The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-05-07
PRAISE FOR CAPT. CAMERON
West Side Street Worker Is Held to be
Too Old For Heavy Duties-Everett,
Willems and Pitts Named--Council
to Enforce Speed Laws in Kenosha

Heads fell into the basket at the
meeting of the common council on
Monday evening when the aldermen
elected street commissioners for the
new year, The commissioners named
were for the south division Joseph
Everett, for the north division Matt
Pitts, for the west division j. B. Will
lens. Pitts is to succeed John Stun
mer, who has been in charge OF the
work on the north side for the past
year and half Summer was a can
didate for reelection and led on the
first ballots taken, but when the final
ballot came Pitts won by vote of
ten to nine. Many of the members of
the council paid tribute to the faithful
service rendered to the city by Captain
b. G. Cameron, former head of the life
saving crew who has served as street
commissioner Of the west division. He
had been a half hearted candidate for
reelection, but he had recognized that
the growing work of the position was
a heavy tax on him and the members
of the council held that the position
was too exacting for one of the years
of Captain Cameron. The retirement
of Captain Cameron takes from the city
pay roll one of the most faithful and
efficient employees ever in the service
of the city.
In electing the commissioners an ef-
fort was made to have them named
without division selection, but this
failed to secure the support of a ma
jority of the members of the council
and the old plan which has ruled for
so many years was followed.
The crowd in the lobby is beginning
to thin out and when the commissioners
had been named there was scarcely
corporal s guard left. In fact the
crowd at the meeting on Monday night
was made up almost entirely of the
men seeking Office and their friends
There were more than dozen appli-
cations for the various Offices of street
commissioner
Dr. Harold Rose was named as city
physician for the coming year, his bid
for the work being $144. There was
some sentiment in favor of continuing
the plan of employing the Kenosha
County Medical Society to look after
the dependents. The society made
bid of $l9S for the year, but the pau
per commissioner held that the plan
had not proved a successful one and
the aldermen insisted that the posi-
tion be given to the lowest bidder.
Charles Winke was named to make
the annual audit of the books of the
city, his price being $135.
Contracts for the sprinkling of Prai-
RE and Milwaukee avenue were award
ed to F. F. Joerndt. The price for
Prairie avenue was eleven Gents foot
and for Milwaukee avenue fifteen cents
1t was great night for annual re-
ports. There were yearly reports of
the city clerk, the health department
and the pauper commissioner and these
were all ordered placed on file follow
ing an examination by the finance
committee.
The council demanded the enforce
ment of the state law regulating the
speed of all vehicles in what is known
as "school districts, and signs will
be put up to show the limits of these
districts and drivers of all sorts of
vehicles viii be warned that a speed
of more than eight miles an hour in
such districts will result in arrests
This law is being strictly enforced
throughout the state and it is said that
in cities where the law is enforced the
number of accidents to school children
has been greatly reduced,
There was long argument over the
proposed paving of Ridge street, but
like similar arguments before the form
er council it failed to get anywhere.
People on the street demonstrated
against the pavement and it was ad-
mitted that the original petition for the
paving did not have the majority of
the frontage. Efforts to have the city
sign as property owner met with a
determined resistance and the whole
matte rwas laid over until the next
meeting for further examination on
the part of the aldermen.
The question of the proposed sewer
in the Kenosha river came up and the
city engineer and city attorney were
instructed to proceed at once to get
easements for the proposed sewer It
is thought that some final action in
this matter will be taken at the next
meeting of the council
The only clash between the mayor
and the majority aldermen was on the
question of sewers. The mayor with
great dignity declared that under the
state law the council was forced to
give sewers where petitions were filed
by property owners. Some of the al
dermen smiled and questioned his legal