The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-27
County Board Decides to re.
fer Tile Contest to Com
mittee with Power to Act
FIND " IN SHERIDAN DRAIN
Supervisor Scott Renders Report to the
Board Covering ALI Points of the
Contested Tile Question and Special
Committee Will Act for the Board.

The sessions of the county board are
drawing to close today and it is ex-
pected that the board will adjourn for
the November session late this after
noon. Only few matters, including
the county tax levy remained to be
closed up when the board met this
afternoon.
The feature of the closing day was
the referring of the troubles over the
tile on the Sheridan road to a special
committee composed of Supervisors
Herzog Of Somers and Scott and Bishop
of Kenosha. Supervisor Scott of the
third ward acting as chairman of the
committee Of the whole, rendered his
report on roads this morning. 1t is one
of the best reports of contested prob
lem ever sent to the board. It covers
every feature of the controversy which
has taken up a lot of the time of the
supervisors at the November session.
The report is published as follows with
OuG LUZ ueT cOulW6HJ.
Kenosha, Wis, Nov. 25, 1913.
Gentlemen
Having been appointed chairman of
the committee of the whole to visit, ex-
anime and report on the tile on Sheridan
Road and the roads adjoining the city
built the past year under state super
vision. Would respectfully report that
on Saturday, November %, 1913, we
did visit and examine the concrete road
in the Village of Somers, also the ma
cadam road in the Town Of Pleasant
Prairie, known as the Geneva road In
Somers we found the concrete road in
poor condition, there being several
holes in the surface and one hole en-
tirely through the concrete to the dirt.
/ understand that portion of this road
was opened for traffic thirteen days
after its completion. According to the
instructions of the state highway com
mission on concrete road, IA #. wide
as the Somers road, there should be
shoulder from the outside edge of the
concrete to the slope of the fill of six
feet six inches We found this grade
not in accordance with these instruc
tions as there were many places not
over two feet wide and from four to
five fit. fill with no railing and should
call these conditions dangerous to pub
lie travel. On the Geneva road the
macadam on the west 200 feet does not
look in good condition as the top dress
ing seems to be partly missing and the
crushed stone already shows. The rail
ing on the fill at the bridge east of
Toner farm does not look as though
that the fill was wide enough when the
posts were set as on the north side of
the fill the dirt has washed away from
the outside Of some Of the posts. On
Monday, November oath, we visited the
tile on the Sheridan Road. We found
an eight tile laid there. At the catch
basin we found the tile about half
full of water and water stationary. At
the outlet at the creek we found
small stream of water running from
this tile. We came back about mid
way between the catchbasin and the
outlet and procuring a shovel from a
neighboring house we dug down to the
tile and accidentally struck Y COW
cred with burlap sock. We measur-
ed the water in the tile at this point
and found about two inches, it being as
at the catch basin, stationary We
then went back to point of catchbasin
and then east to where it is claimed
by Mr.. Tobin that it was the intention
of State Engineer Blake that the water
from this tile should 60. There we
found about 100 feet Of tile had been
laid and abandoned We would recon-
so the engineer who RECOMMENDED the
change Of course of this tile. appear
before this county board and explain
why this change was made to the end
that we may determine why this money
has been spent for a tile that is evi-
IDENTIFY useless We would also recon-
mend that the inspectors on this par
ticular work appear before the county
board or a committee with power to
act and explain why this Y was placed
in this tile and if there are any more,
There has been considerable feeling
created in this controversy and in jus
tice to the tax payers and Kenosha
county as well as parties in charge of
this work we feel that all points should
be fully explained.
Respectfully submitted,
T. /. Scott, Chm. Com. of Whole.