The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-04-22
CITY COUNCIL NOTES.

NE council met in regular session
nday evening. All members were
sent.
he mayor corrected some errors in
committee announcements OF last
citing. w. Schroeder was added to
utilities committee,
petition OF the business men on
ay east of Sth street asks that loO
t of water main be laid at Quay and
streets to connect two dead ends
better fire protection.
Street sprinkling was ordered on the
eets that were sprinkled last year.
The attorney was instructed to re-
It on whether the board OF heath
build be organized under the city or
lance or under the state law. About
only difference between them is
At under the old ordinance the city
ysician must be member of it, but
amendment to the ordinance is
nding taxing the physician oil the
ard.
The utilities committee will report
the advsability of renting the room
Joining the city Offices on the north.
he city hall is crowded with offices
W.
"A resolution by Scheror providing
at all work in the cemetery be done
city employees was referred. Much
the care taking there is now done 10y
ivate contractors.
A lot of petitions for curbs and gut
RS were referred.
A bill of DR.. Max Staehle for Sl9l 90
r legal services vas read and refer
d. This is what it cost the health
Nicer to establish in the supreme
II urt tnat he is legally holding over
y rough faiure to elect his successor
wfulIy last year.
Nearly block of concrete gutter
id last year on the south side was, on
recommendation of the committee on
lblic works, ordered torn up and laid
the proper grade.
The city treasurer had communica-
on on file reciting that the law re-
lires him to collect all utility none y
Id that he is not being permitted TO
so. The two utility clerks have been
ping this and Mr.. FRANKIE demands
ne law be observed He, of course,
ants more help in his office for thus.
here is some trouble ahead on this
Question, evidently.
The health officer and visiting nurse
ad quarterly reports on file which
ere read.
Thorison wants ward labor claims
emnized as they were before the uni
orm city accounting was installed and
will probably be done.
The assessors were given the same
uarters as last year and each authorl-
ed TO employ an assistant. Scherer
nd the mayor had a tilt over the meth
d OF getting this assistant proposition
before the council. The mayor dug up
| he old rules one of which requires
Propositions for expenditures 10 be in
writing and enforced this one strictly,
The mayor said that officers at the
lty hall are harassed with complaints
nd proposed that a system of lodging
Complaints with the councils commit
ee on complaints be inaugurated but
lQthing was done. Alderman SchueJ-
said he would need an assistant if he
vas to hear all the complaints.
The resolution to compel the Trac'
lion company to make two extensions
vas referred to the new committee on
with instructions to see
Lhe company officials about it and re-
bort.
Apropos OF the unrolleu condition of
Green street there was discussion as
20 the merits OF asphalt OIL over maca-
lam. Bigel chairman Of the street
promised Schuetze that the
street viii he rolled by the city roller.
The Rahr intake contract has not
yet been executed and the new ire and
water committee WAS instructed to
agree in terms with the company and
report. The company objects to some
terms OF tie city's draft.
The matter of paying back the as
sessments for water mains came uL but
aCt OF was deferred because the clerk S
and attorneys report seemed TO have
become mslaiu in the change in the
clerks Office.
The big feature of the session WIS
the proposed new we'll, w. Schroeder
demanded to be informed Of the cause
OF delay and it came out that to avoid
moving two pipes the we'll is designed
so as to encroach few feet on the G.
& N. w. Company's right-oi. way, and
that the company had been asked TO
grant permission TO have the well built
there. The company has track about
four feet nearer to the city's well than
their grant of land permits There
was some demard that the city move
its pipes and build entirely on its own
ground but at recess the engineer
explained satisfactorily and the attor-