The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-10-07
MAY LET WORK TO CONTRACT
Chairman Shearer of the Special Com
mittee Declares That Ways and
Means Must Be Worked Out After
the Appropriation for Work Is Made.

Members of the City Club which is
now actively engaged in securing the
municipal collection and disposal of gar
bage in Kenosha have begun to bonn
bard the members of the common coun-
Gil with suggestions to fget busy
The women interested are not seeking
to dictate to the council but they are
anxious that some plan be provided
which will insure municipal collection
for Kenosha within the next few
months. Alderman Conrad Shearer of
the Second ward is chairman of the
committee of the council in charge of
this important matter and he has called
several meetings Of his committee with
a view of working out the plan to be
followed. The members of the commit
tee have not only been approached by
the women of the club but also by lot
of companies interested in the manu-
facture and sale of various systems for
reduction of garbage. Mrs. Allen Cole
is at the head of the committee Of wo-
men and she has offered to Chairman
Shearer any aid that can be given by
the women of the club.
Mrs. Cole has asked me what can
be done by the women along this line, -
said Chairman Shearer this morning.
g have told them to keep up the agita-
tion and if possible furnish the commit
tee with information of what is being
done in other cities and what it is cost
ing to do it. The women got behind
the project to issue bonds for the new
Lincoln school and they were successful
in the movement. Tt is just possible
that they can solve the question of the
municipal collection of garbage
HThe committee has done pretty
nearly everything it can do until there
is fund available for this purpose,
continued Alderman Shearer "We do
not know what can be done with $4,000
but we have been advised by the health
officer that this should be sufficient to
start the work in Kenosha. We are not
certain whether the city should buy
horses and wagons and go directly into
the collection of the garbage or if it
would be even better plan to let
contract to men in the business or other
men. Both Of these plans have been
strongly urged by experts in this line of
business. We have figured with the
Koos Company with view of interest
ing that company in reduction of gar
bage and it is possible that we can make
contract with THIS or some other COM
pany which will make it possible TO
get the work done at a rate cheaper
than would be possible if the city in
stalled reduction plant of its own.
The present financial condition of the
expenditures along any line but we
think that it will be possible to work
out plan which will be an improve
ment without demanding such great
expenditure from the city. I feel GER
tain that the finance committee will in
clude in the budget the amount of $6,-
900 for garbage collection and disposal
and believe that this will be enough
to try out the plan for year on one
or the other of the suggested systems. -
It is said that majority of the mem
bers of the council are favorable to en-
forced collection Of garbage under the
care of the city but as yet no plan has
been worked out to assess the cost of
such collection to property owners. In
many cities the collection of garbage
is placed under the direction of the
health department and the cost of col
lection paid from general funds. This
is the plan that is being given the most
consideration in Kenosha It is certain
that such plan would meet with little
or no opposition from anyone.