The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-01-21
TAKE NEW WAY OF
CHECKING CITY
LABOR CLAIMS
Council Committee Recommends
That WOrkmen'S Time Be
Part of TheReCOrd
RICHARDS PETITION ON STH ST. BRIDGE
Asks The City to Pay for Gear
ing Put in toPrevent Jar From
Cars or Have 1t Removed

At the regular meeting of the Cit,
Council last Monday evening the mos
important matters were the petition o
H. G. Richards requesting that th'
council either pay for the Eight
Street bridge gearing or allow /. to b'
removed, and the report of the specia
Committee on II plan for checking NJ
claims for labor, before presented to the
council
The meeting opened with three alder
men, Beigel, Schuette and Plumb, alb
sent.
The first business to come up was the
petition of Vincent Ingrsh for the re
funding of $40 80 taxes illegally assessed
This was referred to the committee on
assessment and finance.
Petition on Bridge Gearing
The petition of H. G.. Richards of the
Richards Iron Works was then read
1t was rs follows;
To the Hon. the Mayor and Board OF
Aldermen of the City of Manitowoc.
The undersigned petitioner respect
fully shows unto your Hon. Body;
That between the 18th day of August
and the 18th day of September 1902, he
furnished materials and performed
work, labor and services in placing in
operation device or apparatus under
plans and specifications furnished by
your City Engineer, upon Sth Street
Bridge in the City of Manitowoc, and
for the purpose of holding the draw of
said bridge in position and keeping the
same more rigid and in place while the
street cars of the Manitowoc and North
ern Traction Company We're pas
sing over the same.
That your petitioner caused said ap-
paratus to be manufactured, adjusted
and placed in operation and petitioner
is informed and believes that said de
vice performs the work for which it
was intended and is an absolute pro
lection against the wrenching and
straining of said bridge
That the cost of said apparatus, in
Guiding materials and the cost of labor
in placing same in connection and in
operation is $606 l2.
Tnat your petitioner understood that
Thomas Higgins or the Street Car Co.
was to pay for this apparatus in order
to protect said bridge and insure the
safety of its passengers on its street Car
service.
But MI. Higgins now claims there
was a misunderstanding in regard to
the same and now refuses to pay said
sum of 1906 r.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that
if your honorable body is of the opinion
that said apparatus is of value to said
bridge in order to protect the same,
that the city either accept the apppara-
tus and pay for the same,
Or that it grant your petitioner leave
to remove the same.
And yonr petitioner will ever pray,
etc. (signed) H. G. RICHARpS
This petition was referred to the Com
mittee on claims
Claims cmountng to 1862. &c were re-
ferred to the committee on claims.
On motion of Alderman Stole it was
decided to advertise for bids for fur
nishing flowers and plants for the city's
parks and cemetery. A motion of AL.
derman LorenZen that the fire commit
lee he directed to install fire alarm box
at the north west corner Of Tenth and
Huron Streets was referred to that com
mittee. The committee on public i'm
provements recommended that an ad-
ditional per cent of the contract price
be paid Walter Bahr for work on sewers
along Eighteenth, Franklin and Wash
ington streets. The Recommendation
was adopted.
Question of Labor Claims
The report of the special committee.
created some time ago, on the sugges-
tion of Mayor kemper, to submit n
HiOlc ~ JSbcHdtlC uItlHiu lItU Ine one
now in use in paying labor claims and
claims for supplies, was then read. The
found that no record was
kept in the city offices by which any
labor claims could be traced 1t found |
that the laborers have not been accus-
toned to sign vouchers when receiving
paw but that their time has been made |
ont by the street commissioner on the |
r.
The vouchers were signed by him The
submitted two sample time
sheets one of which it recommended
should be selected by the council to be
hlled ont in duplicate by the street