The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-10
Brewery Agents Must Pay Double
License If They Continue in
Retail Business in City
OLD ORDINANCE is ATTACKED
Council Spends Most of It's Time at Meet
ing Discussing Saloon Matters
Big Tract of Land Seeks
Annexation

gage in retail as well as whole
sale business, must pay double IL
cense to the city, for at the regular
meeting of the Common Council Mon
day night Attorney John c. Slater
sent an opinion to the city in which
he declared that in accordance with
his reading Of the law it was itnpossi-
BILE for man to peddle beer about the
city and at the same time sell II over
the bar in retail saloon withc at first
taking out two licenses. The opin.
ion of the attorney was given after a
rigid investigation of the law and
after consultation with the attorney
general of the state and his staff and
the opinion of Mr.. Slater comedies
with that of the state legal depart
ment. Under the ruling of.the attor-
ney the city will demand that the Ii
censes due from dozen brewery
agents be paid at once. It is possible
that some of them will decide to make
contest on the question in:sorder to
secure decision from the Supreme
Court of the state, but most of the
brewery agents have stated that they
would pay up and end the contest in
that manner. The action will result
in large amount of increase in the
moneys annually collected for IL
censes. AS to the collection of the
back licenses due from the brewery
agents nothing has been done but it
is possible that the city will insist on
the payment of these back licenses.
If such should be the fact the city
would have a large sum of money
coming from the breweries and their
agents.
Much of the time Of the City Coun-
Gil was given over to saloon business
Nick Krisor, who has been operating
a saloon in barn on Grant street, is
making a determined effort to get his
license transferred to 772 Milwaukee
avenue, Notwithstanding the fact that
many property owners on that street
are opposed to the opening of a saloon
at that place. Krisor was represented
at the Council last night by 2. B.
Bri11ow, Of Chicago, gentleman Of
decided "Choiman" accent, and he
told the Council few things about
its own ordinances. He declared that
the ordinance allowing theHproperty;
ownersgthe right to decide in regard
to the location of saloon passed by.
the Council in 1897 was null and void,
and that the Council would have no,
power>to limit saloon district save.
where the people had acted under. the
Baker law and declared for a pro-
hibition district. Mr.. Brillow talked
for an5hour and he had great deal TO
say on the Baker law and other laws
in Wisconsin, but his clog uence was
not sufficiently convincing to force
the City Council to transfer Krisor's
license to the other number, and not
withstanding the fact that Krisor
claims that he cannot get a new
lease Of the barn and that the ele=
ments have made it impossible to use
the place for saloon he will have to
struggle along in it for some time yet.
Alderman Wade, who seems to be the
guardian of the saloon interests in
the Council, moved that the license be
transferred, but the motion was lost
for lack of a second and Alderman
Stevens, who is one of the aldermen of
the ward in which the place is TO be
located, moved that the matter be re=;
ferred to the committee on license.
This motion prevailed. The property
owners about the proposed new site
have expressed their wishes to the
Council in no uncertain way and il is
thought that Krisor will continue to
tend bar in the barn or give up his
license.
John A. Ki1leen wants to break over
the traces of the new sidewalk ordi-
nance and he asked the Council to
grant him the right to lay four foot
walk in front of his property on Con-
gress street. The Council referred
the matter to the committee on streets
and alleys.
Alderman A1leman, of the Fourth
ward, raised a decided kick on the
condition Of some of the streets in
the western part of the city, and as a
result of his kick the street-~con-
missioner on that side of the city was
directed to repair these streets at once
and put them into condition so that
they would be passable.
/ Petitions were received asking that
a large portion of the land owned by
the Kenosha Realty Company and L.
D. Graves in the town of Pleasant
Prairie be annexed to the city and the
matter will take the usual course.
The finance committee was given
further time to report on the plan
to issue bonds for the erection Of new
school building in the city and re-
port, probably favorable to the issue,
will be sent to the Council at its next
meeting. The bills presented by the
street commissioners were interesting.
They showed that in the last two
weeks $422.4 Al had been spent on the
south side, $253.76 on the north side
while the west side got off with SILL
| IS, IF this is to be taken as a sample