Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-28
BEGINNING OF WAUSAUpS
new ADMINISTRATION.
New Council Meets and Organizes Mayor Urges
Economy List of Appointments.

Interest on state loan Lincoln school
aooluon. ..-..................-.. 3,5o3.5
p Total ..-......................s ssI1, 1853
s3i74s.5,
Bonds and coupons due in 1909
Franklin school building bond, due
Refnnding bonds, due Sept. 18th. 5000. % q
interest on bonds. ....-...-.-. 7,4O2.5I
$13,4J2.5(
Assessed valuation of city. S6O74, 4,OO0.O .O(
This statement shows that the several
departments will draw from the general
Iund prior to December Is, 1908, the fol
lowing sums:
Salaries, etc. Observation-Disclosures. s15. .683 50
General expenses. ..--......--....... q, ,604 90
DuS D!i " panks l4,O00OC
bllis que and unpaid .................. 1,l97.84
Iotai. ....'....,............... ...... S67 476.42
Less estimated amount to be received
from saloon licenses July /, S13, 500.
leaving $50, 1916 AZ as the probable
amount the general fund will be short
on December 10, 1908 To this S53,-
976.42 can be safely added about &c 600
OF expenses that will come up for things
that cannot be estimated at this time,
making total shortage in the general
fund of about 100000 before taxes
are again collected. All of this is ex-
elusive of the expenses of the water
department, that cannot possibly take
care of its own, and the extensions
planned, out of the water rentals.
1t is true that about SS. .091 will be re-
turned to the fund through the amounts
to be paid by property owners for
sewers, paring and spriniaing but this
money will noJ come TO the fund until
after next December.
The school fund will not be sufficient
to carry the tax levy and a considerable
amount must be borrowed to help them
along.
Sewers and macadam paving ordered
by the old council to be built this year:
Sewers.-,.-......s...... ....S3, ,094 90
81, ,OO4 90
The conclusion that but little new
work can be done during this year must
be evident. Indeed, it will take some
fOiJ OiOoO AE anu LA0 cA0IClS6 Ol
the Strlctest economy, to get out of this
condition with any degree of satisfac-
ton.
The question of the supply of pure
water and that of good fire protection
should receive attention from this coun-
Gil and from the water commission.
There are many remedies suggested and
it will be only after careful and thor
ough investigation of every phase of
the question that an adequate remedy
can be found. That there is large and
unnecessary waste of water is admitted,
and that many of the mains leading TO
important manufacturing centers are
too small, is well known | hope at
some future meeting of this council TO
make a report, through the assistance
of the water commission, on this whole
question and to make some recon-
mendations at the time.
There has been some discussion
respecting the care of the city's fire
alarm system. 1t seems that heretofore
an electrician has been employed in the
fire department., who also acted as
hoseman, at a salary of fifty-tive dol
lars per month, and that this position
has been vacant since about the first of
March, owing to the fact that the police
and fire commission has been unable to
find competant man, at the wages
fixed by the council to do this work.
1t seems to me that the city electrician
appointed by this council should be
charged with the work of looking after
all of the electrical equipment owned
by the city, including the fire alarm
system. That he be paid salary in
keeping with the work required of aim
and that he be given such assistants as
he may need to do all of the work well.
1t should also be his duty to insp ct all
electric wiring done in the city, and
that no electric current be turned on to
new wiring until it has his written
The damage from fire caused
by defective wiring is much underesti-
mated, and that danger grows with the
age and progress of the town.
Men employed by this city should be
to do full davis work for
full days pay. In the work of paving,
street improvements, water works ex-
tensions and the like, no more men
should be employed than are actually
needed. Every taxpayer of this city
has right TO know that every dollar he
has paid into the city treasury has
brought to the city full dollar of re-
turn. There should be, and there must
be, no waste of the peoples money.
Let us do those things that are
necessary, and do them freely and with
a good will, but let us cut off all ex-
and get along without
those things that can be in any way re-
garded as unnecessary.
Finally, let us resolve to give to Wau-
sau good, clean, business-like ad-
ministration-one that will reflect
honor upon US and credit upon the
judgment of those whose confidence has
placed us in charge of the city's affairs.
Wausau, Wis, April 81, 1908.
JOHN +. LAMONT,
Mayor.
1t was moved that the foregoing be
placed on the minutes, which was
carried
The mayor then announced his COM
mittees, as gwen above.
In the self ction of appointive officers
there was not much contest, except for
the Office of poor commissioner. For
this officer it was necessary to take four
ballots, finally resulting in the election
of Henry Gross.
Alderman Ed Schulze was appointed
as n member of the water commission.
The rules of the old council were. on
motion, adopted to govern the new
body.
The bond of the city treasurer was
fixed at $4,000. that of the clerk at
81 600 and the comptroller's at 8, 600.
The finance committee was delegated
TO make settlement with the outgoing
officers.