Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-08

current usCul Jcai' INV
nut things in such snaps at last Fridays
session that it was enabled to at once enter
upon the work of making appropriations
for street Improvements. The various
sums available for work coming under the
jurisdiction ofthe Board of Public Works
were:
Appropriation fund stl'sss 20 "a
Market street 20 S5e -
Ten cent levy fund 5o'95o . %
Contingent fund. -''Vi "
Making total :"
The first formal appropriation made was
for the Market and Tenth street paving,
il being the item of Bis, s53 SO. contained
in the above table. The committee agreed
to give priority to the appropriations made
last year, but not expended, and With this
in view the report of last years Fiusnce
Committee was taken up, and the first
item coming under this head, the gravel
ing of South Front street, was approved
and $3.50 appropriated therefor. The next
item was the paving of short Coal street.
For this work $500 was set sside last year.
Being Intercepted, Mr.. Harrell said some
matchmaking had been put on the street,
and other streets in the First ward needed
money more. For paving Alley 3 and the
construction ola sewer, $3.50 was allowed.
When the item of 81, 961. "a for curbing and
cutters on the Island was reached, Mr..
Maxwell asked for and obtained, IN
lieu thereof, So, SO1 40 to be expend-
ed az agreed by the Board of Pnblic
works on South Penn street. In the old
ordinance there Was an appropriation OF
81. 300 for paving Eoff street, from Elev-
enth to Twelfth street Only $500 OF this
was used, and the Second ward was al
lowed 81, 400 to pave the piece OF street
named with fire brick. When the item
of 81, 548. % for Island curbs, sppro pristed
last year aud only 500 used, 81, 600 was set
aside in lieu of it, to grade South Broad
way, from Virginia to Zane street On the
last years item OF paving Market street
from Fourth to Fifth, with cobbles, being
taken up, Mr.. Harrell said that part OF
the street above alley 2 didn't need any
thing bat little curbing, but the rest OF
the street was in very bad shape. He
would like $500 for it. This was al
lowed. The item of Pinch sewer on
Twenty-sixth street, from Chspline TO
Market street was changed to 1St inches,
and $3.50 allowed. For paving Alley Is,
with brick, from Main to Water, there was
an appropriation last year. II YVES placed
to the credit of the Fifth ward, for Twenty
first street, to be taken up later. The sum
of 81, 200 was SGT aside for the extension
of Main street, from the ravipe north.
This concluded the unused appropriations
of last year, and SIC, 525 IA had been ap-
propriated ont of the ten cent levy fund,
and 81, $50 from the general fund.
These appropriations left balance OF
ST., OPS II in the ten cent levy fund, and
SAG, 149 81 in the appropriation fund. At
this stage a communication was read from
the Board of Public Works, calling atten-
ton to the condition of the Seventeenth
street bridge, saying it was IN an abso-
lutely dangerous condition, and recon-
mendiDg that 5000 be at once ap-
propriated to lay a new floor. In
this connection Mr.. Happy addressed
the committee, saying the east pier had
settled about eight inches in the past four
months, which subjected the bridge TO r
great strain. The stones of the piers were
crushing and falling out, and the bridge
WAS liable TO fall at any moment. He sab
mitted statements from Engineers HOge,
Smith and Peterson, condemning the
bridge.
Mr.. Happy was followed by Mr.. Seeley,
who said the question was: Can this
Finance Committee appropriate enough
money to bald new bridge cut there, at
once? Did not the general interests of the
city demand that some brick paving be
drople out of each ward, and the money
used to put up bridge? He dwelt upon
the reports OF the engineers, and said
if the bridge was in that
condition had not the members.
as city representatives and not ward repre-
sentstives, drop some pavements and put
up the bridge. TIE bridge matter WAS
thoroughly debated, and the 5000 for the
new floor was appropriated, to BE- available
at once. Then on motion of Mr.. Seeley,
the sum of S18, 600 set aside for the bridge,
the understanding being that the Wheel
ing and Harrisburg Railroad Company's
proposition, made TO the Board OF Public
Works some time ago, in which they
agreed to buiid the bridge in accordance
with their regular railroad specifications,
was to be accepted by the city.
A communication was read from the
Board of Public Works in which it was
stated the B. x o. r. r. Co., has agreed
to come to grade as given them by Council
in 1882 On Chsplne street, the grade
will he lowered about II inches, and at
Crumbacker's corner, where the ice house
stands about 1S inches, and the Market
street crossing a. inches The Board
stated the cost to the city would be about
5000.
The communication was laid on the
table.
The next matter brought before the
Committee was for the paving and curbing
of Jacob street, from Forty-ifth to Forty
eighth, to complete that street TO the city
line Mr.. Schrebe made long argument
in favor of it. The cost, a. estimated by
the Board ia 81, O62 Mr.. Tracy was OPP
posed to the matter at this time. He
said the Eighth ward got 81. 600 last
year, while the Second ward got but $500
and the First ward $500.
Mr.. Pollock favored Mr. Schrebe's re-
quest. He thought the paved thoroughfare
ought to be run through.
The motion prevailed, the money to come
from the general fund. This left S23, 947. 30
in the general fund.
The First ward was then taken up The
total amount asked for the ward was So
626 %, divided among half dozen items.
The items were allowed.
Then came the Second ward. Mr. Tracy
asked for $500 for paving alley O with
edible, from Tenth to alley 7; and five
foot brick sewer down Twelfth street from
Chapline street to the river, $40, 5OS-pro.
posing that this last item be divided be-
tween the Second and Third wsrds.
The two items were passed in that