The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-15
MEETING TO Be
Held TONIGHT ON
west END SEWER
Council Committee and Kne-
hans Confer on Plans
For an Outlet.
BOWMAN INSISTS ON
A SPECIAL ENGINEER
City Officials Go Over Ground
For Hugh Representations
Soon to Start.

A meeting Of the special committee
of the City Council, appointed by May
Rage to make the preliminary plans
for the West End sewer, will be held
tonight at the office Of City Counselor
! knehans to discuss whether the city
has the right to lay the sewer out
side the city limits or not. The COM
mittee, composed of Councilmen Sc
graves, kaess and Bowman, together
with Mayor Rage, City Engineer Sti-
yer, Major Brooks and City Counselor
Knehans went over the territory yes
terday afternoon in which the sewer is
to be laid.
At the meeting tonight it will also
be discussed whether a special engi-
neer shall be appointed to assist the
City Engineer in his work. Council
man Bowman insists that this is nee
essary, and for that reason the matter
will be decided at the meeting.
After going over the property in
the West End yesterday the commit
tee and the others agreed that it
would be the most feasible plan to lay
the sewer outside the city limits after
reaching the boundry in the south
part Of the city. The main line, it is
proposed, would intersect the city linn
its at a point about SEQ feet north OF
the Cape La Croix Greek, and in or
der to avoid digging through the hill
at the terminus Of Sprigg street, it
was decided to lay the sewer around
the hill.
After reaching this point the sewer
will turn in an eastwardly direction
and will terminate in the Mississippi
River. City Engineer Silver suggest
ed in his communication to the Coun-
ell week ago, that the outlet be made
into the creek, but this suggestion has
met with strong opposition on the part
of Mayor Rage and City Counselor
Knehens, both contending that this
would result in numerous law suits
against the city by the property own
ers along the creek.
1t has been pointed out that the
stream of the creek during the sum-
mer months would not be sufficiently
strong to carry off the sewage. Be
sides, it is said, this would create q
public nuisance, which would result in
number of damage suits.
At the last council meeting Mayor
Rage urged the completion of the sew
er and appointed a new committee to
look after the work preceding the &C
tual work on the sewer. A resolution
asking for the appointment of an en-
gineer to assist the City Engineer in
the work was passed. 1t will be de-
cided tonight whether this is neces-
sary or whether the city engineer can
do the work without the assistance of |
a second man.
The sewer, it is proposed, will run
from the north city limits along Hen
derson avenue to Broadway and |
through several other streets to the |
city limits in the south, and after |
crossing the limits will turn east to |
terminate in the Mississippi.
The Mayor is especially anxious to
have the work finished in the near fu-
ture so that the Improvement work on
several streets in the West End will
not be delayed. These streets will re-
quire the condemnation of numerous
pieces of property along Thenlis, Hen
derson, Harmony, Painter and hide
pendence street, but the work will MOI
be started until the sewer has been
dug.