The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-27
MANuFAorURRns, aAs ooMpANY
Gets ia Right of way Ordinance Safely
through the Council Committee.

MANUFACTURERS GAS COMPANY
Gets its Right of Way Ordinance Safely
through the Council Committee.
The joint special committee Of Council
met in the Municipal Court room at the
Public Building last evening to consider
the petition Of the Manufacturer Gas
Company and the ordinance II desires the
Council to pass.
The members Of the committee pres
emit were Messrs, Dobbins, Moi.
fat and Gavin, Of the First Branch,
and Messrs. g, b, Osldwellaud ], o. Pickett,
OF the Second, Mr.. Stanley, the other
member from that Branch, being absent,
In addition, there were present Messrs. A,
Wilson Kelly, j. D. Dubois, George Wise,
VIM. Leighton, IT,, y W. Brockunier,
Col, Thos. O'Brien, w. s. Brady, ]. @.
Brady, o. II, Hubbard, John Bodley, ]. q.
Hoffman,, it,, Otto Jaeger, William
Myles and others.
Mr.. w. T. Hubbard was present as the
attorney for the Manufacturers Gas Com
pany and Attorney General Alfred Cald-
we'll, member OF the First Branch Of
Council, represented the interests Of the
West Virginia Natural Gas Company, So
liCitor o Keete was also present.
THE CoMMlTTEE GETS TO WORK.
About s o'clock the committee organ.
lied BY making Col. Caldwell chairman.
The petition from the manufacturers and
the ordinance were read by Clerk CALI
gan, and an invitation extended by the
chair to those present to make any state.
ments they might desire. Mr.. Hubbard
said that lie had prepared the ordinance
submitted and thought that 1t embodied
all that was to be said; the manufacture
era we're anxious to pipe gas into the
city for their own use, and must have the
privilege OF doing so in order to keep
alive and enter into competition with
consumers elsewhere.
Mr. All. Caldwell-"Mr. Hubbard, ia
the Manufacturers Company corpora.
ton, or does 1t propose to become one ?"
Mr., Hubbard-"It Ia one, Sir"
Mr., Caldwell then addressed the COM
mittee and claimed that under the pro-
visions OF tho ordinance granted 10 the
West Virginia Company, the Council could
not grant " any corporation the privileges
asked for in the ordinance submitted by
the Manufacturers Company. 1t would
never do, according to his argument, to
grant such privileges 10 concern whose
stock could be sold and might eventually
10 into the hands Of parties Objectionable
TO all concerned. Such procedure would
defeat the terms Of the ordinance granted
to tho West Virginia Company. lie pre-
sented an ordinance, which he said he
had prepared and which he thought would
be satisfactory to everyone.
A SUBSTITUTE REJECTED.
This ordinance was read. It's provisions
grant to Hobbs, Brockunier 4 90, The
Wheeling Pottery Co., and the other man
ufaoturingconCerns.namodinthe ManutaC-
turers' ordinance the permission to pipe
gas to their own establishments-not as Q
corporation but as q number Of individual
concerns. The right to sell gas to any
other concerns is denied, although Coun.
Gil can In the future grant to other manu-
iacturering concerns q right to pipe gas In
or make arrangements with the original
grantees for q supply.
Mr.. Hubbard said that to adopt such
substitute would be to deny at once to the
manufacturers all that was useful that
the city might grant. He pointed out
many obstacles that the adoption Of Mr..
Caldwell's paper would place in the way f;
particularly that Of acquiring rights Of
way outside the city.
Mr., Caldwell again claimed that oil the
two papers his was the only one that was
strictly within the reservations, in spirit
and letter, OF the ordinance granted TO the
West Virginia company. He said there
was no necessity for a corporation. After
making short and rather weak argument
In reply to Mr.. Hubbard, he subsidized.
Mr.. Hubbard, in the course Of bis re-
marks, presented 10 the committee Ger.
tiflcate Of incorporation granted by Score.
tary Of State Walker, April IL, 1885, To
O, w. Brockunier, William Leighton, il,
W. o, Brockunier, j. D. Dubois and A.
Wilson Kelly, incorporated as the Manu-
facturers' Gas Company, with the privilege
OF making the capital $4,000, founded
for the purpose OF boring or mining for
gss, oil or coal in West Virginia, Ohio
and PennBylvanla.
AN APPEAL ron FAIR PLAY. -
He made o vigorous appeal for TIE
manufacturers 10 DO allowed to 70 wbefi
how and where they pleased for gas they
had made the city what II was and 1t was
only by the use Of natural gas that she
could be kept what she was. His remarks
bristled With good points and 1t was evl.
dent that the members oil the committee
were impressed by them.
Mr.. y. w. BfoCkunier made few re-.
marks about the great necessity for natu.
raj gas here, the anxiety Of manufacturers
TO secure II, and urged the granting Of the
petition. Mr.. j, O. Brady also made q
lew remarks.
The ordinance submitted by the Manu.
taCtufefB' Company was read again sec.
ton by section aud approved without
amendment. There were added two sec.
tons, providing that the company, BY o
resolution adopted by lls Board Of
Directors, must before May /, 1886,
agree TO accept the ordinance
file auch agreement with tho City Clerk,
These sections were In Mi. CaldwelPg or.
dinAnce and similar ones are In tho Or.
dinanCe granted 10 the West Virginia
company. No objection was offered 10
this BY the manufacturers.
A special meeting oil Council will prob.
ably be held next Friday night TO pass
the ordinance.
A oNE.AANHD boy in Augusta saved iour
persons from dtownihgj but Dr.. Bulls
Cough Syrup has saved lie thousands from
consumption.
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