The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-28

Is the lid to be tilted to provide for
a noisy and wet welcome of the new
year on Sunday night in Kenosha8
The universal answer to this question
from Kenosha oficialdom is cit can t
be done" This seems to be something
Of a final answer and the officials are
an ready to admit that they have
thought the matter over even though
they have not received any request
from saloon men and cafe proprietors
to tilt the lid.
eff it were any night except Sunday
night, said Mayor Pfennig this morn
ing, there might be some reason to
follow custom and allow little license
and liberty in connection with the
closing of the saloons, On Sunday
night it does not appear to me that
there is any way under the state law
and the existing regulations to permit
the toasting Of the year with liquors
purchased over the bar. Of course we
have no objections to men and women
if they want to laying in any supply
they see fit. / have not crossed this
bridge yet because / have not come to
it and I had been of the opinion that
4Aasa would be no request for an open
saloon on the night before New Year $
Day in Kenosha. No, | have not been
bombarded by the ministers or any one
else III this matter. / have just taken
it for granted that saloon men would
see the improperly of revelry as must
follow open saloons on the night before
New Years on a Sunday evening"
- don e see any reason for keeping
the saloons open next Sunday any more
than any other Sunday night, said
Chief of Police O'Hare 81 am going
to talk the matter over with the mayor
and the commissioners but in the alb
sence Of some direct orders from some
one who has more authority than
have the regulations are in force and
will remain in force.
One of the police commissioners in
discussing the matter said, "We have
insisted that the police enforce saloon
regulations in Kenosha. The license
committee of the council has gone so
far as to employ fy-cop to hunt up
violators of the law and the regulations
and it would not look good for the po-
lice and fire commission to even sug-
gest that the officials wink at viola
tions of the law. Sunday, December
81, is just the same as any other Sun
day in the year and so far as I am
concerned the saloons will close at the
usual hours. +"
Several officials intimated that any
effort to turn some of the clubs into
places of revelry would meet with the
frown of the police department and
the officials. This was a new sugges-
tion for Kenosha and it is understood
that the clubs will all obey regulations
just the same as anyone else-unless
some lid fitting order is sent out later.
With the prospect of spring water
as the beverage to pledge the toast to
the new year, restaurant men and men
In similar business are not looking for
ward to any big night on Sunday.
There has been no rush to reserve ia
bles in these places and no rush is ex-
peeted The cook will be on the Job
most Of the night and if any of the
celebrators of the coming of the new
year want to eat, they can eat. If
they want to drink, they can drink
water-that is unless some order is
given out later and the prospects of
such an order do not seem rosy now.
Some of the men in charge of this
class of business houses in Kenosha are
insisting that there is going to be an
open saloon in Milwaukee on Sunday
night. The ofiials have answered that
regulation in Kenosha and in Milwau-
kee is along other lines.