New Ulm review., 1912-09-11
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
More Stringent Enforcement a
Fire Regulations Advo
Gated.
Protest Against Assessments
Filed.

Henry Engel, chief of the Fire De-
partment, appeared before the coun>
Gil at the regular meeting Tuesday
evening, and suggested that the local
merchant, in the rear of whose busi-
ness block fire was recently start
ed which called out the fire depart
ment should called upon to pay the
sum of s25 which was just enough
to barely cover the expense Of calling
out the department. The chief stated
that the merchant in question had
been warned repeatedly not only by
himself to clean up his premises but
also by Fire Marshall, JOS. F. Groeb~
ner, but had studiously failed to pay
any heed to their admonitions. The
matter was finally disposed of by re-
ferring it to Chief Engel and the fire.
department committee with full power
to act. To prevent an accumulation
of refuse in the business center OF
the city, Mayor Fritsche was re-
quested to instruct the police to make
thorough inspection of all alleys re-
peatedly. and see to it that all rub
bish is promptly removed.
At the request Of Capt Albert
Pfaender, the council voted the SUM
of $3.50 as armory rent for Co. "A for
the ensuing year.
Councillor Ruemke reported that
children had formed the habit of tam
pering with the recently installed
public drinking fountains and that
unless a stop was put to this, there
was grave danger that the fountains
would be put out Of commission. The
council gives fair warning to children
and parents that tampering with the
fountains must cease and that future
Offenders will be summarily dealt
with.
w. T. Eckstein and P. r. McHale
fled written protest against the as
sessment to be levied for the laying
of sewers on South State Street, con-
tending that part of the money was
bring expended for purposes foreign
to the laying of the sewers. The
communication was, however, not con-
sidered at Tuesdays meeting OF the
council.
The park commission reported that
the two new toilets erected in Ger
man Park under their supervision had
been completed according to contract
and recommended that $1,030OO, the
contract price, be paid to August
Pullman, which was done.
The council decided to purchase
at an outlay of $500 a complete re-
port of the proceedings Of the Fourth
National Conservation CongTisesa' 'Rl Wnlcn
will soon be held at Washington, IL
c., rather than send a delegate at
the citys expense as had been urged
in letters received by Mayor Fritsche.
The Minnesota Seed Company was
given permission to erect large scale
in front of their business property,
the same, however, to be done under
the supervision of the committee Oh
streets. .....
Mayor Fritsche's appointment OF
Charles Clement as official dog CATCH
er of the city, was approved.
According to an estimate made by
City Engineer Minium, the cost OF
laying water mains on Franklin Street
from Center to First North Street
would approximate 5000. On account
Of the estimate being so high, it is
hardly probable that any action look
ing to the making of this improvement
will be made at the present time.
The following judges were selected
for the primary election: first ward
Fred Behnke, F. G.. Schnobrich and
P. J. Soukup; second ward.-Christ.-
Ruemke, Theo. Mueller and Hugo
Gebser; third ward,-F. H. Retzlaffr
w. H. Gieseke and Christ Filzen, Jr-