The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-08-04
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

The city council met in regular ses-
sion Monday evening. All were pres
ent except Bouril and Revolinsky.
There will be no new bridge at Sth
street for some years. A new bridge
would cost about 100000 and City
Engineer Alter had on file an estimate
of complete repairs on the present
bridge of $4,000, There was some dis
cusSion with few advocating new
bridge, but economy, in fact necessity
prevailed and the plan to go ahead
with repairs carried, The city can
hardly stand a new bridge now with
the small margin left for bonds fur
nishing hardly a good start on the
needed high school. Work will be com
menced at once on Eighth street and it
will be closed to vehicle traffic,
The Kadow interests want to put a
canopy over the sidewalk in front of
the Mikadow theater and the mOmen-
tous question of fixing the amount of
the bond that should be eXacted re-
quired nearly an hour of debate. A
compromise figure of $4,000 was finally
agreed on.
Last years paving program is com
,.l.t,t rrI ILa M,n;Tnur,n rnneIrupt ion
company was allowed the final install
ment of S33,Ol79S, completing the en-
tire contract price of Sl33,5Oil0. The
work is going ahead fast and the 1921
work will probably be completed dur
ing this month.
The council adopted a resolution in
Structing the board of public works to
take the necessary steps to have Uncle
Sam adopt our harbOr as a harbor of
refuge, meaning that we want the gen
earl government to pay for dredging
the inner harbor instead of having our
taxpayer dig down for it. The resou-
ton went through in q few minutes
Achieving the object will take longer.
Probation Officer, Mrs. Mabel Kellen,
made report showing that she has
been busy and is getting results.
The street department was told to
spend 800 on the street at the city
end of the Little Manitowoc bridge.
Earl Walter, a member of the city
engineers force, put in a bill for his
wages for the twelve days he was at
state encqmpmcnt with Company c. He
has been paid in former years but this
time the claim caused some discussion
and action was deferred after a COM
mittee had reported for disolIowance.
A committee composed of CITY Engi-
neer Alter, Street Commissioner Vol
lendorf and Alderman Thompson,
chairman of the councils committee on
streets recently made a iunket around
to lot of Wisconsin and Illinois cities
looking at "semi-permanent paving
and other things One result of their
investigations was the turning thumbs
down on Taryia X, which the council
under the spell of eloquent statesmen
had virtually decided to adopt for miles
of city streets as a cheaper substitute
for paving The city officials in nearly
all cities were of the opinion that the
greater original cost of brick or con
crete is cheaper in the end The com
mittee recommends the abandonment
of the expensive Tarvia Y and the use
of Tarvia 4 and Tarvia b on macadam
streets, material costing but little
more than oil.
No action was taken but Taryia y is
probably doomed by the report
The police were instructed to enforce
the law prohibiting train crews from
blocking street more than five min
utes at stretch
1t looked like short session early IN
the evening but the Mikadow canopy
and the new bridge question took so
much time that it was midnight before
the tired city fathers went out into the
night.