The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-08

The corner stone Of the new City Hall
was laid on Monday morning and with
SO great ceremonies as to make the
day one Of the greatest municipal cele-
brations in the history Of the city. With
threatening weather as a. handicap the
members Of the committee had feared
for the success of the celebration but
notwithstanding the weather the turn
out of the people of the city, the turn
out Of the representatives Of the labor
ing classes and the turnout Of the
people from the county and from sur
rounding cities was as great as to make
the gathering one of the most note
worthy ever held in Southern Wiscon-
sin. Notwithstanding the weather and
the ether attractions of the day it is
certain that no less than ten thousand
people witnessed the great parade Mon
day morning and watched the ceremon-
les attending the laying of the corner
of the splendid new municipal building.
Kenosha people showed their loyalty
TO KenOsha and despite the gathering
of the clouds the city was put in festi
val array early in the morning and
when the parade moved just after ten
o CLOCK it moved along streets hand
somely decorated with flags and ban
ners. The parade while worked UP in
less than ten days was great show
ing for the city. 1t was primarily a
labor day parade and hundreds of work
men walked behind hands of music
but in addition to this scores of mem
bers of military companies and more
than thousand of the members of
the various civic societies turned out
to help make the event notable one.
The parade moved west on Market
streets under the lead of Alderman
G. b. Stemm who acted as Grand Marsh
al Of the day, and he had as his aides
men well known to the various organiza-
tions of union labor. All along the
parade the people had decorated their
residences and the line of march was
lined with people all the way from Mar
ket Square to the North side park. JIM
the automobiles at the head of the
line were the distinguished guests of
the city including officials of Wauke-
gan and Zion City and back of them
came the officials of the City of Keno
sha. The right of the line was given
to the members of the Knights of
Pythias who turned out sixty strong in
uniform. just back of them Captain
Bert Fowler led his famous Forester
team of the Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea, and right in front Of the automo-
bilos marched Kenosha IS band of veter-
ans of the wars of the First Kaiser.
Following the automobiles came the
Carpenters Union 500 strong headed by
a band aud back of them were the brick
layers hundred strong dressed in nat
ty uniforms of white duck. Then came
the painters in the same sort of uni
form, but distinguished by the fact
that they carried red, white and blue
umbrellas Then came the Simmons en-
ployees band heading the long list of
civic societies in the parade. In this
portion of the parade marched hundreds
OF members of the Loyal Order of
Moose, the members of DANA Society.
members of the White Eagles, st. Kasi
mer's Guards, st. CASHIERS Society and
st. Joseph's Society and the Polish
Young Mems Society all of which were
headed by bands belonging to the diff
ferent organizations. Then came the
Slavic and Lithuanian societies and the
display made by these societies was one
OF the big features of the parade. Floats
representing many of the industries and
MERCANTILE companies of the city follow
ed and the Kenosha Fire Department
brought up the rear of the procession,
In the display of the fire department
was the new auto-fre wagon which
is soon to become part of the equip
ment of the central fire station. Lead.
ing the parade was the Kenosha
Brass Band and in the long line
of marching men and floats were
more than p half dozen musical organi-
cations.
When the parade reached the site
of the new building the crowd of people
which filed all the available space about
the building was estimated at from
eight to ten thousand and it certainly
was the greatest assemblage of people
seen IN Kenosha in decade. Mayor
Scholey acted as Chairman for the dav
and thanked the people for the splendid
turn out and presented Calvin Stewart,
the City Attorney, who introduced the
Hon Thomas M. Kearney of Racine as
the speaker of the day.
After the address by Mr.. Kearney,
Mr.. Stewart presented to the city a.
handsome American flag, the gift of
Joseph Lindl the architect Of the build
ing Then in short speech presented
the MayoY with 2 +rowal and +bo Movor