The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-01-20
CITY COUNCIL NOTES


the cost of installing a garbage inciner-
ator at the former electric station on
Quay street,
There were some protests on file by
property owners in the neighborhood
of the new isolation hospital near the
west end of New York avenue to es-
tablishing the hospital there. They are
afraid it will affect the desirability of
the neighborhood as a residence section
and depreciate the value of their prop
erty. On recommendation of the board
of health and the committee on sani-
tation the council decided to make the
building, the former residence of S. G.
Cool, ten room hospital with a care
taker The house needs but little re-
modelling.
Because Philippen street has never
been accepted by the city, residents
there were denied a combination curb
and gutter but the council fixed the
width of the carriageway at thirty
feet
There was a gay party for a while
over the cost of the remodeling of the
new city hall Holly wanted to know
why the building committee had spent
$4,000 when the estimated cost had
been $1,000. The committee seemed
to take the matter as an atfront and
appeared to be deeply grieved that
their long and conscientious toll
brought them in for censure instead of
praise. No one except Holly seemed to
think there was any explaining called
for but on the committees suggestion
its acts will be the subject of an in
quiry by committee composed of
Holly Kazda and Fricke. This commit
tee will report at the next meeting
During the discussion it was asserted
that the committee had insisted on the
employment of union labor and this the
committee denied.
Figures on the cost as reported fol-
low: Electrical work, Sl270.S3; paint
ing, SI460; masonry, $2975.S4; brick,
tile and cement $32459O; lumber, S2,-
39322; heating S232l.S6; carpenter
work including superintendent, S69O6.-
SO; plumbing, S265S.06; hardware, S2,-
.-tks-ari- class. SaaG-En, eYahiteot -foee,
SIPS; unpaid cement and other bills,
S94.l3. The committee reported
credit for sale of materials of SI283.l7,
leaving the total cost at S25, 5,653.4O.
The city utilities commission report
ed that it has about 100000 earnings
of the utilities and recommended that
$4,000 be invested in the city's forth
coming 5 u per cent bonds. The coun-
ell, on recommendation of IsSelman,
chairman of finance, took the money
into the city's general fund to be ap-
piled on purchase bond interest and
proprietary account"
The time within which taxes may be
paid was extended from February l to
March l. Isselman thought something
ought to be done about the $1,000 of
delinquent personal property taxes
hanging over. This is time honored
question.
The annual adjustment of salaries
was on the program The formal adop-
tion takes place at the first meeting
next month but the council as a com
mittee of the whole threshed out the
figures, The only changes in the pay
roll approved were raises for the city
clerk, city engineer and superintendent
of utilities, each from $4,000 to S2,70O
and the increases of the assistant city
treasurer to sum not exceeding ST.
ESQ and the assistant chief of police to
Sl,6S0. The city hall janitor was fixed
at Sl,32O.
Failure of the Chicago and North
western railway company to say where
it wants the gates at Thirteenth and
South Water streets, at the foot of
Truman hill' relocated for safety of
traffic resulted in the council ordering
the gates out and demanding that
hagman be stationed there.
The streets from near the depot up
past the Holy Family hospital, Clark
street and Western avenue, are on the
paving list and the matter of the street
car tracks that will some day in the
uncertain future be laid on that route
naturally presented itself
The engineer thinks that the concrete
pavement can be so laid as to permit
of future laying of tracks by the re-
moyal of but a small part of the pave
ment This will be looked into. The
mayor thought that motor buses will
solve this problem without tracks.
The clerk will advertise for prices on
the concrete vaduct which it is pro-
posed to build to connect the northeast
end of the new bridge up the river,
called the Twenty-frst street bridge,
with the top of the bluff at the Gene
terry, The estimated cost IS $l50,O00. |
If the bids are right the work may be |
let this spring.
The annual report of John Peppard,
city building Inspector, was on file. 1t
covered the last ten months of 1920