The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-09
The City CounciIrSp Four
Hours Discussing Saloons
and Sidewalks. |;
GRANT SALOON LICENSES
Saloon Men Show Undue Haste To
Crowd in Licenses Before Limit
ations Are Placed Dog
Catcher Under Fire \

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/ The City Council spent four hours
at the city hall Monday and most of
1.-The time gwasespent in fnssing and the
meeting more resembled "a sclothes
Ilinen fight among women than the
meeting of dignifedsebody of city
fathers. Most of the meeting was
given over TO the discussion Of saloon
licenses and sidewalks and the i'm
| portant ordinances which were before
the Council were not called mp to be
Eactedupon. There was an undercur-
rent Of anxiety among the members
of the saloon element on account Of
1.-The fact that an ordinance had been
/ broug ht@ to- the Council TO limit the
number Of saloon licenses to be issued
Fly the city, g.bnt The ordinance never
reached i.eading, fof when the mid
might hour was passed the members
Iofs the. Council were so totally worn
iSoutby the2oickerings Of the evening
that they adjourned without even
freading The work of the city Aattor ney
and it will probably be brought up at
the next meeting. The fobby at the
Council meeting was crowded with
fsaIoonkeepefs4 and people who had
kicks on the sidewalk ordinances and
when all Of these people got busy with
black cigars they furnished acondi-
ton in the council chamber which REL
called the famous declaration of Gem
Eeral Sherman in regard to war.
r The Council meeting opened with
the usual applications for saloon Ii
4censes and there was grand rush to-
get them through. Four licenses and
two transfers were granted ia short.
order and thenth Coun Gil took up the
question of extending saloon districts.
There were two ordinances for this
purpose and one5of them admitting a
piece of property at the corner of
Mid and Jay streets was passed,
but the second one struck a. snag.
This ordinance carried three pieces Of
property into the district and it was
found that one of5the pieces Of prop
erty was uncomfortably close to the
Weiskopf school, After two votes
and aoreconsideration the ordinance
was declared lost. This ordinance
broughteout all of the eloquerce5 81
the soscalled saloonf aldermen and
notwithsta ndinS the fact that they
pleaded for the saloons ia no uncer-
tain terms, the aldermen turned down
their pleas and Ave Of them h. : the
courage to vote against the ordi-
nance. Aeepetitionc signed by two
hundred business men, asking that
an ordinance be passed limiting the
humble of saloons to one for each FIVE
hundred people, was referred to the
committee on ordinances. e.
It was boat this time that the side
walk brigade got busy. There were
half dozen property owners who
wanted to build sidewalks but who
lWantedto build them in a way not
specified by the ordinance recently
passed. They came to protest to the
Council, and Attorney Slater told
them in no uncertain words that they
we're twenty minutes late" He de-
clared that before the passage Of the
ordinance Eitz had been published to
give the people a chance TO protest,
and not. a single protest was made.
The Coun Gil refused to take any &C.
ton on the present demands Of prop.
erty owners, and the walks must be
laid in accordance with the ordinance.
A new sidewalk ordinance will be
made up in time 10 be presented at
the next meeting of the Council.
Petitions were received for the paw
ing Of the alley in the block bounded
by Park and Wisconsin, Main and
Church streets, and for the macadam-
sizing Of Pomeroy street from West
Main to Crate street.. Both petitions
were referred to the street assessment
committee, and il is expected that
both jobs will be done this year. &
/ The regular report of the City
Treasurer shows that the city had a
balance in the bank on May Ind Of
$50, 1928. as
The matter of the collection Of dog
taxes came up for a long discussion at
the meeting, the matter being brought
up by Mayor gGorman who spoke with
authority when he said that the cost
of collecting the tax was more than
the tax collected. An effort was made
to dispense with the services of dog
catcher, but the dog catcher is evil
IDENTIFY political parsonage and the
proposition was voted down. Fort
unately the official receives but two
dollars day.
Captain B. G. Cameron for so many
years in charge of the Kenosha Life
Saving Station is to be honored by the
city and he was given the right to
change the name of Railway street,
SO called to Cameron Court with the
understanding that he grade the
street at his own expense.
The committee on claims reported
that the suit of Edward Neubert who
claimed damages from the city for
injuries alleged to have been received
0y falling on defective sidewalk had
been settled the city paying Neubert