The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-08-21
FAILS TO HIT MARK,
Singing Rebuke From the State Board
OF Control Does Not Touch the
City Council.
NO ACTION TAKEN ON POOR HOUSE
City VIII Be Forced to Build Foot Bridge
Across Pike Rivera New System
For Bills Against the City.

The singing rebuke administered to
the city by the member of the State
Board of Control who recently visited
the city fell wide of its mark and the
members of the City Council at their
meeting Monday night took no action
to make plans for new poor house in
Kenosha.
The statements made by Gustav
fisherman while in the city were
more than duplicated in his letter to
the Council in which he condemned
the old poor house as "a place unfit for
human beings and a disgrace to the
present day civilization. In speak
ing of his visit to the poor houses Mr..
Fisherman said: "a few have been
found unsatisfactory, but even the
worst of these are fine in comparison
with the poor house at Kenosha. The
city cannot afford to continue to house
her poor in such place, nor can the
state of Wisconsin allow it to be said
that it's poor is permitted to be kept in
a place unfit for the residence of hui
man beings"
This appeal and strong talk to the
Council was of no avail and the alder
men simply accepted" the report of
the State Board of Control and it was
filed away in a pigeon hole for further
reference. The people of the city
should arise in their might and demand
that the old poor house be RACED and
new edifice secured in some manner.
It there is to be foot bridge over
Pike river for the use of the people
the city will be forced to pay
for its construction, as it is discovered
that there is nothing IN the bond with
Mr.. Arnold that would force him to
build such structure. Mr.. Arnold
has written to the Mayor and stated
that he has not been able to see his
way clear to donate sach a bridge
to the city and that it will be neces-
sary for the people of the city to either
have the bridge built under its own
direction or to have Contractor Gallo
way build the necessity. The bridge
will cost about $3.50 and it will be built
by the city. The entire matter has
been left with the committee on
bridges with the city engineer added.
The plan is to construct floating
bridge built mostly on air tight bar
rels. 1t is thought that this will an
swer the purpose and be perfectly safe.
1t is probable that the bridge will be
built at once.
Alderman Goodman is anxious to
secure more system in the payment of
bills against the city and for this rea-
son he has suggested that the rule re-
curing every bill presented to the city
to be accompanied by an order be en-
forced. For some time this rule has
been overlooked and the people having
accounts against the city have simply
sent them in and depended on the com
mittees to approve them and order
their payment. Under the plan pro-
posed by Alderman Goodman every
bill presented will bear the order on
which the goods were delivered and in
this manner the committees will have
no trouble in seeing just who ordered
the expenditure of the funds of the
city. The scheme is now used by the
Board of Education and it has gone a
long way towards keeping the accounts
Of the Board in better order.
Two bids were received from the
papers of the city Monday evening for
the printing of the proceeding Of the
Council but neither of the bids were
satisfactory. The mem bers of the
Council seemed to be opposed to print
ing the proceedings in weekly paper
that is read by only few people in the
city and yet they are unwilling to pay
other papers for the work of publish
ing the reports of the doings Of the
Council. The matter was left in the
hands of the printing committee and
they will look further into the matter
and make report. The Democratic
members of the Council are still of the
opinion that there will be new Dem
ocratic paper in Kenosha in the near
future and they are anxious to have
the contract for the work held up until
this paper is started.
The committee on taxes reported IN
regard to the employmento of assistants
for the assessor and the Council con-
frmed the appointment of N. ]. Wer-
ner at a salary of four dollars day.
A broken private drain on Ashland
avenue caused quite a discussion
among the members of the Council
and the committee on sewers was
ordered to notify the owners of the
drain to either repair or abandon it.
7. Letting was present at the Council
meeting and offered to repair the drain
at his own expense if the Council
would grant him this permission. The
matter was left to the sewer committee
with power to act.