The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-06-09
Alderman Sto|ze AngriIy Resents What He I'm
aqines is Interference Of Mr.. L. J. Nash
COUNCIL VOTES AGAINST STATE ST. BRIDGE
Despite Strenuous Appeal Of Mr. Muhoand City Fathers Con-
cur in Veto of Mayor Kemper Special Meeting to Con-
slider Fond du Lac Ordinance Will be Held
Next Monday

Despite the fact that the Fond du Lac
ordinance was not considered at last
Monday evenings session of the city
council the session was by no means
devoid Of interest. One or two matters
were discussed with considerable ami
nation, not to say warmth. Among
these the subject of the sidewalk around
the public library was the occasion OF
hot and rather acrimonious debate IN
which Alderman Stolze in particular,
vented his feelings against the library
board and Mr.. l.. j. Nash.
The session opened with Aldermen
Schuette and Urbanek absent, though
the latter came in later on. Petitions
were read from employees of the Mani
towoc Dry Dock Company and from the
Goodrich line employees asking that a
bridge be built over the river at State
Street. As this subject was to come up
later, ON the question OF the mayor s
veto OF lHt OluiubhS'' ''N'N fS'
were laid over until then
Mr. G. G. Sedgwick who was present
then asked the council for permission 10
present an ordinance granting iran
cbise TO the West Side Electric Light
and Power Company. The permission
WAS granted and Mr.. Sedgwick then
distributed copies of the ordinance to
tbe aldermen. He called their attention
to the fact that the ordinance was short
He said that it was becoming customary
in such cases for municipalities to make
the special ordinances short but TO pass
a general ordinance covering points
common to all such franchises.
II was decided to change the line OF
wafer pipes from Wollmer Street be-
tween Sixteenth and Eighteenth Streets
70 Sixteenth Street between Clark and
Wollmer and to Eighteenth Street be-
tween Western Ave- and Wollmer.
The city attorney was instructed 70
nroceea against contractor Peters to
compel him to finish his work on South
Eighth Street between Madison and
Co,nmbus Streets. Walter Pellet was
granted the contract for the building OF
the dock ut the foot of Sixth Street pro-
viding he should complete the work III
90 d.vs Mr.. Pellets bid was SIS per
linear foot.
Some little discussion arose over the
proposition recommended by Cher OF
Police Pierce to place n police box at
the corner of Eighth and Washington
Streets. The cost of the box would be
about $75. Chief Pierce stated that the
nearest boxes to that point were NJ
Ouav Street and Eighth and Eleventh
and Washington. On n vote the motion
WAS lost. It was then discovered that
the matter had not been referred to
committee, and it was Immediately so
referred for reconsideration. The
matter of opening storm sewer on
Thirteenth Street to Sherman Creek
was taken up The cost OF the work
WAS estimated at $500 of which the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Company was willing to give STD The
street commissioner was instructed TO
proceed
On recommendation of committee the
council voted not to grant the request OF
Manager Higgins for change OF route
for the Manitowoc and Northern Trac-
tion Company. Bids We're authorized
for the improvement OF various streets
The city engineer submitted state
ment to the effect that A. kuAi had
completed his contract for work on
Ninth Street from New York Ave
north to the city limits and wished the
same inspected prior to its acceptance
The board of public works reported
several bids for building the sidewalk
around the public library and recon-
mended that the bid of the Schlater
Sidewalk Company be accepted. There
were no bids for putting in four inch
metre Mt the cemetery. There was
some little discussion over the question
of whether or no bond anght to be
reouired for the work and how much it
should be. This point was not decided
and the council soon launched into n
discussion of who should pay for the
work, the library board or the city.
Alderman Stolze was extremely vigor-
ous in his denunciation of what he
deemed the autocratic methods Of the
board and of Mr.. L. J Nash in particu
lar. He kept continually reiterating
that he knew positively that Mr., Nash
had instructed the clerk to turn over
some three hundred dollars more to the
library than the board hAd called for ut
frat in it's estimate of expenses He
wanted to know where the three
hundred dollars had gone to. Mr..
Plumb told him that it wonld be i'm