The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-07-02
JACOBSEN WINS HIS FIGHT
License of johnson Saloon and Edel-
weis Park Still Held in Reserve by
Council and Sensational Protest Is
Presented by Property Owners.

Charles Christensen and the Hotel
Jacobs were weighed in the balance by
the common council at the adjourned
meeting on Tuesday evening and found
wanting and after spectacular fight
featured by a display of oratory sell
dom equalled on the floor of the coun-
ell, the Hotel Jacobs was refused a
renewal Of license in the name of
Christensen by the council by vote
of twelve to six.
Following the refusal of the council
to grant the license attorneys who APP
peared for Christensen, made a plea
that he be given permit to keep the
place open until such a time as he
could negotiate sale and this matter
was referred to the committee on IL
cense with power to act. 1t is under
stood that the place will remain clos
ed until the council has granted a Ii
cense to some other party.
The action on the Christensen place
brought the big fight against the re
ports of the license committee. The
committee had declared in its report
that the council should not grant the
license, holding that Christensen had
shown by past actions that he was
not entitled to license. Christensen Is
attorney appeared and made long
argument in favor of the hotel and its
Keeper. He mode q strong presenta.
tion of the arguments which Carsten-
sen had put up to the committee.
There were just two retorts to the ar
gument of the attorney. These were
made by Aldermen Shearer and Kisten
and in these arguments the members
of the license committee declared that
the Christensen place had been a
menace to the young girls of the city.
When the vote was taken Christensen
lost The vote was On the acceptance
of the report of the committee which
provided for the refusing of the Ii.
cense. Lined up with the committee
for the report were Aldermen Sulli-
van, Rowe, Shearer, Tully, Anderson,
Mueller, Kisten, Willems, Batrh, Gund-
ZACH, Thomey and Bounsall. Against
the report were Roberts, Swift, Martin,
Loef, Rauen and Joachim
The decision of the council in the
Christensen case took the edge off the
remainder of the saloon license bat
ties The committee had recommended
that no licenses be granted to /.
Brandy and Joel Jacobsen and the
reason advanced by the committee in
both cases was that the men were not
planning to give their entire time to
the conducting of the saloons. In
these fights the committee met defeat
and both Jacobsen and Brandy got a
license Both of them, however, made
many promises in regard to the con-
Quoting Of the places before the al
dermen went on record as favoring
them In the Brandy case Aldermen
Rowe, Shearer, Mueller, kisten, Will
lens, Thomey and Bounsall voted
against the granting of the license
and against the Jacobsen license were
Aldermen Shearer, Mueller, Kisten,
Willems and Bounsall.
The committee reported favorably
On licenses for Jacob Giles, Harry D.
Painter, Andrew Anderson, John Con
merry, Olaf Olsen, John Kreuser and
Michael Kolowski These licenses
were all granted without discussion
The committee refused to recon-
mend the granting of license to
either W. H. Johnson or G. M. Hoppe
for the saloon at the corner of How
land avenue and Selleek avenue on ac-
count of protests that had been made
by property owners living in the neigh
borhood. The council held the report
in allegiance in order to give the mem
bers of the council further time to in
vestigate the conditions and the nature
of the place.
One Of the big fights Of the evening
was over the license for Edeweiss Park
sought in the name of Henning Ped
ersen. The most sensational remon-
STRANGE ever filed against a saloon in
Kenosha was fled against this place
and the committee recommended that
no license be granted to Petersen.
Attorney Calvin Stewart addressed the
council and spent more than half an
hour in his defense Of Petersen and
Kenosha as an open town." He
dwelt especially on the fact that the
people at the last election had declar-
ed Kenosha an open city and that as
such the council should follow the de-