The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-23
Troubles Of the BrickIayers Are LA
BILE to Delay City Work For
Several Weeks.
KENOsHA PEOPLE ARE THRIFTY.
Nearly All of the People of Milwaukee
Avenue Pay Cash For Paving just Com
pleted.-Cost Was Nearly 100000.

union in Kenosha and the contractors,
Cox & Leutritz, have been carried into
the City Council and it is now an
nounced that unless a settlement can
be reached city work will be considera-
bly, delayed by the old time fight.
Cox & Leutritz are contractors and
9th are under the union ban. Re-
Gently they were given the contracts
to build catch basins for P. w. Gallo
way, who has contracted to lay num-
Der of sewers in the city.
The contractors claim that they
asked the Kenosha chapter of the
union to furnish them men for the
work but the union declined. Now
the union asks the Council to force
Cox and his partner to give up the job
on account of the fact that clause in
the contracts made by the city insists
that all work be done by union men.
The matter is left at this point as the
members of the Council are a little
slow to take up labor fight where
nothing is to be gained by it. ae
Cox & Leutritz seem to be ready to
complete their contract and it is very
probable that the city will have little
to say in the matter as the contract is
a sub-contract let by Contractor Gallo
way. It is to be hoped that the union
and the contractors will manage to
patch up their differences before the
opening of another season as building
work is likely to be greatly delayed if
the squabble continues. IA
The Milwaukee avenue paving is
now fully completed and the Council
Monday night unanimously voted to
accept the work. Exclusive of the
grading the improvement has cost the
city and the property owners thirty
thousand dollars and similar amount
will be paid by the Kenosha Electric
Railway company making the total
cost of the improvement more than
sixty thousand dollars.
gdIn the completion of the work the
thrift of the German residents Of the
city is plainly shown, for out of the
seventy-eight property owners who
were assessed for the Improvement
sixty-seven elected to pay cash on the
completion of the work. Bonds for
the, whole work unpaid for will amount
to only So, 1870. No other street in
the city has ever been so nearly paid
for at it's completion and the people
of Milwaukee avenue are certainly
worthy of high praise for this example
of thrift and economy. This cash pay
ment will save the people of the city
thousands of dollars which would have
been spent in paying interest on bonds.
The people have been notified that
these cash payments will be due dur
ing the present week.
! The Council Monday evening took
up the discussion of a new plan for
heating the engine houses. The city
hall will probably be heated with heat
from the city plant and the North Side
engine house will probably be fitted
with furnace. The committee esti-
mates the cost of these two heating
plants at ST., $50.
At the time of the granting4of the
hot water franchise the company
agreed to furnish the city hall with
heat at any time the city would equip
the building with radiators. This
would cost the city in the neighbor-
hood of $500, but the laying of pipe
line from Park street to the hall would
cost in the neighborhood of $500 more.
Many of the aldermen are of the opin-
ion that this pipe should be laid by the
company and for this reason the mat
ter will be taken up at later meeting
and in the meantime the clerk was
ordered to advertise for bids for the
equipment of the hall.
The sbids for the painting Of the
Middle street bridge were opened and
they varied from $75 to $225. The con-
tract was awarded to John Pinzger,
who was the lowest bidder.