The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-12-21
CITY COUNCIL NOTES.
A regular session of the city council
was held Monday evening.


was held Monday evening.
Action was taken settling three
pending damage suits against the city.
Two of them were for injuries to
horses alleged to have been caused by
defects in the street where the draw
of Eighth street bridge meets the
abutment, the caulks of the horses
shoes getting caught in the opening
there. The claimants were Jos. Loritz
and the Kunz and Bleser company.
These claims are year old and the
damages amounted to about $3.50 AL
though the city claimed that the street
car company is liable, if anyone is, the
offer of the claimants to absolve the
city by payment of 800 appealed to
the committee in charge as business
like settlement, if the street car COM
pany would pay the balance and give
satisfactory assurance as to its future
attitude toward similar claims. This
was done and the council approved the
settlement.
Mrs. Franz's claim for $4,000 for per-
sonal injuries alleged to have been
caused by fall last May when
bridge employe opened the trap door
on Eighth street bridge as she was
passing over it. 1t was settled
for $500 upon recommendation OF the
claims committee and the attorney.
1t was assumed that under the partlc-
ular circumstances the only prncl-
pie at issue would probably be the
amount and that costs against the city
might amount to $3.50. Claimant
readily submitted to examination by
several physicians on behalf OF the
city and the committee had their re-
ports before reporting to the council.
Alderman Thorisen had something
ranking of which he proceeded to
relieve himself. 1t was relative to the
councils making city charge OF the
South 7th street sewer cost. This was
done after Thorisen's illness forced him
to leave the last preceding meeting.
The alderman thought the action was
unjust to taxpayers in outlying sewer
districts.
The city attorney reported the usual
list of uncollectible personal property
taxes, mostly against people who have
removed from the city. Three electric
pianos escaped the 1910 tax because
the ownership could not be fixed. AS
SCISSORS were more careful this year.
An order of $40 to the treasurer was
authonizad, he having bcen charged
with that amount.
The matter of dog taxes bobbed up
again in a report of the attorney to
the effect that of the 81 delinquents
referred to him s have not paid or fur
nished explanations. Adebate ensued,
resulting in motion, duly carried, in
structing the attorney and police to
enforce the ordinance stringently.
This means dispatching the unlicensed
dogs and possibly some suits for the
collection of $40 forfeiture. About
375 owners have paid and only 8 are
defiant.
The city has sold in small lots over
$4,000 of its issue of S230, 900 of water
works bonds.
Goetzler, who is in Chicago, was the
only absentee.
An application by Andy Anderson,
late of Green Bay, for saloon license
at the old Oswald Hermann stand was
referred to the license committee.
A deed to the city of the old Jones
Library half-lot, now vacant, signed
by the old Jones Library directors,
was reported as being in possession of
the city.
A motion carried to appoint COM
mittee to confer with Thos. Higgins
respecting his numerous entanglements
with the city.
A new set of specifications were
added to the paving specifications on
file, providing for 5 inch concrete
base, no binder, and two inches of
asphalt wearing surface.
The mayor appointed Beasant Fra
zier and Nienaber as committee to
supervise the erection of the proposed
store-house in the rear of the north
side fire station A committee was re-
quested by Engineer Rudolph.
The city sexton reported that ten
females and nineteen males were in
tered in Evergreen cemetery the last
three months.