The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-03-23
CITY COUNCIL NOTES
The city council met in regular ses-
sion Monday evening,


sion Monday evening
The big feature was the formal APP
proval of the new high school plans
The matter has caused the spilling of a
Niagara of vocal sound and the use of
a mountain of printers ink. Vogel for
the committee laid the plans before the
council without recommendation. The
program for adoption was cut and
dried Only Drumm remained insurg-
ent. He read a long argument against
the Roeff's hill site while the aldermen
chatted or looked bored. Nogel made
a few remarks about the financing and
hoped that it would be possible to keep
the pledge made to the people that the
school would not cost over 100000.
No one else had anything to say and
the roll call resulted: Ayes ID, Noes |.
Drumm of course was the one. Thus
quietly ended battle that has famed
up and waned alternately for these
many years The whole thing is now
outside the jurisdiction of the city
council and entirely in the hands of the
City Board of Education.
The erection of new high school
building will be commenced at once on
the high ground in the southwest cor
ner of the city between 7th and 9th
tall pnnfh nf
street A small part of the school land
is north of Division
The council wants to learn of all
those who expect to do river dredging
this year SO that the city can let all
the local dredging in one job. There
are four private corporations to date
that want to come in.
The city has an expert horticultur-
alist in Alderman Nenaber and he
started crusade against telephone
linemen climbing trees with spur. He
said that they do as much damage
every year as the recent ice storm as
the spurs make a deep serious wound.
If they won't stop it voluntarily they
will be compelled to do so. The care
less hacking by telephone men of shade
trees will also be stopped.
Wergin pointed to the necessity of a
new speed cop and the chief assured
the council that a new mans activities
will shortly strike terror into the hearts
of the speed demons.
There was in a resolution in regard
20 the necesssy of ST RighteninG or'
Sherman Creek, but it was withdrawn
as someone evidently considered it
poor tactics to assume that the city
considers the creek to be a public
drainage sewer, while the city most
emphatically denies that it is, in a case
still pending in the courts.
On Drumm's initiative the engineer
will prepare plans for public comfort
station to replace the useless brick
structure back of the city hall facing
on Ninth street.
The contract for furnishing sewer
renovating machine was awarded to
The Turbine Company of Milwaukee.
The equipment will cost Sl,700.
Unimproved streets will hereafter be
paved at cost of rs per cent on abut-
ting owners and 20 per cent on the
city. The two Third warders battled
valantly for one-third, two-thirds
split but they went down on roll call
II to 2. This will include Philippen
street about which the debate ragged at
the last preceding meeting.
The street committe was not ready
to report on the proposed ordinance
regulating motor bus traffic and the
delay elected some ironical comment
The recent ice damage was one of the
reasons assigned for delay in the com
pany's acceptance which caused Thori-
son to remark that ice interference
with legal department was a novel
sight 1t was said that if the ordinance
is DEBATED the bus competition to the
street railway in interurban traffic will
be resumed.
The street department last summer
oiled the west half of the block of
Sixth street between st. Clair and Hur-
on street and forgot all about the east
half. They didn't forget, however to
put both sides of the street in the tax
roll for oiling tax and the people on
the east side will get their money back.
Former Alderman Holly also wants
a refund of an oiling tax and his form
er colleagues were shocked to learn
that he had not observed the statutory
reu tape III presenting llo NluihI' iiN
will have to come in regularly like any
common citizen.
The bridge at the Little Manitowoc
will have a $50 G.. p. electric light. We
cannot imagine a place that needs one
more nor guess why it has not had one
before this time.