The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-08-07
TO ADJUST CLAIMS.
City Council Begins the Work OF Pay
ing the Claims Arising From
the Smallpox Epidemic.
SEVERAL ARE HELD IN ABEYANCE
Council Decides to Order the Paving of
Church Street From Park Street to
Park Place Other Business.

At its regular meeting Monday night
at the city hall the City Council took
up the work of adjusting the claims
recently brought against the city on
account of the smallpox epidemic and
claims to the amount of hundred dol
lars were allowed. All the claims for
provisions and for work ordered by the
city were allowed by the committee
without bubble, but the large bill of
DR.. ]. L. Cleary for treating smallpox
patients and small bill of less than
ten dollars presented by C. H. Hurd
for drugs sold to patients under the
care of DR.. C1eary we're held in abey-
ance pending further examination.
i With the bills allowed Monday night
the Council has paid out more than
$3.50 for claims arising from the cpl
demic. Some of this money will prob
ably come back to the Council as the
clerk has been ordered to make an
effort to collect the amounts paid for
all people who we're not paupers and
dependent on the city. IF the people
for whom these bills were made are
unwilling to reimburse the city for
the payment it is probable that suit
will be brought to collect the different
amounts. The unpaid bills will proba-
bly, be taken up again at the next
meeting of the Council
The meeting Monday evening was
4o~
largely to routine business. The street
assessment committee reported that
the preliminary preparations for the
paving of North Main street and the
unpaved PORTIONS of Main street had
been completed and bids were ordered.
It is possible that this work will be
completed this season. Church street
is to be paved, not throughout its en-
tire length, but from Park street to
Park Place. The matter was formal
ly decided upon by the Council and it
was referred to the street assessment
committee for the usual red tape work.
This work will require about three
months and the paving of the street
cannot be started until next spring.
n Dennis Conroy, the furniture dealer,
filed claim of SIS against the city
for damages done to his stock by the
backing up of water during the recent
rains. He claims that the damage
was caused by defects of the city sewer
system and therefore demands dam
ages to the amount Of SIS. This is the
first claim of the kind ever presented
to the city and the action of the COM
mittee on claims to which the petition
was referred will be watched with in
q terest.
4 The Trades & Labor Council,
through lis secretary, Charles w.
\ Zweenic, invited the Council to take
part in the celebration of Labor day
and the invitation was accepted by
una nimous vote.
i The estimate of the Board of Educa-
ton demanding $22, 688.8O from the city
for the support of the schools of the
CITY was presented and accepted.
The report of the poor master showed
that at present there we're forty-eight
persons receiving full or part support
from the city. Austria Hungary is
} ready to take care of her own paupers
and this fact was shown by commu-
nication received from the consul of
J that country in Milwaukee in regard
to the ease of Anton Vietz, young
boy who had been seeking aid from
! the Council for some time. The letter
of the consul stated that the Austrian
} government was ready to care for the
young man if he was still citizen of
his native land and that if his njuries
, were the result Of an accident in any
} shop the country in which he was
born was willing to furnish him with
!, legal support in the suit to collect
damages from the factory owners.
The letter was referred to the commit
tee on paupers and the matter will be
, taken up later.
The committee on FIRE department
. and the fire chief were ordered to pur-
chase whatever hose was needed for
the fire depar tment.
The old question of extending the
city sewer system was taken up again
on the following resolutions:
RESOLVED, mat the committee on
sewers, with the city engineer and city
attorney, be Instructed to prepare an
ordinance for the extension of the
present sewer system so as to provide
proper sewerage facilities for all prop
erty in the city not included in the
present sewerage system, where ex-
tensions can be made without detri-
nent to the present system.
Action on this resolution will proba-
bly, be taken at the next meeting of
the Council.
4 No other business of importance
came before the city fathers and they
adjourned until the next regular meet
J ling.