The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-26

lille reporter was SKlrmlSnlng around
yesterday for something interesting and
was turning the leaves of the Grant House
Register, when the clerk called his atten-
ton to the names of III. E. Lantner and c.
j. Lantner, of Joliet. A little questioning
brought out the statement from the clerk
that they were railroad men and had come
here to close contract with Mr.. z. G..
! Simmons for the building of cog-wheel
| railroad up Pixies Peak They told
the clerk they had been waiting for
an answer from Mr. Simmons regarding the
matter, but had received their answer and
had got the contract. A couple of days af-
terward the following telegram appeared in
the Chicago Nems:
! "MANIToU, COL, Sept 20 The contract
for building a cog-wheel road up Pixies
peak was signed yesterday at Chicago. On
Monday work will be begun from the top of
| the peak with force of 800 men. The
road will be running by May The rail-
road is backed by 1T. III. Porter, president of
the Eastern Illinois railroad"
Under the caption "New Cook County
Railroads" the following special telegram
from Springfield, ILL.,, was printed in the
Chicago Daily Neacs of last Saturday.
SPRINGFIELD, I'll. Sep. 20.-Articles of in
corporation, were filed with the secretary
of state to-day for the following railway
companies: The Joliet & Blue Island rail-
way company, to construct line from Jol-
let, to the village of Blue Island, Cook
county; capital stock, 100000. The Chi
cago and Kenosha railway company, to
construct a line from such terminus in Chi
cago as may be selected to point on the
Illinois state line in Lake county; capital
stock 100000 The Calumet & Blue Is
land railway company, to construct line
from such point in Chicago as may be selec-
ted to the village of Blue Island, Cook
county; capital stock 100000. Each COM
pany will be under the management of the
following board Of directors: Adam A.
Goodrich, Jersyville; Frank III. McCulloch,
Frank II. Bowen, Harry P. Young, and
James G. Hutchins, Chicago" Following
the telegram was the following by re-
porter of the Neavs. Frank H. McCulloch,
the attorney and one of the incorporators
Of these railroad companies, when seen last
night, said the men interested in them
were not ready at present to make public
their plans He intimated, however, that
The plans contemplated a system of rail-
roads extending much beyond the term
inals indicated. 1t was an independent en-
terprise, he said, having no connection
with any other system of roads, but backed
| by men financially and otherwise able to
carry out their plans. Who these men
were he declined to make public.
-Messrs. Seaver, Rowe and Mcdowell
have succeeded in transforming the interior
of the 0. S. Head property into something
very like comfortable boarding school.
The reporter made call at the school the
other day and was very courteously received
and shown over the place. The rooms in
the main building, as arranged at present,
afford very comfortable library and Office,
parlor, separate rooms for the professors,
matron and the older boys. dormitories for
the smaller boys, dining room, bath room,
kitchen, servants rooms and store rooms.
The space has been divided off quite advan-
tageously and affords comfortable rooms for
every one A large new furnace has been
placed in position in the basement at an
expense of nearly $500 and most of the
rooms have open CRATES in them, so the
boys are likely to be kept warm this win
ter The building really serves its purpose
admirably; much better than one would
have thought. Perhaps the most notice
able changes are to be seen in the school
building. The first floor of what was the
barn has been reAoored and contains room
enough for gymnasium, billiard room, fur
mace room and other rooms. A piano
stands in the gymnasium ready to furnish
the music for the poetry of motion" The
second floor contains a large school room,
two recitation rooms and an office. Gas is
used all through the school hall and the
main building. Hard wood floors have
been laid all through the school hall, the
walls and ceilings were plastered and cal
cimined and new windows put in. In fact,
the school hall is probably the finest school
building in the city. The main room will
accommodate probably fifty pupils at a
time. The grounds are quite large, and
will give the boys plenty of room for tennis
courts, croquet, ball or other sports So
| much for the buildings and the facilities.
The school starts out with twenty boarding
pupils and fifteen day scholars. This is a
very gratifying increase oyer their number
last year and indicates the popularity of
the teachers. Nearly all the pupils were
Racine College boys last year and have fol-
lowed their favorite teachers to Kenosha.
About five Of the boys are preparing for