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On Michigan street, between the Tremont House and East Water street, Mr. Kane also erected a new brick building, 70 feet front by 27 feet deep, and two stories high, with a very tasteful front, finished in a novel style, at once light and pleasant. The lower story was divided into four compartments, each with a front and back room snug and neat, intended for offices. A balcony runs the whole length of the front, intended as an entrance to the upper rooms-reached by a staircase on the outside, at the end of the building. The upper rooms were intended for offices. The whole block was considered an ornament to the street on which it stood.
There was a great freshet this year, March 15, which damaged Oneida street bridge badly and swept off the one at the Kinnikinnick.
POLITICAL.
At the spring election this year, the late Dr. Johnson, who was something of a wag, but a very. smart man, being thoroughly disgusted with the course pursued by the politicians in order to get office, came before the people with the following address, as an independent can- didate for aldermanic honors.
To the Electors of the First Ward :
GENTLEMEN: Believing that the tax payers of the First ward would be willing to give their support to a candidate for alderman who would act entirely independent of party and who has no self-interest in view (were such a one to offer his services, )
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I take the liberty which I hope may be a pardonable one, of offering my honorable self for the office. I know that this course is not orthodox or in keeping with the shameful course in general use in making nominations, long before the time for election, without any reference to the wishes of the tax payers. I care nothing for Whigs, Democrats, or Free Soilers, and offer myself not as the candidate of any party, but as a people's candidate. The strictest economy and low taxation is my motto. To keep out of debt is as good for a city as for an individual. If the voters of the First Ward want such a man, here am I. I shall get no tickets printed ; ask no man to vote for me or feel under any obligation to any one that does. There is no pay attached to the office that I know of, and I can't thank any man to help put me in a position to work for nothing and board myself.
JAS. JOHNSON.
This was the most independent electioneering call I ever read, but it was just like the doctor, who was one of the most independent spirited men in the city as well as for many years one of our most active and influential business men. He was much in office as alderman, councilman and health officer. He was a man of fine literary attainments, good business abilities, and as a doctor of medi- cine, very successful. He was a fine looking man, a fluent speaker and a ready writer. In religious faith he was a Catholic and in politics a Democrat,* but not so radical as to prevent his voting for a Republican occasionally if he thought him the best man. The writer knew the doctor intimately for many years, and was in the common council with him in 1867-8, when as chairman of the water works committeet he found the doctor a valuable adviser. He possessed uncommon social qualities and was one of the most genial companions (if he liked you) that one would wish to have, but if he disliked you, you would quickly find it out. He was a native of Ireland and had all the Irishman's love for that historic land. He died at Milwaukee, February 6, 1882. Peace to his memory.
The Republicans failed to put in a full ticket, but nominated B.
*It is perhaps proper to state that Doctor Johnson voted the Republican ticket for a few years and was elected to office upon that ticket several times, but he subsequently returned to the old party and died in full communion with it.
+The author was chairman of the committee on water works in 1867-8, and wrote the first report ever made upon that matter. He was also chairman of the Seventh Ward park committee and made the first report upon that, both of which can be found on file among the council proceedings of that year.
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H. Edgerton for mayor, who received 537 votes. The following were elected :
CHARTER ELECTION.
The result of the charter election in this city on Tuesday last was briefly stated in our paper on yesterday morning. The People's ticket for aldermen and con- stables succeeded in part or entire in every ward. The officers for the ensuing year are as follows :
Mayor-Don. A. J. Upham.
Treasurer-Charles Giesberg.
ALDERMEN.
First ward-Alanson Sweet, James Nugent, A. Ehlebracht. Second ward-Jacob A. Hoover, A, Greulich, I. A. Lapham. Third ward-Wm. Stupenski, John Webb, John Hayden. Fourth ward-E. D. Holton, C. H. Williams, Wm. Wedemeyer. Fifth ward-R. M. Sweet, H. U. Shumway, Wm. P. Merrill.
CONSTABLES.
First ward-Andrew Lienhart. Second ward-C. A. Brocket. Third ward-Patrick Guerin. Fourth ward-Michael Keane.
Fifth ward-J. Lewis.
ELECTION CURIOSITIES.
Among the Independent tickets that have been handed to us as polled among the scattering is as follows : .
INDEPENDENT TICKET.
For Mayor-Old Bray. For Treasurer-C. A. Tuttle.
For Aldermen-D. C. Bancroft,* David Bonham, t Joseph Palmer.#
This, instead of an Independent ticket, was a regular Democratic ticket ; all the names being those of well-known and distinguished members of the Demo- cratic party, and the candidate for treasurer especially, having been indorsed by the Wisconsin last spring, as a young man who had been tried, as by fire, and came out pure ! It is said that this gentleman's absence from the city is owing to the fact that he didn't want to be tried again.
BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS AND OFFICERS FOR 1849. First ward-James Johnson, Geo. E. H. Day, Joseph Curtis. Second ward-I. A. Lapham, Dr. Huebschmann, D. Van Deeren. Third ward-P. Potter, Rufus King, J. McManman.
*Defaulter. +Murderer. #Swindler.
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Fourth ward-Sidney L. Rood, E. D. Holton, Haven Powers.
Fifth ward-Daniel Waite,* F. B. Putman, Chas. H. Larkin.
E. D. Holton, president, Haven Powers, secretary.
The school commissioners are appointed by the common council and hold their office for the term of three years.
The report of the committee on finance was submitted at the last meeting of the outgoing board, April 12,t after which the new board was sworn in, and the following resolutions adopted :
By Alderman A. Sweet,-Resolved, that P. B. Hill be retained as clerk pro tem., until otherwise ordered. Adopted.
By Alderman Greulich-Resolved, that the rules of the late common council, be and the same are hereby adopted, as the rules of the present council, until other- wise ordered. Adopted.
The mayor then appointed the following persons as a temparary alms house committee : Messrs. Holton, Sweet, Merrill, Greulich and Stupenski.
By Alderman Ehlebracht-Resolved, that the present city marshal hold his place pro tem. until otherwise ordered. Adopted.
()n motion the council adjourned, to Saturday next, untill 7. P. M.
P. B. HILL, clerk pro tem.
John E. Cameron succeeded Messrs. Ludington & Garland in the paper mill at the foot of Second Street this spring.
The ice left the river March 14, and April 14 brought us our first boat from below, the propeller Petrel, Capt. Kelsey.
STEAMERS.
The side wheel steamers from below this year were the Albany, Capt. Chas. L. Gaeger; A. D. Patchin, H. Whittaker; St. Louis, F. Wheeler; Superior, Wilkinson; Keystone State, T. H. Richards; Union, W. T. Pease; Louisiana, A. Appleby; Sultana, G. Appleby; Globe, J. Watkins, and a large number of propellers.
BLOWING UP THE COMMON COUNCIL.
Some fellow goes for the Common Council thusly:
MR. EDITOR: Ours is a great city, and we take care to let the world know it. Perhaps if some of our peculiarities in city management, called expenditures, were accurately put on record, posterity might be benefited by their study, if not
*In place of the author, who declined a reappointment.
+This report is too voluminous for insertion here, as well as perhaps of no par- ticular interest to the present generation.
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by their effect. Like all large cities we have a Mayor and Aldermen. But it is doubtful if any city or corporation exists that can pass laws and ordinances with the facility and rapidity of ours. A perusal of the weekly Common Council pro- ceedings reminds one of a mixed train at full speed. The passengers, guards and luggage pass in rapid review. To summarize particulars in either case would be hopeless. We are generally presented with a long list of appropriations, from the city funds, but whether the expenditures are judicious or not is a very difficult matter for one not inside the ring to determine, as the report seldom contains any information of the name or account to whom the money is appropriated.
These remarks were called out by the removal of the house on Spring Street Bridge, a building that cost some four hundred dollars a short time previous.
Signed, TAX PAYER.
To say that our Council in those days were not a little peculiar in their way of doing things, occasionally, would not be true. But then they did as well as could be expected of them. The " Websterian heads" were scarce in that body, and what they lacked in brains they made up in noise, same as the present board.
Chubbuck & Noyes, grocers, John W. Chubbuck and Chas. A. Noyes, were at No. 6 Spring Street this year.
Mr. Noyes, who was from the village of Lancaster, N. H., has been station keeper at Kilbourn City for the last twenty years.
Of the whereabouts of Mr. Chubbuck I have no certain knowl- edge. He went from here to Mackinac.
Ellis Worthington, came this year from Hartford, Conn.
Mr. Worthington was quite prominent as an insurance man for several years, but finally returned to Hartford, where he still resides. I remember Mr. Worthington well. He was very much of a gentle- man, very kind hearted, but not very aggressive or ambitious.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Among the horse milliners who pitched their tents in our city during its infantile years was our well known fellow citizen Geo, Dyer, who came here from Racine in 1847, and opened a harness shop at No. 211 (now 409) East Water Street, where he with others, as has already been stated, was burned out in the fire which destroyed nearly all that portion of the block between Mason and Wisconsin Streets, May 17, 1849, which compelled him to remain idle until his store, which was damaged slightly, was being repaired by J. W. Pixley, which was soon accomplished, and business again resumed
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and continued until 1857, when requiring more room he removed to Cross Block, at what is now No. 334, where he was again burned out in the winter of 1859, when he removed to 183 (now 381) East Water Street, where he was again driven out by fire in 1872, after which he removed to Heidie's Block, 373 and 375 East Water Street, in October, 1872, where he remained until 1882 (ten years), when he removed to the Layton building (the old Nazro store), 321 and 323 East Water Street, where he is to-day.
Mr. Dyer is the only one of the craft, as far as the writer can remember, who has been in the harness and saddlery business con- tinuously since 1847, to the present, 1883. He has built up a large trade, and is known for his fair dealing all over the Northwest. He is thoroughly conversant with all the details of the harness trade, and keeps an immense stock, his present trade being mostly whole- sale. He is also very industrious, always to be found at his store, when in the city. In person Mr. Dyer is short and stout, but not corpulent. He has a large head, dark hair, dark blue eyes in which a mischievous smile is often seen. His face is round and full. He is not much of a talker, but is a great reader. He is very generous and believes in doing good always, and can truthfully be classed among our best citizens. He is one of the "land-marks." In politics he is a Republican, and in religious faith a Unitarian. Mr. Dyer is now, like the rest of the early men, well down the western horizon of life's journey, and with them will soon be called to cross the dark river and be at rest.
HIRAM R. BOND.
This gentleman, so well known in Milwaukee as a contractor and mason, came to our city from Rochester, N. Y., July 4, 1846, and went into partnership with his uncle, Moses P. Bond, at that time one of our contracting master masons. He soon, however, struck out for himself and from that time to the present-except a short period in the lumber business-has been among the promi- nent master masons of the city and has superintended the erection of a large number of buildings. Among those that bear his marks are the Birchard Block, Nos. 149 to 159 West Water Street, A. J. W. Pierce's Block, 158 and 160 West Water, Luscomb & Pierce,
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H. BROICH.
ALBERTOTYPE.
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Samuel D. Luscomb and Robert W. Pierce, 120 to 128 West Water. The old Nazro store 321 to 323 East Water; the two Hicks build- .. ings, 329 to 333 and 336 to 340 Broadway ; the Cross Keys, northeast corner of East Water and Detroit Streets; the First Baptist church on Jefferson ; the Emanuel Church on Astor Street; the Library Building on Grand Avenue ; the present Plankinton House, to which he is now, June, 1883, building an extension as well as a large num- ber of private dwellings. As a builder, Mr. Bond has been un- usually successful and has accumulated a handsome competency. He is a very public spirited and worthy citizen, holds a high rank in the community, and to know that his name is affixed to a contract is a guarantee that the work will be well done. He is both honest and conscientious, and will always do as he agrees whether he loses or makes by it. He is a prominent member of the West Side Bap- tist Church on Grand Avenue and takes a deep interest in the cause of religion and morality. He is also a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, in the success of which he also takes a deep interest. In person Mr. Bond is of the medium height, compactly built and very muscular. He has dark hair and dark blue eyes. a florid complexion, walks with a quick regular step, his whole form erect, speaks somewhat quick, his words coming out with a rolling intonation, and can see what is going on without appearing to look in any particular direction, knows just what he wants, and can han- dle a large force of men to good advantage. Mr. Bond is just in the prime of life and usefulness, and is a hard worker. In political faith he is a Republican, but not a politician, although he often takes an active part in the municipal affairs of the city, but the cor- ruption and rascality incident to and that forms a large part of a successful politician's capital stock, he will not wink at and will have nothing to do with, and consequently is not popular (politically) with the masses, but with that portion of our comunity who are in for honesty in politics as well as in business, he is looked upon not only with respect, but with pride, and has their full confidence. Such is Hiram R. Bond, a first class man and a useful citizen.
IMPROVEMENTS.
An effort was made this year to convert River street, (which up
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to this time had been a bayou,) into a market with a dock thirty feet wide and 1800 long, between the bayou and the river proper, with a market 160 by 1800. It failed however. Had this project been carried out this property would have been very valuable, but as it is now, it is worth very little.
The following streets upon the south side were graded this year : Virginia, from Hanover to Grove ; Grove, from Virginia to Elizabeth ; (now National avenue,) and Elizabeth west to the west line of Walker's Point addition ; also a plank sewer was constructed on Division from Market to the river.
Kilbourn mill (now the Dairy) was built this year by Jolin Ander- son, two run stone.
IRON FOUNDRY.
Walton's iron foundry and locomotive works, were built this year on the south west corner of Reed and South water. It was 40 by 70, two stories high, the moulding room was square. The first loco- motive built in the state, (the Milwaukee,) was built here ; she is yet running. This building was known as the Menomonee locomotive works. The firm was Lee & Walton, Lewis L. Lee and Wm. Walton. Mr. Walton is still living in Washington, D. C. Mr. Lee died several years ago. The business was a failure, neither of the part- ners having sufficient executive ability to run such an establishment with success.
TEMPERANCE.
A movement in the interest of temperance was made this year, and, as an indication of the interest taken in the matter, I will insert the call, and also the proceedings at the meeting under the call, which to an old settler is interesting, as notwithstanding all this many whose names are appended to this call died from intemperance* and others will.
The annexed is the report of the meeting, after which they adjourned, and that was the last of it. The work of making drunk- ards went on all the same, protected by license, until it has become
* The law here referred to was passed at the second session of the Legislature, held January, 1849, and published in the Revised Statutes for that year, chap. 29.
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one of the greatest-if not the greatest-industries of our country. WILL IT EVER STOP?
PUBLIC CALL. -
All the friends of Temperance, and of law and order in this city, are earnestly invited to attend a Mass Meeting, on Friday evening, 25th inst., at the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the purpose of determining the proper course to be pursued in the present crisis of the Temperance cause in this city and State. Gen. Riley, and several other speakers, will be present and address the meeting.
G. J. Fowler,
Wm. H. Byron,
Williams Lee,
J. S. Douglas,
Jamies P. Greves,
Jas. Farr, Jr.,
H. Smith,
Benj. B. Richards,
Egbert Moseley,
L. S. Kellogg,
E. P. Smith,
E. Cramer,
D. Newhall,
Wm. Duane Wilson,
H. W. Tenney,
B. B. Bird,
H. J. Orton,
J. B. Cross,
J. Downer,
G. B. Miner,
R. J. Faries,
G. P. Hewitt,
G. Barry,
T. C. Stickney,
F. Y. Horning,
Joseph Binns,
Charles Horning,
H. Mabbett,
A. L. Chapin,
Peter Mclaughlin,
T. M. Wilcox,
J. D. Spalding,
W. W. Lake,
Abner Kirby,
C. F. Ilsley,
I. A. Lapham, John E. Garner,
Henry M. Robinson,
Lewis Raymond,
E. L. Shannon,
M. L. Skinner,
J. Rooney,
Martin Cline,
Adam Ernst,
H. G. Goff,
J. Burns,
J. Bromile,
U. H. Metcalf,
G. L. Williams,
A. N. Passmore,
J. Magie, John Jameson,
Samuel Ludington,
Daniel Murphy,
G. E. H. Day,
John McCullough,
P. Yale,
S. Blanchard,
A. S. Sanborn,
J. W. Chubbuck,
G. Pfister,
W. L. Calkins,
D. Wells, Jr.,
J. Indington,
D. B. Maxfield,
H. Warner,
J. Campbell,
Peter Marteneau,
Geo. Cogswell,
S. Ercanbrack,
T. F. Barly,
B. H. Edgerton,
E. Butterfield,
H. Powers,
J. Kimball,
D. Williams,
F. Downey,
W. Pettey,
E. A. Calkins,
A. W. Butter,
William A. Prentiss,
C. Shues, John Tesch,
James Tesch,
W. S. Burton,
J. B. Oakley, Hiram F. Story,
J. W. Vail,
W. Brown, Jr.,
T. Barrow,
J. K. Webster,
Thomas A. Gerry,
R. M. Sweet,
D. C. Reed,
Henry Miller,
E. Saph,
Clark Ingersoll,
John Plankinton,
H. M. Beecroft,
W. Kinney,
S. L. Rood,
H. B. Van Buren,
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I. M. Loomis,
Geo. Hastings,
Alex. Campbell,
M. Dinkert,
A. Gilbert,
John Rives,
E. P. Allis,
H. J. Nazro,
James L. Farwell,
H. K. Edgerton,
D. S. Goodwin,
F. Wm. Scheirt, Wm. Peterman, C. Shepardson,
L. J. Farwell,
A. F. Cady,
Fred Wardner,
A. W. Kellogg,
W. H. Cary,
Lafayette Lake,
David P. Lake,
Fred. P. Bohl,
H. P. Peck,
John C. Cramer,
T. L. Baker,
Jacob Deily,
Joseph Osmund,
S. B. Grant,
G. L. Dickerson,
W. Schern,
Robert Ormsby,
Joseph Nicoll,
C. Wardner,
Joseph Curtis,
G. B. Stebbins,
T. C. Gurney,
Jas. McKnight,
C. S. Hurley,
Joseph Paige,
Wm. Hawkins,
H. Shurley,
Kochenick,
Lawrence Alf,
M. Orth,
John Passmore,
John P. McGregor,
H. Osborn,
N. F. Cooledge,
V. A. W. Merrill,
Joseph H. Yewdale,
A. Finch, Jr.
J. W. Hemenway,
A. B. Blanchard,
W. Gorham,
D. A. J. Upham,
Chas. O. Belden,
B. Paine,
C. F. LeFevre,
H. N. Wells,
Albert Smith,
William Gillespie, Jr.,
Joshua Hathaway,
N. Ludington,
Lewis Scheifley,
Henry Wells,
I. Sawyer,
Dayton Burr,
James Burr,
W. Warner,
ยท H. Vanderen,
C. R. Densen.
F. A. Root,
J. Whitney,
T. E. Thompson,
L. Kennedy,
J. H. Paine,
Charles James,
W. Atwater,
J. J. Miter,
D. Bun,
Seth Parsons,
Lyndsey Ward,
C. Shepard,
W. A. Whaling,
James Camack, H. Canfield,
G. F. Sherwood,
J. N. Fink,
M. F. Hubbard,
Wm. Boughton,
S. Gardner, Jr.,
Edwin Palmer,
E. Friend, James E. Wilson, James Kneeland,
J. T. Bradford,
C. D. Finch,
H. L. Page,
S. C. Bridges,
P. C. Hale,
E. R. Persons,
E. Goddard,
John Gale,
Lewis Benton, Jr.,
F. Rucedell,
I. S. Baker,
S. J. Van Vechten,
F. J. Blair,
E. Eldred,
R. H. Burton,
A. H. Atkins,
C. Steele,
G. F. Austin,
I. M. Colgate,
G. P. Hewett,
- H. A. Foote, Hiram Miller, Caleb Wall,
Albert Graveraet,
J. N. Bonesteel, Lubbes Otto, Henry Fess, Jr ..
Louis Otto,
D. Ferguson,
Edward L. Button, Gilbert Walters, S. Whalen, Jr.,
Wm. Southwell,
O. G. Lange,
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Henry H. Williams,
J. H. Silkman, M. Keenan,
S. S. Daggett, Allen Johnson,
John S. Harris, Alba Kimball,
J. N. Rogers,
E. D. Holton,
S. C. West,
H. H. West,
H. Clarke,
John Ogden, C. A. Place,
L. H. Lane,
Alex. Roney,
Chas. F. Peirce, J. W. C. Langworth,
Robert Bright,
Joseph Knurr,
J. M. Van Slyck, Timothy O'Brien, Sam'l Marshall,
Wm. O'Brien,
J. Carey,
Henry Ranns, Solomon Adler,
Isaac Straz,
W. H. Watson,
L. D. Gordon, John Nazro, Jr.,
HI. B. Merrill,
J. F. McMullen,
William J. Bell,
Andrew Lienhart,
Wm. Turner,
Wm. Edwards,
Wm. David, W. Deily,
F. McFall,
J. Deiley, Jr., Isaac Deiley,
E. C. Quiner,
A. A. Norwood,
J. Hawk,
E. D. Darwin,
A. W. Hatch,
Peter McCourt,
John L. Combes, J. B. Smith,
H. Courtenay,
Thomas Keeler,
J. Webb,
Geo. G. Dousman,
H. S. Burton,
W. Taintor,
Chas. A. Noyes,
E. H. King,
W. E. Bassett,
H. Bosworth,
O. B. St. John,
G. C. Wright, F. B. Ward,
P. S. Booth,
Albert Smith,
A. Ely,
L. M. Gates,
E. H. Gridley,
F. J. Bosworth,
John Mitchell,
O. F. Baker,
W. B. Johnson,
Jacob Bertschy,
O. Alexander,
E. Edwards,
R. B. Carter,
W. M. Tuttle,
Robert Harper,
Joseph Carter,
Clark Ingersoll,
John B. Vliet, P. B. Hill,
Christian Mehl,
C. A. Bosworth, Andrew Schank,
W. Calhoun,
J. 'T. Sinclair, James Saville,
Henry Seiler, Anthony Fishback,
S. M. Booth,
Thomas Carpenter,
J. E. Wardner,
F. W. Clarke,
M. W. Clarke, Ezra Lowell,
Geo. King,
David Miller,
C. W. Burback,
W. A. Clark,
C. Nodine,
P. Carpenter,
J. Carpenter,
Eseck Green.
William Phillips,
J. F. Smith,
Win. A. Tucker,
O. G. Hillard,
G. C. Hathaway,
H. Newhouse,
1. A. Hopkins, Jacob Steinhart,
O. C. Otis,
E. B. Dickerman,
W. T. Battle,
Samuel Aldred,
John Hays,
C. H. Hill,
A. Cameron,
T. J. McClure,
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PUBLIC MEETING ON THE LICENSE QUESTION.
In compliance with a public call for a Mass Meeting, for the purpose of deter- mining the proper course to be pursued by the friends of Temperance in the present crisis of the cause, an immense concourse of people assembled in the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the evening of the 25th of May.
His Honor, the Mayor, D. A. J. Upham, was called to the chair. Hon. J. B. Smith and Dr. Jas. P. Greves were elected Vice Presidents, and Wm. H. Byron was chosen Secretary.
On a motion by Dr. J. S. Douglas, that a committee of five be appointed to prepare business for this meeting, being carried, Dr. J. S. Douglas, G. J. Fowler, J. J. Miter, Jas. Johnson, and W. S. Calkins, were appointed said committee.
When the committee had retired, Gen. Riley was called out, and entertained the meeting with an interesting and stirring address.
The committee then returned and presented the following resolutions, which, after a free and able discussion on the part of Gen. J. S. Paine, Messrs. Booth, J. B. Smith and A. D. Smith, were adopted with great unanimity.
Resolved, That we recognize in the law enacted by our last legislature, relating to the sale of intoxicating drinks, a righteous principle, and one that should be cor- dially sustained by the good citizens of this City and State, viz: That the vendor of intoxicating drinks shall be held pecuniarily responsible for all damages to the community justly chargeable to such sale or traffic.
Resolved, That since the issue has been made by the liquor venders of this city, whether the law of the last legislature shall be sustained or disregarded, and as the results of this issue may influence the action of the citizens of other portions of the State, therefore, a great and solemn responsibility rests upon our citizens, Common Council and other officers to see that the law is sustained in this city.
Resolved, Therefore, that we, the citizens of Milwaukee, respectfully and earn- estly call upon our City Council and other proper authorities and executive to take the necessary measures efficiently and impartially to enforce the provisions of this law in this city, and we pledge ourselves to stand by and sustain them in the faithful performance of their duty, and that the Common Council be requested by this meeting to abolish the present license system.
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