New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-07-28
SHOULD B0SSY SEE
THE BIG CIRCUS
CITY FATHERS FACE GRAVE
QUESTIONS AT SPECIAL
MEETING.
SHOULD THE COWS STAY HOME
AND WHEN is A STREET A
SIDEWALK?

The meeting of the city council started
out tamely enough last Monday night
but it was not long before the grave
deliberations took a trend that called
for all the wisdom of Solomon to to find
a satisfactory solution. The thing that
threw monkey wrench into the gears
was the demand of cow-herder Moll that
the council issue an edict that all COWS be
kept at home on circus day. Mr.. Moll
declares that it would be at least i'm
modest if not positively dangerous for
any self-respecting Jersey to be brazenly
walking the streets in the vicinity of the
circus of flirting with the Sacred Ok.
Again, the many automobiles running to
and from the fair grounds would serious
ly endanger the health of Bossy. He
feared that if any accident should happen
to the COWS entrusted to his care that the
owner thereof would hold him account
able. To avoid all danger therefore,
the herder suggested that the cows
should be kept up for the day. He was
afraid that if he approached the owners
they would fail to consider the i'm
portance OF the danger and would turn
the COW out in spite of his warning. So
he humbly requested the Council to
take steps to keep the cows at home that
day and avoid all danger. Mr.. Mol
failed to state whether he wished to go
to the circus himself or not. The council
seemed to be undecided as to the steps
to be taken in this grave matter. They
failed to see that it was their duty to
mix up in the matter, grave as it was.
Finally they turned the matter over to
City Attorney Pfaender. With a skill
that speaks well for his future as. legal
light, the astute expounder of the civil
law explained that there was no precedent
to guide the council in it's action on the
matter and suggested that Mr.. Moll
speak to the owners in person and urge
the gravity of the situation upon them.
He was of the opinion that if Mr.. Moll
did this the property owners could
hardly hold him responsible for any
accident that endangered the life or
limb of their bovine pets. And so the
matter rested.
With this grave matter off their
hands, the council turned to discussion
of the civic problem that had called
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seems that the European War is bound
to impress it's horror upon even the
peaceful non-combatants of New Ulm.
The Platt Iron Works Co. which is
supposed to be making the pump for
the new we'll, is so busy making shrapnel
for the European argument that they
haven't time for making pumps. So the
order has been held up indefinitely. A
letter was produced, however, in which
the company claims to have at last sent
the pump and it is hoped that the new
we'll will soon be in working order.
L. G. Vogel then appeared before the
council and showed them a method of
saving some money on the New Ulm
streets. The road laws of Minnesota,
it seems, provided that any town or city
may secure portion of the appropria-
ton given the county for road purposes
to be used on any street going thru the
city and designated as a state highway
This means that New Ulm, by desig-
mating some street passing thru the city
as state highway, can secure part of
the state highway appropriation for it's
maintenance. The proposition was
clearly placed before the council by the
Auditor and they intend to act upon the
matter at once to secure the city's share
of the funds. The council thanked Mr..
Vogel for calling their attention to the
law.
The bids for the new pump-house to be
erected over the new well recently
drilled on the heights west of the city
were then opened. Two bids were re-
ceived. Fred Keute estimated the job
at $1195 and the Pullman Bros. thot
it could be done for s1O5O. The latter
company was given the contract at the
lower figure.
The matter of street improvement was
then taken up. The necessary improve
ments Of 9Th and 9Th streets, South be-
tween Broadway and Washington were
considered. It was finally decided to
grade these streets and the city engineer
was ordered to prepare plans and speci-
fcations for the work.
The much discussed matter of the
curbing and guttering Of LIST, I'd and 3rd