The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-07-24
COMMISSIONERS Meet
AS A CITIZEN SEES THEM A
G.. SCHMIDT Is PUT
TO WORK.

commissioner among them. The
bond of Commissioner A. G.. Schmidt
was approved, and he was promptly
assigned responsibility for the street
work. He didn't show any excite
ment or citation over the assignment.
Pleading for some action in getting
the houses numbered and the streets
indicated, w. II. Aldrich appeared be
fore the board. Mr.. Aldrich says
that the system of numbering houses
in Madison is in hopeless confusion.
Carriers must proceed wholly on the
small town method of knowing per
sonally the addressee of mail-the
address may mean any of four por-
tions of the city. Visitors at resi-
d~ences, getting mail at a street and
number only, without indication Of
what quarter or ware of the city
their hosts inhabit. must simply be
hunted up. They may be i'm any of
the four wards, or they may be ad-
dressed according to the old system.
which makes n or two other places
possible. After some discussion il
was ordered that the auditor obtain
prices for house numbers, and a ten
I1dtiNb pan lOI nulltbHI lHR COIGtNltN
according to the lots the houses oc-
cupy, instead of which way the house
faces, was suggested. Plates and
numbers to indicate streets We're also
talked oye ~languidly.
AS the street grader the city is
now using is a borrowed one, and as
they need one for continued work,
the auditor was instructed to get
prices on one of the machines. The
one contemplated is a blade grader
with a six foot blade.
G.. A. Trimmer received a letter
from the Chicago Paving Laboratories
advising that they are short of help.
and asking that we dispense with the
street inspector of material. This
concern is under contract with the
city to furnish two men for the btu
lithic and asphalt paving-one at the
mixing plant, and n on the street
As they are under the contract. and
as the city is looking to them to in
sure a good product. and further as il
is felt that any change or omission
in this matter would estop any claim
for replacement in case of poor ma
teTal or workmanship, the city de
cided hat the inspectors must be fur
nished according TO contract.
The city is also employing an in
spector and chemist of the same com
pany to furnish reports of the cement
now being used, and what is to be
used in the base for the paving prop
er. This service was to include a re
port of each car number and the
seal securing the doors. To date
there have been no car numbers re
ported. the consignments have been
made TO a local lumber firm, and
nothing is known as to whether the
city is getting inspected and tested
cement or not. Steps are being taken
to correct this omission. And the
city wants the numbers on cars ship
ped. and also a record of the seal
on the doors.
For some time there has been dis
)cussion as TO the safety of a curve
chase of a lot i'm Henkin's Second ad
dition was contemplated. TO give
more of a curve and more room for
the turn. The commissioners author
lied Mayor Robertson TO negotiate
the purchase of lot 2, block 4, in
said addition for this improvement.
The commissioners protest We
hemently hat they did o give 81
feet nor any portion thereof to III. III.
Frudenfeld. in the arrangement OF
the returns on Lee avenue N of the
intersection of Second street NE. Al
the intersection of the creek with
that street the street joys sharply.
The returns on Second street were
brought to the property line not in
accord with the center of the street,
nor in accord with the equal widths
of parking on each side, but to con
form with the straight line of the
street or roadway.
The good men were somewhat
aghast when they were informed in
response to inquiry that the city had
to pay the costs of the trial for viola
tion OF the transient merchant ordi-
nance in the City VS.. Joseph Henkin
case. 1t was some moments before
some of them regained full command
of their faculties.
A. G.. Schmidt was instructed to
procure conduit to lead the electric
lighting cable beneath the pavement
to the parkings in the middle of the
street.
Conforming to the recently passed
law that each city of over 700 inhab-
itants should provide and maintain
a so called comfort station for the
accommodation of visitors, City At
torney c. j. Porter was requested to
inform himself of the requirements
of the law. Sites and locations were
tentatively discussed, though in the
chaotic condition of their knowledge
of the provisions of the law, nothing
definite was fixed upon.
Some small change is to be made
in the method Of entering storm sew
ers in the district on Egan avenue
south of First street N. 1t is called
the "hump"-probably from becom.
ing accustomed to riding over the
streets "as s." The hump is to be al
the nose of the turn of the curt
about the corner, and Is to divert the
storm water into the sewers.
The meeting did not adjourn