The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-13
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Several Council Committees Held
Meetings Last Night.
GETTING READY FOR COUNCIL,
Which Meets This Evening - Tho
Stone Bridge CommissIon-GFado In
North Wheeling Established-BiIls
Audited by the Various Committees.
New Horse for the Fire Chief,

Meetings were held last evening OF a
number OF council committees for the
purpose OF auditing bills and doing
other business preparatory to the meet
ING OF city council this evening, There
was nothing up OF very important
nature. To-night'a council meeting
promises to be a very busy one,
there being much routine business
waiting for action. The most impor-
tant piece Of business will be the adop-
ton OF the annual appropriation ordi-
nance rs recommended to council for
passage by the finance committ& The
proposed new loop OF the electric rail-
way from Forty.third and Jacob down
EoiP and over Forty-eighth to the car
barns will also probably come up again,
and it looks as though 1t would pass this
time
The committee on fire department
met, with Chairman Robertson presid-
inc and Messrs. Milligan, Dinger, Dob
bins and Filan present. Bills aggregat-
inp S2O4 SO were recommended for pay
ment. Chief Heay, who was present,
said that the tiremen were unanimous
Tor white cap, as summer head gear,
and after some discussion 1t was dc.
cided that the chief can select the cap
wanted, The chief also made request
for u new horse for the one he Is now
using, which has been in service twelve
wears attached to the Niagara. lie
thought he could for S35 or $50 addi-
tional make trade ior horse that
would be entirely suitable. As the fire
committee had already authorized the
sub committee on horses to make the
change, the matter was left without
action. Mr.. Milligan moved to insist
on the increasein thetiremen's salaries,
No action was taken.
Tho streets, alleys and grades COM
mttce met yesterday afternoon at tho
Top mill to reconsider the grade estab-
lshed for the thirty.inch water mains.
The committee was accompanied by the
city engineer. The recommendation OF
the committee is that the road DO made
parallel with the Pewlky tracks, COM
mencing at the ferry road and running
north. The big hump" between the
ferry and the Top mill will be cut down,
providing it is acceptable to the mill
people. The rond Is to be thirty feet
wido from gutter to the tracks, with u
per cent grade.
The stone bridge commission met last
evening at the city engineers office, tho
meeting being for the purpose OF con-
sidering tho street railways share Of
the stone bridge paving. When the
bridge was completed the city paved
on the bridge between the tracks and
sent bill for the work to the railway
company, which the latter refused to
pay at that time. Since then the
Wheeling company has paid the bill
which was for $500 IS. but made out
tho check to the order OF the city clerk,
when it should have been sent to tho
stone bridge commission. Tho COM
mission recommended to council that
tho money be paid to Hallock Bros,
the contractors, to whom 1t is due.
The committee on buildings and
grounds OF the board OF education
meets this morning at o'clock at tho
rooms Of the board, and will dnring the
morning make their annual inspection
OF the school houses OF the city, and
recommend at tomorrow evenings
meeting OF the board OF education what
ever repairs are deemed necessary.
The council committee on cemeteries
met last evening and audited bills
amounting to $50 81; authorized tho
chairman to buy needed tanbark, and
the transfer OF two cemetery lots was
effected,
The board OF public works mot last
evening, all the members being on
hand, An Eighteenth street resident
WIS on hand and made vigorous
but not strictly classic demand for i'm
proyomonts on that thoroughfare, cast
OF Wood. The board will to-day, with
the officials Of the electric railway, 90
over the line and decide at what places
the company shall lay now paving,
The council committee on scales last
night approved bills aggregating
SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS.
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