The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-05-18

The contract for the trunk sewer
was finally closed up on Monday
evening and the dirt will begin to fly
in the big ditch the first of next week
and the contractors have given assur-
ance that the work will be well under
way by June !, the date set i'll the
releases Signed by the property own
ers. Under the contract the sewer is
to be completed in its entirety by the
first day Of December. The signing
Of the contract by the Cleary, White
and Newman company and by the Of
fcials> took place late Monday after
noon at the Office of the city clerk
and later in the evening the council
without dissenting voice approved
the contract and the mayor, city clerk
and the city attorney were empower
ed to approve the bond of the COM
pany which is to be furnished today
by the Massachusetts Bonding com
pany of Boston. Fred Reinold, the To-
cal agent for the company, has the
contract for furnishing the bond and
he wentNt to Milwaukee this morning to
have the bond executed by the office
of the big eastern company in that
city. The company is an entirely re-
sponsible company and the officials of
the city have announced that they will
approve the bond issued by the com
pany.
President Cleary of the construction
company stated that the machinery of
the company was loaded for Kenosha
at Chicago on Monday morning and it
is expected that this machinery will
all be here on Wednesday and the
work of setting it up will be started
at once. The company has not as yet
let a sub contract for the building of
the outlet and this contract will either
be given to Peter B. Galloway or the
Great Lakes Dredging company. Both
of these companies have offered bids
ON the outlet. The city will have
nothing to do with the letting of the
contract for the outlet as the entire
job is let in one contract and the
Cleary, White and Newman company
alone is responsible to the city for the
completion of the work in keeping
with the specifications and the con
tract. 1t is probable that City Engi-
neer Robert HI. Moth will give nearly
his entire time to the inspection of
the work on the big sewer and Assis-
tant City Engineer Brennan will have
chance to show what he can do along
the other lines of work demanded by
the Office. The officials will see to it
that the new sewer has sufficient care
given to it.
The provisions Of the contract are
plain and under it the company agrees
to begin the work of building the sew
er before the first day of June and
to complete it by the first day of
September. In order to force the com
pletion of the sewer on contract time
the contract contains clause which
provides that the company shall pay
a penalty of $50 day for the time
after the first of December that it
takes to complete the great work. The
work is to be paid for monthly. the
city paving the company eighty-fve
per cent of the amount of work as
estimated by the city engineer. The
contract provides that on the compile
ton of, the sewer and its acceptance
by the council the city shall hold up
fifteen per cent of the contract price
until sixty days after the work is ac-
cepted. This will give the council q.
chance to convince itself that the work
has been done in keeping with the
contract and the specifications. The
contractors are planning to put on
great force of workmen to complete
the sewer and it is probable that the
starting of the job will offer work
to many of the idle men in the city.
There is no provision in the contract
as to what kind of labor shall be en-
ployed, but the contractors have sig
nifed their willingness to give the
preference to Kenosha labor and az
far as possible the labor will be Sc
cured from this city. However. the
company will need more than a bnnd-
red men and it may be necessary to
get men from other places in order to
keep the work moving so as to have
the sewer completed by the opening of
the winter. President Cleary stated
that it was the plan of the company
to complete the sewer long before the
time stated IN the contract.
The city council will have to take
up at once the question of securing the
funds needed for the completion of the
contract. There will be available on
July l a little less than $4,000 and
as the remainder Of the money will
have to be raised by the last of Janu-
airy of next year the council will |
probably have to arrange for new