The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-02-26
HOSPITAL AT THE POOR FARM
,Ouncil Orders Board of Health and
Building Committee to Proceed With
Erection of Institution Not to Cost
in Excess of $4,000.

Elevation of the tracks of the main
line Of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company is now up to the
Railroad Commission Of Wisconsin as at
special meeting held on Thursday af-
ternoon The members of the council
passed E formal resolution directing the
City Attorney to file the demand of the
city with Che Commission. During the
afternoon Mayor Head managed to hold
a telephone conversation with Commits
sioner David Harlowc and he gave the
Mayor the assurance that the notice
of the hearing on the petition for eleva-
ton would be issued within the next
twenty-five days. All property own
ers and all corporations interested in
the proposed track elevation will be
given notice to appear before the Com
mission and it is probable that the for
NAL hearing will be held in Kenosha
before the middle of March. TIE order
drawn by the city will be sent to the
Commission with the petition for ele-
vstion and this order will provide for
subways at every street along the main
line of the road.
Commissioner Harlowe declared to
the Mayor that he believed that the
Commission would be able to get out
the forral order or elevation of the
tracks WITHIN the next three months.
The Commission mas been advised of
the conditions surrounding the proposed
elevation and these conditions are such
rs to make long delays unnecessary, 1t
is expected that at the next regular
meeting of the council the aldermen
will take some action to submit to the
people the proposition of issuing bonds
to provide funds for the Strengthening
Of Main street ond the building Of the
new bridge
Hospital is Located.
A. t. special meeting the council
also closed up the question of the build
ing of an isolation hospital and it is
to be located somewhere on the city
poor farm. The council formally re-
considered its action Of several weeks
ago when it was planned to locate the
hospital on the park on South Ashland
avenue aad the action to locate it On
the city farm was given unanimous
vote. The sum of $4,000 was appropri-
ated for che building and equipment of
the institution and the plans for the
building will be all under the cupervis,
ION OF the building committee of the
council. 1t is planned to make the hos
pital a permanent Que and it will be
built so that it can be used 1or the
isolation of patients suffering from the
various contagious diseases. City At,
to.ney Slater announced to the council
that he had made careful invest a
ton of the law on the question of the
location of isolation hospitals and he
held that no action to prevent the city
locating the hospital on the poor farm
could be successfully prosecuted in the
courts. If an effort is made to stop
the work of building, the city will fight
it ont IL the courts.
The council took action TO secure the
cleaning of snow from walks in the
city and the Street Commissioners were
instructed to mako daily inspections
o. their territory and see to it that men
were pat to work to clean the walks
within the time provided for in the city
ordinance.