The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-25
CITY COUNCIL MEET.
UNINTERESTING MEETING BELD
MONDAY EVENING.
REFUNDIHe ORDINANCE READ
Bonds will Be- offered fer Bids-No Bzak
Greater Than Three and a Half Per
Cent to be CozsidereH other Bust
ness Transacted by Aldermen.

The City Council met in adjourned
session at the City Hadl Monday
evening. There was no special reason
assigned for the meeting and little
/ business Of Importance was transacted
3 Aldermen Brister and CalRins were
kabsent. After the reading OF the min
! Butes, which took up over half an hour
1.-THE aldermen transacted small
iamount of routine work.
Il A petition was presented from the
hpeople living on HowlaBdi avenue,
demonstrating against the construction
Iot sewer on this street. AID. Weier
moTed that the remOnstranee. be- laid
ion the table, bOt after considerable
diseussion it was decided to refer the
master to the committee on sewers and
paving.
AZ petition, from the Northwestern
Wire Mattress Works, asking for q
change in she established grade On
Pearl street, was received and rsferred
to the comm5tCee On streets and alleys
Re5sr Jacobs asked permission tO
build, an addiction 30 his feed store on.
Market street and to erect a public
scale at tho corner Of Market andl
Chursh streets. The former request
was referred TO the committee on FIRE
department, while the natter was re-
ferre@l to the eOm2a5ttee ON, streets and,
alleys,
The Liquor license WHICH has been.
held by MeLaurin &C Blau, was asked
to be- transferred to JOAN Bill. THIS.
matter was referred to the committee
on lieense, to- report at next meeting.
As this. point of the meeting oecurredl
one of the sOst amusing incidents ever
seem in the COuGeil chamber. Wheas
was presented ths committee returned
4 a,namber of cancelled coupons to the
Council and recommended that they be-
burned in the presence Of tho Councils
There wasn't stove iD the house anG
so after various suggestions had been
made the Cle8A finally fonnd an old
dust pan and shovel, In which the,
oOupOns were burned by the Mayor.
Before the operation was over all Sorts
Eof laughable things occurred, and even
1.-THE fire department came mp stairs to'
Esee what was going On.
On the Recommendation of the COM
mitsee Oh streets and alloys North,
Main, Union stress and Milwaukss
avenue ON the north side, and all taee
EstTeets about the park on the south
side were ordered sprinkled during she
summer months. The Clerk was.
E0rdered to advertise for bids for shis
work, the bids to be opened at the aext
regular meeting of the Council.
The contracts for the sewers on
Jenne, Exchange, Chicago, julius and
South Chicago streets were awarded to.
Hanson & Thompson, of Racine. who
were the lowest bidders for tbs. work.
Their bond for the proper completion
was fixed at 81 500
The final payment for the n1aGadam-
izing of DnFkee avenue was made in
the allowance of the bill of the keichert
Construction company Of Racine,
amounting to $52.49, and allowing the
Water Commissioners $242a
The matter of refunding the city
bonds was then taken Up and Aid.
Tarb8ll introduced an ordinance for
!, this purpose. The ordinance provides
for the sale of city bonds to pay the
present outstanding Indebtedness of
the city to the amount of $170,000.
The bonds are to be sold to the lowest
bidder, but no bids over 81 per cent.
will be received. 1t is understood that
there will be considerable demand for
the bonds and they may be negotiated
at rate even lower than that which
was originally planned. The bonds
are to be issued for period of twenty
years and will bear coupons calling for
the payment of the interest in semi
annual installments. The bonds must
be paid absolutely at the expiration Of
the twenty years. The Mayor was
authorized to have the bonds lithO-
graphed and the notice of their sale
was ordered to be published in the
official paper of the city.
A lengthy report was presented by
the committee on finance and the City
Clerk, purporting to show the condition
of the city's finances at the present
time The report in part was as
, follows:
Statement of receipts and dishurse-
ments compiled from the City Treas
urer's reports for the year ending April
18th, 1899:
RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand April 18th, 1895 80 Is, 557 IS
For cemetery lots. ............... 426 IS
For licenses of all kinds. ............ 26,2S2 80
For dirt. repairing sidewalks, etc. l55 SO
For excess in sewer assessments. 3,O26 So
: For pauper account. ............. esq
From county school fund. .......... $500 90
Per cent. of gross earnings L & F.
Co........................ 286 SO