New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-03-13
ANOTHER CHANGE. IN
CITY { 71 HALL PLANS
NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING
WILL NOT STAY PUT
APPARENTLY
ANOTHER OPTION SECURED ON
! THE ~WORATSCHKA AND
( Es.
i KUEHNEL LOTS

KUEHNEL LOTS
Like dog chasing his tail round and
round, the city hall site question does a
great deal of travelling and gets mo-
where. The City Councillors also do
a great deal of travelling in the matter
back and forth between their homes and
the council rooms for they held no less
than three meetings the past week to
discuss the much mooted question.
The first meeting was Wednesday eve
ming when Architect lyric of Mime
apolis appeared with the plans for
consideration. An adjournment was
taken to the next afternoon when it
developed that change of plan with
regard to the site might be necessary
There were various reasons advanced
for considering the change and COM
mittee consisting of J. P. Graft, w. H.
Dempsey and Fred Hamann was ap-
pointed with instructions to secure
options on the Woratschka corner.
! Rapid Fire Action
This committee acted in machine gun
fashion and within two hours were ready
to report with the option in hand.
The amount of the option is $16,6 and
covers the Kuehnel property adjoining
the Woratschka corner. This amount
does not include $500 bonus to be
paid the tenant of the Woratschka
saloon if he is required to vacate the
premises before August 1st. This amount
of $500 is to be reduced to 500 if he is
not required to remove before that time
and for each succeeding month that he
is allowed to occupy the premises $50
will be deducted from the $500 COM
pensation. 49,. r..
! Dr. Graft, as a member of the city
hall committee, gave as his reasons for
favoring the Woratschka site that a
city should not erect two separate build
ings to house the city hall and fire depart
ments but thot that site large enough
for the whole establishment under one
roof should be secured. The lots on
which the Gieseke livery barn stands
are owned by H. M. Kuehnel Of Waseca
and Dorm & Schueller hold an option on
this property at $1,000. Woratschka
had offered to sell his part of the two
corner lots for $4,000 but the lease on
the saloon would have to be taken care
Of besides. If these two lots are pur-
chased, the space secured for the city
hall will be 100x165 feet.
Saving In Heat
Another consideration which moved
the action of the Council in re-opening
the question was the fact that consider
able expense can be saved by lessening
the cost of extending the municipal
heat. The Woratschka corner is half
a block nearer the heating plant and
an expense of about $4,000 will need
consideration if the old site is used.
There is another item in this connection
also that makes it advisable to use the
Woratschka corner and that is that ex-
tending the heat mains another half
block means considerable more loss of
heat from condensation and it is said
that if the city hall is built at it's present
location it will be long time before any
more consumers along Minnesota Street
can have the advantage Of connection
with the municipal plant.
Two buildings would cost more than
one, according to Architect lyric, the
excess in cost of two being something
like $4,000. The old city hall site also
can be sold and is held to be worth about
Sc, 900, and while the new building is
being erected some quarters must be
found for the city hall and the fire de
partment if the old building is razed.
The plans for the building have not yet
been adopted. {.
Routine Business
Other matters discussed by the city
council dealt with improvements at the
city cemetery and with the matter 81
restraining the destruction Of real estate
at the east end Of State and Washington
Streets where the gravel pits are gradually
eating up the lots which lie along the hill
top. The gravel pits are veritable
gold mine for the owners and naturally
they have been making as good use. d
them as possible but the people who
| own property which backs up these
gravel pits find that the back end d
their lots arc draining into thn nits and