Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-08
There was a very spirited meeting at

There was a very spirited meeting at
the city hall last evening, of the Council
maniac Committee of Conference ap-
pointed to read a final decision IN the
matter o, the application OF the West
Virginia sand Company Cor permission
to make certain Improvements for the
transaction of business at tbs lower end
of the wharf, on ground now occupied
by the Company.
This matter has been pending before
Council for about two months. Il orig
mated in petition from the Sand Com
paay. whereof john L. Shriver, is pres
ideat. for permission to erect forty
five foot pole ana rig thereto a wire
cable by means of which. operated by
an sngine on a boat in the river, sand
could be hCsted TO the level OF the street
and dumped into carts or cars. Mr..
Shriyer has occupied a strip of city
ground just north OF the Pan Handle
freight depot, for a seri.S c. years, and
has been compelled TO haul all the sand
to the level of the street by teams, at
considerable cost.
Waen the matter came before Coun-
ell il WAS referred TO a committee, and
after the lapse OF a Sood deal of tins
and an exhaustive enquiry, during which
Nr. SJ&mm and others on Water street,
opposed the grant, a report was made
by the Committee on WharVes, recon-
merding that the petition be refused.
This report was adopted by the Second
Branch of COHnci;, but the First Branch
refused 20 concur, and rs a result .
committee of conference was appointed
TO reconcile the differences between the
TWO Branches.
Ta.s committee assembled last night,
III tai, membership being present, con-
sls,ing Of Messfs. Ebeling, Britt, Menke-
miller Campbell Watcrh0Use and Ben
der. City Solicitor Bcyce was also pres
ent, together with Mr.. Shriver, \ Mr..
Sy2mm and others.
Mr.. Shriver made a statement of what
be wanted, saying. in effect, that he
simply wanted a permission to erect a
pole. rig up wire and operate buckets
worked by an engine located on a boat
on the river. He maintained that the
Improvement would ba decidedly less
of a nuisance to real estate owners along
Water street than the present method
Of doing busin IS, offered to vacant
within thirty days. upon notice from
the city, set forth that an extraordinary
privilege had been granted his COM
Qeti,o- the Penn sylvan.a Sand Com
pany doing business at the foot CT
TwenW-fourth STREET. that he mus. be
enabled 10 meet tbs competition that
his company was home concern. that
be had sixty thousand dollars invested
in the enterprise. etc.
He was opposed by Mr.. Stamm. who
showed that the lower end of the wharf
had been dumping ground. an eye
sore and nuisanc5 for years. that the
/ city had no right 10 lease Il for private
/ purposes. ,lat the policy Of the city
ought 10 be 10 improve it or make it at
tI5ctve. rather than have It given up
20 sand banks brick and lumber piles,
q plac5 OF storage for wagons, etc., and
generally he was opposed to any such
grant to anybody.
Af,er a large amount Of talk those
outside the membership of the Commit
/ tee were excluded, and chem there was
! a r5d-h0; session. during which indi-
vidUais expressed their various opinions
in unmisiakab'e language. Various
motions were made and voted down
and finally tn committee agreed, by
majority vote, to recommend to Coun-
/ cil ina, the former report of the Com
miJJee on Wnaryes, refusing the pei
,-ol of the Sand Company, be adopted
/ is pretty SAFE to say tina, this does
no, settle the matter, and there IS every
premise of a lively fight at the mex;
meeting of Council.