The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-12-06
CITY COUNCIL NOTES.

Inc council tneb III regular ,sessloh
1Monday evening. All members were
present.
Lately the city firemen demanded a
raise of $1,000 per month per man.
EThe council allowed $500 although 1T
is believed that the annual fixing OF
salaries in February is final for the
year under the law. The firemen are
now in with demand of $1,000 in ad-
dition to the $500 allowed. Their
petition asserts that the married men
cannot live on the salaries paid and
that every fireman can go to work at
once in private employ at much higher
wages.
A motion to file the petition was
/ carried almost unanimously. That
means that it will not even be consid-
cred. Only Revolinsky seemed dis
posed to meet the men half way. The
! men get about $40 per month, the pay
| varying among men according to time
| served. The married men say they
cannot live on this and all agreed to
quit as soon as they can without i'm
periling the interests OF property
owners.
Kapitz served notice that at the
next meeting be will bring in re-
l. solution for the purchase af the West
Side ball park for city park. 1t
| com mprises the entire block bounded by
10th, 18th, Clark and Wollmer streets
except the south tier of lots. The city
park board recommended this pur
chase some months ago. The two 7th
| warders made a claim for park in
their neighborhood. = They said that
whole block vacant last spring when
| they urged it's purchase is now being
| covered with dwellings.
Four women's organizations OF the
city had petition il requesting the
city 70 engage visiting nurse. They
ptfer to appear and cite many instances
of the dire need of such a functionary
and say that all enlightened force urge
the appointment. 1t was referred.
The city and the Goodrich Co. have
Finally got the lease on the river lots
opposite the "island" Only executed.
The contract for docking 200 feet has
been let TO McMullen and PITT. The
company pays nominal rental until the
[lock is built and then $500 per year,
The lease S for 10 years.
The Attorney General of the state
has decided that the law does not per-
NIT municipalities to appropriate
money for athletic equipment for the
soldier boys and so the contemplated
appropriation of $50 for the local men
IN the National Guard camp at Waco,
Texas was not made. 1t will prob
hbly be raised by private subscription.
The city holds to its old opinion that
is not liable for windows broken in
stores by stones being thrown up from
he brick pavement by vehicles even
though the missile was dropped from a
tity gravel wagon. Plumb and Mel
sons claim for damage Of this kind was
denied.
Chief Kratz told the council that a
new law going into force January first
provides that all city tiremen shall be
given one day off duty in every four
lays and that this will necessitate
putting on three more men than the
department has had to keep it up to
4he present standard. The city at
torney was instructed to look into the
law.
The chief also wants 500 feet of hose.
"A concern to which the city sent 1000
feet of old hose 10 be refined has WEIGH
I'D on its agreement and will not do
bhe work for 80 cents per foot as they
offered to do. They offered to send it
back free and this offer was accepted.
The Richards Iron Works had bill
n for 1920 for removing the old motor
bn Sth street bridge and putting in a
new OUe. 4 ue WUl WAS utC6SSlbdGeu
when the city stopped supplying direct
current recently. Smugler, chairman
bf the bridge committee didn't know
anything about it and refused to o. K.
he bill. 1t came out that bids had
been advertised for by the City Clerk
knd the necessary work given to the
owest bidder, but Mr.. Smugler wanted
t Investigated and so it was held up.
An ordinance requiring the use Of
Bound muffiers on automobiles in the
City was adopted. In attempting to
amend the ordinance the aldermen got
nto the tolls OF yards OF parliamentary
Iape and were only extricated after a
half hour of desperate relief efforts.
The council accepted $40 from John
6chuette, his yearly donation for the
Md OF the poor, and ordered it divided
equally between the north and south
side ladies' aid societies.