The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-04-05
some SALARIES
ARE BOOSTED
AND THE COUNCIL ALSO RATlFIES
AGREEMENT WITH SOUTH
SHORE RELATIVE TO
RAILROAD AVE.

Salaries of city officials, elective and
appointiVe for the coming year were
fixed last night by the city council
at the final gathering of the old coun
Gil. The clerk is to get $1,000. "A raise
of $500: his assistant is raised from $6j
to SIS; the treasurer gets a raise of
800, making his pay $500. Other sal
aries remain the same as before. The
chief of police gets 81 1000; health Of
fcer $500; city attorney. $500; mayor
and council $50 per annum. OF the mi
nor offices. the chief teamster is TO get
s75; drivers SOS; hydrant man, SIS
poundmasters $50 month; park care
taker. $50.
At the request of Mayor Dodge the
compensation of the street commits
sioner was not fixed, and the COM
ments of the mayor in making the re-
quest appeared to indicate that there
is going 20 be a change in this APP
pointment The mayor said that the
street commissioner should be On A
| No man. with a knowledge of streets,
one who would be on the job all the
| time aud therefore 1t will be better to
wait until the appointment is decided
upon and make the salary sufficiently
high TO make it acceptable TO first
class man such as he had in mind.
Action Oh the salaries of the engineer
and fremen at the pump house was
also deferred pending the making Of
| improvements on which the city en-
ginecr is working which will require
fewer men To operate.
The mayor was empowered to hire
and dismiss poundmasters according to
his best judgment, in order to secure
| efficiency. and a motion was passed
that the poundmasters should be liable
| for damages done by COWS in the ter
ritory under their jurisdiction.
| Agreement With Railroad.
| Attorney G. ID. Hanchette, acting
temporarily in place of City Attorney
| Lawton, read am agreement from the
South Shore railroad relative 10 an adj
justment Of the Railroad avenue mat
ter. The railroad proposes to lease TO
the city strip fifteen feet wide on. the
north side of the right way, be
tween Ethel avenue and EleV alton
! street in exchange for the lease of a
corresponding strip from the city 10
the railroad on the south side Several
suggestions were made, TO the etfeet
that Michigan street should never be
Obstructed with buildings or ware
houses, that trains should not block the
crossings any unreasonable length Of
time and that the leases should he for
a period OF ninety years. IL was
voted TO accept the contract with the
| changes that had been suggested. The
strip grated to the railroad is 20 be
used for general railway purposes ard
that transferred to the city to be useu
TO widen Railroad avenue. The con-
tract in its main features was the same
as was outlined in the News Monday
last, and is considered by all to he a
most satisfactory solution of prob
/ lem which has proved a most vcxati-
Gus and pcrploAing one to the city
authorities.
Another and Matter.
Alderman Hosking asked that some
thing be done relative to purchasing
from the Sullivan heirs a strip Of
ground in order to connect Summit
street and Anthony avenue i'm west
Hancock. The price asked was $1,000
The estate owes a sum approXimating
this in unpaid tax assessments and OF
motion of Mr., Hosking the mayor was
I 4tt al 40 10 frN ~ Ia
which the land might be purchased ON
the basis of a written receipt for the
sum due in taxes.
Figures were submitted by the city
clerk from firms making street sprink-
lers. one firm offered to supply one
for 1922 and another gave a price Of
$2Sj for a wooden one. $500 for steel
one. Mayor Dodge stated that local
agents wanted to have &. chance to fig
IRE on supplying the city with sprink-
lers The matter was left 10 the street
committee to report at the next meet
ing.
The Saloon Situation.
Attorney Hanchette explained the
latest phase of the saloon situation
arising from the supreme court decis-
ion given a few, DAYS ago. Under this
ruling ii will he Illegal to grant any
license to any saloon men who were
not in business in June 1909. or to any
one to replace any liquor dealer who
has voluntarily dropped out. until the
number of saloons in the city reaches
the legal limit of one to every FIVE hun
dred of population.
Alderman Hoskng expressed the
hope that the council would not he
compelled TO make the number of sa
looms too small. as it would seriously