The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-05-20
VOLUME 81
CITY COUNCIL NOTES


sion Monday evening. Adjournment
was taken at 80 Tuesday morning.
1t developed that no one wants the
100000 bridge bond issue and the sit
uation was discussed. The bonds bear
8 per cent and the bond brokers will
not buy at that yield and the law for
bids selling below par. The question
was whether the bonds should be re-
issued at 51a per cent or an attempt
be made to float them locally among
the people of the city. 1t was finally
decided to sell them over the counter
at retail rather than raise the interest.
The city will soon be required to max e
payments on the new bridge contract
and will be hard put to it to get the
money unless the bridge bonds are
sold.
The council is considering the plan
of buying a half dozen safe cabinets
for the new city hall instead of build
ing brick vaults. The cabinets are fire
proof and cost but S3,360, whereas the
vault proposed would cost $4,000.
The council sold two of the houses
acquired in the purchase of cemetery
land adjoining Evergreen cemetery.
They were sold to their former own
ers, City Clerk Zander and w. Hogen-
son, who will move them to new loca-
tions.
The cemetery committee was author
lied to employ a landscape gardener to
beautify the new addition to Ever
green.
House movers can now give an an
nual bond of $1,000 instead of being
required to give bond for each job.
There were two bids for furnishing
police motorcycle. The Harley
Davidson asks S409 and the Indian
S406.50.
An ordinance was adopted creating
a permanent committee on public well
fare to have supervision over the de-
partments of the sealer, building in
spector, employment bureau and city
nurse.
The city attorney and Alderman
Drumm of the committee on corpora
tions were authorized to attend the
gas hearing at Madison, May 27.
The city has been building concrete
combination curbs and cutters for ten
years at a cost of 25 centseper linear
foot to abutting owners, the theory be-
ing that that was about the cost of the
curb, the gutter part being paid from
taxation. The council has at last rec
ognized officially that it has known for
years and doubled the cost to abutting
owners.
The old question of garbage colec-
tion by the city came up on the inita-
tive of the Federation of WomenS
clubs and an attempt will be made to
have the county asylum collect the
stuff for hog feed 1t was suggested
that hogs do not thrive on broken
crockery, bottles, ashes or tin cans and
that householders must keep such mat
ter from the garbage to be collected
Because of the closing off of Tenth
street bridge for the summer there will
be congestion of traffic at Eighth
street. AS the practice of street cars
waiting at the bridge to pass will ag-
gravate this situation the street car
company was ordered to install a pass
ing track on Washington street and
another or Eighth street between York
and Buffalo streets.
They were also directed to stop cars
at the near crossing in all instances.
They now have few exceptions
City Sealer Henry Mulholland was
authorized to attend the state confer
ence of weights and measures officials
to be held at Madison June 1924.
The cemetery committee reported
that there are virtually no cemetery
lots left for sale. The new addition
comes just in time.
The matter of dividing the Third
ward into two voting precincts was re-
ported from committee favorably but
was referred to the city attorney for
advice on procedure. The proposal to
add new wards to the city still shows
some signs of life.