Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-09

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mittee and Property Owners Yes
tcrday, at Which There Was
Violent Opposition to the Pro-
jecJ A Dissemination to Talk
Freely on the Part Of the Com
mittee, and a Msapprehension on
. the Part Of Property Owners.
For good many years there has been
desire on the part of property owners
along Water street to have that street
improved with brick pavement. Many
newspaper items regarding the matter
have been published, and the project
has been discussed at meetings of the
Finance Committee more than once,
but nothing has ever been done.
Within the past few weeks the Board
of Public Work, after receiving a COM
munication from the P, w. & Ky. Rail-
road Company, agreeing to pay one-half
the cost of the expenses of change of
grade, resetting of curb and paving the
street, between Main street at the in
tersection of Eleventh. and the inter
section of Water and the Windsor al
ley, found enough money to Go the
work, and caused plans to be drawn
providing for change of grade on
Eleventh street, from the west side of
Main to the east SIDE of Water, and of
Water street, from the north side of
Eleventh to the south side of the Wind
sor hotel alley. The City Engineer was
instructed to prepare these, and after
proper surveys submitted a plan and
profile of a change of grade over the
streets mentioned, and also carried a
new grade along Water street as far as
Fourteenth. Yesterday afternoon a
session of the Committee On Streets,
Alleys and Grades was called for Elev-
enth and Water streets, at four o'clock
and interested property owners were
also notified to attend About twenty
people responded, and the result was a
general objection to the proposed plans,
and the probable result will be that
nothing will be done, at least this year.
This will be due to two causes The
first is, that there was noticeable and
strange reluctance on the part of the
Committee to frankly tell the citizens
what the proposed changes meant or to
disabuse their minds of an evident
erroneous impression and well
grounded suspicion, while on the part
of the property owners there was an
equally marked dissemination to be
frank with the Committee and to mag
nifty suspicion that there was some
al tIo 11rLn hi
In other words. neither side appeared to
be willing to be frank with the other,
and the result was that they were at
cross purposes from first to last, when
the existing differences might have
been explained away or compromised
with very little effort. Both sides went
away from the meeting with the idea
that some fighting would have to be
done, and as a result no Improvement
of any sort will be made this year.
Briefly and fairly stated, the plans
of the engineer contemplated the i'm
provement of Eleventh street, between
Main and Water, by widening the pres
ent sidewalks to ten feet on each side,
cutting down the north sidewalk at the
intersection of Main street, rounding
the curb on both sides of Eleventh
street, at the intersection with Main,
and giving the street an uniform grade,
doing away with the steps in the side
walk now existing on both sides of the
street. A fifteen inch gutter would be
formed on the north side of the street,
and six and half inch gutter on the
south slice, and the street would be
paved with brick At the intersection
of Eleventh and Water streets the south
curb of Eleventh street would be
brought around into Water on a curve,
and about four feet of the sidewalk of
Water street at the private alley on the
south side Of the Gallaher property
would be cut off, widening the roadway
by that much at the alley named,
where there is an angle in the present
curb line. This cut on the sidewalk
would run out to the curb line at the
fire plug Immediately opposite the end
of the inner wall along the railroad
approach to the Pewiky depot platform
From this point the plan Of the en-
gineer proposes a rectificatiOn of the
line of the sidewalk. extending as far
as Fourteenth street, but the portion
south of the Windsor alley, as the en-
gineer explains, will not necessarily
have to be made this year, or at all, for
that matter. The proposed change in
the sidewalk. north of Twelfth street,
starts at zero at the Cockburn property,
just south of Eleventh street, and takes
off S12 inches at the Rogers property, 6
inches at the Kuglen property, next
south, about the same at the next
building, about inches at Husemans,
5 to 4 inches at the Hotel Windsor. 8
to l inches at Robinson's, and runs out
to nothing at the middle of the Wick
ham property, at the corner Of Water
and Twelfth streets, while there would
he raise of about an inch at the street
corner of the Wickham property. Pro-