The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-17
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Subjects Of Importance for the
Council to Consider
At THIS EVENINGS MEETING,
The Loan Ordinance oue-EstImates
for a Stone Bridge-Health Conn
mittce Ignores those Charges
A Patrol Wagon.

A special meeting Of Council has been
called for this evening to elect weighers
and fill the vacancies existing In several
Of the city loan commisslouerships, all
the commissioners Of the Compromise
Loan having died, and several Of other
loans having removed from the city,
also to consider the proposed loan to
build a permanent bridge over the creek
at Main street, and to straighten Cald'
wells run.
When last up for consideration the
Second Branch had passed it with the
provision that the bridge was to be one
Of iron instead Of stone as originally pro-
posed. This was accomplished only
after red-hot fight which was renewed
in the First when the matter came up in
that branch, The matter Of stIaighten-
Ing Caldwell'srun was also q vexed ques'
ton with the ordinance,
The First Branch finally referred the
ordinance to the Ordinance Committee,
having gotten itself into one OF those
parliamentary tangles that 1t 80 fire.,
quently finds itself in nowadays, and
from which 1t Is unable to extricate It.
self, The Board Of Public Works was
also instructed to have prepared an esti'
mate OF the cost Of q stone bridge.
This estimate has been prepared by
Mr., Frank Hoge, the Boards engineer
who has prepared q report for Council
as follows;
demonstrating been instructed
to make plans and estimate OF cost OF
stone bridge over Wheeling creek a
Main street, I beg leave to report that
have had borings made at the inside
corners OF the proposed abutments Il
ascertain atwhat depth good foundations
could be secured, The hole at thu
northeast corner was put down "a fee
below the bed OF the creek; the north
west corner, 20 feet; the southeast, Q
feet and the southwest corner q feet.
In my judgment twenty-five feet be
low the bed OF the creek or fifteen fee
t below low water level will secure first
r class foundation.
Following Is an estimate OF the cost Q
8 q proposed stone bridge over the creel
: at Main street. Said bridge to he an 81
8 liptical arch OF 100 foot span, IS foot ris
D aud 40 feet wide: Abutments (2) EOS
/. cubic yards at $40, $50, $40; backing an,
sides, 2,S22 cubic yards at 81, S0,2SS
arch, 1850 cubic yards at $50, $2S,9S0
4 parapet and coping, 2l4 cubic yards q
$40, S2,140; curbs and sidewalks, S649
brick paving, 94S square yards at 81 OF
81 ,2SO; wing walls l4) 3,093 cubic yard
at s., S24,744; total cost for forty foo
wide bridge So, 45l.
The same bridge A feet wide will cos
, $S7, 04S; IS feet wide, $4,000; ~ fee
, wide, 1885, 1917. Yours respectfully,
FRANK L. HoGE.
!, Accompanying this report is a beauti
fully drawn plan OF a bridge, such as dc
sCribed in the above estimate.
The committee to which the ordlnanc
was referred, is almost ready to repor
and will recommend an iron bridge, 1
very handsome iron structure can be pu
up for about $35,0C0.
The annual appropriation ordinanc
having provided for the building OF
, new bridge over the creek at Seven
tenth street, the loan ordinance vii
: have to be revised in that particu
lar, as 1t was originally provided for il
! the loan.