Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-25
some CITY AFFAIRS.
The Reconstructed Fire Alarm System
Pronounced All Right.

The Annual City Statement VIII
c. to Council This Evening, at
the Regular Session of That Body.
An Interesting Session of the Com
nittee on Petitions and Remon-
strances, Last Night.
Council will meet this evening in
regular session, for the transaction Of
8 very moderate amount OF business.
One Of the leading matters will be the
complete annual statement OF CITY
Clerk Watkins. which will be read
and ordered published, in accordance
with custom. The statement was gone
over last evening by the Committee
on Accounts, and the figures compared
with the ledger accounts, and found to
be correct The Register has already
published an elaborate abstract of this
paper, and there remains little for
discussion until the complete docu-
ment is laid before our readers.
The Subcommittee of the Council
Committee on Fire, charged partlcu-
larly with the supervision OF the work
of reconstructing the pole line Of the
alarm system, met last night with the
Chief and revised the work done. The
repairs were reported completed in d
satisfactory manner, and the balanc.
dut the Mountain State Electrical
Company, amounting to $525, will be
recommended to Council this evening
for payment. the appropriation for
this work was made in the apprOprl-
alton ordinance for 1897.
There was a brief but spirited ses-
sion of the Committee on Petitions and
Remonstrances, last evening, at which
some remarks were made by Chair
man pro tenn ALL, which met with the
appreciation of a majority of the gen
tlemen present, although no formal
action was taken in the matter. The
subject up for discussion was the APP
plication of Isaac Greensburg for
liquor license at No. 81 Seventeenth
street. a house which has been before
the Committee, in one way and an
other, for the best part of year. Mr.
Ali stated, in substance, that he did
not feel like going to any further
trouble about liquor licenses, as COun-
Gil ignored the Committee and did alb
solutely as it pleased in the premises,
and, speaking for himself, he felt like
rendering his resignation, and thought
the entire Committee should do so, af-
ter having been ignored and turned
down so often. These sentiments met
with expressions of approval. Other
members said that under the recent
opinion of the City Solicitor, the Com
mittee had no real power or right to
do anything. and move will prob
ably be made to ascertain the exact
status Of the body. The pending APP
plication was then taken up and
written. agreement was read from the
applicant, in which he stated that he
would conduct the place in strict ac-
cordance with the ordinances of the
city and run strictly first-class sa-
loon and restaurant, occupying the
premises himself A petition in oppo-
sition to the license from citizens llv-
ing in the vicinity was then read, and
also two affidavits certifying that the
old occupants of the premises were
still there. After a good deal OF talk
the matter was referred to Council
without recommendation.
Transfers were recommended favor
ably as follows: E. Junknickle, No.
1888 Water street, to William Galley;
+. Albinger. No. 1903 Jacob street, to
J. S. Hill: Fred Aires, No. 3ll4 Eotf
ctrnat To Harry KnOke