The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-04-25

Section j. The owner or owners OF
any lot or premises now or hereafter
in the corporate limits of the City of
Kenosha, Wisconsin, shall, in accord
ance with the provisions of this
ordinance, build, rebuild when neces-
sary and ordered by the Common
Council Of the City Of Kenosna, repair
ard maintain sidewalks in the public
streets and alleys adjacent to and
AUDITING on said lots and premises.
Section 2. All sidewalks hereafter
built or rebuilt within the City Of
Kenosha, shall be of concrete or
cement, and of the width. material
and manner of construction hereinafter
provided, and not otherwise.
Section 3. All sidewalks shall be
built and maintained on the grade and
on the lines now or hereafter estab-
lished by the Common Council of the
| City Of Kenosha, and shall be given
a grade of quarter of an inch to a
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line.
Section 4. All sidewalks shall be
built five o. feet in width on streets
| fifty feet wide or less, and six (6)
| feet in width on all other streets, pro-
/ yided. that in front of all stores and
buildings used for mercantile, CONNER
cial or manufacturing purposes the
sidewalks shall extend from the lot
line to the curb line.
Section 5. The concrete used in the
construction of such walks shall be
made by mixing one part or bushel of
guaranteed high grade of Portland
cement with seven parts or bushels
of gravel, or of one part of such Port
land cement with four parts of crushed
stone and three parts Of clean torpedo
sand, and said concrete walks shall
have a covering ofnot less than Il inch
| in thickness Of mixture composed of
not less than one part Of the aforesaid
| cement, and two parts of clean sharp
sand, and at crossings and ar;Trw ways
across sidewalks, said CONF. etp walks
| shall have q covering Of not less than
on inch in thickness of the aforesaid
proportions Of not less than one part
Of the aforesaid cement and two parts
| Of clean sharp sand, and the surface
| OF all cement walks hereafter laid or
| repaired shall be pitted with a roller
or brushed we'll with stiff brush be-
fore completely setting, and shall be
SO pitted Or brushed as to give the
completed walk rough but even sur
face, and in no event shall cement
| sidewalks be completed with a smooth
finish. All Of said material to be APP
proved by the City Engineer or such
other officer or person as the Common
| Council may designate
Such cement walks shall be at least
four inches in thickness, and at cross
ings and driveWays across sidewalks
shall not be less than six inches in
| thickness.
Section 6. Said sidewalks shall be
constructed with a sub-foundation
which shall first be prepared by cut
ting down or filing up the surface of
the ground to a sub grade which shall
be ten 10) inches below the final side
walk grade and five % feet or six 81
feet in width according to the width
| Of the street.
| Wherever filing is necessary TO
bring the foundation to sub grade, ex,
cept where the subsoil is of red sand,
such filling shall be composed Of red
sand or other material equally as good
for filling purposes, free from animal
or vegetable matter, except lake sand,
and must be properly compacted until
solid and unyielding. Soft and spongy
places not affording a firm foundation
must be dug out and refilled with red
| sand or other material equally as good
Tor fllllng purposes, except lake sand,
| and free from animal or vegetable
matter and thoroughly compacted.
Upon such sub foundation, except
ing where the sub soil shall be entire
ly Of red sand, shall be placed a layer
of clean cinders which after being
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tamped shall have a uniform depth Of
six ~ inches, and upon said founda-
ton thus prepared, the concrete base
shall be laid and evenly spread, and
upon said concrete base the second or
finishing layer and wearing surface
shall be placed, spread and completed
with rough but even surface or
pitted as hereinbefore provided.
Wherever a driveway or alley eros
sing is constructed in any such side
walk laid in the City Of Kenosha, said
walk shall be constructed as above
specified, except that the sub grade
shall be fourteen (14) inches below
the sidewalk grade and the cinder
foundation shall be eight ~ inches
in depth.
Section Z. No person shall dig or
construct, or cause to be dug or con-
structed, any area or entrance thereto,
around any cellar or basement story
OF any building; or dig or construct,
or cause to be dug or constructed, any
vault or cellar so that the same shall
extend into the line of any street, al