The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-02-23
MAY PASS BOND ORDINANCE
Council Will Also Plan for the Rebuild
ing Of Other Sewers in the City Bad
ly in Need of Attention Publication
Stops Action.

council on Monday evening but the al
dermen had a get together meeting
brought about by discussion of this
much vexed subject and at the end of
the discussion the aldermen who had
seen imaginary lines of north and
south and east and west sides of the
city, saw these lines fade away and
tho aldermen got together to work for
the best interests of the whole city
without any idea of sectional lines in
the future. The meeting promises to
bring about better feeling among the
aldermen and it is probable that in
time that the ordinance providing for
the bonds for the trunk sewer will be
passed and in addition to this the coun-
eli will adopt resolutions which will
provide for the correction Of long
standing evils of the existing sewer
system. Sewers which have caused
trouble to the property owners for
years will be taken up at the expense
of the city and rebuilt. This is parti-
cularly true of the Milwaukee avenue
sewer which has long been an eye sore
to the people of that part Of the city
The bond ordinance for the sewer
bonds could not have been passed at
the meeting Monday evening as after
the discussion on the question was over
and the ordinance had been read it was
discovered that it had not had the pub
locations required by law and final ac-
ton on it was laid over until the next
regular meeting of the council. The
council did, however by large major
ity vote for the purchase of the Hollis
ter lot on South Exchange street, the
appropriation of a thousand dollars for
the price of this lot being made by a
vote of Is to 2 The purchase of this
lot brought the real discussion of the
sewer. The discussion for the sewer
was led by Aldermen Pirsch, Hege-
mann, Marlatt and Timme while Alder
men Stemm, Werner, and George Wade
presented pretty clearly the position
of the aldermen who had in the past
stood against the proposed improve
ment. Alderman Werner stated the
conditions pretty clearly. He declared
that he was not ready to stand in the
way of the improvement of the entire |
city and that he had only opposed the
present plan for the sewer on account
of the fact that he thought that bet |
ter plan could be made. He declared
that he was in the front rank of the
men who would advance Kenosha and
that there should be no sectional lines
iii the final decision of the council in
regard to any great Improvement AL |
derman Stemm declared that after he
had heard the arguments for the sewer
that he was ready to join with his col |
leagues in advancing the work and the |
sentiment was echoed by Alderman !
George Wade. The friends of the sew
er showed by argument that the build
ing of the trunk sewer would open a
way for perpetual revenue to the city
and that in future years when the great
systems of sewers were built to connect
with the main sewer that these sewers
would not only ultimately pay the cost
of the main sewer but that the assess,
ments made for these connecting sew
ers would eventually pay an actual rev
enue over and above the cost of the
main sewer into the city treasury thus
reducing the taxes to be paid by the
people of the whole city without regard
to the benefits of the sewer. It was
shown that the plan for the sewer pro-
vided for the making of new districts
for the new territory to be brought in
to the city and that this territory would
pay for sewer privileges at a rate |
which would make it possible for pro
perty owners in suburbs to be annexed
to pay a part of the cost of the con-
struction of the trunk line.
In the argument in regard to the /
sewer the question of the connectino
of the main sewer on Milwaukee ave
nue. came up and the aldermen were
united in the opinion that this sewer
should be rebuilt by the city and made
of the greatest possible value to The
owners adjoining it. It is
probable that some action will be tax |
en- at the next meeting of the council
not only to provide for the Immediate
start of the work on the trunk sewer
but also TO provide for the relaying of
the Milwaukee avenue sewer.
The argument on the question was
not without zest but it was an argu-
ment IN which the members of the
council got down to frank statement
OF their opinions and this frank state |
ment led to better understanding for
ali. The deeds for the purchase Of |
the HOLSTER lot have all been drawn /
and the property will be transferred to
the city TODAY on the payment of tho I