Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-27
STONE. STEEL OR IRON?

DUNE, Oh EEL OII IleON'
COUNCIL Has A LIVELY TINB OVER IHh
NBw BRIDGE.
The Second Branch Declares il Favor Of Iron and the
First Sticks 70 Stons-Ths Natural Gas
Q1eshon-Other Important Matters.
Last evenings regular meeting OF Coun-
Gil was a long one, and quite dreary at times,
something invitable from TIM tOnsidera-
tion Of the long loan ordinance, and other
papers submitted by city officers, but
there were not wanting the usual lively
debates The noteworthy feature Of the
evening was the action OF the Second
Branch in taking a short whirl around on
the question Of the new bridge over the
creek. at Main street, from stone to iron, as
the material out of which the structure Is
10 he built. Other important matters
were the opinion of the City Solicitor on the
natural gas litigation, the distribution oil
the Glenn reward money, and the adop-
ton of the measure looking TO the sooll-
ton Of the Police and Fire Board.
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
The Clerks semi-monthly report showed
a total balance of $47, $50 "a, as follows:
Board of Public Works, ten cent levy fund,
So 32l.54; same, contingent fund, 81
g92 -; same appropriation fund, ., 34s 80;
fire. S2.7l5.35 health, $1,000; markets,
ISL, police, 81, $40, %; citY prison, Sl1Lo5;
scales, SlS5. s.; real estate S93 9Oi ceme-
teries. 1927 U.s.; salaries. Ss797 contin-
eencies, 1892 50; Water Board, Sl4, 963.13i
gas works, s., 692 SO.
Collector Buce reported collections, 10
March -, of 81, 256. 81 on account OF So
cent levy, and Sl4, Sl2.57 on account Of 10
cent levy.
The Committee on Real Estate reported
in favor OF renting the first floor OF the old
Sherihs ctiice 20 Justice W. Ii. Davis, for
1925 per year, and The second floor to the
Knights of s.. George, at Sl2O per year.
Approved.
The Committee on Cemeteries submitted
an estimate of 5000 for the year, aad the
COMMITTEES on Scales, 81, 600
The Committee On Scales submitted
bills TO toe amount of sos, and City
Prison 10 the amount Of SOB % The
Bosrd of Fire and Police Commissioners
reported bills on account of police, aggre-
gatiDg $50.
THE NEW CREEK BRIDGE
A communication was received from the
City Solicitor, transmitting a rewritten
copy of the proposed loan ordinance, and in
that connection calling the attention Of
Council 10 the fact that at The last session,
when the ordinance was passed, the
First Braucl was not ia session. He
that the Ordinrnce
be repsssed at this session. This Council
agreed TO do, and the ordinance wss read a
first time. Mr. Harrell then opened up the
question of the comparative cost Of iron,
steel and stone bridges, and called on City
Engineer Hoge for some figures In response
TO THE, Mr. Hoga said the masonry for an
iron bridge would cost as nesr Is he could
tell, without knowing definitely about
foundations, $4,000 A bridge OF $50
feet span, with roadway thirty feet IN
width and two seven foot sidewalks, cal
culated to stand 100 pounds to the square
foo, with q factor of safety of ., could be
placed on the masonry fer atOut 81 400,
making q total cost of $50 100. He thought
a steel bridge Of like size COnld
be put up for about $50
900. Mr.. Hoge was INTERCEPTED
as to the cost of a stone bridge, and in re-
ply said stone bridge forty feet wide
would cost 10 the neighbOrhood OF $4,000,
and a stone bridge The full width Of the
street would cost in the neighboThOod Of
1920. GOO according to certain tables from
which he quoted.
When Mr. Hoge had concluded, long
and lively discussion ensuej, and duriCg
the talk Mr.. Max we'll said it was apparent
70 him Council did not know what It
wanted and be moved to refer 70 a special
committee of eight, one from ea b ward,
five to be from the Second Branch and
three fro,a the First, which committee
should carefully examine tue whole sub
iect and report
This was defeated after a lively fight.
Fir. Ro1Iecht moved to strike "sione"
out of the ordinance, and insert "steel. "
Mr. Harrell moved to further amead by in
sertiug iron The amenGement TO the
amendment was lost by a tie vote, ss fol-
lows: Ayes. Messrs. Davidson, Filing
ham, Emmeith. Hadlich, Harreu, Kurner,
Marsh, Miller, O'Kane, Wilkie, Yahn aud
Young-12 Noes, Messrs. Ankle, Bailey,
Branibs4 CsDps Craig, Kreiter, Maxwell,
Miller, Ed, RobTecht, Seeley and Water
house, and Mr. President-l2.
Mr.. Robrecht's amendment, making ii a
steel bridge was then adopted, ayes II,
noes 9.
On motion Of Mr. Robrecht the amount
sat aside for the Seventeenth street bridge,
was raised from $40, 900 to SIS ,000 which
covers the full cost, as estimated by the
Wheeling and Harrisburg engineers, and
made the total smOnn, Of the losn, Tor all
purposes, including CaldWelpS run, SS3,
| 600
On molten Of Mr.. Ellingham the inter
est to he PAID was reduced from . per cent.
to 4 per cent.
When the reading of the ordinance was
concluded, Mr.. Harrell again moved to
substitute iron for ''sleel. and it was
agreed to.
M. Brandiass then moved to reconsider
the whole matter and 90 back to stone
| but it was lost.
Ths ordinance was then adopted, and
went to the First Branch There was a fire
circas there, which lasted for On hour and
a hslG DIR. Campbell moved to strike
ont the worl iron aud insert stone, u
and it was adopted, ayes s. nays g, as fol-
lows: Ayes, Messrs Campteli, Emsheimer,
Faris, Farrell, Gavin, Meyers, Rawlings
and Rumble s Noes, Mtssrs. Hsndlan
Happy, Robinson, Shrebe, Tracy and vii
son-6. The Branch neglected, however,
to change the amount Of The iOar.
Tue name Of Mr. NJ Hubbard as one Of
the commissioned, was struck out, auc
that OF Geo. S Fteny inserted.
Mr Tracy then moved 70 strike out the
CAdwelrs run improvement, and there
was smother not. After this particular
storm had RACED for half an hour, volt
was reached, snd the motion was lest
| Tue ordinance was then reported back t
the committee TO ascertain the probable
cost of stone bridge.
THE TEMPORARY BRIDGE
The Board Of Pablo Works submitted
long communication relstive TO the tempo
rsry bridge AGREES the creek at Main street
setting forth that the contract prics TO Ia
E...eaT nl.v,ra,-. r-,.r uQes tho