The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-29
STATE BOARD GETS REAL BUSY
Council Ordered to Improve Lookup Asks
State Board to Wait for New Police
Station Ordinance for Lights on
Horse Drawn Vehicles.

The City Council took long step
for the improvement of the big rritory
to the west of the Chicago AMI Milwau-
kee tracks at the adjourned meeting on
Monday evening when ordinances were
passed establishing the grades of all the
streets in that new section of the city
and directing the building of sidewalks
along these streets. The sidewalk ordi-
nance did not relate alone to the walks
in this territory but the ordinance pro-
vided for more than six hundred walks
to be built in different parts of the
city. 1t is expected that immediate no.
tice will be given to property owners
to build these walks and if the work is
not started within the next thirty days
the work will be undertaken by the city
and contracts will be let for all of the
walks. This will mean the construction
of three or four miles of sidewalk be-
tween now and the coming of the cold
weather.
The council gave the first reading to
the first of the ordinances proposed by
the Health Department. It is proposed
for the regulation of the building of
manure boxes in the city. 1t was re-
ferred to the committee on judiciary
and will probably be reported for pas
sage at the next meeting of the council.
Regulation of the use of horse drawn
vehicles at night was taken up by the
council and the committee on judiciary
and ordinances was instructed to draw
up an ordinance which will provide that
all such vehicles must carry lamps at
night. The same ordinance will have
provisions for dimming the glazing
lights of automobiles. It is expected
that there will be some opposition to
the carriage lamps but the members of
the council were all but unanimously
in favor of the plan and it is thought
that it will pass.
The council received new commu-
nication from the State Board of Con-
troll criticizing the condition of the
lookup in the city hall. The communi.
cation made no statement in regard 90
the stairways leading to the lookup but
it directed the city to install new toilet
facilities in the building and to give
the entire interior coat of white paint.
The members of the council placed
the recommendation Of the Board of
Control on file This action was taken
on account of the fact that plans are
now under way for the building of
new police station and it is thought that
the Board of Control will consent to the
old lookup being left just as it is if the
members are given the assurance that in
the near future Kenosha will have a
modern police station and city jail
which will meet all Of the demands Of
the board along the various lines. It IS
expected that IRE report will he
brought in at the next meeting of the
council showing the plan of the com
mittee for the erection of the new
police station.
The question of elevation of tracks
did not come before the council in any
way and nothing more Will be done IN
this matter until after the meeting of
the commission on Friday. A report
of this session will be submitted to the
council on next Monday night and at
that time the members of the council
will decide on what formal action is to
be taken.