The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-31
RAIL ROAD REGULATION TABLED
FOR SECOND TIME IN COUNCIL

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WHEELING MOLD 3 EsIE Pr, CO.
GETS PERMIT TO SAVE WALL
OF ITS PLANT.
First Council Session Since December
1e Busy One-control Board
Wants Vacation Law
More Clear.
Railroad regulation within the ely
of Wheeling by enactment or a CITY
ordinance was tabled again last eve
ming at the first session OF city couh'
Gil held since December IL. 49,
/ The ordinance providing lot me
regulation Of the operation or trains
and the use of railroad yards within
the city. when called up for second
reading and amendment in the Secohu
Branch council last evening. met Win
no opposition until the third reading
for final massage. Then q motlon 10
table the ordinance was adopted WIN
out a dissenting vote by the eighteen
members OF the Second Branch pres
emf at the session.
The ordinance was first presentCa
at Il session more than TWO months
ago, when il was tabled in the Secona
Branch because many councllmen De-
lieyed that its passage IN me 10TH
presented would work 4 hardship not
only on the railroads but upon patrons
of the roads, because under the oral-
nance cars could not be placed al 1ne
freight stations and yards al Night
ready for unloading in the mornlns-
At the December meeting, howeTec,
I'll
licitor Bremen and the Board or Con-
troll, in view of the recent controTerS?
over the smoke nuisance, the orul,
nance VAS taken from the table ana
passed first reading. The second reaI-
inc was deferred to permit tFpewrlt-
ten COPIES TO be furnished councllmen
for use in proposing amendments 10
the Objectionable features. Another
hard blow, however, was dealt rall-
road regulation last night when the
ordinance was tabled again "ltnout
dissenting vote.
Second Branch Proceedings.
In the Second branch council an OF
dinance authorizing the Baltimore q
Ohio Railroad to remove planklng De'
tween its rails on Seventeenth street
east OF Eoff. and substitute, concrete
curbing, was tabled on third reading.
ed unfavorably on the ordinance.
A petittion Of the J. Z. Moss iron
Works for permission TO erect Gov
cred walk over an alley connecting
the companvs office at Twenty'elgnih
street with the plant. was referred 70
The ordinance and streets, GraueS anu
alleys compittees. ,,o
appointmentS By Chief OF Police mos
Levland of Henry Seamon. police pa
trolman: Elmer fisher. patrol driver
Thos. Kelley, captain Of detectives
and Andrew Powell. extra policeman
4 message from the Board or Con
troll, submitting resolution OF louil'
Gilman W. L. Fritz. placing the weigh
ers at three Of the city scales on d
salary of $50 per month, was reterreo
10 the finance committee.
4 message from the Board OF ON
troll asking that the city employees Va
cation ordinance be maze more clee.
TO define whether II IS the intention
lions or have the other members OF
The CITY forces double up was re-
ferreI 10 the ordinance committee
with Instructions 10 embodN the latter
provision in tn ordinance.
petition of Seventh ward cluZens
for an arc light at Ontario and New
Jersey streets was referred 10 Tie
light and water committee.
message from the Board OF CON
troi submitting 4 petition or the elec
tric light trimmerS for an increase III
salary from $65 to SIS per month. was
referred 70 the finance committee.
An ordinance was, adopted permit
ring the Fort Henry Club 10 erect
marouise at the Fourteenth street Gu
trance to the club.
a communication was received 1IUili
CITY Solicitor Brennan. submitting t.t
request OF George W.. LutZ. presIu.u'
OF the Market Audit orium Associatiio y, I,
for additional legislation reSuias,n :; .
rho collection of garbage ut the Hlt;
tet houses was referred to the orui-
,aonce committee. Several councllner
voiced the opinion that the addlt!onaI
Hesitation should embodI provision
for connecting the market stali OWL
org 70 nav for hauling away their gar,
haoc The same as store owners uo. do
uoIl rs snecifying the times when gar
haee should be SIT out at the street
rnrhs TO be collected by the wagons;
The First Branch concurred III aA'
IF these actions.
Mold G. Foundry Permit;
In the Second bTdutu az -
was adopted. upon recommenaatloiI ~
the ordinance and cemeteries coml'! :.
ices permitting the Wheeling Moio ~ *
Foundry company TO extend tulee
Steel beams into the, Peninsula cHlu es
ferv TO strengthen the south wall OF
rho Mold & Foundry plant. IN inc
First Branch some opposition deFel,
oped TO allowing the supports 70 Dc
set in the cemetery. but after r.
NcSell representing, the, Mold \
foundry company. had eXplalneq Ina!
the company would even go so lar as
70 furnish bond to insure against Dam
age ae 70 graves. and pointed out that
~ wall of the plant is liable 10 CO..
lonse at any time with the posslole ae,
s,ruction Of life, the. Second eraHcni
co ~ in the action Of the Flrsl
Branch with but two dissenting Voles'
The First Branch amended the or,
dinance providing that the boaro OF
control lay walks now laid by prop
ertv owners within ten days from
the issuance of notice to do So at lhs
exnense of the property owner by tx,
landing the time to thirty days: lDc
second Branch, in which the ordinance
ORIGINATED. concurred in the amend
,ment. o-dinopce