The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-05-19
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USTTAKE AWAY
DISTRACTIONS
City Will Compel Railroad To
Remove Tracks. Buildings
and Switches From
Franklin Street
TO REGULATE SPEED OF AUTOS
Machines VIII Not Be allowed To Run
Over Eight Miles an Hour
Must Slow Up At Corners
And Carry Lights

evening anu lIhuStCltti CouSl'icl hbiV
business The most important matters
before it We're resolution regarding
the tracks and buildings Of the G. x \.
! w r. r. Co on Franklin Street. an
ordinance regulating the speed of auto-
mobiles through the city and the annual
report of Chief Police Pierce The last
named matter will be found in detail in
another column
When the council was called to order
petition from VIM Rosinsky asking
for a refund of IS - taxes was read and
referred to comittee. Petitions from
property owners on Fourteenth Street
between Madison and Columbus streets
and on Twenty First Street between
Marshall and Hamilton for street i'm
provements were also read and referred
to committee.
The bus, baggage and hack men of
the city presented remonstrancc
against the granting of n right Of way
on Franklin street to any electric road.
The remonstrance had sixteen signa
lures 1t was referred to committee
Bills for the electric lighting of the
various wards and departments of the
city were then read The amounts are
as follows; First ward, S651 .Ss Second
ward, f23S 25, Third ward, sG36 16:
Fourth ward, S35s %; Fifth ward. $27l-
.56 Sixth ward Sl2ij0; Seventh ward,
$3.50 90; Police, Sa1 Fire, ST. 10 Bridges
$3.50.
A resolution was then unanimously
| adopted authorizing the city attorney to
proceed by law to compel the ca n. w
II. Il. Company to remove all obstruc-
tions from Franklin street between Four
teenth and Eighteenth Streets Under
the head of distractions are placed the
company's switches, buildings, tracks,
etc. The city will also endeavor to com
pei the company to plank its crossings
and to gravel the street
The Goodrich Line presented bill Of
$50 for ice breaking in the harbor dur
ing the past winter This was referred
back To the company with request
that it he itcmized and that the time
and price per hour of the boat used he
stated
Mayor kemper reported that the poor
| ,,f, tan DI al,
the appointment Of w NJ. Joyce ~ poor
commissioner alta salary Of 5000 per
year Chief Pierce's report was then
read and placed on file
Bids for the city printing were then
opened and read The CITIZEN Publish
| ing Company and the Herald Press Pub
llshipg Company were the only bidders.
| The bid of the former at 35 cents per 20
lio and 8 cents for tranacribing was ac-
cepted
An ordinance permitting the G. & n.
| w. K. X. to place tracks from Lake
Shore Street at any point east of lot 933
on or across Franklin Street To any
point in block 23i was then read Ow
ing to the situation of one Of the hy-
drants belonging to the Iandreth Com
pany, this ordinance was laid over un-
I'll the hydrant should be removed The
council was informed that DR. Fraser
mad promised to remove the hydrant
| The license Of John Gross was trans
ferred to VIM. Fricke. The contract for
building the bridge over the river from
State to Center Street was awarded to
Franklin Bros and Morris Of Minneapo-
lis for S2470 This company bid WIS
the only one presented The contract
for building the dock at the foot of
Sixth Street was awarded to Walter Pei
lett for Sls per foot This is the first bid
that has been received for this work for
II long time and after several adyertia
ings.
A sewer petition from residents on
State Street between Seventh and
Eighth Streets was referred to the Pub.
lie improvements Committee
An ordinance was then prennted by
| Alderman Plumb regulating the speed
of automobiles through the city The
ordinance placed the maximum at 10
miles an hour and miles around cor
ners, through alleyways or across
bridges II provided that automobiles
must slow up when going by horses and
If horse shows signs Of fright the ma.
chine must be brought to full stop
Each machine must be equipped with n
suitable alarm OF horn which must be-
sounded at corners and crossings and
when the machine approaches another
vehicle going in the same direction.
Each machine must carry two lighted
lamps between dusk and dawn or one
hour after sunset until one hour before
sunrise. The lamps must show white
in front and red in back The penalty
for violation of this ordinance was fixed