The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-01
THOUSANDS THRONG STREETS
Twenty Thousand People Crowd Down
Town Districts and Have Part in Fun
on Old Main Street-Men and Women
Mingle in Mad Search For Sport.

why I've had a wonderful time. =
Way back in the middle ages some
old gink who had more than local
reputation in his home town for roister-
ing decided to put it all down in black
and white and he wrote his expert
fences and called it A Thousand and
One Nights. = The same old gink just
literary turned over in his grave last
night and shouting "Kenosha IS got
something on me' he got up and took
his old quill pen in hand and started
in to write another edition. This time
he is going to call it the "Thousand
and Two and the Kenosha night is to
be the new chapter,
It is going to take some experience
ed roisterer to write the story of the
Thousand and Second great night that
the world has known. Never in the
days of Kenosha or even in the days
of Old Southport, not in the eighty
years that people have, been living
along the shores of the Pike did they
have such time. 1t was real car
nival from every point of view and as
the hours of the evening wore along
digniied Kenosha forgot itself and
mingled in the sport in such a manner
as to make the night one that will be
remembered as long as the youngest
resident sticks around here. Nobody
seems to know where all the people
came from.
The word had been passed about on
the program that the "Fun on Old
Main street, would start along about
nine o'clock and it had been limited
that the lid was off for one glorious
night. It looked like every one in
Kenosha was on the street some time
during the night. Even the Racine
men who thronged the street declared
that there must have been from twenty
five to thirty thousand people right
down in the Main street district. It
was to have been fun on old Main
street but the fun was so contagious
that it spread to the side streets and
even Topped off into some Of the resi-
dence districts. Everything known to
the carnival crowds with the excep-
tion of the small confetti was in evi-
dence. They started going just as the
clock hit the first stroke of nine and
they kept at it until after the clock
had struck three this morning and then
some of them were kicking because
there were no more crowds to conquer.
Men and women, some of them dating
their history back to the days when
the city charter was written, boys and
girls and babies in arms were in the
crowd that made merry. One woman
carried a baby over one shoulder and
balloon over the other and kept her
hand free enough to use "tickler.'
Another paraded down the middle of
the street in the middle Of group of
men and if it was possible she was
livelier than her male companions
The sidewalks after nine O'Clock were
an awful bad place for Crouch. y
Tt started in rather mildly. There
were parades Of gayly decked men and
women down the middle Of the street.
Then they added the horns and the COW
bells as an accompaniment, then they
got the long ribbon streamers and the
umbrellas, then they got something
else and every fifteen minutes during
the night and early morning some ex-
pert in the development of noise and
noise more abundantly thought of some
other stunt to put on and the money
flowed in golden stream into the cof-
fers of the men who had an idea how
these stunts should be put on. There
were the Charley Chaplin hats and the
false mustaches and many man was
tickled by his own son and didn It
know him.
There were bands Of marching men
and women who paraded the street
making a din that was deafening.
Street cars gave up the fight against
the crowd early and only one or two
were able to slip through at time.
The police forgot lot of things that
were being done, but stood firmly to the
order Don It get too rough and
when some over jealous roisterer start
ed to injure people he was taken by the
scuff of the neck and given little of
his own treatment Then they had a
sort of a kangaroo Court of their
own where the celebrators sat in iu-
dicial mood and picked out the
rough ones. They administered their
own punishments and in many ways
these punishments We're grotesque and
unusual. The crowd seemed to appre-
ciate that it was their night and their
privilege to make it right kind of
a night. There were some real feat
ures to this carnival night. Some peo-
PIE had planned for it with a great
deal of care. They wore masquerade
suits and wore them we'll They were
looking for trouble, but not for too
much trouble. They we're wiling to