The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-27

thought it a suita bic ordinance for his
constituents. Attorney Slater had a
few words to say, and Alderman
I O'Brien offered few words in his own
defense and the incident was at an
end.
i Alderman Alleman, who is usually
a week ahead of the other mem bers of
/ the Council, had communicated with
Mr.. Frost, and while Frost had not
consented to eliminate the double
track, he had written back that he
would be willing to take up the matter
with the City Council, and Alderman
A1leman suggested that this coarse
be taken On the motion of one OF
the Aldermen, Mr.. Frost was asked to
/ come to Kenosha on Thursday and
meet the Council as committee OF
4 the whole to go over the situation.
The electric fans had Just been
stopped and it looked as if the Coun.
Gil would reach an adjournment with.
out further excitement, when the
woman incident came up, and it came
near eclipsing the interest in the for.
mer battle of epithets.
Mrs. Louise Adamson Warren, of
Chicago, little slip Of woman, was
the heroine of this episode, and she
certainly showed remark a BILE fortitude
for one of the fair sex. The gallantry
of the members of the Council and the
members of the lobby was several
times called to test and it bent to
the straining point, but it strained
hard. Mrs. Warren is opposing the
paving of Market street west of the
railway tracks, and while her name
does not appear as taxpayer in the
city, she certainly put up fight that
would put a lot of men to shame. In
the long argument which attended
the fight made by Mrs. Warren the
various factions on the street charged
each other with misrepres
but Mrs. Warren had a petition there
that She wanted to have verified by
the Council, and Notwithstanding the
talking, which at times was Of a most
acrimonious sort, she always came
back to the same proposition of her
petition. The little woman kept
fighting.
There were some decided comedy
stunts and one of them came when
former Alderman Scholey, the leader
of the Democracy attempted to show
the young woman the error of her
way and at that time she insisted that
she had never had the honor of being
introduced to the leader of Democracy.
The Mayor graciously performed this
rather unnecessary social function
and then Mrs. Warren and Mr.. Scho1ey
engaged in bitter debate. Mrs. War
rem declared that Scholey had no
right to sign for paving on behalf of
the Fortune Brothers Brewing COM
pany and at this time the former
alderman forgot his gallantry and
remembering the time he had known
the fair speaker as a child he said,
oWhy bless your little heart when
you get back to your home in Chicago
tomorrow just drop over to the
brewery and see if / have not the
right TO act for the company. Mrs.
Council and with this Scholey re-
tired but the fight was taken up by
other property owners on the street.
Several times Mrs. Warren began to
read the names on her petition but
she would only get short distance
when she would be stopped. The
/ whole thing was like the plot of a
play and it could we'll be entitled
''How she saved the farm The last
act of the rural drama is still to
come as the Council took no action on
the Market street paving proposition
and it was referred back to the street
assessment committee for further in
vestigation. However, it is certain
that Mrs. Warren will camp on the
trail of The aldermen until such a
time as the matter is adjusted and un-
! til the Council decides to receive her
| petition.
These two episodes we're enough
for any Council meeting but there
was still another and that was IN con-
nection with the debate on the ordi-
nance to limit the number of saloons.
Attorney James Cavanagh came to
speak in behalf of a client whom he
did not name and he spoke especially
on the new state law declaring that it
would cover all the points of the pro-
posed ordinance with the exception
that it would limit the number of
saloons to one in two hundred and
fifty people and not one in five hum
dred. He declared that the new law
would also have an effect on the roll
of saloonkeepers and sarcastica1ly
remarked that the clerk would be
able to read the names of the saloon
men if the law we're enforced as
| it would eliminate from the list
| the foreigners who were not
American citizens. He declared that
| if the Council would pay more atten-
ton to the character of the men to
whom they we're granting licenses
without being so solicitious for the
number of saloons, it would be far
better for the saloon business or for