Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-25
THE COOPERATIVE PLANT

council met in special session to +ore
into consideration the matter of pass.
ing upon the site for the Farmer,s
cooperative packing plant. A site
mad been determined upon in tho
First Ward, but as there were obiec.
tlons made by many resident owners
OF Ghat ward and a petition had been
presented TO the council, signed by 50
residents and also a petition signed
Dy larger number of the residents
OF That ward to have the plant placed
where 1t was originally intended. the
6ne corporation decided to let the
council decide the question. M. B.
hoSenperry, president of the COM
pany, presented the case to the council
Tor the packing plant and among
oGher things said that the COMPANY
Ilao list OF stockholders of 2,O86. and
In the plant alone over S1OO. 900 would
be spent in the city on the BUILDINGS
alone; that in his opinion that the
plant, as it would be constructed
mere, would be entirely sanitary and
not Objectionable. If he Thought
there was possible chance of it be-
ing otherwise, he would be the last
man to urge its being placed here.
Mr.. Gardner who drew the plans for
the buildings, assured the council
that the plant would be perfectly
sanitary and he went into detail quite
extensively.
+. w. Genrich presented the case
Tor those who were opposed to placing
the plant in the First Ward. He
plead with the council not to place
The plant in the midst of homes,
which would compel many who could |
not afford it to abandon them. He
argued for the placing of the plant in
the outskirts or outside of the limits
where it would not be obnoxious.
DIR. L. E. Spencer, who is a men,
Der of the state board of health. told
of visiting a number of packing plants
and found nothing particularly obec-
tionable, in fact he said that if the
plant was placed where it was con-
that those living on streets
close by would not know that it ex-
listed.
A. 7. Woodson was opposed to the
plant being placed in the residence
district. He had visited number of
plants and found objection to them,
from the stock yards,-the
0dor, believing of cattle and squeal-
ing of pigs.
Ill. e. Schuler, secretary of the
packing company spoke in. favor of
locating the plant on the site selected
in the first ward and was emphatic in
his belief that the plant would not
prove Objectionable in the least. He
also gave the reasons why the site
was the best of all others that had
been offered.
&. g. Yawkey, who had taken
great interest in the matter from the
start, having nothing at heart but
5he welfare of the city at large, felt
hat there was no reason for placing
he plant in the residence district of ,,
,he first ward; that it would be better
or the company and vastly to the
Welfare of the residents of our city to
nave it placed in the outskirts. He
personally agreed to pay the extra
expense of sewers to have the plant \
,hus placed. He spoke his mind
reely and would rather see the plant
70 elsewhere than be menace to the
Mayor Ringle spoke at length and a
n-as-much as there were more who 2
seemed to want it than not to want t
t in the first ward, and that rather \
han not to have it in our city he a
hought it better be placed on the o
lite in question and if it proved a i,
nuisance it could easily be abated. t
The vote of the city council was c
our against and thirteen in favor of c
placing the plant in the First Ward.