The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-28
A VERY SHORT SESSION
OF the City Fathers is Sufficient
to Dispose Of
ALL THE BUSINESS OFFERED,
What was Done at Last Nights cOun'
ell MeetIns-The Tweuty'seyenth
Street Materials, KFeiter
and the "GerFy,r

absentees being Messrs, Rawling, Tracy
and Wilson, of the First Branch and
Arkle, Kurner, Waterhonse, WilkieRnd
Yahn, Of the Second. In the absence
Of Mayor seabright Mr., Terrell presided
over the First Branch, There was but
little business to be considered andboth
tables were clear by $3.50 o'clock,
A license 10 keep q saloon at No. 1924
Main street wGs granted to Joseph
Rauscher, with Peter Welty and Charles
Schmidt as his suretles,
The regular mi.monthly financial re-
port made by Clerk Thoner showed that
out OF q total OF appropriations made 10
the several departments aggregating
SS500S4 65, there has been expended q
total Of $2l4,104 20, leaving balances
amounting to Sl45, $50 42, divided as FOL
lows; Board Of Public Works, 10 cent
levy fund, Sl7,950 IS; same, contingent
fluid, sl0,S2S 3S; same, appropriation
fund, $50, 1871 II; Fire, $l0,206B2 Health,
s., 1858 10; Markets, $3.50 So; Police,
$7,92O So; City Prison, $l,SS5 49, Scales
and Weighing, SOL 00i Real Estate,
$40 so; Cemeteries, SD lOi Salaries,
So, 1877 So; Contingencies, So, 7S2 i4i Com
promise Loan, $2,500i Loan OF 1881,
S7OO2 so; City Water Board, $l0,V6l 70j
City Gas Works, $24,Sl4 Al.
The BOARD OF Public Works asked that
appropriations be made as follows, To be
used in paying for labor and materials
used in having made some Of the several
improvements contemplated In the an,
nuaI appropriation ordinance; Out oil
the ten cent levy fund, $2,S9l ST. gen.
eral fund, $S4; city's contingent fund,
$40 so; total, $2,534 81, These amounts
were appropriated by both branches,
The Committee on Police presented
bills amounting to Sl7S IS; that on Ac-
counts, 1858 q; Scales, S75i Cemeteries,
50 30, and Claims SIS. All Of these
amounts were ordered paid by both
branches.
The Committee on Police asked that
the Committee on Real Estate be in
structed to advertise and contract for
withdrawing and repairing the Police
Court room and the rooms occupied by
the Keeperof the Lookup. This provoked
considerable discussion in the Second
Branch, Mr.. Dawson wanted a pro.
vision added that should make II the
duty OF the committee to give the Pax
ton fountain needed repairs. Mr.. Max
well thought 1t very nerVy for the Pc
lice Committee TO recommend that an'
other committee spend its appropriation
for tho benefit Of the Police Department,
The resolution was finally passed, how
ever, in tue shape 1t was originally re-
ported with Mr.. Davison's amendment
In relation To repairing the Paxton
fountain attached.
An ordinance from the Board OF Pub
lie Works was passed by both branches
It amends the appropriation ordinance
by taking the 500 set aside for the re.
pair Of the Seventeenth street bridge aud
ap%propriating 1t for the repair Of the
Peninsula bridge. The Seventeenth
street bridge will in a very short time be
replaced by the new bridge the Wheel
ing & Harrisburg company Is building
for the city. A bill Of $40 40, for ma
terial 10 be used in ~refluoring the PENN
sula bridge was ordered paid:
The following communication was re-
ceiyed from the Board OF Ppblic Works;
The amount appropriated by tho ordinance
out Of the ten cent levy fund, TO pave with trC
brick TWenty.sGventh street from Mail TO Chap
line street, and 70 ilnlSh Rsying Main Stf t.I Is
has been exhausted. We would state that there
was no appropriation made iOb AuiEhing paving
Main street by the Finance Committee. The
waste water running Into the street u 10 bt
drained Oft before any paving could be done. on
Twenty.seventh street seven sewer drops weft
put III ln.otder to drain the street before any pay,
Ing could DO done. According 10 the ordinance
Main street had 10 be finished before commence
Ing on TWenty.scYenth street, as II was last year,
contract. We would ask your honorable body
10 pay George LGinmonS tho balance due him FOL
paving Twenty seventh street, from Main Y
Chaplinc, and for finishing the paving. OF Mali
street, amounting to sl,T90 vs., You Will IND a.
tached to this communication the estimate made
by the City Engineer, showing that no appro
priaiIon was made for finishing paving. Main
street and that the matter was overlooked by the
Finance Committee in making. their estimate,
aud that no estimate WA made for the draining
Ot the streets referred TO-"
The estimate attached footed up $3.50
The Second Branch members learning
that the Board had ordered Contractor
Lemons to cease work as soon as the
appropriation was exhausted, and that
he had gone ahead and finished the
work regardless OF this warning, relying
on Council 10 order the Board TO find
the money somewhere, decided that the
proper thing To do was to refer the mat.
ter back to the Board and have IL resi-
there till such a time as the money car
be found.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Maxwell
was adopted by both branches, making
1t the duty OF Clerk Thoner to prepare
for the Finance Committee before Sep
TENDER 9 a statement OF balances In the
several funds on September l, with an
estimate OF tho amounts required ID
complete the present year.
Mi. O. w. Krieter offered the. follow.
ing, which was rushed through botl
branches:
Resolved, That the City Solicitor be in
struCted To prepare an ordinance repeal
ing the 90. Called gerrymander ordinance,
Mr.. Kreiter and President Cruise evi.
IDENTIFY had an understanding between
them, for Mr.. Dawson and Mr.. Maxwell
were choked of by the chair when they
attempted To speak, In o manner that
made them eloquent on, the subject o.
gag.law. The chair and the balance Of
the Democracy smiled thereat.
Resolutions were offered and adopted
as follows: BY Kenney, instructing the
Gas Trustees 10 have the lamps In front