The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-07-08
CITY COUNCIL NOTES.

Tuesday, Monday, the 9th, being le-
gal holiday Smugler and Sladky
were absent.
Two more saloon applications came
in bringing the total to so. They are
Charles Olson for the place near the
Goodrich dock where Mrs. Dufey's
application was rejected and Herman
Vetter for 920 S. 10th street.
Property owners on the East side OF
9th street between Park and St. Clair
streets want the curb and walk there
raised inches to the proper grade.
Henry Winseng a resident of the 7th
ward, had communication in begin
ming. 81 ask no odds of any man" and
going on TO request that the council
post him for six months to free him
from the clutches of The "curse of
BOOZE 1t was referred.
The G. A. r. had bill in for $500
the cost of Memorial Day exercises in
excess of the appropriation of $50.
Upon their request city tremen
were unanimously granted semi
monthly pay days instead of monthly.
Bids will be asked for a concrete
stairway leading down to the lake
beach at State street.
The committee on sanitation was
authorized to employ south side
bathing beach attendant for three
months at $4,000 per month.
A resolution amending the rules to
provide for weekly meetings of the
council was introduced. w. Schroeder
said that the aldermen do not work at
their best after ten o'clock. The may
or insisted on the matter lying over
under the rules, and made some re-
marks about meeting in the afternoon.
The mayor and clerk were authoriz-
ell to insure the city against liability
for injuries to water department en-
ployes.
Toletf Toletlson of the second ward
was posted. Thorison and Edwards
expressed themselves as deeming it
adv lsable.
The proposition to bond the city for
$4,000 for dredging the river was
killed in its incipiency. 1t didn't have
friend.
Bids for an electric adding machine
were all rejected.
A resolution was adopted calling for
reconstruction OF the Sth street
bridge protection fender which the
engineer reports is necessary.
The old subject of narrowing the
driveways of streets was up again. w.
Schroeder and Revolnski again took
the engineer and street commissioner
to task for narrowing driveways upon
their own initiative. ochuetze seized
the opportunity to call attention again
to the alleged poor conditions of our
streets. Edwards thought "a feet is
wide enough driveways.
The matter of laying necessary pipes
before paving on north Sth street was
sent back to the street committee by
the mayor because only 3 of the com
mittee of had signed the recommend
alton.
There was debate over the legality !
of laying curbs and cutters by the |
street commissioner The mayor
brought on storm by suggesting do
ing it by contract. 1t will be done as
heretofore.
Poor for the month cost $6ai39
The big feature of the evening was
the rejection of all water main bids up
on Recommendation of the utilities COM
mittee on the ground that mo proper
bid' had been received. The lowest |
bid is almost $1,000 in excess of the wa
ter superintendent estimate for the |
work. In view of this the city may do
the work directly and the superintend- |
enL was authorized to proceed with the
work and lay the mains. There are
nine blocks of it in this job, part of it
being In preparation OF the Franklin |
street and 18th street paving.
G. Schroeder who heads the roll call |
voted "No" and refused to change after
all the rest had responded AYE" say
ing. 81 am the only one on the safe |
side" The only two bids for the en-
tire work were those OF A. II Pitz and |
the Gray Robinson Company
The ma. .yor's veto of the ordinance
for reduced license fee for twice "A
week shows came up. The vote was:
TO override the veto, Z: to sustain it, 5
AS eleven votes were necessary the ve-
TO stands. The stated purpose of the
veto was the alleged illogallty of
the old ordinance sought to be
amended. The mayor wouldn't let
Mckeough ask the attorney as to the
legality and that caused some exchanges
at the meeting and at recess. There
seemed TO be some stntiment that if
the mayors veto on the ground of IL
legality of the present ordinance is sus-
tanned that the doubtful feature, the
one giving the mayors power to raise
the license fee at will, ought to be
eliminated. There may be an effort
to do this.
G. Schroeder introduced an ordinance
requiring all wires to go underground
on streets TO be paved. They are
Franklin street. Sth to 10th; 18th
street: Franklin to Water: Sth street,