The Mankato free press., 1913-11-28
History Club Ladies
Thank City Council
From Mondays Daily.

/ From Mondays Daily.
Endorsement OF the action in pass
ing the recent dance hall ordinance
| was received by the city council
men this morning in the shape of a
letter from the ladies of the Art
History club, in which they COM
mended the stand of the mayor and
the city fathers for putting the
brakes on the public functions.
Commissioners John Gerlich re-
ported that he and City Attorney
! Arthur Schaub had been before the
recent meeting of the county com.
missioners and asked for aid to the
amount of $1,000, for fixing the Main
street hill He felt that the men,
i favorable to the request but before
| they took any action on the mater
! they wanted plans and specifications
/ prepared so that the work would go
to some definite end. II is thought
that the county would be willing to
/ the total being estimated at $4,000.
i If some Of the suggestions that
were made at the mornings meeting
are carried out, the Dhl will be curb
ed and guttered from the top to the
bottom. The city engineer was in
structed to prepare plans for the
Improvement of the grade.
Frowned on The Offer.
| Commissioner A. G. Lack said
that August Deike had offered $l2
a month for the use of the front
part of the city hall for dray
office. This chance for an income
for the city did not appeal to the
council and the suggestion was
frowned to death.
BY resolution the work of in
stalling the sanitary sewer on Shau-
but street beginning at Record, was
awarded to C. M. Masters, he being
the lowest bidder.
! One.third of the sewer assess
ment in the alleys back of Central
park will be assessed against the
parks. Carrie Fowler was granted
a rebate on the sewer assessment
on her Mulberry street property.
report from the city finances
showed an addition to the city
treasury as follows: Special tax,
$21,56S.4O; special assessment, 81
1928, making total of $25,.21.1S.
This does not include the $1,o48,S6
that was received for library uses.
Voted to Take Up Debt.
Upon motion it was voted to take
up $500 of the amount that had
been borrowed on the tax levy of
the coming year.
City Clerk w. G.. Bates reported
that when Charles E. hammers, the
city clerk of Saltwater had looked
at the city accounts of this city he
city shows Mankato to be in an
Il excellent financial way and that Man
kato does not know what a heavy
debt is.
At the close of the meeting Mayor
Meyer dropped hint that there
would probably be a new reservoir
built during the coming year.
y Look over Road Improvement.
Following the meeting the council
men and oity officials adjourned tC
West Mankato, to look over the Coco
. Thunder road that is now about
completed. This trip was taken tC
4 look over the work before making
the final payment to John Mccall
, the contractor.
The city's work starts at From
street just west of the hose house
From From, it goes up Sibley t.
q Seventh hen along Sevenh stree
, to lie Sueur and thence to the cit!
limits. The total work has consisted
/ of grading and gravelling 1900 fee
; of road.
y The former condition of this roat
is well enough known to the gen
eral public, so that it will need n,
. particular description here Suffice
{ it to say that in the former days i
= had all of the diseases that are com
- mon on roads. It's worst fault seem
,. ed to be rocks that punctuatet
- the road at frequent intervals AM
which were not only q menace t.
: travel but a barrier to public com
. fort.
: Grade Has Eeen Reduced.
y The rock has been blasted from
:. the road with dynamite and the ma
y terial thus procured, has been use'
to fill depressions in the grade il
. other places. The grade this sid
. of the West Mankato school ha
; been reduced, so that it will be cas-
" for the autos to navigate
: After the grading had been accom-
plished the entire strip of road wa
graveled with a mixture of India
: Lake gravel and gravel taken fror
= the Minnesota river. This mixtur
seems to be one of the finest thing
- for road surfacing that has bee
= used so far, The Indian Lake mf
,terial furnishes substance that ha
fine packing qualities and the rive
= gravel is of quality that will will
;, stand lots of heavy gravel.
;; The gravel is still loose, as it ha
,s not had enough travel to make
- solid. The road drags which are
20 be used will remedy this defect an
NJ eradicate the thank you marms tha
70 are now too frequent.
,c Reduced the Curve.