Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-01
ANOTHER HITCH
GROWING OUT OF THE NEw BRICK" RESO-
LUTON OF COUNCIL
Work Stopped Upon the Pipe Ditch for the New
Water Works and TIE FOrcs Paid
OF and Discharged.


the little Misunderstanding which oc-
Cured in repaying the telephone con-
duit ditch on Market street, arising out
Of the resolution passed by Council, re-
curing that nothing but new paving
brick should be used in making repairs
where the street had been torn up for
any purpose.
That matter was amicably adjusted
between the Board Of Public Works
and the contractors doing the conduit
work, and work proceeded, new brick
being used.
Now we have another and much more
serious trouble from the same cause,
the trouble being between the Board OF
Public Works, acting under authority
of the resolution named, and the Water
Board, the latter coming into II through
Hallock Bros, the Sub-cOntractors, and
the Holly Manufacturing Company, the
general contractors, for the new water
works pumping plant and accessories.
Hallock Bros. are not at all 10 blame 10
the matter, as they proposed to work
under the contract made with the
Holly Company, which stipulated that
the old paving brick removed for the
ditch for the big thirty-inch water
pipe, IN North Wheeling, should be re-
placed in the street; and the Holly Com
pany seems 70 be equally olameless for
the hitch, as when they made the con-
tract with the Water Board on the one
hand, for the new plant, and with Hal
lock Bros, on the other, TO do the work,
IL was the understanding, or at least
the belief, that the old brick were 70 be
used. The real seat Of the trouble
seems 10 be with the resolution re-
curing new brick, passed by Council on
the evening OF May 9th, after these
various contracts had been made and
work prosecuted under them. The
resolution applied 10 all permits
Ito be hereafter granted" which
at first blush seemed fair enough; but
contracts were in existence at the time
Of the adoption Of the resolution, under
which permits would not be asked for
some weeks 70 come, and OF course the
new brick clause would make very Sc
rious difference In the profits OF any
contractor who expected to put down
old brick when he signed the papers
This, at all events, is the situation IN
which HallOck Bros. and the Holly
people ind themselves. Monday, when
Hallock Bros. applied at the Office OF
the Board or Public Works for peru u
to open Main street from the Ravine
south for their pipe ditch, they were
told that under the resolution OF COun-
Gil the permit could not issue unless
new brick were laid in place OF
those removed, and that the firm must
give 3 good and sufficient bond to put
down such brick. Hallock Bros.
promptly declined to give any such
bond or 20 enter into any such agree
ment, as they had taken the contract
upon entirely different basis, and
Tuesday and yesterday, as no more
work could be done upon the pipe line,
they paid of aud discharged their
large force OF men and the work Of lay
Ing pipe, which had been progressing
at very lively rate, Was
brought 10 stand-still. The con-
tractors had finished the laying
OF pipe down 70 the city line, aud then
wanted TO skip past the frontage OF the
TOP" mill, because the street or road
in front OF the mill Is crossed by nu-
merous mill sewers, which are con-
stantly full Of water when the mill is
IN operation, and the pipe could not
well be laid until the mill is of for the
simmer stop. The work In front OF the
mill would necessarily be slow, because
the ditch would run for almost the en-
tire distance through mill cinderS, and
the pipe would have TO be surrounded
with clay, 70 keep the cinders from de-
stroying the pipe within a few years.
There is also little hitch in the grade
Of the street, just below the mill, and for
these reasons il was necessary
for the contra ctors to pass
over a considerable distance, to avoid
losing valuable time, and take up the
work from the RaYine south. Con-
fronted with the new brick clause, they
have been stopped, aud no work will be
done until there Is either re-arrange-
ment of the contract between the Wa
ter Board and the Holly people, and 10
turn between the Holly Company and
Hallock Bros, or the Council so far
modifes the resolution Of May 9th as To
make an exception in this case.
Meantime the work OF laying the pipe
will be delayed, and this may
work q delay in the ultimate completion
Of the entire plant, interfere with the
original contract between the city and
the Holly Companyand do other things
not especially TO be desired.