The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-09-21
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

The council met in regular session
Monday evening. President Thorison
presided in the absence of the mayor.
Kazda and Staalson were also absent
The committee on sanitation report
ed in favor of letting the contracts for
West Side park and in the city hall
back yard. There was a general dis
cussion of the matter and the final re-
suit was that the West Side park prof.
ect was approved, and action on the
back yard project postponed. 1t was
asserted that state law requires a
comfort station for each 5000 of pOpu-
lation and the proponents of the down
town station said they were merely try
ing to observe this law.
The ordinance authorizing high
school bonds passed at the last preced-
ing meeting was recalled and amended
to change the rate of interest from 5
per cent to 3A per cent, and in that
form re-adopted.
The 1922 paving work was all ac-
cepted upon recommendation of the
board of public works and the balance
due ordered paid upon the filing of
the customary warranty bond.
The council voted to purchase the
Sam Hall dock property at the foot of
North Sixth street for $4,000. For the
present the premises will be utilized for
the storage of some of the street de-
partments equipment and other city
property.
The claim of George Mahnke for
damages alleged to have been caused
to his person by falling through a de
fectively covered manhoe in the sewer
at Jay and Tenth streets was disal-
lowed on the ground, at least in part,
that notice had not been filed in time.
The city will pay the expenses of
City Sealer Henry Mulholland to a
meeting of city sealers of the state at
Madison, Oct. 10, IL and ~. The
sealer said that it is not social occa-
sion but strictly business meeting.
The city treasurer reported bal
ance on hand Sept. of 1886, 6,423.17,
with receipts of the month of $685.
6S9.92 and disbursements of oSll7,-
6O9.53.
There will be no ornamental light
ing on Franklin street. The with
drawal of few petitioners brought
the number below the minimum neces-e
sary to proceed The railway tracks
ON Franklin made it impracticable to
extend the lighting west of Thirteenth
street
The purchase of a new adding ma
chine and cash machine for the treas
urer's office was authorized,
. A surface drainage sewer on New
York aveme between Eleventh and
Thirteenth streets was ordered.
The action ordering a water main in
the new subdivision of the O. .Torrison
homestead was rescinded as the loca-
tion was private driveway and it
was deemed that this would he dan
gerous precedent The service will be
otherwise provided.
The feature of the evenings enter
tainment was the speech of City Attor-
ney Clarence f. Teitgen, who address
ing the council, took violent exception
TO the editorial suggestion of local
newspaper that it might he advisable
for the city to compromise and settle
the litigation pending and threatening
between the city and the Cereal Prod
nets company over the last three as
seSsments of the company's properties.
During rather long speech he re-
ferred to the journalistic suggestion as
"Gamnable" and as an ''insult to every
member of the board of review"
There was some language a bit more
profane than that. The Pilot has con
siderable sympathy for any public of
ficial, who sensitive to criticism, is
compelled to hear misrepresentation of
his actions and motives and unjust
carping without any adequate method
of equal publicity for reply, but in the
present instance the cause of the out
break was a mild and harmless sugges-
tion as to policy upon which men
might fairly differ, which could not be
reasonably interpreted as rejecting on
any one and was clearly within the
field of reasonable editorial comment,