The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-21
CALL CONDITIONS VERY BAD
Chairman Thomey of License Committee
Refuses to Give Out Detailed Report
at This Time But Twenty Seven
Licenses Are Held Up.

Burns operatives working in Keno
sha have laid bare the rottenness of the
city. On account of reports now in the
hands of the license committee Of the
Common Council more than score of
licenses we're not reported on by the
council on Monday evening and the
liquor dealers who have been mentioned
in the reports Of the detectives have
been instructed to appear at meeting
of the committee on Wednesday night
and show cause why they should not
be refused licenses for the coming year.
The report OF the Burns men, which
is now in the hands of the chairman
of the committee, Alderman Herbert
Thomey, is most sensational, but the
alderman has declined to give out the
contents of the report until after the
meeting on Wednesday night, 1t may
be made public at that time or it may
be withheld from publication subject
to the orders Of the Common Council.
The employment of the Burns opera
and two detectives were assigned to
the work in Kenosha~ They spent
more than three weeks and IN that
time some time WAS given to every
licensed saloon in KenOelha. 1t is de-
claFed by the~caairnan of che commit
tee that Che reports received will make
it impossible RoE any man believing In
common deeency to vote a license to
some of the men now in the saloon
business in Kenosha, Alderman Thom-
ely had the reports Of the detectives at
the meeting of the council Monday even
ing but he declined to make them public.
1t rs possible that some of the. men
who are prominently mentioned in
these reports will withdraw their APP
plications for license - said Alderman
Thomey. If they do this, we shah
not have to use the contents of the
reports unless we decide to turn them
over TO the district attorney for prose
cution. These reports show that some
Of the places working under licenses in
Kenosha have been of the lowest pos
sible nature. They have aided the
traffic in young girls and have profit
ed largely by this traffic. These places
have been the resort of gamblers and
men of the lowest characters and these
men have shared the profits of their
operations with the men who held
saloon licenses and who protected them
in their operations. We have names
of young women, some Of them mem
bers Of well known families in Keno
sha, who had. part in these debauehes
and who shared money with the saloon
men. just how much of these reports
should be made public at this time is
questionable. We feel that in some
cases prosecutions, not only of the
saloon men, but also of the women who
had part in violations of the law,
should be started. IF the council
should by any way grant licenses to
some of these men I know that mem
bers of the council will insist that THESE
men appear in court and disprove the
reports Of our operatives. These men
have not worked under the police de-
partment but under the orders of the
license committee and we have every
belief in the truth of their reports. "
The aldermen declared that many of
the men mentioned in the reports
were not aware of the fact that they
had been watched.
In all twenty-seven licenses were
held up by the committee and not all
Of this number are held UP ON account
Of the reports Of the detectives. Some
few are held up on account of legal i'm
pediments to their. being granted.
The following licenses were recon-
mended by the committee and grant
ed by the council:
Charles Ahlgrimm, Edw Harrington,
VIM Rauen, Ray Wajtkiewicz, Szelon,
ski Bros, Wlodislau Bitautas, Milo
Cubrilo, Ferd Zimmerman, Joseph
Siran, Frank Ambrose, John Mockus,
Morris Schwartz, John Madar, Frank
Hams, HOLMAN & Willems, Doom &
Smith, Pabst Brewing Company, John
Modory, Branislaw Danielewicz, Bella
Ribar, Bloxdorf & Kluender, Ed.
Brpeggmann, Joseph Eurewic, Christian
Anderson, Sam Laeonte, Adam Wisne-
ski, Mike Witkauski, Peter GALES,
Schmitt Bros F. Puilokas, Math. D.
Schmitt & Son, Harry D. Painter, Otto
NJ. Stoebig, Geo. Fischer, Jr., Oscar
,FSilberschmidt, Robert w. Burt, Fred
Krause, Maurice & WaIig, John B.
Orth, Lester II. Holderness, Oscar A.
Peterson, Dominic E. Corr, Frank
Burt, G. J. Post, Lamacehia & Capponi,
Ameche g Marini, julius Bloxdorf,
lanes w. Rose. c. G. Mink, T.