The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-13
big layout OF WORK
That the Board Of Public Works
Wants to Do.
MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT
Al Which the Board Presents State
ment Calling for Nearly 100000
worth of New work-Ap-
proved by Committees.

There was a joint meeting OF the
Board Of Public Works and the Council
Committees on Streets and Alleys, and
Wharves, held at the Office OF the Board
in the Public Building last evening, for
the purpose OF preparing an estimate OF
the amount of money needed by the
Board to carry on its work this year.
This meeting was to have been held
about one month ago, but the illness OF
Mr.. Lancaster, Clerk OF the Board, made
n postponement necessary. There were
present President William Myles and
Messr4 Henry .Schmulbach and j. d.
Butt. the members Of the Board, Super
intentlcnt Warden and Surveyor Hoge,
md NIessrs. Cruise, Garvin, Haller,
Tondlan McCiregor, McKown, Jones,
Metzner and schultze, OF the commit
tees. Mr.. Metzner was chosen topre-
side over the joint session.
According to the provisions OF the re-
straining ordinance, the Finance Com
mittee, to which are referred all the es-
| Inmates from the several city depart
ments. in considering them and drawing
up the annual appropriation ordinance,
IL OBLIGED 10 provide for all the other
departments before allowing any appro-
priation TO the Board OF Public Works,
or in other words, the streets and alleys.
The Board always has to start with, It's
contingent fund, which amounts to
about $4,000. This is made up OF the
revenues from the Police Court, me
markets, scales and cemeteries, ana II
almost entirely used up in caring Tor ana
maintaining the streets, paying salaries,
etc. In addition, the Board has the pro-
ceeds from the special 10 cent levy'when
Il Is laid, hut they can only be used for
the IMPROVEMENT Of streets that have
never before been improved,
Such being the arrangement under
which the appropriation ordinance is
drawn up, about all that the Board OF
Public Works can do in the way OF an
estimate is to present what II would like
To do and what It considers necessary 70
be done. Then in case the Finance Com
mittee finds that after providing Tor the
other departments it can allow the Board
what it wants, it allows it; otherwise 1t
scales the Boards wants down. Last
wears Board bluntly stated to the Coun-
I'll committees when they met with it,
that eighty odd thousand dollars was
wanted. but it declined to state where II
wanted to expeRd this money. There
was big row over this in the Finance
Committee and in Council, and the in
dependence Of the Board was roundly
abused. ,,.
This years Board has pursued differ
ent policy. Last night it reported thet
It would be absolutely necessary TO have
in the first place 81, 2GO 40 to pave WIN
brick Main street from Twenty-third to
Ninth street, excepting Main street hill,
and from Third to JOnathan's ravipe'
This work was contracted for last year,
and an appropriation was made with
which TO DO, but the lowRess OF the
river made Il impossible to get brick
In time to do the work, and
with The end OF the year the
money appropriated reverted back into
the treasury ofthe city butthe contracts
still hold and will have to be met this
wear. The work will cost SJ,744 % more
than the amount named, but this smaller
amount will have to be paid by the street
ear companies,
The Board reported further that it
would be necessary 10 do the following
work, which has also been contracted Tor
in the past:
seventeenth street from Market TO =.
ChaplnC, brick pGying-..:.....:;.....;. Sl,O90 0i
street, hFick PaYtng...."..........,.,, $3.50 o.
Filling south Fr0nt street, Island, with ,,o m
r.. Tho o 81
Total. sl2See ~
These amounts the Board proposes TO
have mid out OF the l0-cent levy fund,
as it is all new work.
The Board then submitted the follow
ing statement Of new work that 1t de-
sires to do:
Alley u. between Market and Chapline. "a, ~
streets brick OIL
Thirty.thIrd streets, brick pGving.".; STA "a
Market street from the bridge to Tenth
street and on Tenth street from Mar
ket e Maln brick CSyins; ;:S;trS l9S1
Thlrty.third street. from ChAplIneStrcCt
to the Is, & O. track brick pavlng.."., 6,00l VI
AISyig from M"n :" h"" "SS. " 1868 CO
rS SS si$ S;' ssSSis $S;s 's
Alley +, from Thirteenth to Sixteenth a.,
street, cObblC paving. GU "
Fourteenth street, CurbIng from Alley
q to McCOtIOch stTeet,............."...,." ~ ~
Curb for McCOllOch sttCct.."""....."...,. 80 W
$500 50
From this t6tai must be taken Ss,l77-
SO, the share the street car
companies would be obliged to pay in
case the work is ordered done. The
street chr companies would have to pay
these amounts on the work named:
ChAplinC street from Twcnty.scvcnth to
Market street from the bridge TO Tenth
street and on Tenth to Main....,....... 1891 ~
'GSGS street ~ esos
r9 5neSSC sasa stree. ~pn~v 400
Total. ............. ssi77 50
The Board stated further that it de-
sired $4,000 appropriation, to be ex;
pended for curbing and cutters in all
parts OF the city. In reply to questions
as to what the Board proposed to do in
the way OF sewers, the answer was made
that Mr.. Lancaster's illness and other
causes had prevented the making OF an
estimate, The figures as given above
were considered for u time, and the work
as planned generally approved. A
motion was made and prevailed, that the
estimate MS presented be approved and
presented to Council, and that the Board
be authorized to add whatever amount
in its judgment was necessary for sewers.
Mr.. Jones, OF the First ward, voted
against this, on the ground that his
ward was not getting as much this year
MS some Of the other wards. A sum.
mary Of the estimates is as follows:
Tcn.Ceut lGyy fund work 1852 -
Work already contracted ior....,-....- q .2I0 10
New work 5l.B9 ~
CuFbIng" lU,UO W
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