Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-13
CITY COUNCIL
The Regular Meeting of the City
Council Was Held on Tuesday
Evening.


There was considerable business
transacted at the regular meeting
of the city council last Tuesday even
ing. Among the questions con-
sldered was the starting of a munich
pal wood yard and this was adyo-
Gated by the mayor If it is intended
to start such yard to supply the
city's poor, it is stroke of good busi-
hess. On the other hand, if it is to
be started to sell at cost to the people
OF our city, it is big mistake. If
there is combination among the
tortionate prices, there is an adequate
and effective remedy. There are laws
which prohibit such illegal combina
tions. All that is necessary is to have
the proof. The Pilot does not believe
the farmer is party to this combina-
ton and municipal wood yard to sell
unfortunately will work a greater
hardship to the farmer than any other
class of people. AS this paper has
said before, municipal wood yard
for this winter can accomplish moth
ing. The city cannot buy any cheaper
at this time than anyone else can. But
1T can lay in a large supply in the
spring; it can hire men to cut wood
and by large expenditure of money,
bring the price of hardwood down,
perhaps, to several dollars less a cord,
II the city wants to sell at cost. The
man who looks ahead and does what
he should do, can buy his supply for
the next winter, at about the same
price as will be charged by the city.
The only one helped by a municipal
wood yard will be the man who waits
until it is cold weather when wood
and coal are at their highest price,
before he buys, and the city's poor
for the latter the city should, as
stroke of economy, have a municipal
wod yard, as it has to supply the wood
and pay for it. Perhaps this is what
Mayor Marquardt intends doing, and
in such case the Pilot believes he is
using good business judgment The
mayors communication was, referred
to the committee on public property.
If it is intended to start a munich
pal wood yard and to furnish wood at
cost price to everybody, then it is time
that the farmers of Marathon county
stepped in and put in a protest. If
for no other reason than that of clear
ing their skirts of the insinuation that
they are in gigantic combination to
rob the people.
William Seller put in a claim for
$500 for bodily injuries received, which
was referred to the city attorney.
A resolution was introduced by AL
derman Kuhlmann setting forth the
fact that the State R. R. commission
had no authority to force street rail
way companies to build necessary ex-
tensions in city and that it was the
sense of the common council of the
city of Wausau that the legislature of
Wisconsin should give the R. r. Commits
sion power to force such extensions,
wherever it deemed it was necessary,
and it was ordered that copy of the
resolution be forwarded to the state
legislature.
Alderman A. F. Marquardt intro
duced resolution with reference to
the bridge which crosses the main
river at the falls. This is a timely
move on the part of our city council
The bridge is not safe and has been
adjudged so, and it is high time that
something be done before catastro-
phe occurs which will cost the city,
perhaps in lives and property, several
times that of a permanent bridge, of
iron and concrete. There is no ques-
ton about the necessity for a new,
point, and it should be the width of
the street to accommodate the traf-
fic, which, at present, is greatly ham
pered by the narrowness of the struc-
ture. The resolution asked that the
mayor, common council and city en-
gineer be instructed to prepare plans
and estimates on a stone arch or con-
crete bridge.
A resolution providing that all bill
lard and pool rooms in the city be
closed from 10 p. m. until o'clock
a. M, was referred to the proper COM
mittee.
Monthly salaries of city employees
were fixed as follows: (See ordinance
in tull in this issue of the Pilot)
Chief of police ----------------S 500
Police captain rs