The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-23
GETS RELIEF.AT LAST.
Tho C-ematory and City Building
only to Got FrooiNntural Gas.
4 LIQUOR LICENSE COMMITTEE
TO be One Of the Committees OF Coun-
ell, According to II Resolution Pre-.
scutcd by MIR. Maxwcll...Thc Wheel
Ing lamp and Stamping Company
Wants Il Switch. @ilYg n

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The work done by tho consumers Of
natural gas during tho past two weeks,
over since the last meeting OF Council,
has at lust succeeded in converting sew
eral members OF Council to their way
OF thinking. At that meeting, it will
be remembered, tho first branch OF
Council passed series oi resolutions
relieving the Natural Gas Company OF
West Virginia OF tho OBLIGATION to fur
n:sh FREQ gas to all the public works and
departments OF tho city, except the
crcmaLory, and allowing tho school
houses to draw FREQ gas until tho close
Of the present school year; the second
branch refused to concur in the action
Of tho lrst, and rejected the resolutions.
4 lew days ago the chamber OF COM
morcc took the matter up, asked the
second branch to reconsider its action,
and circulated petitions containinglt the
same request.
At last nights meeting OF Council the
matter was again brought-up. and tho
resolutions, as approved by the first
branch, were read by tho city clerk.
The company had concluded TO give the
city n little more, and in tho resolutions
agreed 10 give to tho engine houses also
the privilege OF free gas until July Of
this year. Tie city clerk commenced
10 read q petition containing over three
hundred names, but by tho time
he had got hall through, Coun-
ell tool; pity on him and dis
penscd with tho farther. reading OF
the names. Mr.. Brock moved that the
resolutions DO adopted, and Mr.. Robert
son asked il III ordinance could be
amended by mere resolution. No,
Chairman Jepson answered, but the
operations OF IN ordinance could be
suspended for IN indefinite period by n
resolution. Mr.. O'Leary said that the
chair had ruled differently on q former
occasion, but tho chair failed to see
that the two cases were identical, and
the ruling went. 80
THEY REGULATE TIE PRESSURE.
"Ise no change" said Mr.. OLeary,
"irom the resolutions which were once
rejected by this branch, except that
the engine houses are also to got free
gas until July. What does the little hi:
OF gas thatthe engine houses would use
between nov and the month OF July
amount to? This isonly beating around
the BUSH, and this proviso has been in
serted only to allow the matter to be
brought up again. At present there is
no gas at the water works Or the gas
works, and tho natural gas: is at pres
cnt under the same conditions as
it will be when the schcme
proposed by these resolutions
IS under way. The crematory, school
houses and engine houses alone are get
ting gas from the company at the
crcmatory yesterday there was not
enough 10 run 4 heating stove, and tho
public building could not be kept warm.
Talking about petitions, If tho opy,o-
ncnts OF this resolution were to solicit
signatures, we could get ten times as
many as those who favor itEhav,, cot.
Yesterday at the corner Of Maiu street
and Alley 9, where there is a/natural
gus gate, man would have runjthe risk
OF losing his life, il lie had /struck a
match; the gas was wasting on the
street, and at the crcmatoTyythcre was
scarcely any. The gas c5niiippany rcsu.
latcS the pressure to su.t,itself. / am
Informed by an olnployG Of the gas com.
pany, one who has worked in tho office
and has been there 'at night, and who
has solicited signatures ior:,thc com
pany's petition, th3t on one occasion the
gas got low and about fifteen people
complained by, telephone. He tele-
phoncd out to tic man ut Elm Grove,
where tie company has regulator. and
III nall hour the pressure came on
again. Whore did that gas come from :?
That man, ut Elm Grove did not bore
any new wells in a hall hour The gas
was simply shut off at Elm Grove"
TAXPAYERS FAVOR TIE COMPANY,
Mr.. Brock--"I think the remarks
made by Mr.. o'Lcary will bear invcsti-
CATION For the past two or three years,
during every cold spell, every family
using natural gas suffered. The COM
pany was SO short OF gas that it shut of
several manufacturing concerns, and it
certainly would not have reduced its
revenues in this way ii it had the gas
TO spare. The supply is very short
now, and in moderately cold weather
there is not enough for domestic con.
sumption. One-third OF our population,
$500 families, desires the passage OF
THESE resolutions. It's very true that
Il the company ceases to deliver gas to
inc water works and gus works the city
VIII have to purchase coal, but, it will
nave to DO the same thing ii tho con-
pahy Is driven from tho city. Tho
names on that petition are those Of tho
people who pay two-thirds OF the taxes
IN this city, and fit is going TO be a
ask it?n - ~
Mr. krcitcr-I know OF several who
nave signed that petition who did SO
only, because they were bored 10 death
ny me people who circulated it. One
man told mo that he was sorry he had
signed his name, and that no had a
notion to strike it ON nc &''l5 n i. :,
w. Bailey called for n vote bv roll
GM and took occasion to explain his
vote. Among other reasons he gave
was ono that the company employed
tnrIy or forty citizens Of Wheeling,
VINO, II the chmpany was compclled'to
i i the G, city, would be utbf employ
lmeht Tho resolutions were adopted
DDyS2voto OF II to5 5. Voting aye: ANIcssrs
bailey, Brock. Filan, Freese, Irwin, JET