The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-01-08
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

The council met in regular session
Monday eevning. The official minutes
will be published next week.
After determined fight to prevent
it the ordinance respecting parking of
automobiles near Eighth street bridge
was amended so that the prohibition
now applies only to the space for 100
feet north of the bridge and eighty
feet to the south. 1t also provides that
parked cars on the rest of the street
must be within eighteen inches of the
curb and parallel to it, There were five
negative totes.
The municipal gravel pit supplied
$S,37656 worth of gravel last year, ac-
cording to Street Commissioner Vol
lendorf's annual report.
The council authorized the clerk to
advertise for bids for laying about
three miles of two-course concrete pay
ing in 1920. All the streets leading to
the state trunk line highways will be
paved as well RS several others. The
past year the mains, water laterals,
house drains, and gas pipes were all
laid and the city is all set for the job.
Only one small addition was made to
the paving, the about 2S7 feet north
ward from the junction of the Plank
road and Eleventh street to the city
limits, directing paving on the east side
as we'll as the southwest side of the
Windiate "fatiron" building How the
city viii split on the cost with abutting
owners has not been determined.
The city authorized notice to be
served on the street railway that it will
be expected to pave between the rails
and one foot outside of them.
The city fremen all joined in pc
tition asking for an increase of $50 per
MONTH setting up the reasons that
have been heard from all quarters the
past few years.
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.Theer was some doubt expressed as
to- the power of the city to enact an
antismoke ordinance and the matter
was referred to the city attorney.
THE Odd Fellows, who own the
building the city Offices are in, served
nstice, that at the expiration OF the
lsase next September the present coun-
Gil chamber on the third floor will be
no longer available. The lease of the
ground floor, Offices may be renewed If
the city wants them.
Frank Hoffman, for years a member
of the city library board, rendered his
resignation. 1t was referred to the
library committee.
Labor organizations of the city peti-
toned the council not to permit the
discontinuance of the United States
employment bureau because of lack of
quarters and employees.
There was some start made to com
ply with new state law requiring
cities to maintain public comfort sta
tions and rest rooms.
The ordinance forbidding repaperng
or calciminng walls without removing
the old paper or calcmine was adopt
ed. 1t provides penalty of from 80
to S25. The enactment was urged by
the painters and paper hangers.
The matter of creating new wards to
get larger representation on the county
board came up informally and dis
closed opposition to the plan. A cen
sus of the city is a prerequisite and
City Sealer Mulholland had been au-
thorized to proceed with this work for
a $50 compensation. Answering an in
quiry the city attorney gave the opln-
ion that the city sealer could not law
fully be paid more than his salary.
Vogel and Thompson both opposed the
completion of the census or the paying
of any money for services in connec-
ton with it, and the matter was drop
ped without action.