Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-09-13
CITY COUNCIL.

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the city council held last Tuesday even
ing:
c. A. Nutter asked for strip OF land,
situated north of the Marathon County
| Granite Co.'S works, and containing
and 23-l00 acres, which he desires us
a site for cement building stone plant.
Ii was moved that deed be given to
Mr.. Nutter, which was carried unan-
| imously.
A letter from the board of education
stated that the board was meeting with
an old difficulty-not enough school
| room-and asked that acre lot be
purchased for school purposes OF Mrs.
S. M Quaw. The land can be bought
for S., 900, which the beard considers
reasonable. The board at present has
to rent three rooms on the west side to
.commodate children. The matter was
referred to committee.
A petition received from the Curtis u
Yale Co. was granted, providing for the
macadamizing of fifteen it. strip past
| its factory on Clinton street, which
strip will serve for sidewalk purposes,
also driveway through the company's
yards. By stipulation of the petition
! the company is to pay wholly for the
latter and to pay for the rock nsed on
| the former.
Upon petition of the libary board the
sum of $500 was voted to that board for
library purposes, the treasury of the
public library being depleted.
| No action was taken with reference
to the petition of property holders on
jackson street, who have encrouched
| on the street line, and asked that they
be not disturbed.
The city health physician addressed
| "a roll fn no be
| difficulty He favored pumping river
water through the pipes from November
to February for the purpose of clearing
them OF the fungus growth that is cor
| roding and rapidly fill them up. In
| substan tiation of his.theory he told of
experiments that had been made, in
every case of which the pipes had been
cleaned Before taking the supply of
| water from the river, however, he fav-
ored installing filitering crib, offering
| plans for the same The cost of build
| ing the crib and making weekly
analysis of the water, he said, would
cost an outlay of 81, 800. Ehe matter
was left open for action at the next
| meeting.
Geo. Chatham's claim of $l5 for
damage to bicycle by running mo
street obstruction in the night time was
ordered to be paid.
The city engineer was ordered to
draw plans for a bridge across the
Northwestern railroad cut on Single
avenue.
Several petitions were acted upon in
regard to sewers, water mains, street
lights, etc.
An adjourned meeting was held last
night all but two members being pres
emit
Alderman Farrell offered the follow
ing resolution, which was unanimously
adopted:
Be Il Resolved, That the condition of
the water works system is such as to
imperatively demand the attention of
the public authorities, to the end that
the growth now deposited in the mains
and service pipes be destroyed and re-
moved, and the mayor and council are
of the opinion that the plan proposed
by the health commission is feasible
and comparatively inexpensive, there
fore be it further
. RESOLVED, That the sum of 81, 500 be
and the same is hereby appropriated for
the purpose of installing said proposed
filtering crib, the same to be construct
ed and installed under the direction and
supervision of the health commission
and the board of public works.
Work will be commenced Immediate
~ in building crib, which will be CON-
pleted by Nov 1st.
The mayor announced the appoint
ment of the following inspectors of
election, clerks and ballot clerks, and
the appointments were confirmed
FIRST WARD.
Inspectors-M. I'll. Duncan, Jacob
sGensman, John Casson.
ClerksGust Ringle, Martin Simon
son.
Ballot clerks--Conra Seim, Carl
Roloff, Jr.
SECOND WARD.
Inspectors-W A. Paff, F. H. Nor
| man, Ed. Lemke.
Clerks-Oscar Weisse, Fred Norman,
Jr.
Ballot clerks-John Donnelley, Pete
| Goddard.
THIRD WARD.
Inspectors. j Ieh:Iiar, w. b.
Philbrick, IL. VoItz.
Clerks-Frank Hanneman, Walter
| Flieth
Ballot clerks-Jos Hildensperger, A.
w. Kruger.
FOURTH WARD.
Inspectors Delaney VIM. Will
son, +. Holz.
Cierks-Paul Peters, Robt Schmidt.
Ballot clerks-John Andrews, Theo.
| Danielson.
FIFTH WARD.
Inspectors Harry Yost, r. N. Lar
ner, Fred Weisse.
Clerks-F. w. Young, B. + Kosch-
| mann.
Ballot clerks-Wm. Baerwald, Lean
der Swope.
| SIXTH WARD.
Inspectors-John Renshaw, Chas.
| Olson, Mike Sweeney.
Clerks-Joe Schneider, Herman
| Kreinke.
Ballot clerks-Theo. johnson,
Herman BUTLER.
| SEVENTH WARD.
Inspectors Empter, Louis
Gross, Aug. Treutl.
! Clerks-Frank Marquardt, Moritz
Hecker.
! Muckerheide.
EIGHTH WARD.
Inspectors-H Pagenkopf, Ed. Rifle
man, Aug. Leudtke.
Clerks-Herman Wren, Aug. Otto.
Ballot clerks--Albert Pagel, Steve
Josik.
NINTH WARD.
Inspectors-T. l.. Hackbart, Robt.
| Kroening, Henry Beck
Clerks psil Hogan, John Morgan
Ballot clerks-Frank Benz, Jos.
| LpStina
Ed. Lambert petitioned the council
for the use of the pest house grounds
during 1905 for garden purposes. The
| petition was granted with the provision
that he clear quarter as much more
ground as is now under cultivation.
A few bills we're allowed and an adj
| iourument taken to the 18th.
ANNUAL MEETING.