Omaha daily bee., 1912-08-09
FIGHT OYER KILN ORDINANCE
Commercial and Improvement Clubs
Enter Into the Fight,
ACTION DEFERRED FOR WEEK
In the Meantime the City COmmis-
sioners VIII Convass the Situa-
tiOn to Determine the
Question.

Commercial club members and repre-
sentatives from Creighton First Addition
Improvement club joined in battle before
the city commission over the proposed
brick yard ordinance, which repeals the
ordinance prohibiting brick kilns In the
city and permits the establishment OF
such plants providing the chimneys are
built 100 feet high. The ordinance was
laid over for another week to give the
commissioners an opportunity to investi-
gate the claims Of the protestants.
w. H. Hatteroth, d. c. Patterson. Mike
Keiser, Mike Hogan and w. J. Hopes,
rerresentatng the residents, declared the
ordinance had been drafted to allow
Herman Krttenbrink of South Omaha to
establish brick yard at Thirty-sixth
and Wright streets.
President George E. Haverstick, j. H.
McCague, A. ]. Vierling, F. P. Gould and
c. W. Haller upheld the contention of the
Commercial club that the ordinance would
mean a widening of industrial activities
and ought to be passed, regardless OF the
damage to any particular locality.
Keiser Lambasts Club.
Mr.. Keiser. who Is a tailor. lambasted
the representatives of the Commercial
club for preaching and not practicing the
theory of "patronizing home industries. "
He said, for example, that his own bus!-
ness employed $50 men a few years ago.
but because the citizens insisted on send
ing east for their clothes there were now
but seventy-three men employed, being
members of the German Tailors' associ-
alton, although there Ought to be 2,Ooo.
President Haverstick Of the Commercial
club said this amendment was not fair
because It would give the brick manufac-
turers a monopoly. City Attorney Rine
ruled against a suggestion that an ordi-
nance be drafted excepting certain resi-
Dental districts. He declared the courts
would not sustain such an ordinance.
City Council Notes.
Commissioner Ryder's ordinance making
the presence of liquor and the holding OF
a federal license prima facie evidence or
intention to sell was recommended for
passage by a vote of four to three, Mayor
Dahfman, MCGoVern ana Butler VOtinB III
the negative. Dahlman declared he was
opposed to all laws looking toward fur
ther restriction of the liquor traffic.
Ryder said his ordinance was designed to
secure conviction of bootleggers, who
had no rights" but the mayor said II
was all buncombe."
An ordinance prohibiting fortune tellers
from operating in the city was laid over
for another week. Police Commissioner
Ryder, who introduced it, said he did
not desire it's passage until about the first
of the year, when the licenses of the
present fortune telers will expire.
An invitation to attend the meeting OF
the League of American municipalities
In Buffalo the middle of September was
accepted. Commissioner Ryder an
nounced his intention to attend. There
will be other representatives Of the city
in attendance.
Commissioners will investigate the ad-
visibility of employing men at the city
machine shop at the police station to re-
pair all city-owned automobiles. Men
are now employed at the expense of the
police department, but will be dismissed
II some arrangement Is not made to keen
them on salaries, these salaries to be paid
out of a fund raised from monies ap
propriated by all departments.