Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-06-16
No CITY SPRINKLiNG.
The Council Again Kills the PROPOSE
tion-An Aggravating Situation

uon-An ASSraVat1ng situation.
The matter of street sDrinklinp,
which has caused SO much anxiety for
our city fathers this season, had an
other liberal discussion at last nights
council meeting, with the same result
nothing accomplished This per-
picking question seems to be the bone
Of large contention and has fur
nished much amusement, and at the
same time disgust, in the council
The situation last evening was at times
ludicrOus in the extreme, and with the
multitude of motions, cOunter-motions
and amendments before the house at
the same time it would have taken a
Philadelphia lawyer to untangle the
conglomeration The committee on
streets and bridges presented report
outlining the different sprinkling dis
tricts, three in number, and covering
about equal territories. After several
changes had been agreed upon the
districts were approved. There were
four bids to do the work, p. j. Euper
proposing to cover the first district
for $50 per month, NJ. j. Burke the
first for $75, Joseph Jantzen the sec
Ond for $50 and the Phoenix Fire
company the third for $50. Aid
Began moved that the work be award
ed to Burke, Jantzen and the Phoenix
company at their offers. Aid. Schmidt
moved to amend by substituting
Euper's bid for Burke's, which propo-
sitiOn was lost, 9 to 3. Then several
other motions and amendments were
offered, but the original Began motion
was finally ruled to be in order and
the question was put. The motion
was lost by the following vote: Aye
Began, Hartwig, Kessler, Needham,
Prendergast, Skinner; no-Glaser,
Mayer, McGolrick, Meyer, Mulberger,
Schmidt, Wertheimer. The whole
matter was thenindefnitely postponed.
The question now arises, where are
the sprinkling cart proprietors to OBJ
tain their pay for work performed thus
far? They have gone ahead on the
promises of certain aldermen, as they
claim, that the city would eventually
pay them. Now no one seems to know
just where he is at and there will prob
ably be no more sprinkling until some
thing definite is determined.
Aid. Prend ergast offered a resolution
calling for the construction of an cleo
trio fire alarm system throughout the
city, at an estimated cost of 81, ,15O.
The matter was referred to the finance
committee.
A resolution was presented by Aid
Mayer to have an arc light placed
over the Lewis fountain square, at the
intersection of West Main and Wash
ington streets, the darkness by night
at this point being considered danger
Gus to travellers. On motion the res
olution was placed on the table.
Aid. Kessler introduced a resolution.
which was carried, to have the COM
mittees on finance and streets and
bridges investigate the advisability of
purchasing steam road roller at the
present time and report at the next.
meeting.
The mayor appointed Louis Benzel
as weed commissioner.
On account of the council having
| committed an error in electing the
board of water commissioners at the
same meeting when the ordinance pro-
viding for the board was adopted,
| instead of waiting until the first subse-
quent meeting, the action had at the
meeting June l was recOnsidered. The
council thereupon proceeded to another
election of the commission, the same
members-W. @. Stone for the term
ending in October, 1899; w. F. Voss
for the term ending in October, 1898,
and John Habhegger for the term end
ing next October-being chosen. The
mayor appointed Aid. Kessler as the
councils representative.
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