Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-18

TION UP-REAL ESTATE COM
MITTEE.
Last night was very busy one for
Council Committees. Ordinances, Pc
| titions and Remonstrances, and Real
, Estate met, and between the three bod
! les about two hours and half OF time
were taken up and quite number OF
matters passed upon, conclusively or
otherwise, according to circumstances.
The Committee on Ordinances as
sembled, with Chairman Mccormick
presiding and Messrs. Fox, Williams,
Bradbury, Schmidt, r. T. Chew and
Watson, of the membership present.
There were also in addition City Solici-
tor Nesbitt, City Engineer White, Mr..
John j. Coniff, Mr.. Morris Horkheim-
er, DIR. C. NJ Frissell, and half dozen
or more Councilmen.
The first matter taken up was the
| franchise asked for by the Ohio Valley
Motive Power and Refrigerating Com
pany, attached to which was the opin-
! ion of the City Solicitor, criticising the
draft. This opinion has been hereto
| fore printed. The gist of it is: The
charter is not on record, and we are not
| informed as to who comprise the incor
/ the amount of the capital stock; this
| company as well as the Consumers, Of
ter to light the City Hall, both cannot
do it; compressed air vehicles could be
operated on the streets without charge,
except when out for hire, when they
would be subject to the same license as
| hacks and express wagons, the charter
| is perpetual, there should be a provis-
| ion that there could be no pooling with
another company" and closing with
recommendation that such ordinances
should be referred to the City Engineer
before passage.
Mr.. Bradbury said he had been given
| to understand it was not the purpose
of the company to furnish electric
| light, and out of this remark the ordin-
ance was ordered read in full, after
which Mr. Coniff, attorney for the
/ company, and one of it's incorporators,
was invited to speak, and did so, in
reply to the criticisms and suggestions
of the City Solicitor. He said the char
| ter of the company had been received,
| and was at his office. The incorpor
ators were Messrs. Morris Horkheim-
er, Dr. C. NJ. Frissell, H. w. Mcclure,
| f. H. LANCE and himself. AS to the
! objection to a perpetual franchise, the
company would accept such a limita-
ton as had been placed on other cor
! porations. On the objection that two
companies could not furnish light to
the City Hall, Mr.. Coniff said the idea
was to supply light to any other city
! department or departments equal in
amount to that required to light the
! city building. The speaker said he
was without specific knowledge as to
/ the sort of structures required for the
use of compressed air, but that provis-
! ion had been made to leave the matter
| in the hands of the Board of Public
| Works for its approval. If that was
not sufficient, details would be sup
/ piled. On the question of licenses for
compressed air machines, Mr.. COniff
said the purpose was to operate along
routes where stations were located, and
! where air could be supplied to vehicles
| at stated periods. AS to when the
work of construction would begin, he
would accept the same provisions as
was in the Consumers Company or
dinance, and this also applied as to the
| tine or completion. Maximum charges
| as to lights would be upon the Con-
| sumers' basis, also. He agreed at
once to a clause forbidding pooling
with any other company, precisely as
provided in other ordinances passed by
| Council or recommended by the COM
mittee, and he expected the same re-
gulations as to poles and wires on
| Market and Main streets as had been
granted. He saw no objection to
reference to the city engineer.
| Mr.. Schmidt moved that Mr.. Hork
heimer be heard, as that gentleman