Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-29
COUNCIL REFUSES
TO CHANGE VOICE
Turner Hall Proprietor Is Re-
jected When He Asks for
License Back Again.
MAKES A STRONG APPEAL
Mayor Refutes Assertions Made in All
of the Pleas and Commits
sion Turns Deaf Ear.

When Charles kohn, proprietor or
the Turner Hall saloon, 1922 Third
avenue, whose license Monday was
suspended for ten days by the city
commissioners, appealed to the coun-
Gil yesterday stating that he had only
been serving breakfast in the saloon on.
Sunday. Mayor Schriver responded
that the place would soon become quite
popular for Sunday morning breakfasts
II such was the case.
The council refused to shange its
action of the day before, not, however,
without a strong appeal having been
made by Mr.. Kohn, and also ]. J. Tax
man, local agent for brewing COM
pany which does business with Mr..
Kohn.
When the August DeGuytenar case
was settled by the council and the pro-
prietor was allowed to go after he re-
ceived a good warning as to what was
expected of him in the future, Mr..
Kohn appealed to the council to grant
him back his license. He said that he
did not sell any beer in his place and
that he did not know 1t was against
the law to treat friends in the place.
He asked for another chance.
81 gave you fair warning when you
took that place several months ago."
said the mayor to Mr.. Kohn. 81 ex-
planned the laws to you and told you
that both of your predecessors had
been fined for disobeying the laws"
81 was only serving breakfast in
there responded the owner.
'If that is the case, your place would
soon become quite a popular one for
Sunday morning breakfasts, with a
beer thrown in with the meal was
the mayors response.
J. ]. Taxman. agent in this city for
a brewing company which does bust
ness with Mr.. Kohn, also appealed to
the council to rescind it's action of the
day before. He explained that he had
known Mr.. Kohn in Davenport and
that he had always been a law-abiding
citizen while in that place. He stated
that it was the ignorance of the law
which caused Mr.. Kohn to do as he
had done Sunday and stated that the
proprietor had told him that he had
only been serving breakfast in the
place.
The mayor answered: You and /
know and we all know that there
were IlSll anu Oub Va
that saloon Sunday. And they didn't
go in to get breakfast either, because
they are all men of families and have
their breakfast provided for them at
home
Explains Cost.
Mr.. Taxman then explained what
it meant to Mr.. Kohn to have all his
food-stuffs on hand going to waste and
then referred again to the proprietor's
ignorance of the law in the matter.
There is nothing to that plea of
not understanding the laws" respond
ed the mayor. 81 had a particular I'M
Outstanding with him at the time"
Commissioner Hart said: 81 am not
in favor of returning his license TO
him now. We can't take action one
day and then the next day turn around
and change it. If we did that, people
would think that we did not know our
own minds"
The council ordered voucher drawn !
for A. E. Lord for S223.30 for laying |
of sidewalks.
Mr. De Guytenar, who with Cyril |
Octers, conduct a saloon at the corner
of Seventh avenue and Seventh street, |
explained to the council in answer to |
charges preferred by Wallace Treich-
Ter, city engineer, that the two men who
went into his saloon Sunday morning |
with suit cases only secured their car
rier pigeons, which had completed the
flight from Pittsburgh to Rock Is
land Friday.
AS Mr.. Treichler could not state ex-
actiy what was in the suit cases the
matter was dropped, not without CIV
ing the proprietor a warning as to
what was expected Of him in the
future.