The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-05-08
'BOARDI0F AFFAIRS
ANXIOUS ABOUT
A'7iVH|:||.1'E Way
Mayor Bowen is Asked to
Find Out What Holds
It Up.
TAX ORDINANCE A Law
Board Accepts Invitation to
| Visit Safety First
Train.

1t was most too warm this morning
% the city Board OF Affairs to get
up enough enthusiasm to do m lch, such
business as came before the body wat5
rushed through with the result that
the meeting lasted but an hour. Pres
ent, to administer and TO make laws
and regulations were Mayor Anthony
Bowen, Finance Commissioner. j. Wal.
ter Barnes, Street Commissioner AL.
bert Lehman and Water Commission.
er Ira L. Smith. City Clerk Albert
Kern acted as amanuensis for the
speakers.
The first and most important mat.
ter smoothed over by the Board was
the Great White Way. This socalled
Great White Way is overdue and &C.
cording to conservative figures will
be built before the snow falls-per.
haps. Mayor Anthony Bowen was In.
structed by the members OF the board
to look into the Great White Way mat.
ter Immediately and to report at the
next meeting the reasons why the
work of constructing the street light.
ing system is not progressing.
The tax ordinance which went into
effect last Monday night when the
city council failed to sit was an
nounced at the meeting as having be-
come law, This license ordinance
and the hog and pig ordinance have
both become effective on account OF
the city council which has but veto
powers failing to meet TO discuss them.
The city council has powers to veto
these ordinances after Investigation
when an ordinance Is passed by the
Board OF Affairs and the council fails
to sit such ordinance becomes law.
The liquor ordinance was passed ov.
er until next Monday morning for Sec
ond reading.
The Board, at the invitation OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
officials will attend the Safety First"
meeting being advertised to show at
Walkers Siding, May IS. They will
attend the exhibit in body at 2 p.
m. Water Commissioner Ira l.. Smith
has been instructed by the Board to
investigate and alter to purchase a wa.
ter pressure valve to be used on the
water tanks which have habit Of
flowing over and flooding the property
OF some neighbors Heretofore the
water has been turned on every morn
ing at 5 O'Clock and turned off at ev-
cry afternoon at 4 o'clock. At times
the water has flooded out at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon showing that the
amount OF water used daily by Fair
monters tluctuates considerably. The
water tanks were built in 1894 and ey-
cry day In the intervening 90 years a
man has turned the water on at S
o'clock and off at 2 o'clock. This
valve will eliminate the manual labor
attached to the water tanks and will
also be an absolute preventative
against overfowing unless of course
the valve gets out Of condition. A
very good valve and one which will
most likely be purchased Is a Foster
Engineering Company Of Newark, n.
j., product that costs $104.
Water Commissioner Ira l.. Smith
was also privileged to purchase six
fire hydrants to be placed at different
places about the city. The Board after
scanning and worrying over figures or
sometime has decided that It is more
economical to buy fire hydrants than
It is to pay 81 per foot for fire hose
which lasts about a year.
The controversy which Is existing
between J. L. Torrey'o OF Locust avenue
and body Of, Locust avenue citizens
and which has been shifted upon the
shoulders of the city fathers was put
off for further argument until next
Monday morning. Building permits
we're granted to Mike Powell and Har'
ry B. Scott.