The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-19
4 TERRIBLE ANNOYANCE.
Such, According TO Good Testimony, Is the
t Electric Power Plant. .

, Electric Power Plant. .
The special Council committee ap.
pointed at the last meeting OF that body
in response to petition from a number
Of property owners living in the vicinity
OF tho electric power pant, coraer
Twenty.secoud and Chapline streets,
asking that Council give them somc re-
liet from the continual vibration caused
by the running OF the electricity gener.
ating machinery, met last night. Be.
sides the members OF tho committee and
the City Solicitor, quite number Of pro.
perty owners in the vicinity OF tho power
plant were on hand. Col. Robert White
was not prepared TO venture M opinion
on the right OF the city 10 act Ia the mat.
ter. It was then decided to hear the
test mony OF the complainants present,
so that the city Solicitor might decide in
what degree the plant Is q nuisance and
formulate his opinion accordingly.
Mr.. Charles Menkemeller was the frat
witness called. lie said the vibration Ia
30 great ut his store, half n square away,
TINT 1t Is almost impossible to write at
the desk, and that the lights continually
flicker, md show tho vibration. He also
asserted that 1t Is impossible to manu-.
facture any chemicals which require
capitalization for tho reason TINT the
continual vibration will not allow crys.
talization to begin. Henry Korner, who
lives at Chapline street aud Alloy 49,
says he cannot sleep at night on account
Of tho vibration, and TINT Il Is q great
annoyance to his household. August
Warnecke lives on Twenty.second street,
half n square away. He gave adescrip
ton OF how glasses shook aud ratified on
tray ut his house, and also told OF the
annoyance THO plant causes him, and
said that last week when tho wealth
er was cold and tho ground
frozen, he could feel the vibration In
bis back yard. Mr.. Shredder lives hall
a square away, and asserted that vinegar
will not form Mt his place, and that he
had been deferred from going into the
baking business because the Vibration
binders the yeast from rising. Johr
Waterhousc, who lives below Twenty
second street, on Chaplinc, said thu
things shook OF the mantle In bis house
Capt. William NJ. List lives Just opposite
the power house, and says that he car
not sleep till midnight, and is wakenet
at 8 a. IN. by the vibration. He also sal.
that his sister and her daughter, iron
the Island, had stayed in his house
several nights and had always been sick
next day. He said that Mrs. G. D. Hub
bard, who lives near by, and who ha.
been sick for some time, had been re-
moved to New York City because she
could not get the rest her case required
on account OF the power pant.
John Robinson, W. W. Amick, J. G
Hoffman, v. Geisey, Charles Reed
Joseph Hall, IL. T. Behrens, +
Schmeichel and Captain r. T. Deyrie!
all made similar statements, the fact be
ing clearly brought out that the vib-a
ton is great annoyance. They nj
agreed also, that the vibration OF the
power plant has decreased the value o
their property from ten to twenty.tiy,
per cent. Mr.. John NJ. Sweeney, who
was present for the Electrical Company
stated that they had been making au in
vestigation Of the trouble, aud could no
locate it. He said they now believe tn,
vibration is caused by the engines ex
haust, and that they are putting up
condenser to do away with that. Th,
committee adjourned to meet again mex
Monday night, at which time Colone
White will present his opinion in til,
case. .rf =