The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-17
ORDINANCE is SIGNED
Ordinance for Extension Of Rail
Road Tracks Sent TO be
Published
SHORT SESSION OF COUNCIL
Cannons Which Have Rested in the City
Dump Will be Cleaned up and They
Will be Placed in the North
Side Park

The ordinance granting additional
right and franchises to the Kenosha
Electric Railway company was sent
to the official paper of the city for
publication this morning and it bears
the signature of Mayor German. The
signature is attested by that of City
Clerk George w. Harrington and it
bears the date of Saturday, Jan. II.
The ordinance will now be pub
lished and on publication it will be
entered as law in the book of or
dinances of the city. The company
will have thirty days in which to ac-
cept the ordinance and in that time
the company must file a bond of
SIS, 900 to be approved by the mayor to
insure the city against any loss or
damage that might result while the
company is laying its additional
tracks on the different streets of the
city. Before the company may begin
the work of laying the tracks it will
be necessary for the president Of the
company to file further bond of SIS,
600 to insure that all provisions of the
ordinance be carried out by the COM
pany. This bond will be a continuing
bond and will be held by the city
pending the life of the franchise or
until such a time as the company
shall have made all the public i'm
provements agreed to by the or
dinance. The approval OF both of
the bonds is left with Mayor German.
1t is understood that President Frost
and his associates will offer surety
bonds in both cases.
At the time of the passage Of the
Arnold franchise ordinance there was
a long wrangle over the bond and Mr..
Arnold finally gave personal bond
signed by well known people in Keno
sha. AT that time it was stated that
the cost of a surety bond for so long
a term of years would be burden on
the managers of the company and
for this reason the personal bond was
accepted. The present management
of the company is said to prefer
surety bond and this is perfectly salts
factory to the city.
Little business of Importance was
done at the adjourned meeting of the
Common Council, held at the City
Hall on Monday evening. The alder
men were pretty we'll worn out after
the last session, and the meeting
Monday night was short one and
given over to cleaning up routine
business that had been left over from
the all night session of the week
before.
The Council decided to gather up
the old pair of cannons and carriages
which have been in the city dump for
some time and have them painted up
and placed in the north side park as.
ornaments to the park, and in The fu-
tnre the north side youths will have
something TO remind them of the
great rebellion.
The Council has taken the bull by
the horns in regard to the North
western Railway Co. blocking Garden
street, and special committee is to
be sent TO Chicago to confer with the
officials of the company and make
some arrangements for the keeping
of the street opened.
The report of the Kenosha Electric
Railway Co. of the business done last
year was accepted without comment
and made matter of record.
The remainder of the session was
given to routine business.