The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-12-18
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

The council met in regular session
Monday evening. The official minutes
appear on another page.
The matter of protecting traffic from
the open bridge draws of course came
into the proceedings. The two bridges
have remained without protection be-
cause the gates installed at Eighth
street many months ago have not been
made to operate and because new
bascule will be built at Tenth street
next year. In the meanwhile another
life has been lost as a result. Some OF
the aldermen were of the opinion that
there is no practical safeguard but
chains at each end of each bridge will
be installed at once. 1t will necessitate
an extra man at Tenth street.
Health Officer Meany reported that
smallpox is prevalent at Two Rivers
and that the disease is beginning to
appear here. The isolation hospital has
been reopened and City Physician
Shimek was directed to treat the pa
tients. The health officer called atten-
ton to the urgent need for a new iso-
lation hospital The committee on san
itation reported that they were going
on with the preliminary work of es-
tablishing a new hospital.
The council refused to refund any
part of the saloon license fee paid by
George Bartelme. The city attorney
ruled that the law did not provide for
a refund upon voluntary surrender
of license.
Klusmeyer, Revolinski and O'Don-
nell were named committee to inves-
tigate and report on the advisability OF
the city continuing the federal employ
ment bureau here. Since congress
failed to make an appropriation for
the support of these bureaus the mat
ter has been hanging fire in Washing
ton and no one can predict the out
come.
An ordinance was adopted making it
a punishable offense to drive over the
city's fire hose. This practice has grown
to be a nuisance that called for action.
Alderman Vogel introduced an anti
smoke ordinance providing penalty
of $40 to $50 for causing or permitting
black smoke to emit from one stack
for n..se than Ave minutes continu-
ously, 1t will come up later
The city has a strike on its hand
which, while not presenting as serious
a problem as the Boston policemen's
strike, is still 100 per cent of the force.
The four electric utility linemen will
not go back to work until their time is
cut from to hours per day and their
paw raised from $4.S5 to Sc per day.
CITY officers intimated that they are in
for a long vacation if they wait that
long.
work at the time of the destruction of
the veneer factory at Sixteenth and
Franklin streets years ago is still
subject of comment. 1t still fails to
work occasionally when its service is
badly needed. This device is installed
at the standpipe and shuts off the flow
into the pipe when direct pressure is
put into the mains for fire fighting
purposes. At the recent Johnson fire
it was necessary to send man up to
the tower to shut off the water by
hand. The mayor was given the duty
to seeing that it is put in working or
der.
A committee reported adversely on
a proposal of the local painters union
that people be compelled to remove old
wall paper before putting on new wall
covering andthat all old paint and
kalsomine be removed before new coats
of either are applied. Wergin and
Thompson were in favor of legislation
of this kind (for sanitary reasons
only), and they succeeded in prevent
ing the killing of the project and had
It referred back to the committee for
further investigation.