The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-02-10

whether or not they desire a bond
issue Of 100000 floated in order to
erect two new junior high school build
ings, for at the meeting of the common
council on Monday evening, it was
unanimously voted to put the question
before the people on a referendum
vote at the coming election. The re-
quest of the school board that the
council put this question 10 the peo-
pie for vote was presented by
School Commissioner Anderson, repre-
senting the school board.
Alderman Wachs Immediately made
motion that the question be re-
ferred to the people and this was
seconded by Alderman Cox
Before we go any further" declared
Mayor Joachim, in opening the discus
sion on the motion, "let it be under
stood that all of this 100000 is for
educational purposes. Recently | have
been severely criticized by certain
members of the school board on the
grounds that / exaggerated the amount
Of money spent by the board. There
should be no doubt about this item"
Lively Tilt Follows.
There were some timely and inter
esting comments made on the motion.
Alderman Pabst, chairman of the
finance committee, presented report
received from school officials, showing
tn present cost of instruction in the
k9o.1, Il &OA,o of
sit is my understanding that this re-
quest for 100000 is only a starter"
explained Alderman Shearer ain a
short time there will be another re-
quest for $1,500,000 for new high
school building making a total of
$3,000,000 which will be wanted in ALL"
Alderman Stein believed the people
should know that the request, if grant
ed, meant big boost in taxes. Takes
are getting fierce in Kenosha,' de-
clared the alderman. eve have lost
$2,000000 factory because of this
fact and we are going to lose more.
Several days ago l was in communica-
ton with one of the officials of the
plant which is now building the large
Johns Manville factory at Waukegan.
I found that the company chose Wau-
kegan as it's home instead of Kenosha
because the taxes were SO high. 1t is
time we were beginning to think"
Is Passed Unanimously.
Alderman Cox took hand in the
argument here and insisted that both
Alderman Pabst and Alderman Stein
were out of order. Mayor Joachim,
after a stormy insistehce on point of
order by Alderman Cox, ruled that the
discussion should go on as every one
was entitled to discussion of the
measure.
The motion to put the measure
to the people for a referendum vote
was carried unanimously.
Debate About Hannah Avenue.
The second display of fireworks for
the evening came over the question of
letting the contract for the proposed
sewer extension on Hannah avenue.
The question was opened by petitions
signed by Mrs. Mary Hannah and
others, asking that the work be post
poned since the continuance of it at the
present time would work a great fnan-
cial hardship on the property owners.
Attorney A. l.. Drury spoke for Mrs
Hannah and pointed out that she was
the owner of large part of the prop
erty abutting on Hannah avenue and
that the contract if let would result
almost in the confscation of some of
her holdings. Mrs. Hannah supple
mented this by an appeal to the coun-
Gil in which she declared that the
majority of the lots there we've owned
on land contracts and that she would
be forced to stand the greater part of
the financial burden of the sewer. She
declared that the people residing on
Hannah avenue should not expect
within short time to have all of the
conveniences of the city. Among other
interesting remarks made by her was
one in which she said that a large
number Of the people living on Han
nan avenue were occupying garages
because they, in the present house
shortage were unable to rent homes
and had only enough money to erect
temporary homes on their lots.
Some of the residents on the avenue
were there and had some interesting
stories to tell.
Lake in Front of House.
One of these declared that "there
was lake in front of his house last
year during most of the winter" and
that he had to don rubber boots when
eyed ne left his home. Several others
insisted that they had to spend two
hours each morning in the rainy season
baling the water out of their base
ments so that they could start fire.
Another man insisted that he went
into water up to his knees getting to
his home one night last year and he
held that the reason so many garages
and less houses were built there was
because of the condition of the ground
There were several others who said
that "it was no fun to carry water
three or four blocks every day" which
they insist is necessary under the
present plan.
The discussion, which at times was
extremely interesting and entertain
ing, was finally ended by a motion to
refer action on the question until the
report Of the street assessment COM
mittee was, made regarding the con-