The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-08-24
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

Monday evening.
A resolution providing for another
quarter million dollars of bonds for the
new high school was ordered published
without division. 1t provides for bonds
in denominations of $500, maturing
serially for twenty years, at s percent
interest. The interest rate seems rath-
er high for the present market for mu-
nicipal bonds
A REQ chassis was accepted to re-
ceive the police patrol and ambulance
body The old chassis was traded in
at $3.50.
The Traction company was given
permission to run a feed cable and
wire which will supply motive current
on the south side when Eighth street
bridge is open.
An ordinance prohibiting funerals on
Sunday at Evergreen cemetery except
in a few specified cases was ordered
published and will come up at the next
meeting.
A communication from Fire Chief
Kratz was on file informing the council
that the city will probably be honored
by the next state convention of city
fire departments, and asking that
proper provision be made by the coun-
Gil for entertaining the fire fighters.
Nogel said in effect that the chief
ought to know better, and added: "the
city cannot legally do anything like
that" And so the council with the ut
most conscientious scruples about lille
gally appropriatng the taxpayers
lected to make the provision the chief
asked. This is laudable, quite COM
mendable; and yet there is no express
statutory prohibition against amusing
fremen like there is against paying the
members of the Board of Review over
$50, and as there is against paying a
city officer any compensation in ex-
cess of his annual salary.
The new subdivision Of the O. Tori
son homestead, comprising nearly all
the land bounded by New York and
Michigan avenues and Fifteenth and
Seventeenth streets, was accepted,
George X, Mahnke stepped into a
manhole at Tenth and Jay streets on
the night of august IL and fractured
two ribs. He says loose cover was
to blame and the notice is probably a
preliminary to a claim for damages.
Contracts were awarded to the Grayk'
Robinson company and 10 Walter o.
Bahr for sewers in various parts of the
city, and the Cherney Construction
company was given the job of grading
Wisconsin avenue between Eleventh
and Fourteenth streets.
The protest of George Brothers
company against an assessment levied
against premises fronting on Jay
street for ornamental lighting on
Eighth street was ordered filed The
assessment, if not paid, will go into
the tax roll and will probably reach
the courts. There are several other
cases and the usual silly chatter about
"test case" is indulged in. The law
provides for assessing "abutting" prop
erty and each case stands on its own
merits as to whether the property as
sessed abuts on the street lighted, No
two cases are alike. A decision in one
is no test of any one of the others.
Small boat owners who enjoy the
summer evenings on the river are up in
arms about some black oily substance
that the Gas company discharges into
the river, and had a protest on file.
The city fire laddies will get their
screens. The city will purchase the
materials and the men in the two sta
tions will do the work.
The monthly report of Probation Of
fcer Mabel Killen was on file, disclos-
ing an active month
4 lot of routine business was dis
patched and the council adjourned at
the seasonable hour of 1890.