The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-07
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

The city council met in regular ses-
sion Monday The official proceedings
will be found on another page.
The city firemen are in with de
mand for an increase of $500 per
month, claiming that in the recent in
creases the policemen got $500 per
month the better of it. They demand
that the fremen be put on the same
basis.
Some Sixth warders were in with a
petition that Twelfth street he opened
through l.. X. Pitts premises between
Huron street and New York avenue.
This matter has bobbed into the pro-
ceedings every few years for couple
of generations.
After a long discussion the contract
for building "A two-leaf bascule bridge
at Tenth street was awarded to Nc
Mullen g. PITT for 100000. Only
Vogel voted NO" Nearly every one
had something to say. 1t was mtl-
mated that the bidders would not be
adverse to having a chance to rebld.
The bond ordinance raising 100000 to
pay for the bridge was also adopted.
Huron street from Eighth to Elev-
enth will be paved closing a gap from
the end of the present asphalt to the
concrete which is to be laid out on
North Eleventh to join the state trunk
line on the plank road. The paving
will all be done next year.
A resolution was introduced provld-
ing that a council committee again APP
proach the county with a proposal to
ioin in the maintenance of poor
farm. The county has always refused
to entertain the proposition in the past
A lot of sewer work was let to W. ..
Bahr and Gray-Robinson company, the
only bidders,
Residents of Manila street want that
street paved twenty-six feet wide be-
tween Tenth and Fourteenth streets.
The part of North Seventh street
between New York avenue and Pine
street west of the central grass plat
will be graded and grayeled. There
was some objection to improving half
a street but ii carried.
The building-plumber inspection or
dinance was adopted but not untll
there had been a general airing OF
opinions on the subject against the re-
quirement that the Inspector shall be a
practical plumber. 1t was pointed out
that the state law requires plumbing
inspector and that this officer can also
do the building inspecting, but the OBJ
iectors could not be convinced ana
there were five noes: Nogel, Thomp-
son, Klusmeyer, Wergin and Drumm.
Board of Public Works fix salary of
$3.50 per month.
To obyiale the necessity of street
cars passing at bridge approaches
when the street is narrow the council
approved the laying of q passing track
ON Eighth street between York and
Buaalo streets. There was also intro
duced an ordinance prohibiting the
parking of cars between Commercial
and Quay streets on Eighth street. 1t
will come up later.
McMullen & PITT had job docking
for the city opposite the shipyard late
" and they are required to fill behind
the dock. Now they have a dredging
lob right there and can fill by dumping
the river mud behind the dock, get 20
cents per yard for it and save the ex-
pense of towing it away Several Alder
men kicked on this procedure ana
there was considerable talk, but the
mayor and city attorney insisted that
the contractors are plainly within their
contractual rights.
The meeting lasted until l2:i5 a. III.
Nobody VIII Deny II.