The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-03
WANTS ms Loss MADE coon.
Mr., Kimberly Appeals to tho City Council
for NndEhhn.

Mr., Kimberly Appeals to tho City Council
for REDRESS.
At the next meeting Of the City Ooup.
ell Tue following paper which was tiled
with City Clerk Bowers yesterday, and
which explains ITSELF, will be presented TO
the members for their consideration;
WHEELING. W, Va, Nov, IS, 1885.
TO he Mayor and COsRcl Of Ae Cay q
Wheeling;
GRNTLRNES;-The following Is sub.
mitted ior your consideration and action
wHEaEAs, In the month Of April Of this
year, P, L, Kimberly, a citizen Of this
place, did contract with the officers Of the
Natural Gas Company Of West Virginia,
foreign company, lnsjoTity Of whose
stockholders are not citizens Of this city,
county or state, to do large amount Of
work for said company, consisting chiefly
in digging and filing ditch from HiCk'
ory, in the State OF Pennsylvania, to this
city, said Natural Gas Company having
previously obtained from the councils Of
this city the passage OF an ordinance
granting to the said Natural Gas Company
the exclusive privilege Of using the streets
and alleys Of the city for such purpose and
use, such use and purpose being to supply
the citizens and tax payers OF this city
with natural gas Tor fuel
Said P. l., Kimberly, in pursuance 81
and iulRllneRt Of his part Of said con.
tract, employed laboreTs, which 10 the
citizens and the councils OF this city were
obnoxious. (Although the said lRborerH
were OF the class generally In use al that
time in the gaa territory, and on gas lines
leading from said territory to Pittsburgh
and elsewhere where lines were being
built), and tho employment Of which they
objected to. Alta meeting Of a Committee
Of Council appointed by this body for tho
purpose, the President and Directors Of
tho said Natural Gas COMPANY OF West
Virginia and tho said 2. l. Kimberly, the
contractor, It was egrced and arranged
that the said obnoxious laboTeFa should
not be used on said work, and that la.
borels that would be- Satisfactory to the
people OF this city should DO furnished
said cont actor iu their stead,
All Of which arrangements aud agree
ments have been observed and carried out
lin good faith, the work done and COM
pleted by the said +, l. Kimberly, the
contractor, who claims that by 40 doing
he Is q heavy loser, said loss amounting
10 several thousand dollars, which he is
unable and unwilling to sustain, and
ought not be Gaked to contribute to the
construction Of this wealthy Compauy's
profitable investment, HG thinks the
arrangements and agreements mado and
entered into at the meeting as Aforesaid o.
The Council committee, the President and
Directors Of the Natural Gas Company
and himself contemplated that he was IA
be protected against loss or damage ocCa
stoned by tho Generalization OF his plans
for doing tho work under his contract
With q view 10 and for the purpose Of ss
Containing what action should DO taken
by this Council, in this matter the t0l
lowing resolutions are offered:
RcsOIgGd, That o committee Of three
members OF each branch BIO appointed to
Investigate and report all the facts. Tc
enable tho committees TO discharge theiE
duties satisfactorily to themselves and the
council be It further
Resollyd, ThRt they DO AUTHORISED "a
send for persons and papers such as they
may need to get inlornStion sought for,
and that said committee be- required to re-
port to council as soon Us 10 practicable
all the facts pertaining to thid contract
that in the end 10 enable council to take
such action as they in their judgment may
deem fit and proper to serve the ends oil
justice.