The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-10-20
SEWERS AND BONDS.
City Council Considers Sewer
Plans Submitted by Engineer
and Refers Them.
BONDS FOR DURKEE SCHOOL.
Ordinance Submitted by City Attorney
for Bonding City for Five Years
for $4,000.

| Two matters of much importance
came before the city fathers for their
consideration last night at the coun-
Gil meeting, the new sewer plan as
submitted by the city engineer for re-
l1eving the western and southern part
OF the city from sewerage, and the
bonding of the city for SIS, 900 for five
years to pay for the new Durkee
school building.
Sewer Plans.
The city engineer submitted plans
to the city for the construction of a
sewer to drain Jenne and Garden
streets and others of the streets in
that part of town. AS submitted the
| sewer is to have three-foot outlet
| and is to dump into the river. The
estimated cost of the proposed sewer
is S11, $500, and it will have an as
sessable length of 8341 feet. This
sewer is supposed to take care of the
needs of the northwest part of the
city and to relieve the present dis
tress in that part of the city.
The other branch is to have it's out
let into Jerome creek and is to dump
into the creek at Congress street.
This branch is estimated to cost
| S6325.4O and to have an assessable
length of GIGS feet. This plan was
not complete and the city engineer
asked more time in which to complete
these plans. The plans met with a
large amount of objection on the part
OF both the aldermen and spectators
IN the audience. Speeches in favor
and against were made in the meeting
by the aldermen and the spectators,
and one well known gentleman of
south Ashland avenue, who resides
near Jerome creek, said that the min
ute that construction was ATTEMPTED
to Jerome creek an injunction would
be served to prohibit the city from
emptying into that creek and po11ut-
ing the water any more than it now is.
This brought forth discussion as to
what this sewer is to be and some of
the aldermen maintained that this
sewer was to be only an overflow
sewer to take care of the surface water
IN times of heavy rains, and not for
the dumping of sewerage.
In connection with the Jenne street
extensions, there we're many of the
residents of that portion of the city at
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answer be given them at once and
connections made with the sewer now
in operation on that street, which
hitherto has been denied them.
The whole matter was finally re-
ferred to the committee on sewers and
the city engineer, to see if some plan
could not be devised to relieve all the
sufferers and to report at a special
council meeting to be held next Thurs.
day night. The plan that seems to be
the most in favor among the alder
men, is one by which everybody need
ing relief may obtain it at once and
that no favoritism be shown to any
part of the city. During the discus
sion Of the sewer, there was intense
feeling among the aldermen and the
spectators and at one time some of the
audience became too demonstrative
and Kissed one of the aldermen who
was on the floor. Alderman Robinson
jumped to his feet and made strenu-
Gus objection to the Kissing, to the
mayor. The offense was not repeated.
Bonding City.
City Attorney Slater submitted
new ordinance to the council, which
provides for the bonding of the city
for the sum of $4,000, to pay for the
new Durkee school building in the
third ward. The bonds are to be for
81, 900 apiece, to bear four and one
half per cent interest and are to be
grouped into classes of five bonds to
the class, the first set payable Febru-
airy First, 1906; the second, February
First, 1907, and so forth, till all are
paid at the end of five years. A letter
was then read from G. C. Brown, in
which the First National Bank of this
city agreed to take all the bonds. I'm
der the law, as Kenosha is working
under special charter, the proposed
ordinance must be published for a
week and then submitted to the coun-
Gil for its action. To the ordinance
as submitted, there was great objec-
ton by part of the council. Certain |
of the aldermen thought that the
whole bill ought to be paid by
a special levy at the next taxation
period. The answer to this was that
if that course were followed it would |
come exceedingly hard on the poorer
of the tax payers and that they would
be paying for the benefits that subse-
quent residents would acquire without
cost. If the bonds are issued, say /