The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-08
LICENSE FIGHT is LAID OVER
Chairman Kisten Of License Committee
Is on His Vacation and Saloons Must
Wait Two Weeks More-Jitney Regu-
$ lation Ordinance Not Ready.

The city council at it's meeting on
Tuesday evening completed the work
of paving the way for the new water
plant. BY a vote of fourteen to three
the council passed the ordinance for
the vacation Of the stub ends Of Mar
ket and Lake streets and the water
board is now free to proceed at .once
with the sale of the old water plant
and start work on the erection of the
new plant on the north side Of the city
on Washington Island. The ordinance
for vacation of the street was passed
almost without comment. Aldermen
Rowe, Joachim and Smith, who have OPP
posed the passage Of the ordinance
from the start voted against it and
Alderman Kisten was absent when the
vote was taken, but the majority in
favor of the ordinance was sufficient
without the mayor being called to cast
q vote. The water board will meet this
evening and it is probable that at this
time the board will provide for the ex-
pumping station to the Simmons Man
ufacturing Company and within a few
days the board will receive the deeds
for the land on the island which is to
be taken in exchange for the Market
street property. The board will also
receive twenty-five thousand dollars III
@as& itDyS aose- trAisfers sevory ching
will be in readiness for the starting of
work on the new intake, the filtration
plant and the new pumping station.
No further council action will be neces-
sary to complete the plans Of the
water board.
Action on the vacation ordinance was
the most important thing to come be-
fore the council Alderman Kisten,
chairman of the license committee, has
gone away for his annual vacation and
for this reason the license committee
decided to make no report an the sa-
looms seeking licenses unit the next
regular meeting When the matter
was called up by the mayor there was
no one who sought to have hearing
of it and without a division of the
council the matter Of the saloon IL
censes was laid over until the next
meeting. The only development of the
evening was the backing up Of a lot
OF the property owners who had signed
the protest against the Krisor saloon
at the north end of Milwaukee avenue.
More than half dozen of the most
prominent property owners withdrew
their names from the petition of pro-
test and it is probable that the license
will be issued at the next meeting of
the council. Had these men remained
firm in their protest it is certain that
the committee would have refused to
grant license for the saloon.
The regulation of the jitneys and the
regulation of the speed of the Chicago
and Milwaukee Electric cars also
went int othe budget for the next
meeting. The Judiciary committee was
not ready to report on either of these
big problems. Chairman Donahue
stated that the committee was waiting
until it could work out some plan for
bonding the drivers of the iitneys and
he declared his belief that such a plan
would be found by the next meeting
of the council.
The new ordinances providing for
the bond issues of 100000 for the Col
Inns street school, and 5000 for sew
er extensions were passed without a
dissenting vote among the members of
the council and the resolutions neces-
sary to provide for the immediate issue
of the bonds were also passed by
unanimous vote. The bonds will be
prepared at once and they will be sold
probably the latter part Of the month.
The council plans to put a stop to
the working of picture agents in the
city and the committee on judiciary
was instructed to prepare an ordinance
requiring license of ten dollars a day
for such people
There was petition for annexation
to the city of the Barth and Conner
mann subdivision and the matter was
referred to the judiciary committee.
This same territory was on former
occasion denied annexation.
The council had considerable dis
cussion Of the ordinance preventing
the parking of automobiles on Main
street, but it was finally decided to
delay formal action on the ordinance
until after the next regular meeting
of the council in order to give the
business men a chance to work out some
plan to get the autos off Main street.
The city attorney as directed to