Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-07
EIGHT DISTRICTS.
THB COMMITTEES Oh HEALTH WRSSTLsS
WITH TIE GARBAGE QUESTION.
A Three Hour Session Last Evening a! the City Hall
During Which an Ordinance IS Blocked
Oui-0hsr Committee Meetings.

The Council Committee on Health met
again a, the City Hall, last evening, and
we're ia session until about eleven O'Clock
monkeying with the crematOry and gar
bsge ordinance.
The frs. business brought up was the
report Of the subcommittee designated at
q previous session to visit the crsms DRY
aud epor, on its condition The gentle
men of the subcommittee reported cOnsid-
cradle repairs necessary, among other
things recommending that the capacity OF
the furnace be increased by certain altera'
sions in It's internal construction, suggested
by Mr. Rumble That gentleman thought
iha. the hearth space for the reception OF
garbage could be increased about one half
at cost Of $40, and his plans were adopted
and The changes ordered made. For gas
fitting made necessary by this change, $50
w. appropriated, for a hOisting apparatus,
whereby dead HORSES, etc, can be lowered
into the furnace. 500 was appropriated, and
for the removal Of the stone abutmen'
under the bridge" and the substitution
of an iron truss, So was set aside. All
these repairs were ordered made. The
committee discussed the erection Of a els
tern. At cost OF $50, and the erection Of a /
stone wall, ten feet high and seventy
fee long, to support the bank, bat laid
both propositions aside.
Then the three cOrnersd subcommittee
on garbage ordinance submitted ITS three
reports. az have been detailed in this pa
per. The very apparent differences Of the
sub committee came 20 the surface In the
8 discussion which followed in sundry sharp
retorts. back aud forth across the commit
tee room. chiefly between Messrs. Garrison
and Farrell. and the matter was talked
over for a solid hour Chairman Campbell
presented some very suggestive figures ne
had cleaned concerning the past operations
OF the contract system, and submitted
them with appropriate comments. lie
showed that the men were Only required to
work l5S days per year, under the exist
iog ordinance, and that their daily COM
psnsaiion had ranged from 81. 70 10 81. S..
The city could employ six carts and men,
at s. per day each, obtain much better
service, and save over 500 on last years
contracts
The old ground of the manifest imp0ssi
bihiy of the present force covering the city
iu adequate manner was gone over, and
finally Ii was sgrsed to retain the contract
sv stem. but divide the city into eight dis
tricts. corresponding 10 the wards, instead
of Eve. az heretofore, aud ask for new bids
on this basis. A new ordinance was ae-
c0rdi1gly chalked out, and will be pre-
scented to Council
About ten o'clock the committee went
into executive session, refused the reporters
admission, presumably on the ground that
they were gentlemen who could not be
trusted, and opened the twenty eight bids
for removing the garbage, sent in under
the five-district ordinance The bids scat
tered a good deal, ranging from more than
81 900 for some districts down to az low as
$3.50 for others, but the average was about
what has bsen usual for this wOrS.
The Committee on Accounts met last
night and made a final examination Of the
books OF Ex-City Clerk Bowers and Ex-
Receiver Dunaway. The books were pro
nounced correct The balances were as
follows:
Appropriation fund, 70 balance-......-....s 90
General mud. tO balance ........-......... ~ +J
Contingent fund. b. =. W.............. GO ~
Ten cent levy fund.-. --...-....... o'OO9 u
The Committee on Markets met, audited
bills, and ordered, among other things,
natural ga connections put IN the Second
...,rf-aH hall