Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-01-13
MEETING OF THE COMMON
COUNCIL

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which will greatly affect the future
growth of our city.
For several years the street railway
company has been importuned to ex-
tend its tracks to St Mary's hospital
to the manufacturing district on the
west side and north from the Curtis
and Yale factory but the company alb
solutely refused to make the extern
sions if the city compelled it to pave
its tracks between the rails. Last
Tuesday the Council did the right
thing and voted to relieve the COM
pany from thus paving in the future
A committee consisting of Messrs.
Geo. Borowitz, F. j. Gaetzman and
Emil F. Golfer which had been ap-
pointed to negotiate with the Wiscon-
sin Valley Electric Company with a
view of having it extend the street
railway north on Sixth street to st.
Mary's hospital and south on Third
avenue to Thomas street reported
that the Electric company was willing
to make the extensions provided the
city would relieve it from paving be-
tween the tracks. The committee
recommended that for the reason
that the street railways of the state
are under the control of the state
railroad commission; that business has
decreased, owing to the use of auto
mobiles, and other like vehicles, etc.,
that the city council pass an amend
ment relieving the Electric Company
OF the expense of street paving main
tenance on condition that the company
agree to extend it's tracks to ST. Mary's
hospital and also south on Third Ave.
on the west side to Thomas street
There was a long discussion and after
City Attorney Frank Regner had as
sured the Council that the city was
fully protected, upon motion of alder
man Ringle. the ordinance relieving
the Wisconsin Electric Company fut-
ure street paving was carried by a
vote of 13 to 2. The resolution in
part reads:
''Be it hereby resolved by the Mayor
and Common Council of the City of
Wausau, that the costs of all pave
ments of permanent construction,
hereafter ordered to be done by the
City of Wausau, shall be paid for as
follows: Upon all streets, excepting
those occupied by the Wisconsin Val
ley Electric Company, one half of said
costs, except the curb lines shall be
borne by the public at large and that
the other one half of the costs of
said improvements and the whole of
the costs of the curb line of the orig
nal construction shall be assessed on
the property abutting upon such street
to be approved according to the front
age in the manner provided by law
Be it further resolved that upon said
streets occupied by the tracks of the
Wisconsin Valley Electric Co., the
costs of such improvements shall
be assessed as follows: One-half of
the costs of such improvements, ex-
cept that portion OF the pavement up
on the road bed of the Wisconsin
Valley Electric Company. being the
pavement between the tracks of the
said road bed and one foot each side
of the track, together with the whole
of the costs of the curb line of origin |
al construction, shall be assessed up-
on the property abutting upon such
property to be improved by law, and
that the other one half of the costs
of said improvement, except the curb
line and the whole of the costs of the
pavement on the road bed of the
Wisconsin Valley Electric Co. lying
between the tracks of the said COM
pany and one foot on each side there
Of shall be borne by the city at
large"
A petition was presented signed by
about so citizens to erect a suitable
school building to take care of the
reeds of the children of school age in
the southern part of the city on Wes-
ton Ave. The matter was referred to a I
committee to report at the next meet |
ing of the City Council
The Wausau Abrasives Company
petitioned the city for a building site
preferably the site formerly owned by ]
the Mohr Lumber Company. The COM
pany proposes to vastly increase it's
capacity and for that purpose will
erect building 200 300 feet. The
company also desires to build a rail-
road spur on the property. The mat
ter was referred.
1t was ordered that a new resolu-
ton be drawn up concerning the IL
censing of theatres and moving pict-
ure houses.
The Wausau Ice and Fuel Compsny
was given permission to cut ice on
the Wisconsin river opposite the city
property holdings above the Leahy &
Beebe bridge
The time for paying taxes was ex-
Tended to March 1st.
The city engineer was instructed to
draw plans and specifications for the
paving of the streets crossing Clark's
Island.
The Board of Public works was in
structed to advertise for bids for ex-
tending the paving on Grand Ave- to
Ruder street, 1t was also authorized
to ask for bids for the paving of