 1t did become
necessary to pave, the fourteen ieet al
ready down would greatly lessen the cost.
The intention was to put down several Of
these on the Island. Last year the cutters
laid were only four feet wide and did not
serve a purpose as well as a seven-foot
gutter.
Mr.. Caldwell opposed this and thought
the Board was not specific enough. Mr..
Peterson was Of q like mind. Mr.. Egerter
asked for every cent that could possibly be
spared, and the Board withdrew.
Then Mr.: Caldwell moyedto gointo tex.
eCutive session." and the motion pre-: