The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-06
Police and Fire Commissioners
Ask Council To increase Paw
ofLocaI Police Officers
TEAR UP MILWAUKEE AVENUE
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company Finally Wins Fight for
Right Of Way for Conduits
in KenOsha Streets

The Police and Fire Commission of
the city has taken up the fight to
raise the wages of police officers in
Kenosha and on Monday the commits
sioners sentsa communication to the
Common Council asking that an ordi-
nance be passed making new scale
of wages for the payment of the
police officers. The commissioners
asked that the ordinance provide that
the wages of police officers for the
first year be placed at 500, the second
year at Sos and thereafter at $40 a
month. They recommended that the
wages of the chief of the department
be placed at 500 a month. The mat
ter was taken up by the Council and
referred to a committee. 1t was the
concensus of opinion among the
aldermen that some change in the
pay of the police and fremen should
be made but that both departments
should be placed on the same basis.
In their communication to the Coun-
Gil the commissioners stated that at
the present salaries it would be i'm
possible for the commissioners to get
men to fill places on the police force
but that with small increase in pay
that the Commission would be a BILE to
find the men needed.
The commissioners stated that they
had made an examination of the sal
aries paid in other Wisconsin cities,
and that the salaries paid in Kenosha
we're decidedly low when compared
with the salaries paid in other cities
of the same size. Several exanina-
tons have been held recently, but the
Commission has not been able to get
men to fill vacancies on the police
force.
Telephone Company Wins
The American Telephone and pTele-
graph company, after aayear of fight
ing. has won the right to place COM
Quits aunder Milwaukee avenue be-
tween North street and the North
limits OF the city, as this permission
was granted to them at the meeting
of the Council Monday night. I'd In
order to insure the proper mainte-
nance Of the pavement the Council
has forced the company to deposit
with the city cash in the sum of
$1,000, to insure the replacing of the
pavement. The work is to be done at
once, and the replacing of the pave
mo AFT Sc fn h0 hxy T0L1 n
under the direction Of the city epgi-
neer.
The city will hold the money de-
posted for term of two years, and
at any time during that term that the
pavement needs repairing on account
Of the laying of the conduits the city
will be in position to do it after Civ
ing the company a fifteen days
notice.
Before approaching the Council
with the final proposition, the officials
of the telephone company had Sc
cured the consent of nearly all of the
property owners affected by the plac-
ing Of the conduits.
Ordinances Laid Over
No action was taken on the ordi-
nance to extend the time for the
building of railway lines on certain
streets Of the city, on the ordinance
to limit the number of saloons or the
ordinance to amend the sidewalk or
dinance and all three we're laid over
until the next meeting of the Council.
The second ordinance will prob.
ably be passed without serious oppo-
sition, but the amendment to the side
walk ordinance will be tabled and the
special sidewalk committee is now at
work on a new ordinance which will
amend the first ordinance passed. It
is probable that this ordinance will
make the width of all sidewalks. ex-
cept in business districts of the city,
five feet, bat there will be no provi-
sion against building six foot walks
if the property owners decide to do so.
The ordinance will amend only one
section of the sidewalk ordinance and
all other provisions of the ordinance
will remain in force. The north side
property owners have made decided
protest against allowing five-foot
walks on the south side if a similar
provision is not made for the sparsely
settled streets on the north side. 1t
is expected that the substitute amend
ment will be ready by the next meet
ing of the Council and it will be
passed with as little delay as posi-
bic. In the meantime all property
owners building walks must build
them under the present ordinance.
Dog Catcher Laid Off IS
After considerable discussion the
Council decided to dispense with the
services Of the city dog catcher and
it is expected that repeal of the dog
license ordinance will follow alt an
early meeting of the Council. The
dog catcher has been receiving sal.
AIRY Of So day and it IS foundsthat the
city is losing money on the PROPOSE
ton, as the amount received for IL
censes is considerable less thar the
amount paid the officer. There are
about as many cur dogs in the city as