The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-24
TWO MORE F|REMEN
City Council Authorizes Addition
Of Two Men to Paid Depart
ment Of the City
ORDER MARKET STREET PAVED
Council Holds Four Hours Session
at the City Hall Monday Evening,
and Many Important Matters
Are Taken Up

Two men Will be added to the paid
t1re department of the city on Sep
TENDER 1st, in keeping with the action
of the city council at its meeting
Monday night. This was the most
important business of the four hours
session of the city fathers.
The aldermen did not take up the
matter of increasingEthe Ipay of the
chief of the fire department., as no
official communication was received
by the police aud fire commissioners.
However, the matter was fully dis
cussed, and it was stated that Chief
Barr would remain in his present DO
sition until the first of December at
the same salary, and some time be-
fore that time the council will take
up the matter and probably will ar
range for an increase in the salary of
the chief.
Chief Barr was anxious to lsecure
the addition of the two men. One of
these will be placed at thelThird ward
engine house, and the chief5wi1l have
power to place thei other new man
where he is most needed. In this
connection members lof the council
urged that there shou1dsbeusome pro-
vision for an addition to the police
force of the city at this time, but the
aldermen failed to see the money with
which to hire the new man, and this
matter was laid over for future dis
cussion.
Order Streets Paved
A petition was presented from the
Simmons Manufacturing company
asking that some action be taken to
pave Market street, from Exchange
street to Lake street, and to continue
the paving from Lake street along
that street to Pearl street. In this
connection the Simmons Manufacture
ing company offered to pay,the cost of
the pavement to the city. The petit
ton was granted and it is pro.ba bic
that the work will be!comp1eted be-
fore the end of the present year. The
council also acted favorab1y on the
petition for the paving Of ithe two al
leys situated betweens Market and
Park streets and Main! ands Exchange
streets. This work will probably be
included under the same contract.
Both street and alleys will be paved
with vitrified brick, theswidth in each
case to be determined blythe city.
A petition was presented, asking
for the paving of Durkee avenue from
Dening street to Eng1ishECourt, and
for the paving of English Court from
the lake to South Main street. The
petitioners ask that macadam be laid
on these streets. This petition was
referred to the committee on streets
and alleys and report will be made
) at the next meeting of the:council.
Pass Many Ordinances
The larger part of the time of the
council was taken up in reading and
discussing three ordinances, which
were successfully placedl upon their
! passage. One was the sidewalk or
dinance, which provides for the build
ing of more than hundred pieces of
sidewalk in different parts of the city.
] Another was the ordinance granting
to the North Western Railway COM
pany the right to build switch track
for the uses of the Chicago Brass Co.,
and the third was an amendment to
!, ! the ordinance licensing plumbers. to
! provide for a surety bond to be filed
with every license. The ordinance
providing for the licensing of drain
layers was laid over until future
meeting of the council. The other
ordinances were passed practically
without opposition.
Want Lake Shore Protected
A petition was presented from
| property owners on the North side Of
the city, asking that the council take
immediate action to secure some sort
of protection for that portion of the
lake shore between Division street
and the north limits of the city. 1t is
claimed that the lake is making heavy
inroads on this property and that the
property owners have already sus-
tanned large losses. If any relief is
to be granted to these petitioners it
will be necessary to build protecting
breakwater, and the city has no funds
for this purpose at this time. Such a
brealzwater would be an expensive
proposition. The matter has been re-
ferred to the committee on harbor and
breakwater and a report will be made
to the council at the next meeting.
Sewer Backed Up
| John E. Meyers, residing at the
corner of Caledonia and Middle