Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-03

Stone quarry Purchase and Street Mac
adamlzIng Aired in the Council
Many Opinions.

Ihe subject of street improvements
occupied the greater portion of the
common councils attention at last
evenings session. The introduction
of the following resolution by Aid H.
G. Mayer opened the agitation:
WHEREAS, The city of Watertown now owns
steam road roller, an expensive machine of
not much use unless material is provided for
macadamizing our Streets and it being a posi-
tive fact that the Uehling farm contains an in
eexhaustlble bed of the best quality of Trenton
tie city; be it therefore
Res0UeG, That the committee on judiciary
be and they are hereby authorized and instruct
ed to purchase from r. Uehling, of Redwood
the two acres OF laDd (more less) according
to the city engineers S survey, at not more than
S25O per acre, subject to the approval O the
council.
Aid. A. Meyer was of the opinion
that an experiment in making roads
with hard-heads secured from neigh
boring farms should first be tried be-
fore purchasing II quarry. Aid. Vert
heimer advocated the use of stone from
the river bed, thereby saving the ex-
pense of going outside the city and at
the same time employing home labor.
Aid. Mulberger looked at the matter
in much the same light, but recon-
mended quarry on the Austin farm
In the northern limits of the city, ex-
hibiting sample of the stone, which
b. said was considered just as good as
the Redwood stone. He thought the
clty's financial condition w0uld not
warrant the expense come ted with
securing stone from the Uehling quar-
ry, especially since the proposition
was to be gone into blindly, with no
estimate furnished of the cost of the
quarry side-track and the receptacle
here. Being a member Of the com
quarry question, Mayor Rack took
the floor in defense Of the committees.
recommendations and the resolution
just presented. He spoke at consider
able length and entered into minute
details. He also took Aid. Mulberger
and Wertheimer to task for their posi-
tlons in the matter, and there were
some interesting sallies back and forth
between the three gentlemen. Aid.
Mayer was also heard in support of
his resolution. Aid. Needham said
that as yet no measure had been passed
looking toward macadamizing and
that nothing In this line could be done
by the present council, as winter was
at hand; it would therefore be best to
defer the quarry purchase until next
spring. The mayor stated that
he felt the resolution would be killed,
but that in his opinion a mistake
would be made in so doing. When
put to vote the resolution was lost,
s to 3, as follows: Aye-Began, Gla-
ser, Kessler, Mayer, Prendergast no
-Hartwig, McGolrick, Meyer, Null
berger, Needham, Schmidt, Skinner,
Wertheimer.
Aid. Skinner introduced a resolution
providing for the construction of a
sewer in Fifth street between Milwau-
kee street and Western avenue. This
Is the same measure that an effort was
made to enact last week Edward
May, one of the property owners af-
fected, was present and explained
the sanitary dangers of the cess-poOl
on his premises. He asked the coun-
Gil to provide the means of relief from
this nuisance, in other words, sewer
for ais drainage. The resolution was
passed by an affirmative vote Of all
present, except Aid. Needham, who
voted no, and Aid. Schmidt, not vot-
ing