The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-13
Mr.. SBl s.! /, SURPRISE RI: j
On Being Presented With That
Long Standing Bill.
AcCoRDlNGT0 sUPT. DARRAHI,
Must Have Bcen Duo to- n Short
misunderstanding Interview ~
r With That Official =. Tho "
Topic OF tho Day.

"cWoEy -AhNSASSS''S sA'teA''S" Hsf |
With That Official :. Tho
Topic OF tho Day. |
That long standing bill OF $40 Of
which, according to the memoranda
account kept by Superintendent Sam
Darrah, Of the Gas Works, Councilman |
Oscar seeley owes the City Gas Works
for gas pipe and otherplumbing material
Borrowed" by him during period GOV.
ering nineteen months y Of the
two years no was President OF the
Board Of Gas Trustees, and to
which the attention OF Council was final.
ly called by tho present Bourd at its regu.
lar meeting on Tuesday night, was the
principal topic discussed yesterday III
business and political circles. Consid.
cradle surprise was expressed
that the matter had not been
made public long ago, and Mr..
Seeley's explanation OF the situation
as nude by him III Council after the
communication from the Gas Trustees
had been read, and as published in the
morning papers, was not regarded as
very satisfactory. 1t will be remem.
bered that Mr.. Seeley said he had been
very much surprised when the matter OF
the account kept by Mr.. Darrah and
presented to him by the Board, was first
brought to his attention; that he had
asked for time to look into the matter,
assuring them that when he had
made an examination OF his
books there should DO m amicable
settlement; that thcrA tho matter
had rested till he had heard on that day
(Tuesday) the Board had sent the matter
to Council and was thereby again great.
ly surprised; that tho custom OF Dor.
rowing from the Gas Works was q com.
mon custom among plumbers, etc. -
Superintendent Darrah was inter-
viewed yesterday and asked whether
Mr.. Secley had ever been notified that
he owed the city a large amount for
borrowed" material. HE answer was,
Sometime in October, 1887, about ono
week before Council elected Messrs.
Seamop, Lewis and Jepson rs a Board 10
succeed the Seeley-Jepson.Lewis Board,
called Seeley's attention to tho fact
that no had never returned large
amount Of the material he had borrowed,
or settled for it in any way, and sug.
gested that the matter had better be Ut.
tended to before We both went out Of
office, for TINT Council being a Republic
can one l knew that we had got TO 70.
lie replied that he would attend to the
matter al once" '-'-. N
'Do you know whether his attention
was ever called to the matter again, be-
tween that time and the time recently,
when the matter was brought " his at
tention by the present Board?" II !, 4
ut was and in this way: along about
the first Of last October, when it was
known that he and were both candi.
dates for the Office OF Superintendent,
then held by Mr.. Dillon, I uasked him
one day in the corridor Of the Public
Building if he had ever eettled that ac-
count with the Board. His reply was,
oh, yes! long ago. If he could relnenl-
Der those two reminders I do not see
how lie could have been much surprised
when the Board called him down."
"Did you ever report the Seeley &C.
count to any Board before bringing it to
the attention OF the present Board ~.
"No. Seeley was President Of the
Board under which l served at the time
he borrowed the materials, and l did not
consider that that Board needed any
report of the transactions; it was sup
posed to know, all about them. The
next Board was one l had nothing IL do
with" ,,i 4sE i.n n
"Did you not inform Mr.. Dillon, your
successor in 1887, or any one else, Of the
account you preserved?"
mo. The Seamon- Lewis Jepson
Board learned, however, before its term
was out, that there was something OF the
sort-that Seeley owed for good deal OF
stuff, but don't think they ever learned
what the amount was" tx .5fs
"Has it been general custom for
Works?' sE. si.,.7s :,
Frequently, in case Of an emergency
we have loaned some Of the plumbers
two or three sections OF o certainkind of
pipe or some joint that they happened
to be out Of, but in every case 80 far as
my knowledge goes, the stuff has always
been returned within q week. or so or
else paid for. No, there was never any
such bill run up by any plumber rs
Seeley has; tho amounts borrowed have
seldom run over S.. Under the present
Board no borrowing or lending ia allowed.
All transactions have to be for cash..
"What do you know, Mr.. .Darrah,
about rumor that Seeley, when Presi-
dent, used some Of the GAS employees to
do some OF his private work ~. {Ei
"He never used any Of the force at The
works that way. What he did with the
Office force ! don't know, nor do l know
whether, in case he did use them for
private work, he paid them or not.n,
Mr.. Thomas Z. Lewis, who was
member Of the Seeley Board and Of the
one that succeeded it, was seen. He
said that he first learned OF the account
against Seeley from Mr.. Fsanzheim, the
presentSecretary, who had asked him for
information about the matter. Mr.. Lewis
said further that Mr.. George Hell, who
was Secretary Of the seeley Board, had
told him he had known nothing OF the
matter till recently. "a 80
The Trustees viii! hold special meet
ing tomorrow afternoon to consider the
matter. Fa as $3.50.
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