The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-06-25
DROP PLAN FOR A
NEW COURT HOUSE.
Board Abandons Project After
Refusing to Acquire Add.
tiOnaI Property.
VOTE ON DEFEAT WAS CLOSE-l6 to IS.
Resolution Brought in When Special Meet
ing Was About to End and Snap Judg.
ment Is Taken-Regret General.

Hiellt Is ldken -kegTet ueHtTdl.
Manitowoc County's new court house
project, thought to be in fair way of
realization, has been indefinitely post
poned and nothing further can be ex-
pected for several years to come as re-
suit of the action of the Board of Super
visors at the special meeting held Fri
day, called for the purpose of consider
ing suggestion of the Special Commit
tee to purchase additional property as a
site for the proposed building but resoly-
ing itself into session for the defeat of
the proposition as a whole. After re-
fusing to adopt the recommendation of
the Committee the Board took snap
judgment on a resolution introduced
just previous to adjournment and by a
vote of 16 to Is discharged the Commit
tee from further labors in the interest
of new court house and abandoned the
project to an indefinite period Sup.
d. w. Sheldon, of Branch, was the au-
thor of the resolution which was as fol-
lows: "Be it resolved that the COM
mittee on public buildings be discharged
from further duties with regards to pro-
curing plans and sketches for new
court house and that the building of a
court house be indefinitely postponed"
The resolution came as surprise TO
all but few members OF the Board and
with the vote called without permitting
time for discussion or deliberation it is
doubtful that the members gave true
expression to their views The resolu-
ton was adopted aud the project for
which so good start had been secured
was killed, although by the snail mar
gin of one vote. The members who
favored the resolution and the abandon
ment of the plan are: Connell, Dunbar,
Gretz, Krause, Krieser, Muth, Mathies
en-, Murphy, Pinger, Reinemann, Shell
don, Schwalbe, Schubert, Spencer Zas-
trow, Zorn.-16 Opposed to the defeat
of the court house project We're: Croft
man, Giemer Lehrmann, Mohr Rappel,
Schmidt, Stehn, Schultz, Schroeder,
Senglaub, Uek, Vraney, Vieth, Watt,
Wagner r-15. Sup. Behringer of Two
Rivers was not present at the meeting
having been excused on account of i'll
ness in his family.
AT the opening of the meeting an I'M
official report was presented by the
Special Committee as to the result of
the inquiry that had been made as to
the cost to the county of securing the
additional property. 1t was reported
that the price in aggregate of the de-
sired land was 1868, 600, the SCHNEIDER
property being held at $l5 900, the Ka-
dow at $50, 600 and the Reformed Church
s., 600 with the cost of removing the
church edifce to new site, estimated
at 5000 An official inquiry was di
rected and Sups. Krause and Mohr were
appointed to make it. An adjournment
was taken until afternoon and then the
was virtually the same as that present
ed in the morning session The report
was tabled "A resolution at this time
was introduced providing for condemna-
tion proceedings to secure the property
and directing that the step be taken at
once. L. J. Nash made brief address
in which he favored the additional site
and the question was then put to vote
and defeated 20 to II. The resolution
of Sheldon was presented shortly after
this vote was announced and after the
final action the meeting adjourned.
Although considerable censure is di-
rected to the Board for the defeat of the
project, many are inclined to the belief
that inasmuch as the largr site was not
secured, it is as well that the matter is
delayed Even had the Board refused
to build, the work of the Committee
would have been of great value and but
small expense would have been in
Cured. There was no probability that
the court house plan could have taken
definite form for a year.
There is much speculation now as to
whether Kinney and Detweiler, the
Minneapolis architects, will make good
their threat to sue the county for the
plans which the Board refused. The
prevailing opinion is that nothing furth-
er will be done in the matter.