The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-12

Clerk Watkins repor, showed that
City Collector Hall had turned over TO
City Receiver ForGey, the following
anountS-50-ccnt levy. 1883 IL; Decent
levy. 1924 "a. The report was adopted.
The committee on fire department sub
mittcd It's report with bills auditing
1892 IS: adopted Permission was grant
ed the committee to make certain eX'
pendituTes.
The committee on health submitted
string Of items agEreRniInE 1870; urdeCed
paid. Similar action followed the report
OF the committee on police and city
prison. with bills for the police, SlOi 81;
for the city prison. ti65 2s. The recon-
mendatlnn 81 the latter committee that
the guards 1t the city building board
themselves hereafter, was adopted: hut
the resolution asking that an ordinance
be drawn up which should stipulate that
the moneys occurred from non-reT'dents
OF the city using the ambulance, be turn
Ell into the police fund was referred TO
the committee on ordinances, there be-
Ing some doubt that this money should
not be turned into the general fund.
Bills were ordered paid. recommended
hy fhe following committees: Real estate
SIS o.: scaieq. 1888 -.
The committee on streets. alleys ana
grades submitted an ordinance aSiEs TIE
grad. on the south side o: Fourteenth
street. from Alley q 20 McCollocn. The
ordinance pdssc1 Without opposition.
A petition from Fifth ward taxpayer,
asking that Twenty-iirSt street be paved
with brick from Main street TO the Bail
more Il Ohio depot. was referred TO the
board Of public works.
A pool and billiard license was granted
to o. \. S;n;ler,
Mr. W. J. Colts and ids plea scr dam
ages suffered from the city, created rip
pie OF amusement nir. Cots sent In
cJninuUisassOu through MS counsel to
the board Of public works, which recon-
mendcd that Il be referred to the COM
m,tce on clairs. Council agreed, and
referred II TO tina: committee.
The Sisters Of St Joseph, wheeling
Hospital, begged TINT they be not
charged fOT gas at tho institution. The
petition was referred 10 the gas board.
The board OF publIs works asked con-
curreuce OF the petition OF CITY Engineer
White. who asked that he be authorized
to name az his assistants the following:
C. W. T0hse draughlsmRn; J. NJ. Dun
lap. and b. +. Hamilton, rodmen and
chalnmen. Council concurred.
Several petitions regarding alleys were
referred to the board OF public works.
The committee on claims go; the petition
OF Mrs, Catherine Simpson. who wants
recompense Of 800 for damage to her
The irst discussion on reports OF tho
committees followed the reading or the
report OF the committee on ordinances
IN recommendation that the present tax
ON base ball and foot ball games be re-
talncd, did not ind favor. and upon mo-
lion Of Mr.. Gartley, that part Of the COM
mlttee's report was referred whence II
came.
Council passed the ordinance compel
ling the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad Com
pany to erect n gate. and keep watch
man at Sixteenth and Main streets
Preliminary TO consideration OF tho or
dluanCe granting certain privileges 20 the
l.aBelle iron works council ratified the
act OF legislature, February. 1891, which
gives council right 10 vacatc certain
streets This ratification was necessary
TO lcgallzc the passage OF the LaBelle Or
dlnauCe.
The ordinance granted the LaBellc
iron works the portion Of Thlrdeth street,
between Wood street on the west and the
nlley crossing ThlrtlCth street between
Wood aud McCulloch street, on the east,
I'm exchange Tor land TO open, widen and
extend Twenty-ninth street. In return
far TINS tNINfAHNNll llhlll INV wy WV NNlAl
rnny agrees to indemnify the city with
not only land for street purposes on the
south side OF CnldwollJ run. between
elldWood and McCOllochstrects, but fur
thermorc agrees to grade the new street.
nut n retaining curb on the north side Of
Inc street. and In general make a good
gtrcet thlrty-sIx feet IN width The
city would also reap the benefit OF the
company's extension Of It's plant and the
large nay roll OF the additional men en-
ployrd N the new plant,
This was one OF the ordinances acted
upon by the first branch first. aud the
second branch concuTCd unanimously.
Following the action of tho second
branch. President Cecil \, Rohngon, of
the LaRrllc iron works, who was back In
Inc spectators gccuon, received many
CONGRATULATIONS upon the success OF the
company petition
The r1ll call IN The first branch deyel-
opcd the following prratnt Blchmnn,
BAIRD. Dawson, Hl!lCr. lllaict, HorR
hrIuicr. McIlrvcy otto, Schmidt, stree
bel and Zwlcl,cr, absent. EDcllnE, List,
WlclebuFch aul Williams.
The frst branch cOncurrcd In all the
buslncun done across the hall, a petition
from the wholesale druggists wanting