The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-08
BUY MOTOR PATROL WAGON
Contract for Chassis Let to The Thomas
B. Jeffrey Co.-Annual Reports of the
Park Board and Board of Health Sent
to the Council Monday Evening.

The city council took the first step
to fight the advancing typhoid cpl
demic in Kenosha at the meeting on
Monday evening when by a unanimous
vote the water commission was direct
ed to proceed at once to the installation
of a plant for the treatment of the
water of the city with chlorite of lime.
The estimated cost Of the plant will
be in the neighborhood of $1,000 and it
is thought that it can be installed with
in the next thirty days. Members of
the water commission and the board of
health have made careful study of
COLONIZATION and they believe that the
condition of the water will be mat
erially improved by the use Of the pro-
cess. City Engineer Brennan declared
that while the use of the hypochlorite
of lime would not bring an absolutely
pure water that it would make the wa
ter safe for table use. He told what
had been done with the system at
Waukegan and declared that the wa
ter board would be ready to act on the
suggestion Of the council. Such a plant
will in no way take the place of a fl
tration plant and it is considered as
temporary relief but it is thought that
the use of the system will go long
way toward relieving conditions in
Kenosha.
The council meeting was another Of
the long drawn out kind with plenty
of business for all departments of the
city. Annual reports of the park board,
board of health, city clerk and poor
master were sent to the council and all
of them were referred to the auditor.
The contract for making the annual
audit of the books of the city was given
to Charles Winke Of Milwaukee and
the cost will be $135. Mr. Winke is
expected to start work within week.
Robert Wilson was appointed as an
inspector to oversee the work Of paving
Salem avenue. The appointment was
made on petition of the property own
ers on the street.
The council on the recommendation
of the finance committee decided to is
sue bonds for $4,000 to pay for the
extensions of the Balm school and other
buildings ordered by the board Of edu-
cation. It is planned to issue these
bonds about the first of September.
They will be twenty year serial bonds
bearing interest at the rate of four and
a half per cent.
Ludwig Klemm was awarded the con-
tract for the building of the Elizabeth
street engine house, the total cost of
the building to be in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
The city is going to have a motor
driven patrol wagon and get rid of the
last pair Of horses at the Central En-
CINE house. The contract for the build
ing of the chassis for the patrol wagon
was let to The Thomas B. Jeffrey COM
pany, the cost to be $1,000. The body
of the wagon will probably be built by
the Peter Pirsch Company and the cost
of it will be in the neighborhood of
$500.
The street railway company was I'M
der fire again and ON the motion of
Alderman Hegeman the company was
given 48 hours to work out plan for
keeping the streets cleaned between
the tracks. If the company fails to
meet this demand the city attorney is
directed to make application to the at
torney general Of the state to bring an
action to annul the franchise rights Of
the company IF the attorney general
declines to bring this suit it will be
brought by the city.
The ordinances providing for the va
cation of portions of Pine and Cedar
street to lead to the opening of Ash
land avenue were given their first read
ings and they may be acted upon at the
next meeting Of the council.
There was a long argument on the
proposed building ordinance and this
matter will probably be taken up at an
early meeting.
There was the usual amount Of rou-
tine business and it was long after
midnight before the final adjournment
was taken.