The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-29
LICENSE FIGHT WAKES WARM
License Denied Several Places and Com
mittee Is Sustained on All Recon-
mendations Save One Extra Nail
Into Park and Church CT. Corner.

The city council had an educational
session on Monday night. The alder
men learned such terms as "straights
and flushes,'' "hold 'em till they re
dead, " schmearing the game, and
they learned that there were red and
white and blue chips and that these
aforesaid chips could be used for other
purposes besides playing the great
American game. They learned that
there was gambling in lot of places in
Kenosha and they voted after a consid-
cradle discussion that the fact that a
man ran schmear" game once in
while was not a good reason to deny
him license as keeper of a saloon.
This liberal education along lines where
Hoyle' is the text book came IN
connection with the granting of a sa-
loon license to Aleck Ritter for he
place on Market street just off Main
street The committee recommended
that this license be granted to NJ j.
Rosing on account of the fact that Rit-
ter had permitted the schmear game
to flourish in the corner of the back
room of the building. Ritter appeared
in person. He admitted with no show
of reluctance that the game had been
going on and he told the members of
the aldermen that after looking in on
lot of his competitors he had sort of
been Of the opinion that the card cable
and the red and white and blue chips
were a sort of regular furniture for a
place in Kenosha which had city
license hanging up behind the mahog
any. In fact, Ritter was decidedly
frank. He declared that if he had been
guilt Of erring it had been on account
of his lack of knowledge of the rules
of the game. He asserted that if he
was granted new license he would be
willing to discard the Objectionable fur
niture. He also asserted that the main
cause of the fight on him on the part
of the brewery which controlled the
place was due to the fact that he had
indicated willingness to allow Pabst,
Schlitz, Klinkert and even Annhauser
Busch to meet on equal terms when
things were passed over the bar. So
much pep was put into the defense of
Ritter and he was so frank in his state
ment TO the council that Rosing never
had look in. The council voted IA to
4 to grant the license to Ritter and to
give him a chance to blaze the way for
of 1oon KoOocbo IN
which the card table and the multi-col-
ored chips should have no part. Ritter
admitted that it would be something of
an experiment but he declared his will
lingness to stick it out.
The license committee was sustained
in every other recommendation that it
brought to the council. An effort was
made to revive the license Of Edelweis
Park but it was voted down by The
unanimous vote of the council.
A reconsideration of the action of
the council of a week ago in denying a
license for the saloon at the corner of
Church and Park streets was urged out
it failed to make any Roadway and with
view of putting an added nail in the
coffin of this place the council passed
a resolution declaring that no license
be issued for the building in question
by the present council.
On tn recommendation of the, com
mittee l.. S. Kimball was given the
license for the saloon at the corner of
Lester and Newell streets which has
been operated by Michael Kolowski,
Anton Mica was given the contested
license for No. 433 Middle street, the
council refused by very large ma
iority to grant license to John Neu-
bauer for the place up on the North
west limits of the city, Clarence Stew
ems who has been conducting the
Northwestern Hotel on West Main
street w as refused license and the
license for the place given to J. E.
Riley. The committee gave out some
facts in this case indicating that the re-
fusal of the license to Stevens had been
due to the fact that the place had not
been properly conducted.
Some of the recommendations of the
committee were opposed with consider
able bitterness. Members Of the coun
Gil asserted that they knew of violations
of the law in certain saloons in Ke-
nosha which had escaped the notice
of the committee and these members
were instructed to lay their evidence be-
fore the committee at once and they
were given assurance that there would
be either a stop in the violations or
that petition would be brought before
the council asking for revocation OF |
licenses. 1t is not expected that there
will be any great rush to present the |
evidence.