The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-09-07
CITY HARBOR WORK.
Aldermen Decide that Wakefield
Sheeting will be Used in Con-
structing the New Docks.
scHorrs BOND MAKES TROUBLE

Aldermen Hold That it Does not Make
the Repaving of the City Streets Sure
Enough-Cowell Bicycle Ordinance is
introduced and Meets an Instant and
1gnominious Death With the Harbo1
Committee.
The City Council held a special
meeting Thursday evening for the
,urpose of taking some final action in
regard to the material to be used IN
the construction of the docks as de-
1nanded by the government in connec-
ton with the Improvement OF the
harbor. At the last regular meeting
the contract for the work was given to
P. w. Galloway, of Racine, but no
material was specified.
Several members of the Council, in
Guiding Aid. Head and Weier, were IN
favor of the docks being built entirely
of oak. but it was ascertained that the
use of this material would demand an
added expenditure on the part of the
city of about $1,000, and this was a
greater expense than the aldermen
thought the city should stand.
It was announced by the City Clerk
and the engineer that the government
was making an exclusive use OF the
Wakefield pi1ing and it was finally
decided that this sort of material
should be used.
Aid. Priddis brought the matter to
an end by moving that the material
for the docks be: Outside oak piles,
Wakefield sheet pi1ing consisting of
three pieces, s2x12x26, with white oak
caps. wales and trimmers and red oak
mud stills.
This motion was carried, Aid.
Weier alone, voting in the negative.
The material, as adopted, will make
the docks when completed cost the city
S11.9O a 1inea1 foot, or total of
2,197.5O.
The work on the docks will be start
ed about the first of October, and it is
the intention of the contractor to finish
about 300 feet during the present
season.
The government contractor has
stated that the work of dredging will
be done as fast as the contractor is
ready to go ahead with the docks.
Mr.. Galloway stated to the Council
that it would require at least month
for him to secure the material.
In regard to the pay for the work
the Council did not make any contract,
but the contractor was given to under
stand that it would be impossible for
any money to be paid on the contract
before the first of January. This was
satisfactory to him and the Mayor and
City Clerk were ordered to enter into
the contract for the work.
The Council received a con1munica-
ton from the Associated Cycling club
of Chicago, asking to be permitted to
run relay race through this city on
Labor day. The permission was unan-
imous1y granted.
The bond of w. H. Schott, in regard
to the replacing of the pavement after
the installation of the heating plant, is
giving the Council a great deal of
trouble, and some of the aldermen
urged last evening that the bond was
not sufficient, as it only covered a
period of six months. The aldermen
claim that Mr.. Schott is inc1osing his
pipes in a sort of hem1OCk lumber
which will rot in a few years and they
claim that as soon as the boxing rots
the pavement will be ruined in that
part of the street. The aldermen dis
cussed the matter at length, but moth
ing was done on the question. Alder
man Schlenker expressed the matter in
very few words, as follows: "The
franchise is granted, and the Council
has. no right to say how the work shall
be done.' Talk of hiring an inspector
was also INDUCED in, but it got no
farther, and the whole matter was left
just as it was in the beginning.
At this stage of the meeting hearty
laugh was produced by the introduce
ton of the ordinance recently proposed
by Walter M. Cowe11, for the purpose
of regulating the riding of bicycles by
women. The Clerk introduced the
ordinance by reading the letter from
Cowe11 which accompanied the docu-
ment. The ordinance was not even
given reading, and it was doomed to
an instant and ignominous death.
Alderman Pirsch moved to lay it on the
table, but Alderman Tarben amended
that the ordinance be referred to the
harbor committee ''With orders to bury
it in the harbor and notify the coro-
ner.' The amendment was carried by
a unanimous vote, even the Mayor
taking shot at the ordinance.
Council then adjourned.