The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
DURAND & Co.
Light hardware,
and under the head
FRUIT AND CONFECTIONERY.
James Mcbride, Main Street.

James Mcbride, Main Street.
Durand & Co. were never engaged
in Light hardware business in Kenosha.
The KenoshA Hardware Company, Of
which E. g. Durant was member, and,
we believe, Superintendent, was once
engaged in manufacturing light hardware
in Kenosha, bu: had discontinued the
business in Kenosha, and had gone to
Racine before the corner store of the
Congregational Church was laid.
James Mcbride, few days before the
cornerstone was laid. had erected a
fruit stand on the north east corner of
PARK and Main Streets, fronting on Park
ST. with one end on Main St., and here
he was selling fruit az retail to the pas
sers by.
Not quite one block from James Nc
Brides fruit stand, south on Main Street,
is the Furniture Store anl Furniture
manufacturing establishment Of Boesen
and Beddessem and little more than
one block further south is the Carriage
and Wagon manufacturing establishment
of David Crosit. Peter Besen, of the
firm Of Besen and Bedd9ssem has been
engaged in Kenosha in the sale and
manufacture of furniture for fourteen
years, land David Crosit has been engaged
in Kenosha in blacksmithing three years
and in the manufacture of carriages and
wagons thirty-six years-the former
probably as many years and the latter
twice as many as James Mcbride had
been engaged days IN selling fruit at bis
fruit stand on the corner of Park and
Main Streets, when the corner stone of
the Congregational Church was laid.
James Mcbride and his business goes
down to posterity through the records
deposited in the corner stone of the
Congregational Church. Peter B@sen
and David Crosit and their business will
be unknown to posferty through the
records deposited in the corner stone
of the Congregational Church. And so
it will be with all other business men
and women of Kenosha and their busie
ness whose names and business have
been omitted from the list. All will
be unknown to posterity through these
records.
A large class of business men ard
their business have been entirely omitted
from the printed list furnished by the
editor Of the Kenosha Union for deposit
in the corner stone of the Congre gational
Church. The records Of the City Coun-
Gil show that the editor of the KenLsha
Union, as Mayor of the City has signed
the licenses of twenty-five retail and
eight wholesale dealers in liquors.
Three Of the wholesale dealers are drug
gists, leaving twenty-seven dealers in
liquors alone. The licenses of these
twenty seven liquor dealers, we're signed
by him, as Mayor, and he we'll knew
of their business, and could not have
omitted them all Internationally. And
why were the names of these twenty
seven liquor dealers and their business
entirely omitted from the list of business
men ? 1t can not be because they are
not firms, for not one quarter of those
given are firms. Can it be because
their business is authorized by law and
made honorable through their licenses
Or was it because the editor thought
their business dishonorable and that
their names and business in deposit in
the cornerstone of the Congregational
Church would be discredjtable to the
church and the community Whatever
the reason may have been the omission
was not justifable. The business of
twenty seven men and women, having
the lise nse Of the Mayor and the author
ity of Ian, is an important part of the
business of Kenosha. And the business
and the pames of those engaged in it,
or at least proportionate part of them,
were entitled to place in the list fur
nished and printed by the editor of the
Kenoska Union for deposit in the corner
stone of the Congregational Church.
The editor of the Union, sensible of
the injustice he had Gone to the business
men and business Of Kenosha. has
commenced the revision Of his work.