The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-21
ORDER MANY PROSECUTIONS
City Attorney Is Instructed to Enforce
the Law Against Outside Closets
spat over Quarantine Methods
Fails to Develop.

Formal demand for commission inves-
tigation of the gas supply in Kenosha
was made to the Common Council on
Monday evening when a petition signed
by one hundred and nineteen property
owners was presented to that body pro-
testing against the gas upply and de-
handing some immediate action on the
part of the council to remedy condi-
tions. The petition signed largely by
men in the plant of the Nash Motors
Company follows:
We, the undersigned, being resi-
dents Of the city of Kenosha and users
of gas supplied by the Wisconsin Gas
and Electric Company, do hereby re-
specially petition your honorable body
to take such prompt steps, through your
proper officials as may be deemed adj
visable, to relieve and remedy the OBJ
noxious and dangerous condition now
prevailing because of the poisonous and
poor quality of gas now being supplied
to the people Of Kenosha, which is caus-
ing illness and nausea to those who are
Obliged to use said gas for cooking pur-
poses.
cit is our understanding that the
Railroad Commission of Wisconsin will
hold an informal meeting at the Ke-
nosha city hall on June %, 1917, at
10 o'clock a. m, said informal meeting
being for the purpose of considering
the discontinuance of the heating serv-
ice
We respectfully ask your honorable
body to at that time, by the city attor-
ney to present the grievances of the I'M
dersigned on account of the poor quality
Of gas now being furnished and which
for the last seven days has been fur
nished to the undersigned, that at such
informal hearing the legal representa-
tive of the city present the grievances
of the undersigned and of the citizens
Of Kenosha generally to the end that
early and permanent relief may be Sc
munity.'
City Attorney Slater addressed the
council at some length on the matter
Of gas regulation and declared that
this matter might be taken up at the
hearing set for next Friday on ac-
count of the fact that there was now
pending before the commission pc
tition which demanded some action to
secure better gas for Kenosha. He
asked that he council take some action
on this petition and to instruct him in
regard to the position of the city in
regard to the proposed abandonment
of the heating system. BY unanimous
vote the council directed pro-
test against the gas and against the
eliminationsof the heating system. The
city is directedly interested on account
of the fact that the franchise by
which the heating system was laid pro-
vided that certain concessions be made
to furnish free heat to the Central en-
CINE house and heat at reduced rate
to the city library for period ex-
tending throughout the fifty years for
which the franchise was granted.
Breakwater Plan Laid Over.
The committee on Harbors and
BreakWaters was not ready to report
on the purchase Of the VanIngen prop
erty or the building of the Lake Az
enue breakwater and the committee
was given another two weeks to take
up this matter. A meeting was held
with the Park board but the board was
not ready to say just what it could do
in the matter.
Thomas Donley sent protest to
the council against the condition of
the breakwater north of English Court
and the matter was referred to the
committee with orders to bring in
report at the next meeting Of the
council
Get Pictures of Former Mayors.
Alderman Stein reported to the
council that after much searching he
had been able to secure photographs
of every man who has served the city
in the capacity of Chief Executive and
these pictures are to be hung on the
walls of the council chamber in the
city hall. They viii all be uniform in
size and the committee was instructed
to have enlarged photographs made at
once. The cost of the decorations
to the council chamber will probably
be in the neighborhood of $3.50.
The council voted to pay over to the
Water commission the annual hydrant
rental fee of $4,000 but no provision
was made for the payment except for
the present year.
The council took drsstic action