The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-26
Council BY a Unanimous Vote
Gives Frost Till June 9TH to
Complete City Lines
WILL EXTEND FIRE LIMITS
City Attorney Will Draw Ordinance al
Once to Prevent the Erection of
Wooden Buildings in the
Business Districts

easy vi Glory before the City Council
Monday evening when the Council by
unanimous vote decided to pass the
resolution extending the time for the
building of the new local lines in the
city until after the 7th of June of
next year. There was little or no dis
cussion of the extension resolution.
The special railroad committee had
gone into the matter and had decided
that it would be the only fair thing
that the city could do and they made
such report to the Council and it
was voted on favorably without a
word of discussion. The resolution as
! passed gives the company until the
! seventh of next June to install the
tracks on Ashland and Grand avenues
and until six months after the decision
on the injunction now pending to
build the lines on Elizabeth aud West
/ Main streets. Before the committee
reported there was some discussion o.
the delay in the building of the lines
and it was stated that the delay in the
railway work had so DELAYED the
pavement of West Main street that
the paving which was put In within
, the last few weeks would have to be
ripped out next year and reset, but
none of the members of the committee.
seemed to blame the company for the
delay and the fault was laid to the
non-arrival of the special work needed
! for the tracks on the different streets.
F.! While the meeting was called for
the purpose of disposing of this
resolution for the extension of the
time for the completion of the rail-
way a great deal of i'm portant bust
ness came up. The Council took the
first step for the setting of new fl
boundaries and the committee on the
FIRE department was instructed to al
once arrange for new boundaries and
the city attorney was ordered to draw
up an ordinance so that the new
limits would go into effect before
the opening of a new building
season. While no limits have been
set it is proposed to make the limits
extend from Prairie avenue on the
south to Middle street on the north
and from Lake Michigan on the east
! to Ashland avenue on the west. The
| plan to extend the limits to Middle
street on the north may meet with
some opposition on the part of some
of the residents of the North side, but
it is thought that this opposition will
be overcome when the ordinance fix
ing the new limits is reDorted to the
! Council. The change in the limits
i has been strongly urged by Chief of
the Fire Department Isermann and
this fact will carry great weight with
! the Council.
While the aldermen were not look
ing for Christmas presents from the
city movement was started Monday
night which will probably result in
the presents being provided for the
future. This was movement to pay
a regular salary to the members of
the Common Council. The matter
was brought up by Alderman Zievers
of the Sixth ward, who stated that he
believed the time had come to take up
salaries for the Mayor and the mem
bers of the Common Council. The
salary grab did not lack support, but
none of the members of the Council
desired to show a spirit of moving
along that line and Mayor German
referred the matter of bringing an
ordinance to provide pay for the
| Mayor and the members of the Coun-
Gil to a special committee consisting
OF Aldermen Timme, Zievers and
Willems, and this committee will re-
port at the next meeting of the
Council. 1t is planned to have this
ordinance passed so that the aldermen
elected at the next city election will
have the salary.
The street assessment committee
made a final report on the plans for
the paving of Market square, Church
street, Ashland avenue and West
Main street, and the total cost for the
paving of these streets will be $62,-
1920, of which the city is to pay
$28, 462 %. There was not a single
complaint filed against any of the
work and it will be ordered done as
soon as possible with the opening of
the new building season.
The street commissioners of the
city we're called to the carpet again
Monday, some of the aldermen pro-
testing that the work of clearing the
crossings of snow was not going for
ward as it should. 1t was stated that
the sidewalk inspector had protested
with one of the commissioners and
had been told to go to , but never
mind where the inspector was to go.
He declined to follow the advice and
re ported the matter to the Council.
In order to prevent such slips of the
tongue in the future the street COM
| missioners were directed to re port at
the city hall every morning at g
O'Clock before starting for their work
in order to get list of walks to be
cleaned from the sidewalk inspector.
It is not thought that this order will
be we'll taken by the commissioners