Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-15
CITY ESTIMATES.
THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE On FINANCE
CALLED TO MEET TO. MORROW EVENING.
Something About the Work They VIII Have Before
Thsn for Consideration The New Rsser-
~VOir-Gsnsral City Hall Notes.

Yesterday Messrs. Cruise, Tracy and
Mitchell, Of the Council Committee on Fl.
nance, signed a call for q meeting Of the
committee tomorrow evening, to consider
the estimates submitted by the several
committees and Boards of the amounts Of
money required in their estimation to run
the city government for the present fiscal
year. The estimates have all been made
up, and are now in the possession of the
City Clerk, awaiting the pleasure of the
committee.
Asstated yesterday, tie total ~appropria.
tons asked for by the various Boards and
Committees foot up 1856, 49l. 40. Adding
to this the amounts for salaries, S., 900,
and the sum which must be set aside for a
1 contingent fund, about SIS, 600, and we
have a total Of $3.50, Os1. 40. The net rev.
enues last year were 1856, lsl 81. Should
they hold out this year at the same figure,
and making allowance for various items OF
surplus, etc there will have to De a scale
by the Finance Committee of about $40, 600
in order 10 bring things out even. Cousid-
ering that the Board of Public Works has
asked for the very large sum Of $ll0. 600,
the City Prison Committee $40, coo for a
new workhOuse, and the other depart
ments for about everything they want,
this discrepancy is very small, indeed.
The belief is general among those best
informed on the subject that there will be
a falling Off in the Gun to be realized from
liquor licenses, this year. The increase in
the State license will 60 into effect, andit is
said a number of saloonists will be unable
to pay the increased sum, and will qnit
business oil the first Monday in May, when
the city license expires.
There was IN impression about the City
Hall that the resolution passed by Council
relative TO the high service Reset voir really
amounts to little. 1t is claimed that the
Water Board can not do anything under
the resolution just passed except secure esti-
mates and plans for the prosecution of the
work, and that the actual work oil con-
struction cannot he undertaken until the
passage, by Council, at the meeting on the
appropriation ordinance. People taking
this view of the matter say the actual let.
ting of a contract for the reservoir must
be delayed until the middle Of May, at
least.
The Water Board held a meeting yester-
day afternoon, but what action they took
in the matter, if any, could not be asser-
tanned. Before the session began, a mem
Der stated that the Board would proceed at
once to procure plans and estimates for the
reservoir, advertise for bids, and get every
thing in shape to begin the actual work
Of construction a. soon as the weather
would permit. He added, however, that
these preliminaries would hardly be ar
ranged before Council passed the appro-
priation ordinance.
Az employee of the Water Board, refer
ring to tho assertion which had been made
that the adoption Of a high service reser-
voir would result in causing innumerable
breakages of water pipes, stated that when
new pipes were put down they were tested
to stand a strain of 800 pounds to the
tquare inch. At present the actual pres
sure was only about IS pounds, and he ap-
pretended little trouble from the increased
pressure.
Chief Smith yesterday received a letter
from Officer Meredith, of Newark, o ask
ing for some information regarding the
Glenn murder. He claimed to have a clue.
The Chief sent the data asked for.
Police Court was a blank, yesterday
morning.