The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-11-07
Protection Both Against
Sailors and Automobiles
Provided by City Coun-
ell at Monday Meeting.
BUSINESS IN LITTLE TINE
Question of Garbage Cans Settled for
the Future by Committee on Health
and Sanitation as Reported by
Chairman Donahue.

Whether tits nobler in the mind
To suffer the sings and arrows of
! outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against sea of
troubles,
And by opposing end them, /"
IS question that is just now agitating
the MINDS of the aldermen of the Com
mon Council. While the words which
the Bard of Avon puts into the mouth
Of the Melancholy Dane are applicable
to the state of mind of the aldermen,
| the subject which brought forth the
above quotation is not the one that
IS troubling them. While Hamlet was
discussing the question of Kidding him
self of his troubles by committing sui
eide, the city fathers are discussing the
best means of curbing the animal spirit
of young men who come up here from
Great Lakes and insult respectable
women as they pass along the street,
and defy the officers Of the law while
they are doing it.
More cases of rufianism were brought
to the attention of the council at its
meeting Monday night, and while the
matter was discussed no official action
was taken, but ways and means were
adopted whereby the conduct Of the
sailors should be brought to the atten-
ton Of either Captain Moifett or
the Provost Marshal at the Train
ing Station.
Alderman Wachs brought up the
question and told how young fellow
had stationed himself on Main street
and was insulting every woman who
passed. The patrolman on that beat
asked him to move on and the young
man replied that the street was public
and he would do as he pleased. The
patrolman then attempted to arrest him
when large bunch of sailors jumped
on the policeman and overpowered him.
Finally the chief came along and the two
succeeded in running the offender in.
Alderman Donahue told how the Of
ficers who were sent up here to see
that the Jaekies behave themselves
acted like roughnecks themselves. He
had witnessed a bunch of these officers
on the street car going toward the sta
ton. They were all smoking on the
car. When the conductor politely ask
ed them to desist from smoking while
they were on the car, which was half
filed with ladies, they absolutely re-
fused and defed the conductor and
they were enough of them to prevent
Ehim from putting them off.
Alderman Shearer stated that things
had come to such pass that it was not
safe for a respectable woman to come
down streets alone after dark. He re-
ferred to an article in the News which
said that some of the town BOYS were
guilty of the same thing and that some
of the girls of the city would parade
the streets for the purpose Of flirting
with the sailors. While this may be
true, said he, there are torghs in every
town and Kenosha has hers the same
as other towns, but that does not give
any set of men who may come here to
visit to insult decent women indis-
|criminately. Referring to an editorial
in the News that perhaps the sailors2
conduct was caused by lack Of proper
entertainment, he said that the kind
of entertainment Kenosha was pro-
viding for them was not the kind
they were looking for.
Alderman Sullivan was reluctant to
have the council go on record as having
taken steps to prevent the sailors from
coming to the city and suggested that
certain names be taken to bring the
matter to the attention of Captain
Moffett or the Provost Marshal at the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station and
he said he felt sure the matter would
be remedied. The counsel Of Alderman
Sullivan prevailed and the matter
will be brought to the attention of
the officials this week.
Council convened promptly at eight
0 clock with a full membership in at
tendance. The petition of residents for
an electric light on n Sheridan Road
and Eleventh street, was granted.
The report Of Poormaster Jacob
Saftig, was presented and accepted by
the council. The report showed a list
| of families which had received aid
from his department for the period from
August l to November l with the list
of families which had been discharged
in the same period. According to the
report there are now fifteen inmates at
the poor farm, the same number as
there were on August, one inmate hav-
| ing been discharged and one other ad-
! mitted. Within this period the poor
department took care of two patients
| at Kenosha Hospital. four at st. Cath