The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-06-04
Council To Pass Ordinance for
Protection Of Paved Streets
in the City at Once
WIRES MAY co UNDERGROUND
Northwestern Railway Company Must
Put Up Gates or Station Flagmen
at Every Crossing -Other
Council Business

The Kenosha City Council at it's meet
ing on Monday evening took steps to
protect the paved streets of the city and
an ordinance providing for a proper re-
paving of the streets when torn up by
plumbers sewer building and gas main
layers, was given it's first reading. The
new ordinance provides that all of this
work of relaying the pavements shall
be done by the city in the future and
the work will be directly under the
watch of the city engineer. The new
ordinance provides that the contractor
seeking a permit to distrub the pave
ment on any street shall deposit with
the city engineer before receiving the
permit a sum equal to one dollar for
each square yard Of paving to be dis
turbed and this money is paid outright
to the city for the repair Of the pave
ment. After making the deposit the
contractor may go ahead and do his
work, but the city will have charge Of
the filing up of all trenches and the
replacing of the brick or macadam pave
ments The ordinance will undouBted-
ly be passed at the next regular meet
ing of the council.
Mayor Scholey promises to be an ad-
vocate of underground telephone and
telegraph wires and at the meeting last
night he demanded that some action
along this line be taken at once It is
the plan of the mayor to eventually
have all wires in the city placed under
ground. A special committee consist
ing of Aldermen George Wade, Thomas
sen and Higley was appointed to take
charge of this work and to have an or
dinance prepared providing for under
ground wires. Tt is expected that the
odinance will be presented at the next
regular meeting of the council.
The council took steps to safe guard
the lives of the people of the city
against railway crossing accidents in
the future and on motion of Alderman
Marlatt, the city attorney was directed
to draft an ordinance which will force
the Northwestern Railway Company to
place either gates or fagman at every
crossing that the company maintains
in Kenosha. On the outskirts of the
city the company has many unguarded
crossings and in the past few years
several people have been killed as a
result of this negligence on the part of
the company.
There was lot of things came up
in regard to the extension of the fran
chise rights of the Kenosha Electric
Railway Company, but Mayor Scholey
announced that he had arranged to have
Mr.. Frost come to Kenosha on Wednes-
day evening and the council adjourned
to meet with Frost and the property
owners interested at that time On ac-
count of this meeting a resolution pre-
sented by Alderman George Wade pro-
viding for the extension of the time for
the building of the lines of the COM
pany on Ashland avenue and Grand
avenue until June of 1910 was laid over.
Should the council decline to grant an
extension on Wednesday night it is pos
sible that the rights of the company will
be lost Mr.. Frost has just returned
from an extended business trip through
the east and it is thought that he will
have worked out some plan by Wednes-
day by which he will be able to hold
the rights for two years longer
There was a great deal of routine
business taken up at the meeting. The
German Lutheran Church Congregation
asked for the vacation of the alley in
the block of land owned by the com
pany in Rice Park subdivision and the
council will probably grant the prayer
of the petitioners when a proper ordi-
nance for the vacation of the alley has
been prepared. The ordinance for the
vacation Of the west end of Park street
to the Thomas B. Jeffrey Company was
brought in and given its first reading
as was the ordinance for the fixing of a
permanent grade of South Exchange
street. There was a long argument in
regard to the peanut stands on the str1 eft
which was finally settled by referring
the matter to the street committee with
power to grant such rights as the com
mittee thought advisable The monthly
report of the city treasurer showed a
balance in the bank of $64 ,559.45. The
report of the supervisor of streets for
his first month Of service was received
and placed on file.
Mayor Scholey named Col. W. w.
strong, Joseph Bendt and E. G. Theirs
as members Of the Board of Commits
sloners of the Gilbert M. Simmons Lii
orary all for terms of three years and
tne appointments were approved by the
council by unanimous vote.