The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-05

Alderman Sullivan said: sThe levy
should have been twenty mills years
|ago. When the levy was sixteen mills
in 1916 it should have been twenty.
If we are going TO do any city work
LET US do it right. Il each administra-
ton would put the tax at what it really
should be and not pass The buck back
and forth from one administration
to another and play politics, we could
get along better.
Mayer Joachim saidl ftThe only way
we can get along even on The twenty
mills levy Is to not go beyond what is
allowed for each department.. We
must not go beyond our means. IF
every committee had got what 1t
asked for twenty-five mills would
not be enough.o
Upon roll call being taken the re-
port Of the committee was adopted
unanimously, after which the levy was
laid and appropriations made by resolu-
ton which was adopted unanimously.
Council met at the usual hour with
all but two aldermen present. Peti-
tions for electric lights at the corner
of Lyman avenue and Albers street,
and Rowland avenue and Albers
street, were referred to the gas and
electric light committee.
A petition of property owners ask
ing that the council designate the ter.
ritory between Deming street and
Julius street as residence district,
was referred to the city attorney to
ascertain what could be done in the
matter. The city attorney stated that
the legislature had repealed the law
which gave the city the right to set
apart certain territory as residential
district, but the city still had the
authority TO prohibit certain classes
of buildings and that he would look
the matter up and see what could be
done in the matte
A communication was received from
Virginia j. Wulff, stating that as the
city refused to furnish heat to the room
now occupied by the Federal Bureau
she would cut the rent from fifty dol
lars to thirty dollars a month. The
communication was referred to the
building and water work committee
with the city attorney added.
The Board Of Health reported that
it had engaged Mrs. E. R. Jensen as
city nurse in the place of Mrs. Mate
Phelan, resigned.
The street assessment committee re-
ported the streets it intended to i'm
prove in the year 1919. This list was
the same as published recently in
the News.
The city engineer reported that he
had made an examination of the bridge
from Middle street to Washington Is
land and had found some of the steel
work corroded and in a dangerous
condition. He stated that the work
Of repairing could be done for three
hundred dollars and recommended that
it be done.
Chairman Conrad Shearer of the
finance committee, presented the report
of that committee and recommended
bills for payment that had been
brought to the notice Of the commit
tee. He also presented the budget for
the year 1919 as stated at the begin
ming of this article.
Alderman Donahue Of the public
health and sanitation committee, re-
ported that his committee had refused
the application for another nurse.
Under this head Alderman Shearer
took up the matter Of the Isolation
Hospital. He stated that the Isolation
was built on the Kenosha Hospital
grounds at cost OF $4,000 and that
the bills for running expenses were ac-
curnplating. The hospital is out Of
finances and has nothing with which TO
pay. Me moved that committee be
appointed of which the Mayor is to
be one, to meet with the Kenosha Hos
Ipital Board and arrange for the man
agement of the institution.
Alderman Donahue stated that in
aoultlon TO the city 3 building the
Isolation Hospital and wanting from
$4,000 and $4,000 year to run it,. it
was charging the city for every city
patient it receives and he thought
something should be done to straighten
out matters.
The Mayor stated that if the city
had to pay the running expenses of the
hospital and in addition had to pay
for the treatment of every city patient
sent to it, the city would better give
it to the Kenosha hospital
Alderman Shearer 3 motion having
carried, the Mayor appointed Alderman
Shearer, Donahue, Turkelson and Hold.
erness on the committee
The remainder of the session was
devoted to hearing the reports OF
standing committees and approval of
bills for work done in the different
departments.
The state has shown the right idea
in taking. care Of State Draft Commits
Si0nar Eif1no+rik re +hora 20 49,. FOL