The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
ROAST FOR BARNEY HERMANN
Northside Street Commissioner is Charg-
ed With Failure to Obey Orders Of
the Street Committee Fight on
Paving on Chicago Street Promised.

Inc City councl nau Teally qul6I
session on Sunday evening so chock
full of business that there was no time
for arguments and the only thing that
managed to bring any rise out of
any of the aldermen was a hot COM
plant on the failure Of Barney Her
mann, the north side street commits
sioner, to follow orders Of his superiors
and the question Of the paving of
Chicago street between the city hall
corner and the park Alderman Rhode
discoursed to the council on the failure
of Street Commissioner Hermann to
obey orders for ten minutes and re-
lated some laughable experiences with
the north side commissioners. Incl
dentally these little jokes Of the COM
missioner had cost the city consider
able money The failure Of other in
vestigations along these lines in the
past few weeks caused Alderman
Rhode to hesitate on having the COM
missioner summoned before the council
and he declared at the end Of his re-
marks that the statement was simply a
preliminary one and that if the COM
missioner did not keep little closer
to the orders Of the committee that
formal charges would be filed against
him.
Chicago street property orders are
divided as to the width to which the
street is to be paved. The property
owners at the south end Of the street,
between Wisconsin and Park Place, be-
lieve that the street should be paved
to width Of but thirty feet in order
to make it possible to save the trees
along the curb. Other property own
ers favor paving it to the full width
This proposition promises to bring a
real fight before the council and the
matter was referred to the committee
on streets and alleys to report at the
next meeting of the council There
were lot Of public improvements
asked for on Monday evening. The
people at the west end of Grand
avenue between Brockett street and
the city limits asked to have the street
paved with brick at once. The petit
lion for the paving of Salem avenue
came in and the council will make an
effort to get the street graded and
have the concrete foundation put in
this year. The people of Brockett
street have asked that sewer be
built from the Grand avenue corner
to the north limits of the street and
if possible they want the work done
this year. Final reports were made on
the paving of portions of Park and
Edwards streets and this work will be
done this year. The final report on
the paving of South Ashland avenue
also came in from the street assess
ment committee and this will be done
the first thing next year.
The council took steps to secure the
erection of new engine house in the
southwest portion of the city and the
matter was referred to the committee
on fire department. with the chief add
ed. This committee viii look over
sites and make an effort to work out
some plan to secure the building of
an engine house before the end of the
year. The house on Dayton street is
rapidly falling down and the council
feels the necessity of immediate ac-
ton in this matter even if it became
necessary for the city to borrow money
to build a new engine house or repair
the present house.
The question of the failure Of the
city to locate sewer stubs caused lot
of argument among the aldermen and
it was decided to mark the stubs with
iron rods in the future. These rods
win be placed close to the curb line
and it is thought that this movement
while Inexpensive so far as the city is
concerned would save the property
owners great deal of trouble and
money in making connections to the
sewers.
The. report of the city treasurer
showed that the city had balance of
a little over $4,000 in the bank, but
with the outstanding bills paid the city
would be pretty close to the red led
ger.
There was large amount of routine
business at the council meeting Mon
day evening. A half dozen resolutions
providing for special assessments to
be added to the tax roll were read and
passed and the city clerk will seek to
have all this work cleared away before
the annual levy is made on the first
Monday in December.
The council decided to participate in
the great sanitary conference to be
held at Cleveland, o., the latter part
Of this month and Commissioner of