The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-06
DANCE LID FAILS TO LIFT
council Refuses to Pass Ordinance
Providing for Switch to Standard Oil
Ordinance for Spur Railway
on East Market Street Is Passed.

under the management OF park com
mission as at the meeting of the com
mon council held. on Monday evening
the aldermen by a unanimous vote
passed the ordinance proposed by Al
derman Marlatt providing for park
commission for the city. The ordi-
nance provides that a commission of
five members shall be named by the
mayor within the next ten days and
this commission will have full charge
of all the public grounds in the city.
1t will also have wide powers in re-
gard to fixing sidewalk grades and it
is expected that the new board will
do much to aid the council in avoid
ing leng and tedious fights over grades
for such walks. Mayor Head will
name the members of the new board
SO that they may be approved by the
council at its next meeting and it is
certain that they will be men who will
take a great interest in the parks and
grounds Of the city The naming Of
the commission will in long measure
do away with many of the abuses of
the past and il is expected that the
commission will bring an intelligent
management Of parks and other public
grounds. The fight to secure park
commission for the city was started
more than four years ago, but ordi-
nanees proposed along this line have
been laid over from time to time. The
ordinance passed on Monday evening
Is declared by experts to be one of
the best ordinances ever proposed in
tho state.
The new board will have wide pow
ers for management, but these powers
viii be of an advisory nature and the
board is not permitted to expend the
funds OF the city without the consent
of the common council.
Efforts to tilt the lid in Kenosha
and secure the re-opening Of the Sun
day dances by appeal to the council
failed and the council by unanimous
vote decided to uphold the stand TAX
en- by Mayor Dan o. Head in holding
that Sunday dances could not be held.
The petition came from the owner
and manager of Schend S Park on
Milwaukee avenue and it declared that
it was the plan of many fraternal and
church societies to have picnics at the
park if the council gave permission.
The aldermen held that they did not
desire to interfere with the picnics so
long as there was no dancing, but the
mayor s action in declining to allow
Sunday dancing at these parks was
upheld
Milwaukee avenue property owners
sent a petition to the. council demand
ing the enactment of "a new ordinance
to govern the running of the cars of
the Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha
line into the city and demanding that
in return for the privilege Of coming
into the city the company be forced
to build the new bridge at Main street
and provide for its operation by an
electric device; also that the company
agree to stop all cars for the entrance
or leaving of passengers at every
corner on Milwaukee avenue and
North Main street. The petition was
referred to special committee com
posed of Aldermen Stemm, Werner
and City Attorney Slater and they
will take the matter up with the of
fcials of the company and report at
the next meeting of the council.
Pending this report the council de-
clinedeto take any action to order re-
pairs on the Main street bridge.
Ridge street will probably not be
paved this year as the petition of the
property owners sent to the council a
month ago did not have the required
frontage and at the meeting on Mon
day evening there was remonstrance
against the work being done this wear
The street assessment committee took
the remonstrance and will 60 further
into the matter.
The council ordered the street as
sessment committee to advertise for
the paving of Park Row from Park
to Ashland avenue and an effort will
be made to have this work completed
before the end of the summer.
The quarterly report of the water
department showed profits Of close
to $4,000.
The council refused to take any ac-
ton to contend in court to sustain
the action of a former council in trans
ferring the saloon license Of Joseph
Dosemagen and if the case is to be
contested the present owner Of the IL
eense will have to do his own fighting.
Inc city attorney will simply ignore
the matter as he held at the time Of
sne transfer Of tI-e license that the