The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-05-07
City Council Makes Trip to Gene
terry To Observe Work Being
Done by Association
WELL PLEASED WITH WORK
Council Also, Meets Exchange Street
Property Owners and Settles
Long Contested Question in
Regard to Grade

The Kenosha Cemetery Association
has made good. This was the consensus
of opinion expressed by the members
of the Common Council on Sunday when
the members of that body went to the
City Cemetery to take look over the
work that had been done and talk with
the head of the association in regard
to the work planned for the future.
AS result of the visit and the confer
ence held between the officers of the
Association and the members Of the
finance committee the Council will prob
ably make the annual appropriation of
$4,000 to the association at the meeting
this evening.
More than $1,000 has been spent on
the cemetery since the association took
charge of the grounds a year ago last
Friday and most of this money has been
spent in wages. At the present time
the association has eight or ten men at
work on the regular spring cleaning
and it is certain that the cemetery was
never in such an excellent condition at
this time of the year in the past.
All of the old wildernesses in the
cemetery have been cleared away and
they have given way for well kept lots.
More than two hundred of the old monu-
ments which had fallen down as a re-
suit of the wear of time have been reset
by the association and the entire
grounds have been cleaned up. The
work Of leveling off some portions of
the cemetery and resodding it is we'll
under way and by Memorial Day the
work for the Spring will be about com
pleted The men in charge Of the work
are making plans to make some changes
in the paths in order to do away with
the unused paths and turn them into
grass plots.
1t is expected that the work on the
iron fence that is to be built about the
grounds will be started within a few
weeks and it is planned to have at
least a portion Of the fence erected
this year. On account of the great de-
mand for work on the ground it will
be impossible to use any of the money
appropriated by the city for this i'm
provement, but G. HI. Gonnermann who
is in charge of the work for the associa-
tion announces that already four men
have given four thousand dollars to aid
the fence fund and in the near future a
canvass will be made to secure more
funds for this purpose. The fence will
add much to the attractiveness of the
cemetery and had it not been for the
financial troubles of the latter part of
last year the work of setting up this
fence would now be going on. The
members Of the Council seemed to be
entirely satisfied with the first year s
work of the association. The report of
the committee will be presented to the
Council at the meeting this evening and
some action will be taken at that time.
While the Council was on it's iaunt
1t visited the plant of the Balm Wagon
Company to look over the portion of
Pearl street asked by the company and
1T is probable that action on the vaca-
tion of that portion of the street will
be taken at the meeting this evening
10 wind up the trip the Council visit
ed South Exchange street and made a
final settlement in regard to the grade
at the south end of the street. It was de-
cided to adjust the trouble by making a
grade starting at point some 400 feet
south of Eagle street and make regu-
lar sloping grade to point some 80
feet north of the creek. An ordinance
providing for the establishment of this
grade will be presented to the Council
this evening.