The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-01-22
d. J. Browns Request for Reinstate-
ment Of Tiyoli License.
Rev. F. B. Cowgirl Addresses Council
on the Proposition.
Aldermen Are Not Disposed to Favor
Omaha Land Deal.
Wafer Works Bond Fund SWelied to
Extent of $4,000.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Those anxious over the question
whether the council will act favorably
or otherwise on the request of ID. j.
Brown Tor reinstatement of the Tivoli
saloon license will have to remain in
suspense until the next meeting of the
city "dads" if not longer. just before
the council meeting opened last night
the mayor and aldermen held a lengthy
secret conference in the judicial sane
tum. What was said and agreed upon
at this meeting cannot be told. As soon
as the council convened, however, the
revocation of the license and Mr.. Browns
request for it's reinstatement were read
by the recorder. Aid. Coy moved that
the question of the reinstatement of the
license be laid on the table for two
weeks.
Rev DR.. Cowgirl arose and was granted
permission of addressing the council on
the matter He said he represented a
very considerable element of the citi-
zens, who were unqualifiedly opposed to
the renewal of the license. He was not
there to say anything against saloons
that were operated within the limits
of the law. The laws, however, that are
designed to protect the people should
be maintained. The Tivoli had been a
it started. The town was full of re-
ports discreditable to that place. Mr..
Brown certainly could not have been
in ignorance of the notorious disorder
that existed there so long. Yet he al
lowed this disorder to continue.
The TivoI had long been a resort for
minors whose minority was evident
from their appearance. The performances
were demoralizing and indecent 1t was
a place that had brought sorrow into
many families. He knew of specific
case five miles out in the country of
a young man whose downfall had clearly
started with the TivoE.
Students, the doctor continued, were
surrounding country to get an education
and were here for the first time subject
ed to the temptations of city life. He
thought the general public of the city
hoped the council would not reinstate
the license If the license should be
reinstated the disciplinary effect of its
revocation would be utterly destroyed.
The applicant for the license promised
that the management would be good in
the future. Such promises were easily
made and as easily broken. If the IL
cense should be reinstated there would
be no more incentive to act rightly and
lawfully than there had been before.
The community would uphold the mayor
in the step he had taken. The men who
conducted saloons in a peaceful and or
derby manner had rights that should be
respected. It was not just to these
men that the license deservedly forfeited
should be reinstated.
The council now took a vote on the
motion of Alderman Coy for postpone
ment of the whole matter and it was
carried without division.
City Attorney Reports.
City Attorney Daley reported con-
versation he had recently had with Land
Commissioner Woodman, representing
the Omaha Railway company, in regard
to the proposed purchase of the Omaha
property on North Fourth street for a
park. Mr.. Woodman had stated that
the company was willing to sell to the
city for 81 900 the two half blocks lying
just south of the city's property. The
half block belonging to the city the COM
pany did not want in its entirety but
would like to buy the northern half of
the same. On the tract that the company
desires to purchase from the city the
company plans to lease out premises to
the Standard Lumber company and to
Fowler & Pay, on the east and west sides
of the track respectively.
The council did not take kindly to
the idea of selling the northerly half of
what the city held. 'Iet them keep
what they have and we will keep what
we have" was the general sentiment. DR..
Hielscher thought it unwise for the city
to sell the northerly half of the block
as a valuable sand well was located there
that might some day be worth a great
deal of money to the city. Alderman
Kleinschmidt and Schroeder expressed
themselves in the same way. No action
was taken.
The council quickly passed under sus-
pension of the rules an ordinance intro
duced by the city attorney requiring