The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-06
IMAGINARY LINES WIPED OUT
Council Gets Together and AL the AL
dermen Save Martin, Burt and Rauen
Agree to Vote for Ordinance When
It Comes Up for Passage.

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Re-districting Of the city got away
to another flying start at the meeting
of the common council on Monday
evening and after lot of difficulties
found by the aldermen in connection
with the fixing Of the new ward lines
had been ironed out and an ordinance
rewritten all but three of the mem
bers of the council voted to send the
ordinance on its way and the clerk
was ordered to publish it for the next
four weeks. It will be possible to take
final action on the new ward lines at
the first meeting Of the council in
February and this will give plenty of
time for the new wards to be working
before the primary election to name
candidates for city offices in March.
It was a long and a hard fight, but
it ended with the aldermen pretty well
agreed that it was time to re-district
and with fifteen of them on record as
satisfied with the ordinance as present
ed. Aldermen Martin, Burt and Rauen
refused to be reconciled to the plan to
give fairer representation to the peo-
pie on the council. Alderman Martin
said that he was opposed to the ordi-
nance because the people Of the fourth
ward did not want re-districting;
Alderman Burt said that the ordinance
was satisfactory to him, after the
changes, but he voted against it just
the same; Alderman Rauen had asked
that the north boundary Of the sixth
ward be extended up to Oak street and
he refused to vote for it on account of
the fact that this was not done.
The ordinance as originally present
ed on Monday night provided for the
change, not only in the ward lines, but
also in the ward numbers. This plan
went into the discard in a hurry and
it was evident that the members of
the council were unanimous in the be-
lief that The old ward numbers should
be maintained regardless as to change
in lines. It looked bad for the ordi-
nance at first, but after considerable
wrangling every man on the council
was given chance to state his objec-
tions and make suggestions for the
changes in the lines. This they did and
after they got through the council took
a recess and gave the judiciary COM
mittee time to whip into shape new
ordinance. This was a satisfactory
report to fifteen of the aldermen. The
new report did not make great many
changes in the lines of the wards as
they have been announced in the past.
It did remove all of the. - Imaginary
lines and instead placed the bound
aries Of all the. wards at street lines.
The ordinance as drawn provides for
the following boundaries of the wards.
First Ward-Bounded on the north
by Market street; on the east by the
lake; on the west by Pleasant street,
and on the south by Elizabeth street
from Pleasant street to Sheridan Road,
thence north to Dayton, thence east
to Chicago, thence north to Deming
and east to the lake. All ward lines
are made the center Of the streets.
Second Warden the north by Eli
zabeth street from Pleasant to Sheri-
dan Road, thence north on Sheridan
Road to Dayton, east on Dayton to
Chicago, north on Chicago to Deming
and east to the lake; on the east by
Lake Michigan; on the west by Pleas
ant street, and on the south by the
south corporate limits.
Third Ward-On the north by Prai-
RE avenue; south by the city limits,
west by Charles street, and on the east
by Pleasant street.
Fourth Warden the north by Gar
den street, extended to Balm avenue;
west. by city limits, east by Pleasant
and south BY Prairie avenue.
Fifth Warden the north by city
limits; west by Pleasant street, south
by Garden street, extended, and west
by, the limits.
Sixth Warden the north by Mid
die street, east by the lake, west by
Pleasant and south by Pearl, east to
Third, thence south to Market and east
to the lake.
Seventh Ward-North by Broad
street, east by the lake, west by Pleas
ant and south by Middle street.
Eighth Warden the north by the
limits, east by the lake, west by Pleas
ant and the limits, and south by
Broad street.
Ninth Warden the north by Prai-
RE avenue, east by Charles street,
south and west by the corporate limits
The report has done away with all
confusion which might arise over any
division Of houses by the making of
the imaginary lines.
When the vote was taken on the ad-