Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-11
SOME CITY AFFAIRS.
THE OLD MAIN STREET BRIDGE AND IT'S
PROBABLE FATE.
The Improvement at the Sixteenth Street Cemetery
About Compleisd-HOw the Work Of
Cleaning Up the Town is
Progressing

There is not much chance that the
old wooden bridge, popularity known as
the temporary bridge, which spans the
creek at Main street, will ever be re-
moved to Wood street, as was ordered
in a resolution passed by Council
month or more ago. In the first place,
Council failed to appropriate any money
for the removal Of the bridge, but mere
y ordered the Board of Public Works
to take it down and re-erect it upon an
other site at Wood street. 1t is very
improbable that the Board will pay any
attention TO this order. In the second
place, the REGISTER is assured by
gentleman competent TO make the state
ment, that the bridge is not worth
moving, and that any attempt
TO transfer it would result in mourning
q greater cost than d new and modern
footbridge at Wood street would cost.
1t is stated that the new large tim oers
in the bridge are so far gone that en-
gineers would not recommend their use
upon new site, and that the best thing
the city could do would be TO advertise
for some one TO take the bridge away
for what timber and iron could be goS-
ten out of it. Any bridge built at Wood
street would have to be supplemented
by either a long fill or a considerable
treStle, resting upon spiles, and IL
would be a pretty costly affair TO at
tempt TO fit the temporary bridge at
Main STRAIT intO that UlaCe.
The Board Of Public Works has about
completed the work of excavating the
southeast corner of the old cemetery, at
Sixteenth and McCulloch streets, and
the work Of building new retaining
wall will be commenced in few days.
During the progress Of the work sew
eral bodies were found and were rein
TERED in another part Of the cemetery.
One of the coffins unearthed was OF
iron and was intact. The name OF the
occupant could not be ascertained. The
new addition to the street will have
a width OF thirty-four feet, allow
ing an eight foot sidewalk and a
twenty-four foot roadway north OF
the track Of the motor line. This will
give ample room for three vehicles to
pass, and will prevent any trouble at
that locality in the future. The new
street is a regular curve, with a radius
OF 1l6 feet. 1t was contemplated at
first to make the cut deeper, so as to
give at least a thirty-fve foot street, but
it was found that this would necessitate
the disturbance of considerable num-
Der of bodies, and the Board thought
as there was room enough it had better
stop where it was. The work of paving
the new addition TO the street, setting
curb, etc, will shortly commence.
Health Officer Spragg is making ex-
cellent progress in the work of putting
the city in better sanitary condition.
So far about seven hundred notices
have been served on owners and occu-
pants Of real estate to clean up their
premises, and as a result the crematory
is having about all 1t can do to take care
of the stuff sent up to the hui
top. The Board Of Public Works has
been doing good work IN cIeahlhS ny
streets and alleys, and has removed
large amount of filth from various quar-
tiers of the city. The fire department
hasn't done much at the work OF flush
ing out the sewers, so far on account
of one Of the pumps being broken at the
water works. This pump will be re-
paired. however, by tomorrow, and
then the fremen will take hold Of their
end OF the labor, and it will be prosecu-
ted vigorously under the direction OF
the Health Officer.
The drug stores report steady de-
mand for disinfectants of various sorts,
and there seems to be a very healthy
public sentiment upon the subject of
keeping the town In good order.
Dress Goods almost one-haf regular
prices. over $4,000 worth of Dry Goods
ana Carpets must be sold. Read Stone u