The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-10-08
CITY Cou NCIL NOTES.

The council met in regular session
Monday evening.
Bigel was absent for the first time.
Being billiard enthusiast of long
standing he couldn't resist attending
an exhibition of ivory manipulation by
an expert at local hall.
a St. Louis manufactures of oil en-
gine pumps wants chance to demon
strate its product before the city buys
new water works equipment, but the
council held out no hope of any changes
in its plan for steam pumps.
A resolution was adopted putting in
to force the new electric power rate
and the private fire protection rates re-
Gently authorized by the state rail
road commission.
One Mike Seidl recently broke his
leg and being INDECENT his case was
turned over by DR.. Luhman to City
Physician Shimek. The latter employ
ed DR.. Meany to perform an operation.
DR.. Meany has claim in for 800, DR..
Luhman SIS and DR.. Gleason SO. The
amount of these claims is not question
ed but the city physicians authority to
incur this expense is challenged and
the committee on claims had the mat
ter referred to the city attorney.
The committee on sanitation report
ed the resignation Of visiting nurse
Gertrude Frazier. No action was Ia
ken.
The poor cost S6S4.lS last month.
or this $2l0.50 was the regular list, the
balance claims.
The treasurer has S34 900 on hand.
The Library Board wants S4460 this
year, an increase of about $500
Ed Hermann was the lowest bidder
for grading and graveling short parts
of three streets. Walter Bahr bid for
various kinds of cheap permanent sur
fare and the cost of this over gravel
ing was surprisingly small and delight
ed the mayor and Schuetze who are
fighting against graveling. The bids
went to committee.
Bahr underbid the Gray-Robinson
Company for putting in lS5 feet of wa
ter main on 2lst street. The cost will
be considerably lower if the city will
furnish the pipe which it has on hand,
because the cost to the contractor in
less than car load lots in high.
The matter of parking the lake front
betweeuThtcago and State streets was
discussed and referred to the ark
Commission.
The Franklin street sewer matter
was discussed. A sewer must be laid
before the proposed paving can go
down but the engineers reccomenda-
tions call for a sewer to cost about Sl5,-
600 and the sewer district has no mon
ey. The committee on public improve
ments advised delay for year until at
least half of this sum could be raised
but Schuetze demanded 1915 paving
ard on motion of Georgenson the engi-
neer's plans were rejected and cheap
er sewer plan is called for which can
be put IN promptly so as to possibly
permit the paving next year.
Schuetze was insistent for immedi-
ate action and Mc'Keough asked him
how he proposed to get the money.
The third warder retorted ''cut in two
your appropriation for gravel work"
Repairs to strengthen 10th street
bridge, badly needed, will be done by
Pellet and Mc'Mullen for Sl69090.
The school budget made up by the
Board of Education was favored by the
committee although there were rumors
that some members of the committee
signed under protest. The budget is
$4,000 less than last year. The school
boards president, f. A. Miller, asked
for permission to speak. He explained
the new supervising principal scheme
and showed that although wages are
higher, new departments added, the
best teachers employed and building
fund in process of creation still the
schools cost no more than under the
old district system. Scherer quizzed
him little but erything was salts
factorily answered. The talk made a
good impression and start by some
one might have put back $4,000 in the
building item which the board had re-
moved.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company's
petition asking the city to approve the
details OF the work they are doing in
the city came up again for the third or
fourth time but no one made move
and it drifted into the discard without
any action. AS the company does not
need the approval the aldermen could
MT see any purpose in atllrmiatively
approving. Some seemed to have Il
suspicion of lurking "jokers' in the
peti tion.