The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-06-29
REFUSE TO TRANSFER PERMIT
Council Holds that License for Main
Strset Place Shall Remain Where
It is-No More Property in the Sa-
loon District.

The city council laid down some new
rules for the government of saloons
IN Kenosha at the meeting on Monday
night and after the first of August
there will be no men in charge of
saloons in Kenosha who are not full
citizens. The council took this action
on the recommendation of the license
committee and the owners of the new
saloon licenses were given thirty days
in which to get rid of Objectionable
and illegal managers of saloons. The
council went further and the city at
torney was instructed to draft reso-
luton providing that in future years
but one license can be issued to any
individual or brewing company and
after that time the man who is to
operate the saloon must make apph-
cation in person for the license. The
city has met with a lot of trouble in
this manner. Brewery agents have
taken from one to five licenses and
after the licenses were secured aliens
and men not residents of the state
have been put in to Operate" the
places. Over these men the city could
not enforce any supervision and it was
difficult matter to tell just where
and how the license was held. It is
believed that the new rule will go a
long way toward eliminating objec-
tionable people from the saloon bust
ness. At the present time nine of the
licensed saloons in the city are man
aged by men not citizens and the coun-
Gil gave these men thirty days in
which to secure sale of their prop
erty. If at the end of this time these
men are still in business the council
will revoke the licenses under which
the places are being operated.
The meeting of the council was
given over to the question of saloon
licenses. The big fight came in regard
to the license in the building on Main
street now occupied by the Kappus
restaurant. It was claimed by Joseph
FL. Dosemagen and he asked that it be,
transferred to 541 Grand avenue.
There were all sorts of legal opinions
presented to the council in regard to
the possibility of the transfer of the
license and the matter finally came up
on a petition from Gottfredsen and
Nicoll, the owners of the building who
asked that the license be not trans
ferred holding that they had not re-
fused to rent the building for saloon
purposes. The debate on che matter
between the attorneys and members
of the council became accrimonious
and at some times personal but when
a vote was reached the council re-
fused to transfer the license by q
vote of nine to four. Later on the
license committee made it's report and
licenses were recommended for all but
three dealers now in business. The
report was adopted and later in the
evening the other three men were
granted licenses it being understood
that the places were to be kept under
the strict supervision of the license
committee and that any breach of the
law or the regulations should result in
prompt revocation Of the licenses.
The council was in no mood for the
extension of the saloon license districts
of the city and the petition to bring
the northwest corner of Pearl and |
Brockett street into the districts was
killed even after the committee had
reported in favor of it. Just how the |
promoters Of this saloon had figured |
out to get license was not shown, |
but the emphatic vote by which the
favorable report Of the committee was
laid upon the table shows that the I
members Of the council are not going
to make any immediate extensions of
The saloon districts.
The council depressed from saloon
matters long enough to take up the
matter of the inspection of the trunk
sewer Inspector Hoban was named