Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-08-27
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
New Gas Company Offer a Re-
duction of One Half

If Granted Franchise will Furnish
Gas for so per cent Of Price Paid at
Present The Peoples Telephone
Company Offer the City Their Phones
z at 8 Dollars, Reduction Of two dol
lars on Price nov Paid to the Bell
Company.
The city council met ia regular SEES
sion Monday evening with Mayor Geo.
G. Steele in the chair. Recorder w.
e. Arnett, counciImen Hayes, Smith,
Christie, Courtney, and Spurgeon
were present. The minutes Of the
previous meeting were read and APP
proved.
Mr. Christie Of the COMMITTEE on
larger council room, reported that the
committee were unable to secure the
services of a carpenter and as a result
could make no progress with the work
The committee were allowed another
week.
! The committee on franchises for
the Union Improvement Co., and the
Morgantown Electric Light and
Power company had noreport to make
Miss Elizabeth Moreland and II. +.
ssSLaZier received permits to erect build
ings such as described 10 petitions.
Philips & Lemon in the First ward,
w. r. Taylor in the Fourth ward and
Mary K. Taylor in the same ward were
also granted building permits The
application for building permits by A.
Rightmire and Sarah e. Hunter for
Soma nm Ixno1uY raacop vppra not paoGad
upon by the building committee. The
application for building permits by
Peter Mehlinger and L. D. Ross were
held over by the committee presume
bly, because the application specified
shingle roofs
At this juneture Mr. {. T. Benedum
of Sistersville, asked leave to address
the council upon the question OF the
granting of franchise TO company
Of which Mr.. Benedum is one OF the
organizers, which company proposes
to pipe gas INTO this city from Clay
district. Mr.. Benedum submitted
that his company proposed to charge
consumers $1.25 for one cook stove for
one year and SLIGO for each additional
!. fire for six months. That the com
y pany would ask for six months time
in which to lay its pipe. That in ex
PLANTATION Of the length of time asked
the fact was called to the attention of
the council, that the present strike of
the steel workers made it difficult to
obtain shipments OF pipe. That the
company would guarantee ia any event
to begin laying pipe from its gas wells
within civ fhE and nv limo I
1902 to have the system completed.
That the company represented by Mr..
Benedum would also guarantee to fur
nish gas within fifty per cent or one
half Of the present prices paid by con-
sumers, and that gas would be fur
nished on meter at Is cents per 1000
feet. Mr. Benedum referred the coun-
Gil to the First National Bank of
Sistersyjlle and other we'll known con-
Germs. The ordinance or franchise
submitted by Mr. Benedum was refer
red TO the street committee
E. E. Humidity asked that a grade
be established on Jones avenue, so
that property owners GA that street
could be able to improve in front of
their property. A motion by Hayes
and Arnett that the engineer give the
proper grade, provided it was found
that the street had previously been
properly dedicated and accepted by
the county-was adopted
T. Pickenpaugh asked permission
to haul heavy timber-some forty
pieces-down Walnut street TO the
wharf, with one end dragging. An
examination Of the ordinance discover
ed the fact that the sort of thing
asked for was expressly and specii
cally forbidden by an ordinance. 1t
also appeared that so far as the GER
tain members of the council were con-
ceraed. it was q matter OF common
knowledge that one John keener and
Others were violating this ordinance
nearly every day. A motion was
made by Hayes and seconded by
Smith that the ordnance governing
this matter be suspended in the cases
OF Pickenpaugh and Keener and that
they be permitted TO make up their
RATS at the wharf ia the manner
asked for in the Pickenpaugh petition
which motion was adopted upon an
aye and nay vote in which Surgeon
of the Second ward cast the only dis
senting vote
The city solicitors at this point
asked that the council in the matter
Of the rule asked fer by G. i. Stephan
through his attorney and issued by
the Supreme Court of Appeals citing
the officials of the city of Morgantown
to appear before the said court, on
September A, 1901 to show cause why
books, money and papers &c belong
ing to the former officers of the town
Of South Morgantown, should not be
returned to such officers issue the fol-
lowing order:
That the mayor be authorized to do
whatever is necessary in said defense
of the city, and that he be authorized