The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-18
North. Western Railway Co. Asks
Right to Lay Tracks Across
Grand Avenue
SEWERS FINALLY ACCEPTED
Council Passes Ordinance to Fix Salary
of the Chief of the Fire Department
at $1,000 Year-Other Council
Business Transacted

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to lay another track across Grand
avenue and Monday night an applica-
ton for a franchise for such a track
was laid before the common council.
The application stated that it was the
purpose of the company to enlarge the
yards in Kenosha and that to this end
property had been secured on the
north side of Grand avenue.
In order to provide for the change
IN the tracks the company will be
forced to lay what is known as
team" track across Grand avenue.
The council received the ordinance
and it was ordered published at the
expense of the company. This is one
of the perquisites 20 be asked by the
company in consideration of its pay
ing a portion of the cost of the paving
of West Main street. The company
now has four or five tracks across the
avenue and another track will certain
! ly make the crossing one of the worst,
| if not the worst, in the city.
In connection with the discussion
of the application for the franchise
the mayor and city attorney were or
dered to go to Chicago and confer
with the managers of the company in
regard to the paving contract. If
the franchise is to be granted by the
city the company must agree to do
the paving, and at the same time the
company must agree to place flag
man at the west end of the tracks.
The Chicago & Milwaukee Railway
company has also asked for a fran
| chise on Grand avenue and for this
reason there is possibility Of clash
| between the two companies, although
it is admitted that the building of the
tracks will make little difference to
either company.
Pay for an Alderman
For the first time in the history of
the city pay was given to an alderman
Monday night for services rendered
in his position. Alderman Sullivan,
the head of the committee on sewers,
had spent considerable time in looking
over the sewers recently built. At the
meeting Monday night a resolution
was presented asking that the council
appropriate $50 to Alderman Sullivan
to compensate him for the time lost in
inspecting the sewers. The resolu-
ton carried but not without strenuous
opposition.
The aldermen who opposed the pas
sage of the resolution held that the
granting of pay to an alderman for
official service was setting decidedly
bad precedent. When Alderman
Sullivan was elected to a place on
the council he must have been aware
of the fact that the Office carried no
salary, but he accepted the duties
with this understanding and it is
hardly business for him to expect any
pay for time lost in looking after the
| interests of the city and his constitu-
ents,
Sewers afe Accepted
+; A long report from the engineer
told of the condition of the sewers
which had been built by the Meow
ern company, and all of them save
the sewer on South street were &C
Icepted by the council. It will prob
ably be some time before the South
street sewer is accepted as it is
claimed that it is in no way satisfac-
tory to the committee. The fight over
| these sewers has been one of the long
est and most bitter ever before the
! council and most of the aldermen were
| glad to get the matter cleared up and
out of the way.
| Alderman Hegeman was the on1y
one of the members of the council
who had the courage to vote against
the acceptance and he declares that
the action of the council was radically
wrong as many of the sewers are full
| of sand and gravel and are unfit for
use.
Other Council Business
The council passed the ordinance
fixing the salary of the chief of the
fire department at $1,000 year, and
the ordinance will go into effect as
soon as it is signed by the mayor,
There is little doubt but that Chief
1sermann will accept the office at this
salary.
Quite an argument was brought
about by efforts being made by the
street commissioner to force Peter
GILES to remove certain clay from the
street IN front of his new building on
Middle street. Giles had been or
dered to remove the clay at once, but
on account of the weather conditions
he was given time in which to clear
the street.
no action was taken on the fran
elise ordinance proposed by thA5T
nosha Electric Railway COMPANY. out
this matter will be taken up at the
next meeting of the council. The
rth-Western franchise ordinance
will also have had the requisite num-
Der of publications by that time, and
both ordinances may be considered at
once.
e. H. Evans, of Evansville, Wis,
spent MondSy afternoon in Kenosha.