The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-22
City Council Orders an Ordinance
to Dispose Of Sewer Plans Ad-
opted Some Time Ago.
CONTRACT FOR ENGINE HOUSE
Contract for the New Building is Let to
Parks & G1erum and the Work
Was Started Today.

The members of the City Council
have recovered from the recent sewer
election and the aldermen have now
begun to clear the decks in order to
make some new sewer proposition
possible. To this end the city attor-
ney was instructed by the council at
the meeting Monday evening to pre-
pare an ordinance which will have an
effect of repeating the plans for, the
sewer as adopted at the meeting of
the council previous to the election.
The plan now stands on, the records
of the city as the adopted plan for
the general sewer system and it must
be erased before any new action can
be taken. The demand for sewers in
the western part of the city has in no
way been done away with by the vote
of the people, and the people of the
Fifth ward, who sent up the largest
majority against the bond proposition,
are the first ones to demand sewers.
At the meeting the council received
petition from the residents of Jenne
street asking that some action be
taker to provide a sewer for that sec
ton of the city. The council did not
act on the matter but the discussion
took up more than an hour of the time
of the aldermen. It was finally re-
ferred to the committee on sewers
with instructions to bring in a report
at the next meeting of the council.
The committee is at work on plan
to furnish sewers, but it may be many
weeks before the plan is presented to
the council, and with the present
feeling of the aldermen it will be an
exceedingly difficult matter to secure
the adoption of any plan.
Made New Contract.
The work of building the new en-
CINE house in the Third ward will not
be delayed on account of the sudden
Disappearance of Contractor D. Hill
Finger as the contract for the work
was let to Parks & G1erum. The con-
tract price was So, no. The new
contractors announced that they
would begin the work of construction
this morning and that the building
would be completed as soon as posi-
bic. The loss to the city by the de-
parture of Hi1zinger will be in the
neighborhood of $500.
Protest Against Paving.
Ten of the residents of South Elk
change and Eagle streets filed a
protest with the council against the
paving of the two streets. The causes
for the protest were the high prices
asked for the work and the fact that
the season was so far advanced that
the work could not be completed be-
fore the winter sets in. The council
laid the protest on the table, holding
that the contract had been let and
that it was too late for the fling of
protests. It is feared that the paving
of the streets will result in comp1ica-
tons, but the aldermen have decided
to go ahead and have the work COM
pleted if possible this season. The
contractors are now bringing the
material for the work to the city and
little time will be lost in putting in
the macadam.
Must Get After Hobos.
The many complaints against the
tranps laying about the city have
finally reached the council and the
chief of police was instructed to make
a daily roundup of these foaters and
see that they are shown the limits Of
the city. If these rather mild meas
ures do not prove effective some more
stringent remedy will be applied.