The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-11
Or More Per Annum Does the New
Arrangement
FOR DISPOSAL OF THE GARBAGE
COMMITTEES ON ORDINANCE AND
HEALTH MEET AND RECON-
MEND THE UTILIZING PLANT
ORDINANCE AFTER BEING
CHANGED IN SOME PARNcu-
LARs-oTHER COUNCIL COM
MITFEEs MEET AND MAKE RE-
CONCENTRATIONS.

The council committees on health and
ordinance met last night In Joint session
ana took up the ordnance granting to b.
+. Rowland, OF Philadelphia, the right
to construct utilization plane on the
Peninsula, where the city garbage and
offai will be consumed, The meeting
was presided over by Chairman Baird,
OF the committee on ordinance, and the
following members were present; Coun-
ciImen Williams, BUGGY, Bachman, Fair,
Welsgerber, McKelvey and List, TO-
gether with City Solicitor Nesbltt,
The FIRST business transacted was the
recommendation for payment of crema-
tory bills aggregatlng $40 10. Then-the
utilization plant ordinance was present.
ed by Solicitor Nesbitt. Mr.. Nesbltt said
that after looking over the West Virginia
laws governing municipalities, he found
case which makes It necessary for the
city TO enter into contract for only one
years duration. He had constructed
tho ordinance so that at the end OF 1888
a new contract would be entered into,
but not at higher price.
The ordinance provides that the mayor
shall enter into a contract with d, H.
Rowland, OF Philadelphia, for the cree
ton and maintenance OF q utilization
plant on the Peninsula, not more chan
100 yards from the road, on q site indl-
Gated in the ordinance; that Rowland
shall for the term OF ten years receive
and destroy all garbage, offal and night
soil brought from any part OF the city;
he Is to provide team with covered
body for the taking away Of all dead AMI
mails (cats excepted, this Is to be done
without charge to the city or the owner
OF the animals the plant 20 be open at
all hours; Rowland to have a telephone
at the plant; the plant to be operated
with due regard to sanitary conditions
and to be inspected monthly or oftener
by the health officer; violations OF the
sanitary provision TO be cause for the
shutting down OF the plant by the health
board on Ave days notice; the city to pay
for the consuming OF the garbage at the
rate OF $t25 per month during che year
1898 and thereafter at compensation 10
be fixed annually by council. The bond
Is to be in the sum OF $4,000.
Mr.. Nesbltt said It would be necessary
to amend tine ordinances regulating the
operation OF the municipal crematory
which will be displaced when the city en-
ters Into a contract with Rowland. The
solicitor was instructed to incorporate
the necessary changes into an ordinance
to be considered dater by the committees.
1t was decided 10 Insist that the plant
shall be completed by May l, 1898, the
time when Contractor Becker's garbage
collecting contract with the city expires.
II Is said to be Mr.. Howland's desire TO
begin the erection Of his plant so soon as
council shall pass the ordinance. He In
tends to bring to the Peninsula plant
garbage etc, from Bellaire, Mounds
Vile, Benwood, Martins Ferry Bridge
port and other HeIghboriHg towns by
railroad. II Win be used In the manufac-
ture of fertilizers,
on motion OF Mr.. List, the ordinance
was recommended to council for pas
sagc.
The committee members estimate that
the city viii save 81 1000 or more per an
mum by entering into this contract. The
annual cost OF maintaining the city ere
matory Is S2666, and the charge made by
Rowland for consuming the garbage Is
Sl.5O0. In addition TO this 1t Is thought
the new garbage contract will be at
lower figure than the one now In effect,
for the reason that the haul to the
Peninsula Is easier chan to the top OF
Wheeling hill, particularly In winter,
when the contractor can haul only very
small loads.