The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
Committee investigating the TeIe-
phone Ordinance Bring a Favorable
Report to the Council.
POLICE DEMAND AN INCREASE.
All the Officers Sign Petition for an In
crease to $50 a Month and Strike
IsiPossible-Other Business

The committee which has been in
vestigating the ordinance presented to
the city council by the Citizens Te1e-
phone and Telegraph company pre-
scented favorable report to the coun-
Gil last night and the ordinance will be
finally acted upon at the next regular
meeting. In order to secure the full,
est expression of the viii of the people
the mayor was ordered to compel the
aldermen to be present at the next
meeting and if the seats are vacant
when the meeting is called the police
officers will be instructed to go out
and bring in the delinquents.
The ordinance is reported back te
the council by the committee contains
few amendments but these have al
ready been agreed to by the directors
OF the company seeking the grant
One amendment provides that no poles
or wires shall be placed on North
Main street or on Milwaukee avenue
south of Bronson street, another that
not more than four phones shall be
placed on each party line, and the last
provides that the city shall have the
right to grant similar rights to other
companins SO long as the new COM
panies do not interfere with the rights
given to the Citizens company.
The secretary of the company filed
with the council schedule of their
plans showing that they would furnish
free phones for the City Clerk, Chief
of Police, Mayor and for each of the
engine houses now being used aHd to
be built in the future. According to
the agreement an exchange of $50
phones is to be Installed in twelve
months.
The police of the city have been
touched to the quick by the increase in
the pay of the firemen and last night
ali the officers presented TO the council
a petition demanding an increase of
salary so that all the officers will re-
ceive 500 month. It is limited that if
the demands for an increase are not
granted the officers will GO on strike
and the city will be forced to secure a
new police force. The matter was re-
ferred TO the committe on finance with
power to act.
Luke Prendergast, we'll known
Chicago detective, appeared before the
council and asked that the city convey
back to his wife, who is a daughter of
James Sweeney, former resident of
the city, lots 2 and II, in block Is, of
the First ward. The property is To-
taken by the city under a tax deed in
1886. In her petition to the council
Mrs. Prendergast states that she did
not know that the taxes had not been
paid. The property in question is an
important holding of the city and it is
possible that should it be reconveyed
10 Mrs. Prendergast the plan to extend
the Sheridan drive might be blocked
at some time or another. The matter
is in the hands of the finance COM
mittee but there is little reason to
believe that the property will be decided
back to the original owners.
No superintendent FOR the poor farm
has as yet been appointed and six bids
were received for the work and re-
ferred to the Mayor and pauper com
mittee with power to act. The bids
follow: Hans c. Jensen, 5000; John
Rreiling, $500; Phillip Maurice, $500;
S. E. Better, 500; J. c. Karnes, $475,
aud Robert Grant, $3.50. Grant, the
lowest bidder, has had considerable
experience in the managing of poor
farms, he having been in charge of the
farm at Rockford, Ill. He has family
consisting of a wife and four children.
The matter will be decided within a
few days and the farm opened for the
inmates.
The claim of Elizabeth Buschmann
for damages against the city for fall
in Central park was referred to the
committee on claims.
The City Clerk was ordered to in
struct G. G1eichman to remove his
barn from Fremont avenue on or be
fore the 18th 0f Au0.4Sf