Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-12-16
WAUWATOSA
THE FIRST. CITY OF THE FOURTH
GLASS

GLASS
/ The year 1921 saw more permanent
pavement, sidewalks and sanitary
sewers laid in the City of Wauwatosa
than in any other fourth class city in
the State of Wisconsin.
The old macadam streets have been
searified, rolled and repaired until
even some of our most consistent
doubters concede that they are still
| pretty good streets and will last for
a considerable time.
Our City Engineer, always alert and
given to taking time by the forelock.
was successful in securing about
thirty thousand gallons of the best
street oil the country affords, and had
It applied on the hottest days of a
particularly long, hot. dry summer
with the result that our oiled streets
are second to none in the Middle
| West.
The Lincoln School has been COM
pleted, and the Board of Education
looks forward to completing the Wash
ington School, at the southeast corner
OF Eighth and Windsor Avenues, on or
before February LIST, 1922.
The City has erected a commodious
comfort station on the property Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway Company, Immediately west
OF the passenger Station on State
Street. Mr.. e. o. Kuenzli, the super.
v1sing architect, has outdone himself
In the way of providing a substantial
building at moderate cost.
The City Plan Commission, of which
Mr.. Norman A. Wigdale is Secretary.
and in which he has been the prime
mover since its inception, in April,
1870, has labored long and diligently,
and, after eighteen months of siren
uous work, has drafted an ordinance
regulating and. restricting trades and
industries and the location of build
ings designed for specified purposes
that is unparalleled in the annals of
city planning. This ordinance has
been adopted unanimously by the
Common Council; has been duly pub.
lished and is now in full force and
effect.
Nearly two hundred new buildings
have been erected in Wauwatosa in
the past year, increasing the preSent
assessed valuation of $9,57S, 900. by
nearly half a million dollars.
The bonded debt of the city is
$329,500.00, which is more than $780,
10000 less than the limitation pre-
scribed by law. Under the provisions
of Chapter SIC, Laws of 1921, no fur
Their bonds can be issued except when
authorized by an affirmative vote of
the electors of the city.
The citizens of Wauwatosa may
congratulate themselves on the Fact
that their Mayor and Common Coun-
Gil are business men. They realize
that they have certain work to do,
and they proceed to do it with the
utmost possible expedition.
A municipality is handicapped more
than any other corporation by reason
of the fact that every one of its trans
actions is governed by one or more
statutes, and all proceedings must
conform to the statutory provisions.
This condition prevents prompt action
] IL manly IeloCb WliEl6 1t 10 very UluGI
desired. Hence it is better to antici-
pate the needs and submit petitions
/ in February for any work that is
! wanted during the ensuing summer
| The Board OF Public Works would
like complete list of all improve
ments desired during the coming sum
mer not later than February 10Th,
1922.
The present plan of requiring paw
| ing contractors to grade streets to be
paved by them or arrange to have it
done for them under their supervision
and on their responsibility, will be
adhered to in awarding all future CON
tracts for paving work, thus eliminat- \
ing one undesirable element which
heretofore has delayed the completion
Of some of our largest paving jobs.
It is hoped that before the close Of
1922 all underground construction,
such as water mains, storm sewers.
sanitary sewers, gas mains and lat-
erals will be aid in at least seventy
five per cent of such streets as are
not now equipped with these desirable
features; and that such work will be
completed in the remainder of such
streets before the end of 1923. II
this can be done, permanent pave
ments may then be laid if wanted
without the embarrassing delays
which now obtain
A. v. BRIGHAM,
City Clerk