Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-15
THE CASE OF IWELFTHSIR[ET.
A Wide Differences Of Opinion as to
What Should Be Done.

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Property Owners Would Undoubt-
eddy Favor the Putting in of a
Sewer First, and Let the Paving
Go Over to Next Year-A PrOpo-
sition to Pave the South Side of
the Street With Brick, and Let
the North Side Go Until the Sew
er Question is Settied-A Special
Meeting Of the B. P. w. to Be
Called.
The question of what to do in the
matter of the improvement of
Twelfth street, between Main and
Water, is now very seriously occupy
ing the attention of both city officials
and property owners.
As is very well known, the city has
made an appropriation of $4,000 for
paving the street with brick, which
will carry the work from the east
side of Water street to the west side
VI -hal MT pliCCt' WIN ID OL Il1C
ground, and the contractor is ready to
commence work at any time.
1t has been suggested, as was stated
in the Register yesterday morning,
that before the street is paved such
change in the grade be made at Main
: and Twelfth and Market and Twelfth
as would provide for surface drain
age, so far as the north side of the
street is concerned, and that water
closet drainage and house drainage
generally be carried from the north
side of the street, where it now en-
tiers the old three-foot brick sewer, to
the south side of the street, where it
is to be connected with the twenty
inch crock sewer, and that the brick
sewer on the north side of the street
be closed to surface drainage at Mar
ket street, and filled up at least at
far west as Main street. In connec-
ton with this it is proposed to drop
the grade at the intersection Of Mar
ket and Twelfth streets something
like foot, to lower the grade at the
intersection of Main and Twelfth
streets several inches, raise the grade
of the sidewalk at the southeast cor
ner of Main and Twelfth streets
about ten inches, and thus allow sur
face water to shoot straight down
Twelfth street, from Chapline and be-
yond to the river.
Xhis has raiseG more or less of
howfN from property owners along
Twelfth street, principally, however,
on the north side, between Main and
Market. Whey object to the expense
of carrying their sewage across
Twelfth stre9 to the crock sewer on
the south side, they ask how the city
proposes I'd connect the three-foot
sewer whith comes down Market
street. ne8th of Twelfth, with the
twenty-incf sewer which runs down
Market ST bet south Of Twelfth, they
want t6lpow what would happen,
- Of 1nsX En when the water
nm this three19yc sewer attempted
10 find an exit through the twenty
Inch sewer they want to know why
The city cannot put sewer in on the
north side of Twelfth street first, and
nave the street Afterwards, they de-
lire to be informed why the city can
not content itself with paving the
nuta-side of IT, t. street, from
~. i to the railroad
Ter question can be
er, and other pertinent
queries have been pro-
iNhere was quite a commo-
ne the property owners yes
md they awaited the session
Ill pmmittee on Streets, Alleys
md G at half-past four yester-
4 day afteAJson, with some interest and
anxiety. -
The Committee, the City Engineer,
! one member of the Board of Public
Works, representatives of the two
street railway lines, and a number of
property owners, assembled at the in
tersection of the two streets named at
the appointed time, yesterday, and
Inc whole matter was gone over in
detail. The result was a mixed one.
A few property owners wanted the
street paved, more wanted the sewage
attended to first, others didn't object
to the raising of the south sidewalk
at Main and Twelfth streets, provided
the city bore the expense, and still
others were undecided about the
whole matter. The City Engineer eX-
planned matters as we'll as could be
done, and something like an hour was
spent in going over the idea. The re-
suit was that little of tangible ma
ture was accomplished, and a special
meeting of the Board of Public Works
will probably be called for to-day, at
which property owners will be in
vited to, be present.
1t appears that the city. through the
Board IF Public Works, has the right
- change the grade of street be-
xeen the curb lines, but that it has
O right to change the grade of side
walks on streets where a grade has
been established, without the consent
of property owners interested. The
probabilities are that the Board will
20 ahead and make such changes in
he street proper as will fake it con-
orm to surface drainage ideas, and it
S also probable that property owners
|She street proper as will make it con-
sent to raising the grade at the inter-
section of those streets, but this does