Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-10-10
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Business Transacted by the City Fathers
at Their Last Meeting.

! business transacted by the City Fathers
at Their Last Meeting.
Ihe common council met in regular
session last Tuesday night, the only
absentee being Alderman Wertheimer
! A petition was presented by Second
ward taxpayers asking that a gas
lamp he placed at the southwest cor
I ner of Cole and North Fifth streets
The matter was referred to the COM
! mittee on street lighting.
The following report made by the
finance and judiciary committees was
adopted:
! To the Honorable Mayor and Common
! Council of the City of Watertown:
Gentlemen: Your committees on iu-
dietary and finance, to whom was re-
ferred report Of the board of public
works containing an estimate for
Louis SchOenlaub. our street paving
contractor, beg leave to report:
The joint committee has had the
matter under consideration and rec
ommend the allowance of the same.
j We further recommend that the city
attorney be requested to draw up the
/ proper receipt SO that the validity of
I the contract will not be jeopardized.
/ We do also call the attention of the
board of public works to several minor
matters necessary yet to be attended
to on Main street pavement, between
FIRST street and College avenue, be-
fore cold weather sets ia. Same are
known to the city engineer and the
I contractor, and should have attention
at once.
A resolution was passed directing
the city clerk to issue an order against
the city general tund in favor of Louis
Schoenlaub, the paving contractor, in
the amount of $2,17974, due him on
| his contract
The board of water commissioners
were instructed to purchase a drink
ing fountain for man and beast and
place it near the Fifth ward house in
| lieu of the one now there.
Messrs. Pease and Stanchfield, of
the board of public works, submitted
an estimate of the paving work on
Main street; the other member of the
board, City Clerk Bieber, refused to
slgu the report because he was of the
| opinion that no payment should be
made until the work is accepted by
the city. The report, which was re-
ferred jointly to the committees on
finance and judiciary, is as follows:
! 10 the Common Council of the CITY of
Watertown:
We, the undersigned board of public
works CT the city of Watertown, here
by certify that Louis Schoenlaub,
under and pursuant to his contract
with said city, dated May %, 1899,
has completed that portion of the work
which extends from College avenue to
the east end of Main street bridge in
said city, and has completed 15,626
square yards of vitrifed brick paving,
including excavation and curbing, as
specified in said contract, at the inter
sections of First Second, Third and
Fourth streets, which is chargeable
to the city. and we do hereby grant
TO said Lol is Schoenlaub an estimate
of said work which is chargeable to
the city in the amount and SUN of
50, 247.75 withholding therefrom,
however, % per cent. of said estimate,
pursuant to section So of the city
charter.
We further certify that said con-
tractor is entitled to city orders in
said sum d 81 ,6S5. 80, payable out of
the city improvement fund of said city,
in addition to the estimate reported
by US August Is, 1899. Said con-
tractor having given to said city
written request that all city orders
issued for'work done under said con-
tract be made payable to the order of
G. A. Knapp, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
we recommend that said orders be
issued payable to the order of said e.
A. Knapp, and that said amount be
charged to said contractor, Louis
Schoenlaub, upon his said contract.
Dated October 8, 1899.
The committee on streets and bridges
were authorized to act in conjunction
with the street commissioner in the
matter of repairing Oconomowoc ave-
nue. bridge.
The term of William c.. Stone as
member of the board of water COM
missioners having expired, he was re-
elected by the council for three years,
receiving ten votes to three scattering.
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