The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-04-18
Old City Council Adjourns With.
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out Passing Street Railway
Franchise Ordinances &
NEW COUNCIL IS ORGANIZED
No Effort is Being Made to Appoint the
New Officials and the Council
4 Adjourns TO Meet on Next
Monday Evening, eov

The City Council which has been in
charge of the affairs of the municipal.
ity for the past year held its final
meeting on Monday evening, and
while much of the time was given up
to farewell messages from the retir-
ing aldermen and the closing up of
routine work, there was one feature
of the meeting and that was the cold
and heartless manner in which the.
Kenosha Electric Railway company
was turned down ia its effort to secure
some action on the various ordinances
now before the Council. President
Frost and the other officials of the
company had been given to under
stand that the old Council would
clean up these ordinances before ad-
iourning sine die and the officials of
the company were on hand to present
their claims. However it had all been
arranged before the meeting that the
railway ordinances should, go over
until the meeting of the new Coun-
Gil and when the time came for the
introduction of ordinances Alderman
O'Brien made motion to refer all
unfinished BUSINESS to the new
Council and the railway ordinances
along with lot of other business
went over. President Frost and the
other managers of the company were
greatly disappointed at the action of
the Council as the company was anxi-
Gus to get the work in Kenosha
started in order to complete it IN the
time limited by the ordinances. 0
Now the company will be forced to
delay the work of building possibly
for weeks as it will take the nembers
of the new Council some time to get
acquainted with the provisions of the
ordinances. President Frost express
ed his disgust at the action of the
Council ia rather forcibfe Languages.
The aldermen stated that they were
not ready to act on the e. rail prD.
position and for this reason they
thoughtit best today all ordinances
over. One little ordinance granting
the Northwestern Railway Company
thes ripffe&to sfaya spur track over
Park SIRE ct was SD heezed sthrongh as
there was no Opposition toit. -
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/ Is 4s h StemnySti11 Fighting AL 90 D
observation-disclosures died fighting FOR
1.-THE proposed Municipal lighting
plant, and his last action as d mem
Der of the Council was to make a rho4'
ton to give the Mayor power TO en-
ploy an engineer to carry out the plan
of building municipal lighting
plant. The powers conferred upon
the Mayor in this regard were rather
wide, as no stipulation was made as
to the time for the employment of the
engineer or the salary that is to be
paid him, and in the future the Mayor
will have pretty general charge of
any plans for the municipal plant.
1t is understood that the Mayor al
ready has his eye on man for this
place, and that he will come to the
city within few days. It is under
stood that the Council is to get an
entirely new plan for the building of
the plant before any final action is
taken.
The Council spent little time in
discussing the proposed sea-wall in
front of Eichelman Park, and the re-
port of the engineer showed that the
wall which has been proposed would
cost in the neighborhood of $4,000.
It will be impossible for the Council
to build the entire wall this year, but
as there is something like $4,000 id
the harbor and breakwater fund it is
understood that a portion Of the wall
will be built this year. The commit
tee was instructed to.make report on
the matter at the next reg u1ar meet
ing of the Council.
49, Cost of Paupers as1 I'd
Alderman G. r. Stemm rendered a.
report of his stewardship as chair.
man of the pauper committee during:
the last two years, and showed the
amounts that had been spent and the,
number Of people who had been cared
for during the time. Tn the two years
the total receipts Of the committee
had been IS, 1870 and the expendi-
lures So, III. 70. Twas shown that
there were ten inmates of the poor
farm, that thirteen families we're re-
lceiying full support from the city, and
twenty six partial support. $40, *e,e,s
The chairman Of the COMMITTEES ir
retiring from office resonnnen ded that
the Council build aaano ther fat building
on Washington Island Isl for the housing
of the city poor,s and IS IS able.
that this will sbe doiles sSsThe Council
ipasseda vote. ofs thanks to sthe COM
mittee for their services to- the City
The old Council made athe1 regular.
Iappropria tien9of S. 4, 30. Q for the sup.
port of the Gilbert Ms Simmons
Library and aAoWedekheesalaries due.
TO the various OFFICIALS, and saftersre- 4
'ferrirg all business to the new ConnsI
Gil adjourned sine dies u r.rs q ssTFT'
I The new Council was called to ORDER
by Mayor Gorman,- and it waso.an