The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-26
IMPORTANT TREASURES
Considered in Committee Meet
ipgs Last Night,
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The Council Committees on Health
Claims, and Street,, Alleys and Grades,
me latter Jointly Withthe Board q Pub.
lic Works, were called 10 meet a the
Public Building last evening % consider
matters IN connection with their several
departments, and prepare business for
Tie aemi-monthly meeting Of Council To-
beheld this evening,
The joint meeting Of the Board Of Pub
llc Works and the Committee ON Streets,
Alleys and Grades was attended by the
full Board, MessFs. schmulbach, PARK,
and by Messra, BFandiass
chairman Meyer, Handlan, Raily and
Of the committee. City En-
gineer Hoge and Precedent Cruise, OF the
Second Branch, were also present,
Mr.. Brandiass presided. The object
Of the meeting was 70 further discuss the
straigh tening OF Caldwell srun,
along the course OF which q trip Of In
speetion was made by members 81 these
two bodies last Friday. There had been
nothing definite In the way Of estimates
or other data prepared 10 present at last
nights meeting, and accordingly no
definite action was had. itE l9.'
The proposed stTaigh tening OF the run
contemp ates diyeEling the stream from
crooked course intdaslTRight
thai shallTun through the Gem
Ter Of Twenty-ninth street from Woods
or Nice olloch street. as may hereailerbe
10 1.-THE river, The street as
AZ present laid out on the maps Is sixty
feet wide. The terms Of the Caldwell
addition dedicated 70 the city, whenever
II shall definitely decide tostraigh ten the
run, fifteen feet OF the lots abut-
ting ON Twenty.ninth street, on
the north side Of the street,
thereby making Twenty-ninth street
feet wide. In hopes that
the city would soon undertake the
strengthening, none Of the lots on the
north side OF the street have been offer
ed for sale. With the street seventy
hyeieet wide, as II would be with the
donation from the Caldwell estate, the
idea Il 10 run the stream down the cen-
term q course twenty-five feet wide,
thus allowing d roadway twenty-five
feet wide ON both sides OF the stream.
Enquiry was madeas 10 how much II
was estimated this work would cost.
Mr.. Hoge, inreply 10 this, produced the
estimates he made some years ago when
this same Improvement was being agi-
tated, which, briefly stated, wefeyas fol-
lows: From the east side Of Woods
street 10 the west sideo Chapline street,
$4,000; from the east side Of Moo olloch
street 70 the west side OF Chapline, S25,.
600 These figures are for q bay
2bieet wide, with walls OF dry masonry
extra large stones extending from three
ieet beneath the bed Of the run 10 "
feet above, and 81 feet in width; paving
the bedof the run with stone set on
edge 70 a depth Of Is inches and cement
ed at the Joint made withthe side walls;
the necessary bridges atall tile street
crossings and the guard rails for the enc
tire length Of the chute also, all the
necessary excayating.
Mn. Hoge said he thought II likely
that the floods Of last summer had OBJ
Waited much Of the excayating that had
been allowed for inthese estimates made
several years ago.
Attention was called TO the fact that
in those estimates the Frightening was
only provided for as far as the west side
OF Chapline street, and the question aek-
ed as 10 what was 10 become Of the
waters fromthe run after they had cross.
ed Chapline street. In reply 70 this u
was stated that when the improvement
was agitated some years since, at the time
Mr.. Huge made his estimates, there had
been o practical agreement between the
city and the Baltimore y Ohio company,
whereby the latter was to continue the
Improvement past It's property che old
shop yards and on 10 the river. IL was
said that az that time the company was
very anxious that the improvement
should be made.
MIR. Robinson said that he undefat TODD
that the company g views had changed !
he had IL on what he considered very
good authority, that the company would
permit the city 10 so change the course
OF the run, by strengthening II, that the
waters would pass under rs tracks a q
point about seyenty-tiye yards north Of
where they do now, but that before that
was done the city would hayet0 agree