The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-11-16

More systematic and better improve
ment Of the streets of the city Of Ke-
nosha is assured under a new plan
adopted by the city council on Monday
night and in the future the council will
order the paving Of streets without
waiting for petitions from property
owners. AT the next meeting of the
council the committee ON streets and
alleys will present a report recommend
ing streets to be paved during the COM
ing year The work will be done I'M
der an amendment of the city charter
adopted by the council seven years ago.
The people will have a chance to be
heard in the selection of materials
which is to be used in the pavement of
the streets but if the property owners
fail to agree, the council will have the
full power to select the materials and
order the work done. It is expected
that the plan will result in a much
larger number Of dirt streets being
paved. The cost Of the pavement may
only be charged to the property own
ers in keeping with actual benefits de-
rived by the property in question and
under the new plan it is expected that
the city will be called to pay some
what larger proportions of the cost of
street paving than in the past. The
assessments for the pavement under
this plan will be spread over period
of ten instead Of five years. It is ex-
pected that the plan will meet with
some opposition during the first year
but after the plan has a chance to work
itself out it is thought shat property
owners will welcome it as the best
possible way to secure systematic and
permanent street improvements in the
city. Before selecting the first list of
streets to be improved the committee
will have reports from the aldermen of
the different wards expressing the wish
es of the property owners It is ex-
pected that a lot of old paving tangles
will be cleaned up by the city taking
to itself the power to pave without
petition. The petition paving will not
be done away with entirely and people
who seek street improvements made
under the old five year bond plan may
yet present petitions to the council.
Extend Cemetery Contract.
The members of the council showed
their appreciation of the splendid work
that has been done by the Kenosha
Cemetery Association by extending the
contract between the city and the as
ISOLATION for a period of five years.
This will mean that for the next five
years as in the past ten years the city
council will appropriate annually to
the association $4,000 to be used for
permanent improvements The original
contract was for ten year period. It
IS thought that at the end of the ex-
tended contract the association will be
self supporting. The action of the
council in continuing the financial aid
to the association will make possible
the carrying out Of many plans made
for the immediate future.
Three Police Station sites.
The committee on police reported to
the council that it had sought sites for
the proposed new police station and
that it offered three sites. These in
eluded the property of Charles H. Con
hermann at the corner of Market and
West streets at price of $4,000, the
Kupfer property at the corner of Mar
ket and Congress streets at a price of
$4,000 and the property owned by Mrs.
A. j. Bottle at the corner of Wisconsin
and Exchange streets at cost Of
$4,000. The committee announced
that it had other sites in mind and
that later report would be made to
the council. The matter was sent back
TO the committee without any formal
action on the part of the aldermen.
A large amount of the time of the
council was spent in the discussion of
the proposed opening of Balm avenue
and the sewer conditions in various
parts of the city. 1t all ended in talk.
The opening of Balm avenue was re-
ferred back to the committee to have
meeting with the property owners
and the sewer question went to the
sewer committee with orders that the
committee make an effort to find some
way to collect penalties on the Ken
nedy contracts and in this manner en-
force the completion of the work. 1t
was declared that in many places peo-
pie could not get into their homes on
account of the condition of the streets
which sewers were being laid and that
coal dealers were charging fifty cents
extra a ton for the delivery Of coal on
these streets.