Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-28
ment prevailed, as did also an amendment
by Mr.. Mitchell, inserting the words hard
burned" wherever the words fire brick
occurred.

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cation and a substitute from the Board OF
Public Works.
s'TIo the Honorable Mayor and Council:
''GENTLEMEN-We would respectfully
report that upon examination OF the report
of the Finance Committee, we find the fol-
lowing amounts ordered paid from the ten
cent levy for work upon streets which ha'e
been improved. Inasmuch as the act OF
the Legislature authorizing said levy spec
iies that il can only be used for the pur-
pose of paving or nacadamiziDg streets or
alleys in said city that have not been here
tofore paved, or for the construction Of
new sewers, we are of the opinion that
said ten cent levy cannot legally be used
for said work"
The document then quotes from the
ordinance submitted by the Finance Com
mittee, showing So, 450 Of the expenditures
credited to the ten cent levy fond to be
upon streets which have heretofore been
improved, and adds that the item OF Sl5O
for crawling South Front street is clearly
barred by the Act OF the Legislature,
being neither paving nor macadamizing."
The substitute was read immediately
after the above.
MORE RED BRICK.
Without discussing the substitute Of the
Board, on motion OF Mr.. Caldwell, the
item of $50 for grading South Front street
( was ordered taken out of the contingent
fund, and the consideration of the ordi-
nance went on. When the clause proyid.
ing for the paving of Jacob street from
Thirty-ninth to Forty-fourth was read, Mr..
Davis moved to insert the words "or hard
burned red brick" This was adopted, as
was also q similar motion by Mr.. Kraft, in
regard to Wood street. This last motion
was, however, amended by Mr.. Caldwell
80 as TO compel the Board to pave the
two squares of Wood street with hard red
brick exclusively, to the end that a test OF
the merits of the red brick might be made.
There was q good deal of discussion over
this, some members thinking that Wood
street would not afford a sufficiently severe
test, there being little traffic over it. The
motion was lost, ayes II, noes IA. MIR.
| HarreIl then went back and renewed Mr.,
| Caldwelps motion on Tenth street, from
Main to Market, and it carried unani'
mOusly.
The item of paving with ccbbles Eof
street, from Eleventh to Twelfth, was
divided. The sun of 5000 was allowed ID
pave so much Of Eoff street as lies between
the south end of the stone wall and Elev'
enth street, and the sun of $500 for paving
with fire brick Alley 8, from Chapline tc
Eoff street.
Mr.. Harrell secured an amendment ap'
propriating 81 500 TO matchmaking Main
street from Jonathan's Ravine north to the
city line.
Mr. Mitchell secured an amendment or
dering the Board 10 construct a eve wesi
on Fink street, from the river to the base
ball grounds, with one branch running
north in the alley between South Front
and South Penn streets, and n branch
north in the alley between South Penn
aud South Broadway. This is to be paid
out of the contingent fund.
Mr.. Cruise had the appropriation for
paving Main street, from Twenty fourth 10
Twenty-seventh, increased from $3.O66 10
$4,5l6.
The ordinance was then passed.
THE TAX ORDINANCES.
The fifty cent and ten cen levy ordi-
nances were then taken up, read a fret,
second and third time and passed.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. Maxwell, under q suspension Of the
rules. offered a resolution transferring to
the Wheeling Soap Company the franchise
aud privilege granted Messrs. Cole &
Croninger, to manufacture soap within the
city limits, at the east end of Eleventh
street.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The ordinance increasing the salary Of
the Clerk OF the Fire and Police Board TO
500 per month, passed at the last meeting
by q majority vote only, was taken up and
again passed, ages IL noes 10.
The petition of G.. f. Boyd, Jr., on be-
half Of the military company, for the Use
of the Second ward market hall, for drill
purposes, was referred TO the Committee
on Markets, with power to act.