The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-14
THE CITY COUNCIL
Met Last Evening, After Some
Trouble in Getting Quorum.
IT WAS AN INTERESTING SESSION.
Tho Street Railway Muddlo on tho
South Side Referred to Two COM
mittces.-Thc woman's Benevolent
Society wauts'to Keep Children or
tho Streets After Eight. O'Clock.

The City Council met in regular sea-
sion last night. Some trouble was ex-
perienced in getting quorum in the
Second branch. 1t was quarter after
eight when Mr.. Kenny was selected
chairman pro TEN and called the body
to order, fourteen members being pres
cnt, one short OF quorum. In the first
branch quorum was on hand and Mr..
Emsheimer was chosen chairman.
It was $3.50 when q quorum in the
shape OF Mr.. Hadlich allowed the Sec
ond branch to proceed to business.
The minutes OF the previous meeting
MS read were adopted.
The rules were suspended to tai e up
licenses. The ordinary license OF J. +.
Wharton was transferred to Wilhelm d
Bro. at 1914 Market street.
The Board OF Public Works brought
in beport recommending the payment
OF bills amounting TO Si94 80 for street
improvement, Ordered paid.
The committee on fire department re-
ported bills aegregating $3.50 60, one
item being $3.50 for the new Ahrens
steamer; committee on markets Si9t-
75; committee on real estate So 10; COM
mittee on scales $40 80; committee on
health S42. All were approved and or
dered paid.
The application of Thomas ]. Ball
for stand in the Second ward market
house was rejected.
The committee on real estate brought
in report recommending the rental OF
space on the corner OF Eighteenth and
Market streets TO =. Burns for running
refreshment stand. The petition was
granted and lease ordered drawn up
by the city receiver. The yearly rent
al was placed at 500.
The petition OF Henry Foster, OF 222S
Main street, praying for a reduction OF
assessment from $500 to s., 100, was
granted, Mr.. Bailey Introducing a reso-
luton to that effect.
TIE STREET RAILWAY MIDDLE.
The petition OF Z. NJ. Richards and
other property owners on Jacob street
between forty-third and Forty-fourth,
setting forth that the Wheeling Rail-
way Company is or has been laying q
double track along that thoroughtare
without any authority from the city or
property owners; that the laying Of
such q track, on account OF the narrow
ness of the street ut that point. will
prove injurious, there not being enough
space oil either side to allow vehicles to
pass the street cars; asking the city to
take steps to compel the railway COM
pany to take up the said track. The
matter was referred to the committee on
streets, alleys and grades, and railroads,
and the city solicitor. In explanation
it was said that it is not double track
that the railway company Is laying,
but is switch which they are per-
mitted to lay.
TO KEEP THEN AT HOME.
A petition was read from the Wo-
mans Union Benevolent Society
signed by the president. Mrs. A.
w. Kelly, and Mrs. W. j. W..
Cowden, secretary, praying that
an ordinance be enacted to keep all
children under the age OF sixteen years
at their homes after S o'clock p. m. dur
ing the winter months and after 8 p. m.
in the summer. A motion was made
10 refer the matter to the committee on
ordinances in conjunction with the city
solicitor. Mr.. Hoe said he did not sec
how such an ordinance could be made
practicable, and that it was piece OF
nonsense. Mr.. Bailey also had some
thing to say on the subject. He appre-
ciated the good intentions OF the petit
TONERS, but several such petitions had
been presented to the Council
during tho past four years, but
nothing OF practical nature had
evolved. "In my mind the result will
be this: A parent will send his or her
daughter out on the streets on an
errand, who will be accosted by police
man, who will not believe her protest
that she is out on an GRAND, and will
be locked up. Will that parent see any
good in that ordinance then? OF course
not. Such an ordinance could never be
enforced, and there are already enough
dead letter laws on our ordinance books.
The books arc iull Of ordinances that
will not hold water, and ! am satisfied
such one rs this suggests will not hold
good in any court OF law" He then
moved that the petition be laid on the
table: carried.
The Council then adjourned.