Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-27
AUWATOSA CITY
Public and Private Improve
ments During the Year 1907
Upwards of One Hundred and ferty
Thousand Expended in City Inn
provcments and Private
Residences During
the Past Year.

LII bbS ihdslST VI Improvements DObH
public and private the city of Wauwa-
tosa during the year 1907 makes an
enviable showing, while the promise
for the New Year of 1908 indicates
that the desirable residence conditions
which obtain here are to be
taken advantage of by those who de-
sire ideal surroundings for home life
away from the less inviting conditions
of great manufacturing city.
During the past year through the
action of the Common Council there
has been expended in permanently
improving Fifth Avenue, Watson Ave,
Garfield Avenue. Wisconsin Avenue
and in the construction of cement
cnrbing on Second Avenue approx
mate,y $4,000, with the result that
each of the streets above named with
Others heretofore improved, now offer
most desirable locations for building
homes with ali the improvements
which go to make home locations de-
sirable Under the city ordinances
each OF these streets SO improved will
in the spring be supplied with cement
sidewalks, and 1t is more than likely
that many of the vacant lots still left
upon them will be occupied with resi-
dences in the coming year.
Through the action of the Common
Council water pipe has also been laid
on Fourth Avenue from Center Street
TO Watson Avenue, Watson Avenue
from Fourth to Fifth Avenues, Fifth
Avenue from Watson Avenue to Wash
ington Avenue and on Seventh Ave-
nue. at a cost of 81, 400
Under the resolution of the Common
Council the Board of Public Works has
during the past six months completed
at cost of over s.. 900 the Fifty ninth
and Wells Street water pipe line, talk
ing the work out of the hands Of c. j.
Crilley whose contract had been made
in 1905 10 be completed in that year
and has made a settlement with Mr.
Crilley charging up to him every dol
lar expended by the city in completing
his contract. The completion of Mr..
Crilley's contract involved about Sc, 100
of which he received 81 ,0o0-the city
retaining the balance for money ex-
pended,
Including street and water pipe
work the total public improvements
completed during the past year aggre-
gate about the sum of SEQ, 800.
Twenty-Five new residences have
been constructed and completed or are
nearing completion at the present
time, varying in cost from SO, SEQ to
$500, each probably averaging from
$4,000 to 81, 500 and certainly involv-
ing total expenditure of over one
hundred thousand dollars. Nearly all
of these homes are models not only of
architectural design, but also of con
venience in arrangement for their pre-
sent and future occupants.
In business lines all our local mer-
chants report their trade To have been
exceptionally good, which indica tie S
that our people are DESTROYS of aiding
the home trade and encouraging home
conditions.
During the month of June there was
established the First National Bank of
Wauwatosa at the corner of North
Main Street and Wauwatosa Avenue.
ana while some were at FIRST inclined
ODE doubtful of its success it has
been demonstrated during the past
seven months that bank is desirable
proposition in this communicate
ready It's deposits have passed the
100000 mark and it is very generally
patronized by our people and gives
promise of a successful future.
During the past year Mr. Fred. ID.
Underwood has expended in this his
boyhood home considerable sum of
money in acquiring real estate and
removing to location near to the
scene of his fathers pastoral work the
house which was the family home in
his boghood days, where he has ar
ranged the surroundings in such a
manner as to bring back the early
recollections. and during the year
several reunions of the Underwood
family have been held in the old-ne,v
home
The general financiaL condition of
our churches appears TO be good, and
in some Of them considerable expendi-
tnres in the line of new musical in
struments have been or are to be made
in the very near future.
Under the efticieut direction of the
Board of Education and the Superin-
tendent OF schools the excellenc of our
school system is very generally ac-
lsnowledged