The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-18
FUSS LIKE SCHOOL BOYS
Council Has Old Fashioned s'vaude-
ville'' Session and Wrangles Take Up
Much of Session on Monday Even
Ing ~ Turn Down 8-Hour Law.


threw what dignity they have to the
winds at the session on Monday evening
and for more than three hours the al
dermen fused like school boys. For the
most part the wrangling accomplished
nothing more than to furnish entertain
ment for the crowd in the lobby but
the crowd tired of it long before the
aldermen gave up the vaudevllllan
stunts and got down to business. 1t had
all the requisites for real vaudeville
show but the mayor was out OF sorts
"off his feedo as he put it and he
failed to contribute his picturesque
share to the fuss of the evening and
the other fussers were not able to keep
the thing going much after eleven
o 'clock.
The first wrangle came over the bud
get of the school board. The finance
committee brought in a report suggest
ing cut of $8,631.00 from the $143,7 31
which had been demanded by the board.
Most of the aldermen knew little as to
the real demands Of the board but they
entered into the discussion just the
same. The purchase of ''Bonny
Hame' and the maintenance Of Social
centers" was especially assailed by the
members of the council. Members of
the school board appeared and rather
tartly defended the budget holding that
the board was seeking to handle the
schools as economically as possible
and insisted that indiscriminate cut
ting of budgets without even confer
ence with the school board did not lead
to the best possible results. After the
arguments had gone along for more than
an hour the finance committee s re-
port fixing the appropriation for the
schools at $4,000 was adopted by a
vote of IL to Z The committee recon-
mended an appropriation Of $4,000 for
the continuation schools and this went
to the tax roll without discussion.
Later in the evening the council gave
the board of education permission to
loan $4,000 to the Industrial Board in
order to provide for payments for the
new building under erection with the
understanding that the amount is to be
repaid just as soon as the taxes are
collected.
Won't Have Booster Carr
The old trouble over the interurban
cars on Milwaukee Avenue came up
again when the Wisconsin Gas & Elec-
trio Company sent a communication
to the council asking for permission
to bring a special car bearing members
of the Milwaukee Merchants and
Manufacturers association into the
downtown districts. 1t was stated that
this was to be friendly visit of the
Milwaukee men to Kenosha and that for
this reason the company would like the
permit to bring them right into the
city. The aldermen held that this
might be violation of the injunction
against the company. At first the mat
ter was referred to the transportation
committee with power to act but later
it was reported ON and the permit de-
MED. There were some heated words
about something being slipped over
and the council was nearly unanimous
in opposition to even the Booster"
car coming down town.
Kick on Repaired Walks.
There was big kick made over the
fact that the city had been rebuilding
sidewalks and it was declared that in
some cases the cost of this work had
not been properly charged to property
owners. The engineer reported on the
matter holding that he had not assessed
the cost on account of the fact that he
thought the matter should go through
the hands of one of the council com
mittees. It was finally referred to
special committee consisting of Alder
men Smith, Donahue and Bounsall.
There was the usual argument in re
gard to the Lake Avenue breakwater
and an effort was made to have a
breakwater district consisting Of the en-
tire city formed with view of paying
the cost of the breakwater out of the
general funds but this was promptly
voted down. The matter was largely
sectional fight. There was lot of
heated argument over the matter before
it finally reached a vote.
The eight hour day ordinance bobbed
up serenely and just as serenely was
bobbed back into the hands of the
committee on streets and alleys and
bridges. Alderman Goodman called for
report on the proposed ordinance. He
insisted that the committee report. The
committee insisted just as vigorously
that it had no report to make. Then
an effort was made to take the pro-
posed eight hour ordinance out of the