The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-12-09
HOSE PURCHASE PROBERS
HAVE ROUSING SESSION
DETECTIVE FRAZIER GOES TIC
CHURCH FOR COUNCILMAN
W. n. HARE.
Board Of Control Members Hold Reso.
luton In Council 10 Reflection on
Their Honesty.

Such words as thief. CRATER. and
robber were used quite frequently al
the meeting OF the special investi.
eating committee OF council last night
The committee was called to consider
resolution introduced in council by
Councilman w. II. Hare at its last
meeting. asking for a probe into the
purchase Of hose by the Board Of Con.
troll
They were all there but Mr.. Hare
when the roll was called. Mr.. Hare
was missing and II was necessary 70
send Detective Fred Frazier to the
Second United Presbyterian church.
10 summon the complaining witness. "
Mr.. Lashley made the motion TO sum.
mon the absentee which was seconded
by Mr.. McKown.
A schedule OF prices was submitted
by ID. @. Brown. clerk of the Board OF
Control. showing that the average
cost for fire hose was 80 cents per
foot. with 5000 feet divided as fol.
lows: Revere Rubber company. 900
feet at So cents; Empire Rubber com.
pany. goo feet, at 81 cents: Boston
Woven Hose company, 900 feet at so
cents; Combination Rubber Hose
Manufacturing company, 500 feet al
30 cents; BtLateral company. 500 feet
at 90 cents; Republic Rubber con-.
pany, 500 feet at 30 cents: Goodrich
Tire and Rubber company. 800 feet ut
30 cents; and Eureka, 600 feet at 90.
The 500 feet at So cents ordered
from the Gutta Percha company was
not received. owing to the company's
refusal to sign the special guarantee
TO furnish hose that would test 400
pound at initial test. and 300 pound al
the end OF three years. All this hose
was two and one-half inches in diane.
Ter.
Mr.. Hare submitted a schedule of
prices received from Dayton, o.. in
which he quoted hose at an average
OF 90 cents per foot from the same
companies that had bid on hose for
Wheeling. One thing was 10 be noted
that the companies in their Dayton
specifications did not specify any spe-
rial brand OF hose. Contracts were
read. and guarantees. too. showing
which had the better OF the bargain.
Wheeling or Dayton. Clerk Chester
Thompson was instructed to write
Dayton, and other Ohio cities and get
quotations on the prices paid for hose
and the brands that they bought to
see IL the quality compares with
Wheelings.
Mr.. c. Hal Brues. Republican mem
Der on the board. and Captain Henry
ID. Weisgerber. Democratic member.
took the brunt of the resolution to
themselves, Mayor Kirk being out of
the city at the time, and j. s. Butts.
president of council. acting as mayor.
Mr.. Brues said that he had been called
everything but a CRATER. and II he
were a CRATER he wanted the people
10 know II, and IL he wasn't, he wanted
them to have the information.
Mr. Hare emphatically denied that
be meant TO cast any reflection on me
member. Then Mr.. Weisgerber said
inasmuch as he was a newly elected
member, he took the gist of the reso-
luton TO mean him, and the same re-
mark was made in answer. Here. the
then, acting Mayor Butts asked Mr..
Hare IL he had not told him that the
reason council was not called for so
long time. was. that the board knew
he (Hare) had this information he laid
before the committee and did not want
council to get IL until after the IRE
hose had been bought.
Mayor Kirk. Mr.. Brues and Mr.
Weisgerber were on their feet in a
minute protesting the remark. and Mr..
Hare said. Il apologize for leaving
that Impression" Mr.. Brues said,
That makes it look like we are graft
srs."
Mr.. Hare was then asked where he
had secured the specifications. and n
II were not so he had received them
from a disgruntled bidder. He re-
piled that he had not. Captain Weis-
gerber said, II take this resolution as
slam at myself. Let me say here.
In all fairness of this board, that the
contract for hose could not have been
handled more squarely."
Mr.. Hare said that he did not mean
II was reflection. Then Mr.. Brues