New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-13
CITY TAX LEVY Is
TO Be INCREASED
WORKING FUNDS ARE OVER
DRAWN AND MORE MONEY +
is NEEDED.
TURNER SOCIETY SEEKS ABATE.
MENT OF WASH. STR. SEWER
ASSESSMENTS.

Quite number of important matters
occupied the attention of the city council
at their regular meeting last Tuesday
evening. F. W. Johnson, Henry Engel
and Fred Pfaender appeared before the
council on behalf of the New Ulm Turn
verein and requested the return of the
sum of $292.50 paid by the Society
for sewer assessment on Washington
Street on the ground that no connection
had been made with this sewer and that
none would be made as long as the Park
is maintained. AS parallel case the
committee cited the action of the city
council in abating the assessment of the
Union Hospital on State Street because
the Hospital had connection on Broadway
and would have no occasion to connect
with the sewer on State Street. The
matter was discussed at some length and
was finally laid over to the next meeting.
Upon the request of the Commercial
Club the sum of $4,000 was voted the
Committee on Charities and Correction
Conference to help defray part of the
expense incurred in taking care of the
convention. Alderman Hamann voted
against this action. The committee
urging this action of the council consisted
OF Fred w. johnson, H. N. Somsen, and
j. A. Ochs. They stated that the total
expense, which would be in the neighbour
hood of $425.0O, had been guaranteed by
the business men of New Ulm and argued
that because the convention had been
of benefit to the public generally that
it would not be more than right to have
part of the expense borne by the city at
large.
Of the greatest Importance to the tax
payers of the city was the action of the
council in adopting the recommendation
of the finance committee which provides
for a tax levy for 1916 in the sum of
$21 100000 distributed as follows: Street
fund, $1O,0O0.0O; Interest and Sinking
fund, $6,00O.00; Fire Department fund,
So, 600 90, and Park fund, $3,OOO.OO. As
a reason for this much higher levy than
usual, Chairman Krook stated that
for some time the levy had been altogether
too small and that several of the funds
were considerably overdrawn and that
to be able to reimburse these overdrawn
funds and place the city's finances on a
good footing it was imperative that the
levy as recommended be made.
A transfer Of liquor license was granted
from Emil Frenzel to Baier & King and
Messrs. Ranweiler and Henle were in
formed that there would be no objections
to transfer of license from J. A. Lesh to
them.
It was decided to pay the city's dues
to the League of Minnesota Municipal-
tiles, but no delegates will be sent to rep
resent the city at the annual meeting
which will be held at Virginia, October
goth. Only one bid was received for
%ho e
First, Second and Third North Streets be-
tween Broadway and Minnesota Streets.
This was the bid of Fred A. Keute for
the sum OF $4,000. At a previous
meeting bid of Pullman Bros. was re-
jected because it was too high. The
Keute bid proved too high also and the
council laid the matter on the table.
The plumbing bond of Hippert and
Werner was approved and placed on
file and Frank j. Temple was granted an
electricians license
Wenzel Groebner's application for an
abatement of his sewer assessment on
First North Street was rejected.
The contract for painting the water
hydrants, the alarm boxes and the fire
apparatus in Engine House No. 3 and
the kalsomining of this engine house in
CeTlOT Was dWdTUeu 10 ScnWenQlnger q
Schuster for the sum of $780,, The
only other bid was that of John Wartha
in the sum of $1,000.
Henry Engel was confirmed as Fire
Chief of the Department and the con-
tract for heating Engine House No.3
by the New Ulm Roller Mill was APPROX
ed and put on file.
Upon the suggestion of Supt. Mueller
of the electric light station, the employees
Of the city will hereafter be paid their sala-
ries twice month.
On Estimate No. 4, the Dearborn Con-
struction Company was allowed the sum
Of $2,0O3.63 on account and the Black
hawk Construction Company was allowed
the sum of $1,125.30 on the engineers
final estimate on the sewer on South
Broadway.
Building permits were granted to
Fred Book and Geo. Schreiner to re-
single their residences and to Jos.
Teynor for the erection of an auto shed.