Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-21
ADJOURNED
Meeting of the City Council. Talk
About the Bridge.

ing members answering to roll call:
Davis, curtis, Blume, Strain, Marsch,
Lorenz, Gossett, Storck, Evelelgh.
The President announced that the
first business claiming the attention of
the meeting was the bridge question,
and Mr.. Marsch called for a statement
from the City Solicitor regarding the
necessary steps to be taken, now that
the people have by popular vote, au-
thordzed the issuance Of bonds for the
purpose OF building the bridge.
The Solicitor said in reply to Mr.
Marscn request .or his report on in
vestigatlon of the legal points to be
gone over in the process of getting the
matter under way, that the matter is
new to him as to the members of
Council, and that all he knows about
the matter has been CLEANED from a
study of the statutes governing the
erection OF bridges across the Mus
kingum river
The first thing to be done is to de-
dide what kind of superstructure
there will be. There will be about $780,
900 available for the purpose and that
it will be necessary to keep within
bounds of the money which will be
available. He stated also that ne had
been informed that prices OF material
have advanced since the matter was
first talked OF and 1t Is not likely that
there will be much leeway for the
Council to use in the selection of
plans. The action Of the Council now
necessary is to determine il the bridge
shall be built, the kind of structure and
If it can be oone witnln the cost in
tended
1t was stated by one Of the members
that U. s. Engineer Moeser had looked
over the ground and gave it ashis opin-
ion that there would be no trouble get
ting the approval of the War Depart
ment for the erection of the structure.
Mr.. Davis made motion that the
committee be instructed to get plans
and specifications for a structure with
twenty-eight foot roadway, but the
motion failed to get a second.
lie matter of width of roadway then
came in for lengthy discussion. Ri
nally Mr.. Strain said Council was US
ing up lots OF time and not getting
much done and he would like to see
someone make motion to get the
matter moving along in the right di-
rection.
Mr. Blume made motion that the
committee get the plans and specifi-
cations for bridge with 80 foot road
way with two 6 foot sidewalks.
Marsch asked If the committee
should use their own judgment as to
whether they should use the two or
three span pattern. He stated also
for the benefit of new members OF the
body that the probable cost of the diff
ferent widths roadway would be for
"a foot, $4,000; for 2S foot, $4,000;
for 32' foot, 100000 The Finance
committee seemed to be of the opinion
that they could raise 100000 for the
purpose all right, and Mr.. Merydith,
who was present, said If they could
raise that amount they could get the
bridge built.
Mr.. Wood called the attention of the
body to the fact that the matter of the
approaches or fills at each end of the
bridge would have to be built new and
that was matter that had not yet
been provided for. That it would
probably take $4,000 more for this and
that they should be careful to keep
their proposal within the limit allow
ed.
1t was stated that the estimates for
the work had included the cost of mov-
ing and rebuilding the fills or ap-
proaches and that it would not effect
the cost of the structure differently
than shown by the original estimates.
Alr. Blumes motion was put to a
vote and carried, Davis, Wood and
Strain voting no.
Mr.. Blume moved that the City Clerk
be instructed to advertise the fact OF
the intention of the city to build the
bridge in the papers along the Mus
kingum river and in two papers in
Pittsburg, as is required by law, and
the motion prevailed.
Mr.. Davis. for the Street committee,
reported in the case Of the obstruction
of -.llen street by saw logs near the
chair factory saw mill. 1t is remem-
beTed by our readers that the matter
came up by the fire department being
called out there a few days ago to a
fire and that they could not get to the
fire plugs by driving through the street
Mr.. Davis stated that he saw Mr. Els
ton, who claims a right to the land
and says that the city has no right to
it; that the fire plugs to which the de-
partment wished to go were the prop
erty of the chair company, which they
had purchased and placed there.
Upon motion of Mr.. Hlume the mat
ter was deferred and Council as a
Committee of the Whole to go to the
location on Monday afternoon at one
O'Clock for investigation.
Mr.. Davis then reported the result
of his investigation in the matter of
the shanty boat which is reported to be