The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-20
Not . Single kenosha Saloon Ex
pected to Go Out Of Business
With Opening Of New Year
BREWERlEsSEEKPR0TECTI0N
Want to Keep Licenses In Operation So
That New Law Limiting Number
of Saloons Will Not Injure
Their Business

City Clerk Harrington is being kept
busy collecting the applications for
saloon licenses which are to be acted
on at the next meeting of the Common
Council and up to noon today more
than fifty applications have been re-
ceived. Notices that licenses will ex.
pire on July 1st have been sent to
ninety.one salooukeep ars and it is
not thought that single saloon will
be dropped from the list this year. On
account of the fact that the Council
plans to pass law limiting the mum.
Der Of licenses now in use all are
being renewed. Some of the sa.
loon men admit that they have
been doing business at a loss but
the managers of some of the
breweries insist that these licenses
must be kept operative. It is expected
that the Council will pass the ordin.
ance limiting the number of saloons
to one for each FIVE hundred people
on next Monday night and after that
ordinance becomes law it will be i'm
possible for the Council to issue an
other license for several years.
While many of the saloon men Oh
the city are IN favor of the passage Ct
the ordinance, it is known that it is
meeting with opposition by some Of
the smaller breweries of Chicago and
Milwaukee, the managers of which
hope to keep Kenosha an open city
for the saloon men. The breweries
have secured many valuable pieces OF
property in Kenosha during the last
few years, which is being held fol-
saloon purposes, and should the linn.
ting ordinance be passed it would be
hard matter for the breweries to get
their money out of this property,
! Tvs have been passed limiting the
number of saloons in Chicago and
Milwaukee, and as the larger brewer
les have gobbled up all Of the avail
able saloons in the larger cities, the
smaller breweries, many of them out
side of the American Brewers Associ.
alton, have been forced to open sa
looms in the smaller towns in order tt
sell their product. To these men it is
a life and death fight, and if saloons
can not be opened in the smaller cities
they will be forced to close out their
business.
The managers of the breweries
seem to have great faith in the city OF
Kenosha and its future. In the past
year the growth in the number Of
saloons in the city has passed all for
mer records, and in the last two
months nearly score of saloons have
been licensed. Some of these licen.
ses are for buildings not yet under
construction, while many of them
were taken out far in advance SO tina,
the saloons could be opened before
the law went into effect.
1t is certain that the revenue to the
city from the saloon licenses for the
present year will be pretty close to
$50, 900, and it is just as certain tina,
If the growth of the city continues
the amount from licenses will not be.
| come less in the next ten years.
Every man who can rake together
$500 or who can borrow it from the
brewery, is getting ready to pay his
license SO that he will have an asset
for coming years. The licenses fol
the new year will be granted at
special meeting to be held during the
| last week of June.