The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-05
THE MANUFACTURERS
NATURAL GAS ooMrANYs PLANS
submitted to the City board Of Public
WorEs Last Evening AppllAusss that
have stood the Test Of Time to be In
trOduOsd-orhSr Company Kicks.

A meeting Of the City Board Of Public
Works was held last evening, at which
the Manufacturers Natural Gas Company
submitted the route over which 1t desires
10 lay its pipes to supply the manufaCtur'
ing concerns which compose it with
natural gas. The company was represent
ed by its President, Mr., o. W, Brockunier,
and by Messrs. Whitaker, Rawling and
@, R. Hubbard, Ofthe Board Of Directors.
Mr.. William Finn, Of the firm Of Booth
4 Finn, who have taken the contract for
laying tbs pipe for the Manufacturer
Company, was also present. with his en-
gineer, Mr., O. Il. Merrill. Mr., L. H. VIII
liams, Secretary OF the Wheeling Natural
Gas Company, was also present Al an in
terested spectator, while tho local counsel
Of the West Virginia Company, Messrs. W.
II. Hearne and All Caldwell, represented
that company,
The line 10 proposed by the company
runs from tho Top Mill down Main street
to Twenty.sixth street. AT Twentieth
street, south OF the creek, q branch runs
to the Crescent Iron Works and Ray
mann'sIbrewery. From the corner OF Main
and Twenty.sixth streets the line runs W
Twenty.sixth 10 Chapline and down Chap
line to Thirty.first, on T~hiGty-frst Il
Woods, and to tho pottery, On Woods
1.-The pipe runs to Thirty.second and on thii
street to MUOolloch, on McColloGh K
IThirty-third, on Thirty'third to Vets
aud on Welzel to Hobbs, BroCkunler q
Co.'S gloss house. At Sixteenth street {
branch leaves Main, running to Market
on Market 10 the Greek, on South stree
to Eighteenth, on Eighteenth to EolI, oil
Eoato Nineteenth.
The company also asks the privilege o
laying pipe to any other manufacturing
concern represented which desires to list
gas.
In connection with this route, the com
pany submitted drawings OF the most ap
proved safety appliances, which 1t pro
poses to use here, The Pipe will be ten
inch wrought iron screw pipe, weighing
forty pounds TO the fOot-the heaviest ten
inch pipe made. AT each joint q boxing
will be placed over the joint, which will
catch all possible leakage. From this box
a email pipe rum parallel with the large
pipe TO the nearest city gas post, where
The little pipe will have an opening in the
uir. Each pipe Is numbered to indicate
the Joint which 1t taps. BY testing the
pipes with q torch, 1t can readily be asCer.
iained whether any joint Is leaking, and
II 80, lust what Joint. Mr.. Merrill explain
cd the working Of this device, and the
members Of the Board expressed them.
selves rs very iavorably impressed with 1t,
Mr.. Merrill, Ivy the way, Is a natural gas
expert, having been connected with the
original company in Plttsburgh-the Gas
Fuel Company, and afterwards with the
Philadelphia company.
Mr., Caldwell, on behalf OF the Natural
Gas Company Of West Virginia, informed
the Board that his company were prepar'
ing q very elaborate plan, showing not
only where they desired TO lay pipes, but
where other pipes Of all kinds were nov
laid, He expressed y hope that the Board
would not approve ''suCh an exceedingly
crude plan" as that Of the Manufacturers
Company. The Board took the matter
under ADJUSTMENT,
The Manufacturers Company is apx.
iOus 10 have tho plans submitted passed
upon as soon as practicable. They do not,
the officers Say, object to reasonable modi'
tons Of the route, but they arc eager for
an early decision, Mr.. Finn, the con
tractor, said last night that II the plans
arc approved they will be ready to com.
menCe work in the city inside Of ten days.
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