The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-05-30

Besides these buildings there must be
a iapanning room and two story Office
building.
Assurances From the city
When Mr.. Simmons had finished his
talk Mayor Farr was called upon to
make some statements. He said that
the city was ready to assure the new
company all it had asked for, as far as
the CITY as a corporation was able to
carry out the requests. The sewerage
and water system, be said, could be ex-
tended and good street laid out, six
teen feet in width and macadamized
from the depot to the works. This
work he thought would cost in the
lneighborhood of $4,000. He did not be-
lieve the city could go beyond that eX-
pense, since we have the water works
to take care of and must pay $4,000
down on them as soon as they are. COM
pleted
All Embodying Resolution Presented
John O'Donnell said that in order to
get the whole matter before the meet
! ing in proper shape he had a resolution
Il
and the association were requested to
do The resolution was read and COM
pretended all the matter desired by
the Sterling people. He hoped the
resolution would be passed. These
i Improvements asked for, he stated, are
all permanent ones, and not putin for
the benefit Of this company alone. If
these were made and the factory was
secured all the outlay would soon come
back TO the city III taxes, there would
be more business for our business men
/ and all the idle labor in the city would
be provided for. James Cayanagh
/ followed him in q similar strain. The
resolution was placed upon its passage
and adopted.
Kenosha's Advantages.
Mr.. Simmons again took the floor
and said that Kenosha had advantages
which we're not to be e1celled any
where else. He urged the Importance
of always speaking a good word for the
city whenever opportunity presented
itself There has hardly been a month,
he stated, in recent years that he has
not received letters from promoters
asking about opportunities to raise
booms B0Oms were not what we
wanted. and such letters had always
found their way into the waste basket
But since this factory matter had been
settled in favor of Kenosha, he desired
to say that he had an application
which he looked upon with favor from
another factory, which desired to locate
here He believed we were at the be-
Land this one factory coming here will
be an opening wedge toward the Sc
Touring Of others. The matter Of secur-
i ing help here had been one Of the
i greatest questions in this NATTER Mr..
/ Simmons brought forward the fact that
| Kenosha had the best class of citizens
in that respect. We have no anarchists
or socialists, and none could find an
Eabiding place here. We have the
healthiest of climates This country
all along the lake shore from Chicago
to Sheboygan, he said, was the best
for the laborer to live in and work iii.
He called attention to the fact that the
United States vital statistics proved
that the death rate was lowest here OF
anywhere, and he believed that about
N
er here over the work or a laoorer any
where in the Mississippi or Missouri
/ valleys. Here a man can sleep we'll
| the year around, and eat square meals.
In the other places there are about
three months in the year when this is
mot possible, owing to the excessive
heat, when sleep is the outcome OF
pure exhaustion only.
i For twenty-five years, said Mr.. SIM
mons, not single payment Of the pag
roll has been missed ii our manufac-
turing institutions. That shows that
we have the strongest and best of es-
i Establishments here now.
Committee to Solicit Funds
John O'Donnell stated that inasmHch
as funds would be necessary OH the
part of the citizens to help carry out
the project, on the part of the associa-
ton he would move thar a committee
of three be appointed to solicit the
sum Of SO. 800 President Brown APP
pointed John O'Donnell, G. FL. Conner
mann and James CaVanagh, as mem
bers Of that committee. After this the
meeting adjourned.