Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-14
AT ITS OLD TRICKS.
THE aINTELLIGENCERS' MALICE TOWARDS
THE GAS BOARD CROPS OUT AGAIN.
Because Mr. Flosrsheim Alleges Ho Has Lost Goal
tie Paper Named Assumes That ths City
Is a Loser; That There IS
Loose Management Etc.

IL pleased the Inteul9encCT 10 So
long way out OF its road, yesterday, TO
again SNAIL at the heels Of the manage
ment of the city gas works.
There wasn't the remotest excuse for
this renewal Of the attack upon the gas
works, but that made no difference TO
the IntelliJeneer.
When that paper, to use an express
siye colloqialism. "has it in" for any
person, place or thing it takes
a very Slight pretext to get the gentle
man who makes q speciality OF mud
throwing to work, and few escape being
despatched when ne is in an industrious
mood.
With the case Of State V. Rixey,
pending before Justice Ankle, as an eX-
cuse, the IntelligeHeer launched lovingly
into It's work by citing the understand
ing said by Mr.. Rixey to exist between
himself and Mr.. Foersheim, as detailed
in Sundays REGISTER, and then said:
Assuming this statement to be true did
the superintendent Of the gas works nave
the authority Of the gas board TO so into
this arrangement Mr.. Rixey says ne &C
counted for all the coal he took from the
cars shipped TO the city. \ dishonest or
careless man might lind a way TO get coal
without accounting for Ii.
This remarkable traffic ARRANGEMENT
suggests again % the new Council that gas
board affairs need the thorough investiga-
ton which the old Council ordered and
which was never made. Isn't IL about
time that the interests Of the city IN this
matter were being looked into:"
The InteIJigcncer, in its anxiety TO
throw brick, swept aside all the facts
in the case as not being in line with its
peculiar, but characteristic, purpose.
Suppose, for instance, that "a dishonest
or careless man." did get coal from gas
works cars "without accounting" Tor
it. Would the city Of Wheeling lose
anything? Suppose whole car loads, or
entire train loads, for that matter,
had been stolen? That would have
been a matter wholly for Nj. Floor
sheim and the thief. Yet the intelligent
Ger would have its readers believe that
any coal not accounted for would
be loss to the city; that
the gas works management was
purticCDS cTiminiS, and that il was mat
ter for Council to overhaul tho Gas
Board about Let us hear President II.
II. Dunlevy, of the Gas Board, upon
this point:
The Gas Board" said Mr. Dunlevy,
yesterday, "haS nothing whatever to do
with this matter, and couldn't lose any
thing, no matter how much coal Mr..
Floersheim might miss. BY special ar
rangement the city has cars OF coal con-
signed TO it, promptly switched into the
Sixteenth street yards. Other pur-
chasers OF coal do not, as a rule,
get such prompt service, and as
a result coal is often taken
from cars consigned 20 the gas works
The gas works, however, pays only for
the coal actually hauled TO the works
and weighed there 90 the city scales
By city employee, and coal hauled 10
any one else cuts no figure with us so
long as there is plenty Of coal. Why
Council should be called upon to do
something because some one takes
coal belonging to Mr.. Floersheim is
moro than l can see. As / under
stand it, Mr.. RiXey and Mr. Teasda!e
are customers Of Mr.. Floersheim.
As to the other allegation Of the m
teiliqcncey, to the effect that there IS
something mysterious about people hav-
ing private pull on the city'S coal pile,
there is no more foundation for this In
uendo than the other, according to q
prominent employe at the works, who
said, yesterday, be had endeavored to
get q few loads at the works, by paying
for it, of course, after he had failed 20
GET a car from Mr.. Fioersheim, and had
been refused.
The whole effort OF the TnteJigonccr
is due TO its chronic and malicious dispo-
sition to have it appear that the gas
works management is something ether
than right or proper