Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-10
:. 8. THAYER. Editor and Prop--VOL. xxxvIII.
CITY COUNCIL.

The regular monthly meeting of the
city council was held Tuesday evening
last and three hours were taken up in
the routine of business before an ad-
juurnment las taken.
The Wisconsin River Railway and
Power Co. presented an application
for the right to construct street rail-
way within the city's confines and the
paper was referred to a special COM
mittee composed of Aldermen Burke,
Flatter and Muenchow.
John MOhr presented a claim for
damages for injuries received by fall
ing on defective sidewalk. The city
attorney gave it as his opinion that the
claim had not been filed within the re-
quired time and that it was therefore
not entitled to any consideration.
A petition from residents in the north
part of the town asking that an engine
house be built on Bridge street was re-
ferred to the committee on fire. and
that committee to report at length up
on the advisability OF such move.
The city attorney read statute of
the law pertaining to the refunding of
taxes, which set forth that such action
was illegal, and upon that advice it
was decided to submit all tax refund
! ing cases to the committee on taxation,
which means that such claims viii be
disallowed.
A committee reported the following
sites available for the location OF new
public building, with the recommends
ton that the first be accepted
The market square with additional
land to be purchased of A. j. Althen,
Cawley Bros. and Il. Bauman, making
total cost of S4.500
The Pfeifer & Klecker property. cor
ner of Fifth and Scott, cost $4,000.
The j. NJ Smith property, corner
Third and Grant, cost 81 500.
The Morgan Bros. property, corner
Second and Mcclellan, cost "a, 500.
The SchOltield property, corner
Fourth and Mcclellan, cost $4,000.
1t was moved that immediate action
be taken with reference to buying one
of these sites, but the motion was lost
by vote of 10 to Z.
A communication from the board of
library trustees was read, asking ac-
ceptance by the city of the offer of
$25, 600 made by Andrew Carnegie for
the construction of library building.
NJ. A. Hurley also addressed the cOun-
Gil in favor of its acceptance and the
communication was referred to the
committee which already had the mat
ter under consideration, and the time
in which it was to be reported upon
was extended another month. A reso-
luton was then introduced by Alder
man Wolf, placing the matter before
the people at the next spring election to
be voted upon at that time. This met
the approval of the council and the res
olution was adopted by vote of II to 5.
In response to previous request of
the city upon the C. M. & st. P R'y.
Co. to place fiagmen at its Scott, Jeffer-
son, Washington and Jackson street
crossings, r. Goodrich and M. A. Hur-
ley, agent and attorney for the COM
pany, appeared and stated that it was
the intention of the corporation to place
an automatic gong system along its line
at these crossings. Time was granted
for such improvements to be made.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the affairs of the officers of the last
administration, as shown by their books,
submitted a report but the same was
held over until the next meeting.
A. B Wheeler & Son were given the
contract for furnishing a new boiler for
the pumping station at cost OF 81, 173