The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-23
ESCAPE ANY DlcTATION
Members of Committees Arrange to
Provide for Waters of Greek During
Winter with Plans for Construction
of Well by City Next Spring.

Inc Cleary, White, Newman Com
pany, contractors for the trunk sewer
will not build the receiving well at
the corner of Pleasant and Selleck
avenues as the members of the street
assessment and sewer committee after
a long session on Tuesday afternoon
definitely decided that the work of
putting in this well should go over I'M
til next year. This action was taken
after a careful estimate of the value
of the work on the part of the city
engineer and other contractors showed
that the value Of it would not exceed
1900 and the lowest bid that had
been received for the construction of
the we'll was over SO 400. The en-
gineer held THAI it would not be neces-
sary to complete the well this year to
make provision to take care of the
waters, of Jerome creek and he held
that with the opening of the spring
season it would be possible to put in
the well at much less expense than
at the present time. Tt was decided,
however, that the contractors will be
ordered to make the sewer at the point
where the we'll is to have it's outlet
Of double thickness and an opening
will be left at this point and some
temporary arrangement made for tax
ing care of the water during the
winter
In estimating the cost Of the well
City Engineer Baltzer made his figures
safe. In fact in some of the estimates
he counted double the actual expense
in order to be on the safe side and
when all the figures were added up I'M
der this estimate they showed a total
of $1,29S. Contractors have notified
the city engineer that they will under
take the work for the city with the
understanding that they are to receive
a profit Of ten per cent for the work.
It is possible that the Cleary, White,
Newman Company will insist on hav-
ing the contract for the well under
the assumption that it is an "extra -
to the sewer, but the members of the
joint committee held that the Cleary,
White, Newman Company would com
plete its work in Kenosha this year
and for that reason any contract made
next year would not in any way be
governed by the terms of the existing
contract
Members Of the council made trip
over the sewer on Tuesday afternoon
and it will be a hard thing to convince
these men that the sewer will be com
pletedathis year There is still 900 feet
of open ditch work to be completed
and half as much tunnel work. The
tunnel work is moving along rapidly
considering the conditions of the
ground, but the work on the open
ditch is meeting with many delays
The contractors are having lot of
trouble with the quicksand formations
along the line Of the west end of the
sewer. If the work does not advance
faster in the next ten days than in
the past period of like duration there
will be no reason to worry over the
receiving well this year.
Contractor Cleary declared to the
council at the meeting on Monday
evening that he expected to have th(
entire job cleaned UP before the next
meeting of the council. There are
many days work to be put in in the
filing of the lots over the sewer and
with the possibility of a heavy freeze
at any time it seems almost an i'm
possibility to get this work out Of the
way