Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-24

The monthly report OF the City Chsrk
showed total balances of $260,S2S.07.
The following bills were ordered
paid
Markets. .... -. -. ........S 1914
Fire Department. -. ..... zI5.43
POilce... ....,. .....' ..'''.'. Vo-fV
City Prison. -. ...... 80. Il3'39
B. w. p, ten cent levy. 80. f99.9O
Real Estate. ..... 800. 80. oo.zo
Totals. -. ISL, 44S.76
The recommendations of the Commit
tee on Markets, that the Fifth ward
market be closed July 4th, and that the
contract for painting be awarded Kurtz
& Coffee, at their bid of S4725, were
concurred in. A further recommends
ton, that the garbage collector be COM
PEELED to remove garbage from the
market houses, occasioned some talk,
and was finally referred to Health.
The Committee on Markets submit
ted an ordinance amending Sec. 70 OF
the present Centre market ordinance,
making more stringent regulations for
the collection of fees from persons sell
ing at the market. The measure was
passed.
The petition of the West Virginia
Sand Company, for additional facilities
at the lower end of the wharf, upon
which there was an unfavorable report
from the Committee, and which was laid
over two weeks, came up IN the Sec
ond Branch. A motion to table was
lost. and the unfavorable report of the
Committee was adopted. In the First
Branch the action of the Second was
concurred in, but later this was recon-
sidered, and Mr.. John A. Howard, coun-
sci for Mr. Shriver, was heard, in eX-
PLANTATION of what his client wanted to
do. Mr.. Howard said Mr.. Shriver had
built up a large industry and invested
large amount Of money in 1t. This
being So he took it that Council would
be willing 10 aid in promoting such
matters. He thought that if Mr. Shri-
yer had come here and put as much
money in a now industry as was
now embarked in his business, the
press and Council would agree that he
should be encouraged. Mr.. Shriver,
not stranger, had established his bust
ness, had been the source OF some rev.
enue to the city, and now asked simply
for the right to erect a pole not larger
than telegraph pole and to string
wire on it, down to a barge, so that the
sand might be hostsG up, instead OF
being hauled up, thus saving, TO that
extent, the use of the wharf in his bust
ness. There would be no obstruction
to view and no nuisance or annoyance
to any one. The ground TO be occupied
was close to the Panhandle frelght
rouse and a square south Of the paved
norton of the wharf Neither was it in
front of a hotel, unless il was construed
10 be in front of the st. Charles, and the
proprietors of that hotel were not pres
emit or objecting, The ordinance asked
for. provided that Mr.. Shriver should
remove the pole on ninety days notice,
and the work could be done IN TWO
hours. 1t had bsen said that the city
could not lease part OF the wharf, ana
in that view he would cite that within
wear the present Council had given
TO competitor of Mr.. Shriver the right
| m Law down and operate railroad
switch on a wharf of the city. 10 re-
fuse Mr.. Shriver's request, IN view OF
this. was not fair-dealing towards home
people. Mr.. Howard thought there
must have been some misunderstanding
about the matter, particularly as there
was no other place where Mr.. ShrlVer
could load his sand, except upon the
raved portion of the wharf. Conclud-
ing Mr.. Howard asked that the action
of the Second Branch be non-concur-
red IN and a committee Of conference
asked for. that the matter might DE
more fully understood, and a modlneu
ordinance would be presented, with any
restrictions the city deSied4a
When Mr.. Howard Concluded, the
Branch refused to concur in the action
of the Second Branch, and asked tor
committee of conference. Messrs. Ebs-
ling Britt and Menkemiller were ap-
pointed as such committee on the part
of the First Branch.
The committee on fire department rec
commended a new striking apparatus Tor
the City Hall tower at cost not TO eX-
, coed $500 to be paid for out Oh the city
contingent fund.
The resolution was adopted by an
unanimous vote and the First Branch
concurred. This is something which
should have been attended to long ago,
as the present striking apparatus Is
utterly worthless and can not be re-
paired.
A communication from the Gas Board
transmitted the selection Of VIM. M.
Schenk to be assistant secretary, vice
! I q w Beier. resigned, and the APP
nointment was confirmed and the bond
approved.
The Humane Society asked for the re-
neal of the ordinance requiring the muz-
! zling of calves, as it said muzzles oc-
casioned great suffering and often
death. The matter was referred to the
Committee on Ordinances with instruc-
! ton to draw an ordinance.
c. H. Butler was granted license
for a shooting gallery at 1906 Market
street.
The Committee on Claims was order
ed to investigate and ascertain what
was due Louis thinner for part Of his
Let at Thirty-third and McCulloch
street, taken by the city.
Mr.. Wills offered a resolution appro,
priating $500 for the further improve
ment of the Sixteenth Street Park, pay
able out Of the city contingent fund
Mr.. Britt did not see where the money
was TO come from. Mr.. Wills said two
weeks ago he would have been opposed
to the work To-day he was very much
in favor of the work, for three time;
within the last month the bones OF the
| dead had washed ont of the slODine