The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-21
THE CITY ELEPHANT
LOCATED ON wnEEIrNo NIL
Furul.hss Food for Another discussion in
the Health Board as to what is the
Best Thing to do with it-othsr
Mattsrs-The Annual Estimate.

The City Board Of Health met at the
Public Building last evening and put in
an hours time talking about that unSatts'
factory, inconvsnient, poorly.construCtsd,
expensive garbage CremGtOry on top OF
wheeling hill. There were present MesSrS.
Farrell, Davis, Ulrich, MCGregor and.
Kraft and Health Officer Reed. Mr.. Jaeger,
who was chairman Of the Committee on
Health, was also ex-offiCio President oil
the Boar d, under the ordinance remaining
the committee and granting 1t additional
mowers, having removed from the city
and resigned his seat in Council, on mo-
ton OF Mr.. McGregor, Dr.. Ulrich was
made president.
Several bills were ordered paid and the
report OF Keeper Serig, Of the Cromatory,
Allowing the work done by the furnaces
during the month OF January was ordered
fied. There was destroyed In that time,
SO loads Of garbage, Z Dogs horses, llS
barrels and boxes, barrels Of night-soil
and 40 loads Of ask vault contents. =,
Health Officer Reed and Mr.. Ferrell
were appointed at recent meeting OF the
committee, q subcommittee to ascertain on
what terms the Pittsburgh Bridge Com.
pany would be willing to compromise IN
the matter OF the payment BY the city Tor
the iron rAttle.trsp put up by that com.
psnY as q covering for the crematoTy
furnaces. It will aforementioned that the
city did not know the bridge company in
the matter at all when the ahed was being
built. The city contracted with NJ: ".
Smith, the metGllurgicRl engineer Of Pitts-
burgh, who built the furnaces, Tor the
shed and supposed that 1t would DO built
in accordance with the satisfactory plans
that we're presented to the committee
when the matter was first talked oil. In.
stesd Of this, Smith backed by o letter
written by DR.. Garrison, who was then
the Health Officer, and which letter was
never authorised By tho committee or
Council, turned the contract over to the
bridge company, which refusing to rec.
oRnizs Smith and supposing the Garrison
letter en- authorized one binding the city,
proceeded to build g shed, but on an en-
tIrely different plan than that adopted by
the committee. The result was that
] Il did not ct and was not supplied with
the conyenienCes contracted for, ns the
committee supposed. lthad to be altered
and TINT weakened 1t. The WIND hss
played havoc with 1t sincs. The commit
tee, 90 soon ss 1t vas seen what bolch
the work was and how unlike TO the plsne
| 1t had approved the building WAS served
notice on the bridge company that 1t
would not accept the shed and that 1t
should proceed to nee the furnacaa. And
40 the Fastter has stood up to date; the 70.
mains OF the shed are still on the hill and
the bridge company has never Ieosised
any pay. Two or three times 1t has asked
for lis money but no terms have ever been
arrived at. Council has authorized the
committee to eompromises and II was to try
and effect compromise that the Hub'com'
mittee referred to was appointed.
DR.. Reed reported thst the Company
asked that itB plans, the one from which
the ahed was built, be referred to any two
bridge OonpGniea in the country and their
bids be taken as bssia for settlement.
This was objected 10 by the committee,
which was Of the opinion that there were
men in this city eminentiy qualified to In
spect the building aud judge as to how
much 1t is worth accordingly Health Off.
Ger Reed was instructed to eDGage,it pos
sible, the services Of Mr.. N. f. Whitaker
and Mr.. D. F. Caldwell to inapeCt the
building and repotp in their judgment
what the city should pay.
The loose manner in which the ehed was
built Is but continuation ot tho loose
policy and management that has chsTac' |
terized everything done By the city in
building the Cremstory. To locate It
where It Ia was the first act Of folly, Built
as II was on coal which has been burned
out by the tntenae heat, 1t has ssItled till
the bottom OF one Of the turnGGea has
cracked and will not hold Eqntd matter
placed in it. The doors do not H. and the
bridge is 10 wrecked that it will have 10
be rebuilt. It is slso found necessary to
provide a dumping car. The roadway
must be repaired soon. all told, over $3.50
will have TO be spent this spring aside
from what will have to be paid Tor the
building, in order TO put tho building in
complete working order. The cremAtory
Ia truly en- elephant, and bids fair to he
such lust 30 long as 1t remains where 1t ia.
The Board hEs been called 10 meet mex.
Monday night to mako up ito estimate OF
the amount Of money that will be neces.
saly to carry It through this year; but
having quorum present !snt night 1t de-
cided 10 commence the work and decided
on the following fgurea: Advertising and
printing, $500; brick work ct creDatory,
800; cost OF crematory nhed, 81, 1885,
dumping car for crematory and necessary
tracks, $50; hauling stone for crenatory
road, 500; Keeper OF OremAtory,
500; Assistant Keeper. $3.50; repairs
to cIematory and bridge, $500; Health Off
Ger, $500; inspectors, $500; miscellaneous,
$50: removal OF npisanCes, S25. Last year
IS O59. 70 wss paid for the removal OF
garbage; what will have to he paid this
year will not be known till next Monday
night when the bids for doing the work
will BIS opened. Other items may be
thought Of by that time for which the
Board will want to provide in its estimate,
Last year Council granted the Health De-
partment 1920 and 1t spent $7,495 40.
The garbage colleGtors came in for an"
other hauling over the Goals last night,
DR.. Reed reported that he had asked the
Board Of Police and Fire Commits
sioners to instruct the police to see to
1t that the garbage ordinance be enforced
and the collectors made to do their work
properly, but no results were yet diacern-
able. Enquiries were made for the ordi.
nance in relation to the collectors thst
Solicitor Caldwell was instructed to draw
up, but no one Could-tell anything about
1t. It iaan ordinance designed TO give the
city better hold on the collectors by
Withholding their money in case Of com.
plants about failure on their part to do
the work. until the complaint is looked
into.
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The postponed concert for the benefit Of
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