The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-03-09
OUTLYING DISTRICTS TO PAY
Cost of the Sewer viii be Borne in
Part by Territory to Come into the
City In the Future-To Ask for Bids
at Once,

The memorable struggle to get a
trunk sewer for the city Of Kenosha--
a struggle that has lasted over period
Of more than eight years-came to a
successful close at the meeting of the
Common Council on Monday evening,
when the council by unanimous vote
passed the ordinance providing for the
issuance Of the $4,000 bonds necessary
to begin the work on the trunk line
sewer and with this preliminary over
the Street Assessment Committee was
formally ordered to advertise for bids
for the big drain with the understand
ing that the sewer shall be started be-
fore the first of June of this year. Fiji
teen aldermen voted for the passage
Of the ordinance, Alderman Pirsch of
the first ward not being present at the
meeting.
Under the ordinance which was sign
ed by Mayor Scholey before he left for
Madison this morning the council is au-
thorized to proceed at once with the is
suance Of the bonds and it is proposed
to have the money available by the
first Of July. This act will insure the
starting of the work at once.
The last fight in the long struggle to
secure the passage of the ordinance
and the starting Of work ON the sewer
drew large crowd of interested tax
payers to the council chamber and
when the final vote on the ordinance
was announced it was greeted with
cheers and clapping in which the mem
bers Of the council joined with the tax
payers in the lobby.
Alderman Marlatt of the second
ward brushed away the last objection
to the building of the sewer when he
presented a resolution which had fol-
its object provision that future
territory annexed to the city should
aid in paying the cost of building the
big sewer. One of the greatest obiec
tions to the sewer from people on al
sides of the city was the fact that the
new territory which would be directly
benefited by the big drain would pay
nothing for the expense of constructing
it. The resolution of the alderman
from the second ward provided that
the City Attorney draw an ordinance
providing for future sewer districts
and providing that all territory not
now in the sewer district and all pro
perty which may be annexed to the
city after the first day of April, 1911
should pay a sewer frontage of $500
q foot at the time sewers are built fol
the benefit of the property owners il
such territory The resolutions mel
with support from nearly every mem
Der of the council and it was held By
several speakers that this arrangement
would be one of ultimate fairness moi
only to the new territory that would
come into the city but that it would
lift the burden of the expense of tn,
sewer from people in the older dis
tricts of the city who have already
been taxed for sewer purposes. This
plan of forming new district with
view of having territory outside of the
city pay portion of the cost of thu
trunk sewer had been anticipated since
the beginning of the agitation for the
building of the big sewer but the mat
ter had never been laid before tn,
council in q formal manner before.
The resolution providing for the new
district was passed by a unanimous
vote of the council and the passage o.
it removed the last barrier to the pas
sage of the bond ordinance. AS sool
as this resolution was passed the aid
crnen from the north side Of the city
who had been strongest in their obiec
tions to the ordinance announced thei
intention Of voting for the issuance O
the bonds.
City Engineer Moth announced tina
the plans and specifications for thu
sewer were all ready for the bidder
and tie bids will probably be opened
within thirty days.
1t is estimated that It viii take thre
years to complete the sewer and th
cost of it will be in the neighborhoot
of $4,000 and the city councils of fut
ure years will be called upon to maxi
appropriations or bond issues to pro
vide for the completion of the work.
Nicholas Gehl has gone to Montrose