Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-22
APRIL ENPENSES
In the City Government viii Require an
Ordinance, TUESDAY Nipht


When Council meets IN regular SOS.
sion, next Tuesday evening. IL will have
to pass an appropriation ordinance for
the month of April.
This step will be made necessary
through the expiration of the three
months ordinance. passed Al the begin.
ming Of the year.
When that measure was passed. As Is
usual. providing for the payment Of cx-
penSeS for the first three months of the
year, it was supposed the Finance Com
mittee would have been ready To report
before the first OF April, but owing to
various causes. among them being the
failure OF the Committee on Health To
report its estimate for the year. such a
meeting has been impossible, and il the
Health Committee is To be waited ON.
the Finance Committee can scarcely get
together for two or three weeks 10 come.
The delay As to the Health Committee
arises from the fact that the committee
IS entirely at sea Is 10 the cost of col
lecting garbage for the coming season.
So much time has been lost In endcay-
oring to agree upon something In the
shape Of an ordinance that there has
been delay all along the line. The
Health Committee now has two ordi-
nances before Council, but that body
has 20 act. bids have TO be- obtained.
contracts awarded, etc. and three
weeks can easily bee consumed
The estimates now i'm. comprising the
gas works and water works. fire. police.
real estate, markets. scales, cemeteries
and city prison. foot up S267,26G.l:.
Adding say $1,000 for health and the in
tcrcSt ON loans. etc, and nearly $500. 600
is consumed. OF courS. the estimates
will bee shaded somewhat, and probably
S275, 900 would cover the matters. The
remainder will 20 to the Board of Public
Works.
The Board of Public Works is at pres
cnt engaged in wading through the big
lot of Suggestings for street improve
ment brought forward at the last meet
ing Of the Committee on Streets. Alleys
and Grades with the Board. and Engn-
ccr lIogc and his Office force are busy
preparing figures. The Board will 60
TO the Finance Committee with see
lcctcd list OF improvements. which it
will recommend. but the Committee will
finally select ont what is To Dee done.
being governed by the amount Of cash
they can raise. after providing for the
payment of the CALDWELL run improve
mcnt. and the balance of about $1,000
on the new Seventeenth bridge.
BY the way. the iron Tor thc super
structure OF the Seventeenth street
bridge i, now arriving from the Canton
bridge works, aud is being hauled out Co
the Nridgc SitV. ~ S00N a> thc cYNrG
falls the work Of putting in the false
work will be- commenced. and the bridge
will be- set up. The iron was t0 have
been here four months ago. but the
bridge works has been So crowded with
work that IL was impossible to get the
Wheeling job through sooner. The com
tractors, aS precautionary measure.
shored up the old bridge and repaired
its floor TO make sure that uo accident
should occur through the delay
The Council Committee ou Accounts
met last evening and devoted about an
hour 90 considering the proposed COM
pilation OF the city ordinances. IL was
agreed 20 insert new advertisement.
calling for proposals up TO five p. M. ON
Monday, and the committee will meet ON
that evening 10 award the contract
The terms TO Dee complied with are about
what was contained n the former adj
yortishcnt.
At the next meeting Of the Police Com
Imittcc Chief Dclbruggc will bring up
| the recommendations contained iu his
Iannual report concerning the compiling
| Of rules for the government Of members
of the force. aud will asl, that such
lrulcS bc formulated aud recommended
to Council for adoption rs an ordinance
Of the city. There will be- penalties at
tachcd for the violation of the rules thus
laid down. and the result will Doe better
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