Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-17
North MARKET street improvement.


To the Editor OF the Register:
SIR:-In the natural course Of events
Spring, with its rush of improvements
Of every kind, and its usual business ac-
tivity, will soon be with US, which serves
as a reminder that now is the time to
call the attention of Council to the mat
ter of street improvements, and urge
upon it the propriety of making some
move toward the betterment OF North
Market street. The resident property
owners in that section Of the city have
been patiently waiting for years in the
hope that something would be done for
them, but thus far they have been doom
ed to disappointment and veXation OF
spirit. They are getting very tired OF
paying and paying, from year
70 year for street Improvements
throughout the city, without themselves
receiving any benefit, and all the while
seeing their money going to improve
out OF the way streets and alleys that
are scarcely used for more than the
passage OF milk wagons and vegetable
peddlers. Hence it is that we of North
Market street are inclined to growl 3
little and feel bad great deal over the
manner in which we have been kept in
the background by our city fathers.
And, indeed, our dissatisfaction and
disposition to grumble should not be
matter Of wonder, after survey Of the
situation as II actually exists.
Market street, as Is we'll known, is
the main thoroughfsre of the city from
east to west, as well as from north 20
south, for travel and traffic Of every
description, and as such should have
long since received from Council that
consideration which its Importance de-
mands. We think il is not at all too
early in the season to commence the
preliminary arrangements for the work
OF its improvement. And that we may
not be misunderstood when we say i'm
provement, we wish it to be known that
we mean paving with brick from Tenth
10 Seventh streets out Of the general
levy for such purposes, and from
seventh out Of the ten cent levy, as that
part Of the street has never been i'm
proved, and can therefore De paid
for out Of said fund. All
we ask is for Council to
give us a fair share Of improvement for
the money we pay. 1t is not possible,
gentlemen, for you to even imagine il
Just 10 tax us from year TO year simply
to raise revenue wherewith to improve
other portions Of the city. We are per-
fectly well aware of the fact that the
ten-cent levy can only be used upon
streets that have never been improved
by paving OF any kind, and this is one
OF the things we kick at, for a more in
iquitOus measure, working hardships
and unjust diScrimina alton, could not
readily be conceived OF, TO say nothing
Of its having been actually concocted
and thrust upon the people. 1t
should be at once discarded and Substi-
tuted by something more in harmony
with American civilization. Simply be-
cause Such a law exists, furnishes
no intelligent reason why it
should be continued; it would
be such an easy matter 20 cease making
levieS under IL, and let the general
street levy suffice for sll needed street
improvement BY such an Arrangement
all portions Of the city can reasonably
expect TO receive some benefit from the
money they are called upon to pay for
such purposes.
Now, gentlemen of the City Council,
all that is sought or asked for by us is
simple justice, and il is no: our inten-
ton TO be satisfied with anything short
Of II; that the people on upper Market
street mean business In what they con-
slider demand for their Just rights in
the premises, and they will leave no
stone unturned in an honest endeSvor to
secure them.
NORTH MAExET STREET.