Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-09
cUUBSTONE CRAYONS.
Current Topics of General interest
to Our Readers.
What People Were Talking About on the
Streets Yesterday and Last
Evening,

The conflict oesWeen the DoaIu VI
ie Works and the COMMITTEES on Finance
created quite sn smount of talk among all
classes of citizens yesterday. As Is usually
the case in all such matters, there was a
great diversity in public opinion; Many
persons thought the action OF the Commlt'
: 80 was an unwsrranted interference with
the Board, and predicted that the members
, hereof would never submit to the restric-
rious sought to be put upon them, winnie
others, and particularly those ol1-hme
enemies of the Board who have op'
posed it from its formation on
principal, were very much disposed 10 pay
ihs Finance Committee on the back aud
boped that Council would adopt It's report
without hesitation or amendment. Inc
msmbers of the Board were no less indlg,
pant Yesterday than the day before, ana
handled the Finance Committee, IN their
conversation, without gloves. The thing
which tended to keep alive this feeling OF
resentment was the uttsrsnces OF one or
two members OF the Finance Committee
rpgxdiug the debt of $500 due Colonel
Robert Campbell on account OF paving
done lsst year. A member OF the
Board said on this subject. me
committeeman profess to be surprised al
our failure 10 pay Mr. Campbell. They
nssdn't be, No one knows better thar
that very committee why Mr.. Campbell
has not been paid, but with characteristic
cowsrdiee they ore afraid to put the blame
1 5hsre n bslonVs-on their own shoulders
Ths Board owes Mr.. Campbell solely snC
only because OF tins $1,000 taken from u
Lass summer, after we had made our con
tracts aud got our work under way. lime
and again was tha attention OF members o
the committee called to the discrepancy
which was sure 10 ensue, but they pu
"a eff By saying the money Woni'
"a pa;d back when the cit
nroperfy was sold or, when the taxes be
gin to come in, &c. Now they uncertsk
70 imDesch our honesty, and pra,e abou
holding the members OF the Board respon
sible Let them give back the none,
tbay took from us, and we will take car
of Sir. Campbell. That Is poor ciut
with which to beat the Board. | feel sat
10 predicting that when Councllmen Sc
rhis thing in it's real light they will DO u
Justice sudrejeet the lofty ideas OF the com
mirteemen. .
Everybody predicts that there will be
rien and rsre scene in Council Tuesds
night, and all interested in Municipal maj
tiers should be there to ace.
Tomorrow the Board Of Education WI
move into its new quarters aud the Publ
Library will be opened for the convenience
Of the public. The Improvements mad
by the Board during the past mouth bsv
been great, and will vastly add to the cor
ysnienee of all having occasion to visl
the apartments, while additional room
afforded for the growth Of the library 10
YEARS 10 come TIE facilities nov AFFORD
ed are all that could be desired and we ar
surs the changes made will meet With tn
hearty approval OF all. While looking owe
the new apartments yesterday a ger
tleman. while sdmiring the good tsSt
oud Hberah,y OF the members G
the Board of Education, said he could nc
help regrsttiug that u Public Liorar
Building had moi Seen bGilt instead of pu
ting more money into the present lease
Quarters. He thoughs that II some sliglbl
site like the northwest corner of Chaplin
and Sixteenth streets, fronting the Cit
Hall had been parChs1ed, and an orns
mental three story building put up, wiz
business rooms or lawyers offices on tn
6rs, floor, the library proper on the secon
and rooms for the Board, and a large hsI
| for school entertainments. teachers NEE
ings, ETC., OF tie third, that II would hsv
been a good investment, inssmuch as II
stead Of leasing quarters at henry rel
for library and Board purposes, the stor,
rooms CT offices would have brougt
in enough revenue to have paid the year,
expenses of the Library, end thus reliev
the taxpayers, while being OF decided bel
eft TO the community. he hoped IN
Beard would think of the plan, even 1t va
too late.