The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-07-23
City Council Decides on Passage
Of q General Building 0rdi.
nance for the City
SALOON LOSES IN NEW FIGHT
Effort is Made to Get License for An
other Saloon on Rowland Avenue
but Council Says "No''-Park
Commission Ordinance in

| Kenosha is to have building ordi-
nance and a public building inspector
as the matter of safeguarding the lives
Of workmen and contractors was talk
en- up by the Common Council last night
and the members Of the Council were
unanimous in the belief that the city
should line up with other cities Of its
class and provide proper protection
along these lines. The matter was laid
before the Council by Mayor Scholey
who referred TO the recent fatal acct
dent at the Dunnebacke building and
urged that the city take immediate
steps to- pass an ordinance which would
make the repetition Of such an accident
impossible. He urged that building
ordinance be enacted which would pro
vide for the proper inspection Of all
buildings erected in the city and which
would insure the proper building Of
the structures and the proper work in
the installation of electric and gas
lighting, plumbing and sewerage. In
order to- get the matter before the Coun-
Gil the work of drawing an ordinance
to effect the changes desired was left
in the hands of a special committee
consisting Of Aldermen Tully, Pirsch
and Marlatt and this committee will
work with the city attorney and the
chief Of the fire department and lay
the ordinance before the Council at an
early date.
The Council received the ordinance
providing for the appointment of a
Park Commission and it was given its
! first reading. The provisions of the
ordinance which were given in the
News on Monday evening seem to meet
with the approval of many Of the mem
bers of the Council and it is thought
that the plans suggested by the ordi-
nance will be adopted by the Council.
I In the meantime several important
matters in regard to changes in grades
and sidewalk lines have been left open
and it is expected that the new Park,
Commissioners il appointed will have
business enough waiting for them to
keep them busy for several weeks.
| The organization Of Commissions
seems to be the order of the day with
the Council and communication from
Health Officer DR.. J. B. Spalding asks
that the Council take some action to
name a health commission. He sug-
gested that the Commission be compos-
ed of the chief of police, the chief of
the fire department., the mayor, the
city attorney and the health officer.
The Commission as formed along the
lines proposed by the health commits
sioner would have wide powers and the
/ Council decided to refer the matter to
a committee to act with the city attor-
ney. The mayor appointed on this com
mittee Aldermen Pirsch, John Wade
and Mayer.
!! The old question of the two per cent
| tax on insurance premiums was brought
|up by the volunteer department who
asked that the Council take some action
/ to have this fund turned over to the
volunteers rather than to the paid de-
partment. The Council evidently did
not care to enter into this old fight and
the matter was referred to- the commit
tee on judiciary with orders to report
at the next regular meeting of the
| Council.
The Rowland avenue saloon PROPOSE
ton which seems to have a hard time
dying got another blow below the belt
with the meeting last night as the old
question of granting license for a
site just off Market street came up
again and was killed by a decisive
vote of to 6. This time the applica-
ton was made by Amechi and Lamaccia
and the site Of the proposed saloon was
just over the way from the ones which
had been denied a right to 90 into
business at the former meeting of the
/ Council Alderman O'Brien who had
conducted the fight against the saloons
! on Rowland avenue was not present in
the Council, but his presence was I'M
necessary as majority of the other
linen had evidently come to the con
demands of the property owners and
there was no chance for the license be-
ing granted. There was short dis
cussion Of the matter in which the
mayor took prominent part, but when
it came to-a, vote to grant the licenses
the motion was defeated The roll cali
showed the following against the sa-
/ loon! Aldermen Timme, Marlatt, Hig-
ley, simons, Swift, Disch, Schultz and
Willems, while Aldermen Thomassen,
Schend, Pirsch, George and John Wade
were for it.
| The mayor had put himself on
record in previous roll call as being
in favor of the granting Of the licenses,
but the proposition was too badly beat
en- to give him a chance to vote on
| the final disposition Of the matter.
| The Council spent a long time dis
cussing grades and there were petitions
| for changes in sidewalk grades on
North Oak street, Lake avenue and
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