Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-19
COMMON COUNCIL.

Thursday evening, April Is, at 1870 p.
m. Mayor Hoyt presiding. Present,
Aldermen Bark, Lefeber. Breed. Baum
bach, Decker, Jones aud Hamme.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The financial statement Of 4. F..
Kellogg, city treasurer, for the month
OF March, 1902, certified as examined
and found correct by the acting comp
troller, was presented and ordered
placed on file.
The finance committee reported back
the various bills referred at the last
meeting with their recommendation,
and upon vote Of the council the bills
were allowed as recommended,
The board Of public works reported
that the bids received for laying water
mains for West Milwaukee, Ludding-
ton and Western avenues, were in the
opinion Of the board too irregular and
informal to be considered, and recon-
mended that they be rejected and new
bids solicited. Upon vote of the coun-
ell the bids were rejected and the board
directed to solicit new bids and pro-
posals.
The board of public works also re-
ported the result of bids for improving
Sixth avenue from East Milwaukee
avenue to Division street, as follows;
). I, Croft, grading 2lc. per cubic yard.
gravelling 4sc per cubic yard, gutter
soc. per square yard, curbing 2sc. per
foot, with recommendation that a con-
tract be awarded to S. p. Croft for
doing the work at the prices above
mentioned. The resolution was adopt
ed and the contract awarded.
A resolution providing for issuing
street improvement bonds for the inn
provement on Sixth avenue unless
property owners file notice of election
to pay, and directing the publication
of notice, was adopted.
The board of public works, reported
the receipt of bids for laying water
mains on Watson, Third, Windsor,
Wisconsin avenues, and Chestnut
street, with the following as the low
est figures:
George Il. Zimmerman, Watson. Third
and Windsor avenues, 90 cents per foot
in length; Wisconsin avenue, 81 cents
per foot in length of pipe laid; Chest
nut street, "a cents per foot in length.
The committee having recommended
that the contract be awarded TO Mr..
Zimmerman at the figures mentioned
in his proposal, the contract was ac-
eordingly awarded by vote of the
council.
A resolution was adopted directing
that special water works bonds be
issued for laying the water pipe on the
above mentioned streets in all eases in
which the owners of property do not
file notice of election to pay on COM
pletion of the work, and directing that
notice to that effect be published in the
official paper.
There being no further business to
come before the old council it was de-
clared to be adjourned without day,
and the seats were vacated.
The city clerk then read the certif-
Gates Of election of Emerson d. Hoyt
as mayor, and of the members elect of
the new council together with the
names of the members holding over,
The council was then called to order
by the mayor, after which the follow
ing officials were elected:
President of Couueil-Willian Won
Baumbach.
City Clerk Edward Coulthard
City Attorney--Chas. b. Perry.
Marshal--Julius Marquardt.
Street commissioner. ID. Warren.
BY Alderman Decker A resolution
providing that the rules of the last
council with the exception that the
sewerage committee shall consist of
but three members be adopted as the
rules OF the present council until al
tered, amended or repealed. The reso-
luton was adopted.
The mayor presented eommunica-
ton nominating J. O. Martin as alder
man from the First ward to fill va
cancy, and the appointment was con