Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-29
CITY FINANCES.
THE DISCOVERY MADE THAT THE ESTIMATE
FOR MARKETS IS ABSENT.
Uncertainty as to When the Finance Committee
Will Meet-An Omission By Council.
Cleaning Up the City.

WO OF IHIcc udyo aSO ~ "oS Pi"POSSN
to call session of the Council Commit
tee on Finance for last night, to COM
mence work upon the annual appropria-
tions for the various departments OF the
city government, but some investiga-
ton showed that. through some misun-
Outstanding or other the Council Com
mittee on Markets had failed to make
up it's estimate, and the meeting was
not called. The Market Committee was
one of the first to set about the prepar-
alton of its estimate. but after holding a
meeting for general discussion, and
making tour OF the mar
ket houses, ii paused In
it's good work, and it was only yester-
day that an estimate of the amount OF
money for the repair and improvement
OF the market houses was handed in at
the City Clerks Office by Hamilton Bros.
This paper has not yet been passed upon
by the Committee, and matters are thus
at q standstill. The estimate In question
calls for the expenditure OF $4,000 upon
the old Second ward market house,
50, 600 of which is for a new roof and
81, 500 for general repairs TO the build
ing. The sum OF S740 is asked for the
repair and improvement of the Centre
market, or a total of 81, 240 for repairs
alone. As the Committee must have
81, 500 for salaries, and $500 or so for In
cidentals, il will run their estimate up
to over $4,000.
There was q general kick among peo-
pie at the City Hall, yesterday, against
spending So, 500 or any other large sum
upon the old Second ward market
house. 1t was regarded as money
thrown away to put thousands OF dol
lars of good money into a building
which has stood for sixty years, and
which has out-lived its usefulness and
must come down in few years. There
is very general sentiment in favor OF
a new market for the upper portion OF
the city, and although it is recognized
that it can't be built this year, the i'm
provement will likely be made within a
short time.
At the session of Council last Tuesday
night an ordinance should have been
passed making an appropriation to the
several departments for the month OF
May. No one seems to have thought OF
it, and as the last appropriation cover
ed nothing but the month Of April, all
money unexpended at midnight on the
3Oth inst. will go back into the treasu-
nv, and the city will be placed In the
position OF mourning expenses for sala-
rles Of policemen, firemen, officials, and
for work Of various descriptions when
there is not dollar in any
departmental fund with which to meet
the bills, and can't be until session OF
Council is called and appropriations
made. The restraining ordinance pro-
hibits the signing OF checks or the
drawing OF orders for any debt contract
ed in excess of appropriations, and as
result no bills can be paid al the next
meeting of Council unless an appropria-
ton ordinance Of some sort be first
passed. No bills were ordered paid at
the last session, by the way, bat for a
very different reason-the members
were tired and wanted to go home.
Getting the city into good sanitary
condition is not an easy task, and
Health Officer DR.. J. w. Mccoy has
enough on his hands to worry most any
man. Numerous persons who were or
dered to clean up are not doing 1t. They
are given ten days notice, and II the
work Is not done then the law takes It's
course, which means $50 fine and costs.
These persons refusing to clean their
premises are generally not those who
are poor. but are those OF some means.
In Police Court this morning DR.. Nc
Coy will have one case for case OF vio-
lation of the health ordinance. This
party was ordered to put his premises
in better sanitary condition ten days
ago, but did not do so, and the Doctor
proposes to have the case a sort OF test
one, that others seeing may take heed.
The Health officer gave an instance
of one party who Is abundantly able TO
make his premises clean. but who has
has refused to obey the law. This per-
son has been notified, and will be
.'hauled over the Goals" IL different
stand is not taken. In the house re-
ferred to within the last fifteen months
five deaths have resulted. Medical au-
thority says these deaths were all due
TO one cause.-the unclean surroundings.
Had sanitary measures been taken
there fifteen months ago believe all
those persons would have been alive to-
day." said prominent physician.
Water is in the cellar AID the waste
water has no outlet, and condition Of
affairs prevails there most unhealthy.