Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-14

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lev and Weir. After the minutes had
been read, the following business was
transacted:
BILLS ORDERED PAID.
Board of Police and Fire Commissioners:
On account Of Fire Dept~-""-""sA9 go
on account Of olice....,-."."....- lsS ESoSV
Board of Public Works:
r Campbell, on account of
having 90 "
Wm.stabbs, curbing Eighteeth
and Nineteenth streets....... S+S %
WIN Statbs, curbing alley IS. 81 69
| Nm. Stabbs, curbing Main st.. a9 ~
Win. Stabbs, curbing Foureelh
Robt, Campbell, on account of
paving Chapline and Lon ,o
streets, Sixth ward".....-.. 2,Isl io-SS,lS ~
Committee on Cemeteries
Committee on City q &c
O ON MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.
The Board of Police and Fire Commits
sioners reported disbursements on account
of Fire Department Of SO, 24O. 10 Tor the
six months ended June 80, OF which w.
655 G6 was on account of salaries, and 81
5s4. 40 on account of feed and miscel-
laneous.
The Superintendent of the City Prison
reported Is prisoners June l, ~ received
during the month and 26 discharged for
various reasons, leaving IA in prison June
80.
The Board of Police and Fire Commits
sioners referred the bill OF Porter Smith,
CITY Sergeant, for $40, for killing dogs and
summoning Council, as there was no fund
for the payment of the same. Ordered
paid when the bill is made to conform to
the ordinance. .;,
CITY Clerk Bowers reported a total bal
ance on hand of $40, 12l.ll, OF which
S54, 729.1 10 was to the credit
of Board of Public Works, $l3,686.l 10 to
Fire Department; 81, 591.82 to Health,
81, or. Ii to markets, $40, 4l2.S6 to Police,
So, 591. 81 to City Prison, $l,6l7.65 to
Scales, 81, 1856 to Real Estate, 5 l,5SO.39
to cemeteries, $4,550.10 to salaries,
S4, 06G. 81 to contingent expenses, ) l,6ss,25
to compromise loan, 1880 to loan OF lsI7,
s.. O02'' so 10 loan of 1881, S44, $3.50 to
| Water Board, and S53, 03s. 13 to gas works.
LICENSES GRANTED.
A license was granted to Warner &
| Hearne to keep d coffee house at No. "a
Sixteenth street, with Henry Har.ke and
VIM. Fasnacht rs sureties, and to John
Freismuth to keep at No. 1881 Market
street, with Mauras Baltzer and Henry
BrandfaSs as sureties,
NATURAL GAS,
The special joint committee appointed
to visit Pittsburg and Little Washington to
obtain data in relation to the pressure OF
natural gas, made a vOluminous report.
They stated that SAL. 80 had been eXpend-
ed on the trip. The committee recon-
mended that an ordinance he drawn up
limiting the gas pressure to fifteen pounds,
that pressure gauges be placed in each hose
house throughout the city, and that es-
capes be flashed at least once in every
forty-eight hours. On the question OF
adopting the report, Mr.. Hildreth asked if
the committee wa satisfied that fifteen
pounds was the proper pressure, Mr., Har-
rell undertook to answer the gentleman, and
n l0ny discussion resulted between he
two. Finally, as he said, with the pur-
pose of obtaining the sense Of Council, MIR.
Hildreth moved to amend the report OF the
committee by limiting the pressure to ~
pounds. Before the question was put,
however, Mr.. Weisgorber was called on for
information, and responded by saying the
committee had agreed upon Is pounds, as
a safe and proper pressure. lie thought
Is pounds would supply all the manutac-
tories in the city. The large tube works
at Soho, Pittsburg, employing 700 men,
was run on IL ounces of gas. He was not
in favor of more than Is pounds until it
had been ascertaiped that that pressure
was insufficient. He wanted TO be on the
safe side.
MI. Sweeney thought II pounds pressure
in q ten inch pipe would supply a city
three times the size of Wheeling, All the
practical gas men in PittsLurg were IN
favor Of large volume and
low pressure. If Is pounds was not
enough to run the town, he thought the
Company, in its own interests, would in
crease the volume, SO rs to keep the pres
sure low. Mr.. Sweeney made n long cx-
PLANTATION of the pressure on the joints of
the pipe, the methods of detecting leaks,
&c, and was listened to with close atten-
ton by both members and audience.
Mr., Cruise moved to amend MIR. Hid
reth's amendment by making the pressure
not over 10 pounds.
After another long discussion, in the
course of which it became apparent that
no one knew very much about the matter,
the whole question was laid over for fur
ther consideration.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Picket
WHEREAS, The assessment books for the
year 1886 have been completed, and are
now in the hands of the City Clerk. There
fore, be it
Reeoired, That the Clerk be, and he is
hereby authorized, to draw all order oh
the Receiver in favor Of each of the Asses
sors, for the sum of 5000, on account OF
salary.
Adopted.
By Mr.. Hildreth:
Resoyred, That NJ. G.. Crawford, City
Collector, be, and he is hereby au-
thorized to collect for the city, from the
Auditor Of the State, the taxes due the
city of Wheeling on account Of railroads.
Adopted,
By Mr.. Hildrcth;
Resolred, That 81, 900, OF 80 much there
of as may be necessary, be appropriated
out of the city contingent fund, 70 be used
by the Board OF Public Works In laying
curb In the Seventh Ward.
No action.
By Mr.. Harrell:
Resolred, That the Board Of Public
Works be and is hereby instructed to COM
pei the Gas Companies to comply with the
rules governing the Board Of Public
Works in filling and ramming their
trenches.
Adopted,
Adjourned.