Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-08
AN AGREEMENT,
,,osyD BErwsEN THE ILECTRIO LIaHr
COMMISSION
LIN. wheeling Bridge Company, By Which ths
Oitv Exchanges Lights for a Gas Main,
Free Toll ir Employees and Free
Wires to the Island.

Wires to the Island.
A. last evenings session of the Elec-
,.,c Light Commission Mr.. Henry
s.bmulbach, President Of the Wheeling
P,idge Company, appeared with a prop
,.ition, reduced to writing, covering the
..r,os upon which the Company named
cas- willing to allow the use Of its
bridge for carrying the electric wires,
.,,. 10 the Island. The proposition was
,bs result Of a number Of conferences
bstween the Executive Committee of the
commission and the officers and Direct
o-s Of the Bridge Company, and had
sssp agreed upon between the two par
,tss before its presentation to the Com
mission as being about the fair thing for
al concerned.
When read by Chairman Farrell, it
VAS found the paper embraced these
points:
The Company on its part agreed to
allow the city TO string four electric
wires over the new bridge, lay an eight
inch gas pipe on the bridge, and pass
over free Of toll all lamp trimmers, city
line men and gas works employees, when
nm business. IN return for these privi-
leges the city, on its part, was 10 sup
ply and keep burning five lamps on the
main river bridge, aud to light three
lamps on the "Back" river bridge, the
lamps on this bridge 20 be furnished by
the Bridge Company. The city was
also to tap its gas main on the main
bridge and light the bridge sufficiently
with gas, at times when the electric
light failed, the said gas lamps 70 be lit
aud turned of by the bridge employees.
The electric lights were to be located by
the bridge engineer, and the city was TO
save the Bridge Company harmless for
any damage resulting from either the
electric wires or gas pipe.
A long discussion resulted from this
proposition, during which Mr.. Farrell
stated be was authorized by Mr.. Law
son, Superintendent of the Wheeling
and Belmont Bridge Company, TO say
that that company would allow the city
20 run two wires over the bridge In con-
sideratlOn Of two lamps being furnished
70 light the bridge.
II was also stated, during the discus
sion, that IL would be impossible to run
gas pipe over the suspension bridge,
even bad there been a provision for it
IN Mr.. LawsOn's proposition, and the
Gas Trustees were unanimous In stating
that another gas pipe 20 the Island was
q necessity, and that it should, by all
means, be carried there on a bridge.
The details Of the trouble result
ing TO the gas service in that
portion OF the city ia times
Of flood were infinitely gone in
10. the three weeks during last
February when the Island was entirely
without gas, being cited by Mr., Robin
son IS a recent example which would
probably be remembered by Island citi-
zenS and Gas Trustees alike. 1t was eX-
planned that the present pipe in the bed
of the river was not only liable to be
broken by boats, by fee, or drift, but
that whenever the water got much
above'a thirty-fve foot stage, some gas
lamp was broken of on the Island, or
meter In some cellar overturned, break
ing q pipe, and as a result the pipe IN
der the river and the whole street Sys-
TEN on the Island filed up with water,
and had 20 be pumped out. Last Feb
wary this took three weeks, the men
pumping day and night. III the pipe
was laid over the bridge, there would
be no more trouble on the Island, In the
future, than there was on the South
Side-and that was comp aratively little.
The Trustees also said that their bills
for toll ran up TO nearly 500 a year,
which would all DO saved by an accept
snce of the proposition Of the Wheeling
Company.
The matter Of running a cable under
the river, for the electric light wires,
was brought up, aud it was stated, as
coming from Engineer Seeley, that this
would cost about 1900 extra, and
would not be desirable, except as last
resort.
After going over all the pros and
cons OF the case, resolution 70 accept
the proposition Of the Wheeling Bridge
Company was adopted, with the amend
ment that the city FIRE alarm wires, for
which the Wheeling and Belmont
Bridge Company charge S1OO year, be
included in the proposition from the
Company. This addition was promptly
agreed to by President Schmulbach,
and the City Solicitor was authorized to
draw up a contract covering the vari-
Gus points narrated, to continue twenty
years.
The Wheeling Bridge Company is
now preparing the ground for paving
at the Main street end Of the bridge.
and the Gas Board will Immediately
make the connections with the Main
street gas main for the new pike to the
Island and lay the pipe out to the end
OF the bridge, so as TO facilitate the
paving Of the street.
Before adjOurning the Commission
disposed of number of unimpOrtant
matters connected with the power
house, etc, and a number Of letters and
kilograms from Engineer Seeley and
others were read.
Look Out FOR Them.
II Is said that q pair Of lIghtning-rod