October 2, 1893 – May 6, 1895
October 2, 1893
Vol. 2 opens exactly where Vol. 1 left off — the Sept. 18, 1893 special meeting approved here as "previous meeting" is the same one that closes Vol. 1. No gap between the two physical volumes.
Vol. 2, p. 1
Vol. 2, p. 2–3
Confirms the "East Dundee Ill Sept 28th 1893" dateline mid-ordinance — likely the date the ordinance itself was drafted, retained verbatim in the minutes even though read into the record at the Oct. 2 meeting.
Vol. 2, p. 4–5
Vol. 2, p. 6–7
Ernest C. Luther, Village Clerk throughout most of Vol. 1 (sworn in per that volume's closing oath-of-office record, April 1890), is here appointed the Village's first Corporation Counsel, a newly created office. He continues signing as Village Clerk through this same meeting; his resignation from the Clerk's office and C.W. Schlueter's appointment as successor follow on pp.15–16.
Vol. 2, p. 8–9
October 11, 1893
Vol. 2, p. 10–11
The Fox River foot bridge connecting East Dundee and West Dundee — built and maintained under a standing joint contract between the two villages — was rebuilt in late 1893 under a $1,720 contract with the Lane Bridge and Iron Works, East Dundee paying half ($860) contingent on West Dundee's Board concurring in the same terms. Four new steel plate piers replaced the old wooden piles where the river required it.
Vol. 2, p. 12–13
Vol. 2, p. 14–15
Ernest C. Luther resigned the Village Clerk's office the same October 2, 1893 meeting at which he was sworn in as the Village's first Corporation Counsel, with C.W. Schlueter confirmed as his successor as Clerk. Luther continued signing the minutes as Village Clerk through the close of this same meeting.
Vol. 2, p. 16
November 6, 1893
Vol. 2, p. 17
Vol. 2, p. 18–19
December 4, 1893
Vol. 2, p. 20–21
January 8, 1894
Vol. 2, p. 22–23
Vol. 2, p. 24–25
February 5, 1894
The bridge payment confirmed here at the February 5 meeting settles the account for the Fox River foot bridge rebuild under contract with the Lane Bridge and Iron Works, ordered the previous October. The peddlers' ordinance passed the same evening set the framework — daily and weekly license fees graduated by goods sold, from five dollars a day for wagons and pianos down to one dollar a day for farm produce — that the Board continued refining on the pages that follow.
Vol. 2, p. 26–27
Vol. 2, p. 28–29
March 5, 1894
Vol. 2, p. 30–31
Henry Wendt appears here for the first time in this volume, appointed a judge of election for the April 1894 vote — months before he took the President's chair himself.
Vol. 2, p. 32
April 2, 1894
Vol. 2, p. 33
East Dundee put its first water works system to a popular vote at the same April 1894 election that would seat Henry Wendt as President, alongside the year's general appropriations ordinance — $6,513.10 across fourteen departments, from street and bridge maintenance down to a $25 legal-department contingency fund.
Vol. 2, p. 34–35
Vol. 2, p. 36–37
Vol. 2, p. 38–39
Vol. 2, p. 40–41
Vol. 2, p. 42
Under this schedule a full dram-shop license — the eighth-barrel-or-less tier covering ordinary saloon trade — cost $500 a year, malt liquor alone by the quart or more cost $200, and any other quantity not otherwise specified cost $600, a fee structure the Board would apply case by case to nearly every license request through the rest of this volume.
Vol. 2, p. 43
Vol. 2, p. 44–45
April 16, 1894
Henry Wendt appointed as an election judge back on March 5 stood down from that role on April 2, replaced by C.J. Bethke and J.W. Grant — clearing the way for his own candidacy. By the close of the record on this same page, the minutes are attested by Chas Plath as Village Clerk and Henry Wendt as President, the outcome of the April 17, 1894 election: Henry Peters and C.W. Schlueter's terms at an end, Wendt and Plath now seated.
Vol. 2, p. 46–47
The April 16, 1894 meeting worked through a full slate of licensing for the new fiscal year — Wilhelm Lorenz, William Schroder, H.E. Preuss, August Schumann, and Louis G. Rabe each granted a liquor license and posting both the $500 license bond and the $3,000 dram-shop bond required to hold it. Schumann and Rabe would still hold their licenses through the close of Volume 1 the previous September, and reappear renewed here under the new fiscal year.
Vol. 2, p. 48–49
Vol. 2, p. 50–51
April 23, 1894
East Dundee's voters replaced their sitting President that April, choosing Henry Wendt over the incumbent Henry Peters by a better than two-to-one margin, seated three trustees — Fred Rath, Henry Rover, and Chas Bauer, the top three vote-getters — and approved the village's first water works system, 102 votes to 39.
Vol. 2, p. 52–53
Henry Wendt's committee assignments seated every incumbent trustee on at least one committee, with Chas Bauer — the one new face on the Board — placed on Police, Streets, Claims, Public Grounds, and Health in his first term.
Vol. 2, p. 54–55
The Street Commissioner role, created here in May 1894, absorbed responsibilities that had previously been distributed across the Committee on Streets, Alleys and Bridges — special assessments, right-of-way permitting for utility poles and pipes, and the physical upkeep of the village's streets, sewers, and water infrastructure all fell under one appointed office reporting monthly to the Board.
Vol. 2, p. 56–57
April 19, 1894
Henry Peters, who had presided over the Board of Trustees through the opening pages of this volume, died April 19, 1894 — two days after standing for re-election and losing to Henry Wendt by better than two to one. The Board draped the Village Hall in mourning for a week and ordered its resolution of tribute copied in full into the permanent record, a rare formal break from the routine business of claims, licenses, and street repairs that otherwise fills these pages.
Vol. 2, p. 58–59
May 7, 1894
The May 1894 payroll — issued by the newly seated Board just weeks after Henry Wendt's inauguration and Henry Peters's death — still carried Henry Peters's name on it, a $7.00 trustee's meeting fee earned before he died. William Harms took the newly created Street Commissioner post at $32 a month, alongside a Village Constable's salary fixed at $50.
Vol. 2, p. 60–61
Vol. 2, p. 62–63
— photographic gap, pages 64–65 —
Henry Gerdau, whose $58 monthly police wage runs through Vol. 1's final pages, took the newly created office of Village Constable that spring — the acting head of the police department under the ordinance passed the same evening, with custody of the Village Hall, its firearms, and the jail itself as ex officio keeper. The concrete sidewalks ordinance that followed put Main Street, Barrington Avenue, Van Buren Street, Third Street, and Railroad Street under a cost-sharing formula that became a fixture of village infrastructure financing: one third assessed against the abutting property owners by frontage, two thirds paid from the village's sidewalk fund, collected as a special tax through the Street Commissioner if an owner defaulted on building their own stretch within thirty days of notice.
Vol. 2, p. 66–73
With the Water Works referendum approved that April, the Committee on Fire and Water was authorized to begin gathering preliminary cost estimates that same June — the first concrete step toward the system East Dundee's voters had asked for.
Vol. 2, p. 74–77
June 4, 1894
D.H. Hager — the millrace figure whose nuisance dispute with the Village runs through the closing chapters of the previous volume — appears here on the Village's own payroll side of the ledger, paid $22.50 on a claim approved by the Committee on Streets, Alleys and Bridges the same June meeting that first authorized water works estimates. D.H. Havercampf took over as Village Treasurer that summer, a role that would put him in direct contact with Hager again within the month.
Vol. 2, p. 78–81
July 3, 1894
The same water works push that carried the April referendum led directly to D.H. Hager that July: with preliminary estimates in hand, the Board authorized its Committee on Fire and Water to make him a definite offer for his water rights and land in East Dundee — the water source the millrace dispute of the previous volume had centered on now being pursued as an asset to acquire rather than a nuisance to abate.
Vol. 2, p. 82–85
The July 19, 1894 special meeting, called on a day's notice specifically to consider D.H. Hager's offer, marks the point where the water rights negotiation stopped being a side item and became the evening's sole business — the full Board summoned, served notice in person by Officer Gerdau, to weigh what Hager was asking for his water power rights.
Vol. 2, p. 86–89
September 10, 1894
Charles Schmuett's letter about the creek narrowing on his property, and the standing threat of liability it raised, went to the same Streets, Alleys and Bridges committee already coordinating with West Dundee on the shared bridges and, within weeks, would be negotiating water rights with D.H. Hager — the September 10 payment of $182.77 to Hager on this same page shows that negotiation still active on the Village's books.
Vol. 2, p. 90–91
Every tax vote that September evening broke four to three along the same fault line, decided each time by Henry Wendt as the tie-breaking vote: Fred Rath, Fred Conrad and John Foelschow against any levy at all, Henry Rover, Wm Bohn and Chas Bauer for a $500 corporate tax, the President siding with the latter to both defeat the no-tax motion and pass the levy that followed it. The bridge-use ordinance passed that same night, unanimous where the tax vote had split, banning fast riding, droves larger than ten head, and — a real structural concern for wooden and iron truss bridges of the period — marching in step, which can set a span vibrating in resonance with a column of footfalls.
Vol. 2, p. 92–95
October 1, 1894
D.H. Hager's water rights turned out to belong to West Dundee's ambitions, not East Dundee's: West Dundee petitioned that October for a right-of-way through East Dundee's own Main Street to lay twelve-inch iron water mains 1,780 feet from the bridge to Hager's upper pond — the same water source East Dundee's own Committee on Fire and Water had been authorized to negotiate for that July. John Foelschow cast the lone dissenting vote referring the petition to committee.
Vol. 2, p. 96–97
Attached to the record, the loose typed Order of Acceptance from West Dundee's own Board (signed E.T. Norton, President, and C.T. Dahlman, Recorder, passed November 27, 1894, filed with Charles Plath December 5, 1894) formally accepted the easement within the thirty-day window the ordinance required. In exchange for the right-of-way, West Dundee agreed to fully indemnify East Dundee for any street damage, to forfeit the mains to East Dundee outright if its water system ever ceased operating, and to let East Dundee draw free from a hydrant at Main and First Streets in West Dundee — a mutual-aid clause layered on top of the water-rights deal that had begun as D.H. Hager's private offer over a year earlier.
Vol. 2, p. 100–105
November 5, 1894
The Adin Mann survey dispute over Blocks Five and Six of Edwards Addition — a boundary question left unresolved in this same entry, the sentence trailing off without a recorded motion — resurfaces on page 115 the following January, when the Board formally recognized Mann's original plat as the legal line between village property and adjoining lot owners. Police Magistrate George W. Harvy, meanwhile, was found $6.30 short on his September and October remittances and ordered to turn the balance over to the Treasurer, a routine bookkeeping correction next to the larger crisis about to hit the Treasurer's office itself.
Vol. 2, p. 108–111
The same Edgar C. Hawley whose electric streetcar franchise for the Dundee Rapid Transit Company had run through the closing pages of the previous volume was, it turns out, also the private banker East Dundee trusted with its municipal treasury. His bank's collapse on November 22, 1894 froze the village's operating funds overnight, forcing an emergency $800 note at six percent interest just to keep current expenses paid, and pushed the Village's banking permanently to the First National Bank of Elgin — a sharper, more institutional arrangement than trusting a single local financier's private bank.
Vol. 2, p. 112–113
February 4, 1895
The Adin Mann survey question raised in November closed here in January: the Board formally recognized Mann's recorded plat as the true boundary between village and private property, and ordered the Street Commissioner to pull down the fences around Block 18 that didn't conform to it. The Village's long-running dispute with F.C. Dunning — the man whose property the Village Constable had earlier been ordered to levy against — escalated to the Kane County Circuit Court that February; the case against Fred Kunnecke referred to in September 1894 had already gone to appeal by the Village the previous fall.
Vol. 2, p. 114–117
March 4, 1895
Vol. 2, p. 118–119
April 1, 1895
The Adin Mann boundary matter and D.H. Mead's water supply claim both land on the same Committee on Judiciary agenda that spring — the Village's expanding footprint (survey lines, water rights, election judges) increasingly a matter for the lawyers as much as the street crews.
Vol. 2, p. 121–123
The entire slate of East Dundee's saloon-keepers renewed at once that April: Lou Rabe, Henry Hitzman, Henry Preuss, William Lorenz, Herman Schumacher, Fred Ahrens, and Joseph Lorenz each granted a license and posting the same paired $500 and $3,000 bonds, the same annual cycle recorded a year earlier at the April 16, 1894 meeting.
Vol. 2, p. 126–127
The $8,682.72 budgeted for fiscal 1895–96 runs nearly a third higher than the $6,513.10 appropriated for the prior year — driven largely by the new Street Commissioner's salary line, the deficiency carried over from the water-mains-and-sidewalk work of 1894, and the $820 note still owed the First National Bank of Elgin from Edgar C. Hawley's bank failure the previous December.
Vol. 2, p. 128–131
April 25, 1895
Vol. 2, p. 132–133
April 30, 1895
Vol. 2, p. 134–135
May 6, 1895
The May 6, 1895 canvass installed a new President and Clerk on this same page range that closes the volume — a full changeover from Henry Wendt and Charles Plath to Fred Roehl and Fred Teichler, closing the volume's chapter of leadership just as it had opened one thirteen months earlier when Wendt unseated Henry Peters.
Vol. 2, p. 136–137
Page 139 is the last page of continuous meeting-minutes content in this volume. Fred Conrad's own re-election as Trustee, referenced on page 137's closing line, is confirmed here alongside Wm. Bohn's; George W. Harvy — the Police Magistrate found $6.30 short the previous December — was returned to office by the same election. Outgoing President Henry Wendt stood as one of two sureties on incoming Clerk Fred Teichler's bond, a quiet hand-off between the administration that opened the volume's water-works and water-mains chapter and the one that would carry it forward.
Vol. 2, p. 138–139