The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-09-16
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

The council met Wednesday evening
because Monday was Labor day.
Notice was served on the city that
the rent of the quarters occupied by
the city in the Odd Fellows building
will be raised beginning Sept | from
ISl35 to $500 per month. The city eX-
poets to be in its own building shortly
and will not pay the new rate long.
The home coming committee report
ed that it was about 5000 short and
an appropriation was made to close
the books They collected S2,724.5O
and spent S3,2370S. The main items
of expense were decorators Sl700,
aviator $500, band $500, prizes $500.
The council adopted a uniform iron
post for city lighting and plans to in
stall them on Eighth and Washington
streets. The city will attempt to in
duce the telephone company and street
railway company to use the poles and
abolish large part of the unnecessary
and unsightly supports that cucumber
| downton streets. Each pole will cost
| the abutting property owners Slf2 and
the city S7l.
Holly initiated a move to divide the
Third ward into two wards. The inn
mediate incentive is the ward has
100 voters and it is too late to divide
| it into two precincts before election
Vogel and Klusmyer resented outside
interference and again intimated that
they do not need Holly's aid in run
ming the Third ward Vogel saw some
political scheming in the matter. No
action was taken.
The paving contractors are to be al
lowed to grade North Tenth street
even though they are not sure that
they can get the cement for paving
this fall. The second big leg of the
paving job, South Tenth out to the
city limits is completed and concrete
is being poured on Jay street east of
Eighth.
The city attorney was instructed to
file written opinion as to the power
of the city to remove the non-operat-
ing gates that lend beauty to the
scene at either end of our only bridge.
There was lot more about it but
nothing new.
There were some petitions ON file
pro and con "a regard to permitting
the Shphuild 1g company maintain
the gates that bar access to the street
on the island" The matter was over
looked in the rush to finish up about
o'clock a. IN.
There is a petition to annex to the
city the thickly settled territory north
of the west part of the fairgrounds.
The council voted to peddle out the
Sl45,O0O of city paving bonds instead
of trying to sell them through bond
buyers.
Staalson wanted to annul the con-
tract of Gray-Robinson company to
build sewer on North Eighteenth
street on account of delays. The con-
tractors say that they can not get the
pipe and Staalson is skeptical on that.
II was referred to the committee on
sanitation. Members refer to this COM
mittee as the sanitary committee"
which raises an inference not at all
complimentary to the other commit
tees
Twenty-sixth street will be 32 feet
from curb to curb as recommended by
the committee and not AZ feet as
Drumm wanted it.
Several of the Socialists insist that
there was something not according to
Hoyle in the vacation, or rather non
plating, of the Riverview stub OF
Twentv-fourth street On initiative OF
Isselman the Presbyterian congrega-
ton was assured that it can have all
the stub necessary for the purposes OF
their new church there.