The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
THE SHERIDAN ROAD.
WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO Thu
CITY OF KENOS4A, j,
ALL A MIGHTY GOOD THING
A Committee Of Chicago Cttixens Coming
to work Up Public Sentiment Here.
what volney Foster says
OF The Project.

| The Sheridan road project has mo-
been receiving the attention in Keno.
sha such deserving enterprise should
The splendid advantages to be derived
by this city from such road has moi
stirred our business men at all so far
This should be a matter for regret. A
moments thought ought TO colvinct
anyone that such road would NEAR
an advertisement of this section of tbs
country not to be secured so cheaply il
any other way. It seems pity thai
more of the spirit of Barnum, the king
of advertisers, does not more generally
obtain. At one time the great show
man hitched an elephant to pillow and
kept man blowing with him for a
week or 50. Not that the elephant
could be used economically that way,
but that the public might get to talk
ing about it. A road of the kind pro-
posed would set the people of the world
to talking about this entire section be-
tween Chicago and Milwaukee. The
mere proposition to build it has set
newspaper pencils to scratching up
column after column about it. The
road once built would bring an army
Of those who would make the road and
all the adjoining country immortal.
There is nothing chimerical about these
facts. They are hard, practical, bust
ness, horse sense, and every farmer and
citizens all along the proposed road
could well afford to improve the section
of road in front of his place for the en-
hancement of the value of his property.
A moments reflection will bring to the
minds eye villas, monuments and
fountains, and wealthy people from
all over the country looking this way
for country homes. Acreage that is not
worth $40 now, could very soon be
made worth from $500 to $1,000.
Anent these facts it will be of inter-
est to state that a committee of, Chicago
citizens will very likely visit our city
within a few weeks for the purpose of
comforting with the Business Mems as
ISOLATION regarding this proposed road.
VOlney Foster, of Evanston, presi-
dent of the Sheridan Road association,
gives an inkling of what it is proposed
to do in the following interview:
Few bills before our legislature
were of greater Importance than this.
The situation at this time is such that
along the north shore little or no i'm
prOvements have been made to the
waters edge. This bill has saved to
the public for all time the lake shore.
It's passage has not been obtained with
out serious opposition, arising mostly
from those who thought their interest
would be better served by the making
of land on the shore for private owner
ship.
"The conditions of the bill now per-
nit the organization of park districts
that may extend through one municip-
ality only, or several municipalities may
come together by majority vote in
each, forming the larger district. Or,
one district having been established, a
majority of the voters in an adjoining
district petitioning may become annex
ed to the established district. 1t is to
be hoped that the owners Of property
in the territory lying between Chicago
and the Wisconsin state line will speedi-
ly avail themselves of the opportunity
the bill offers, and that the Sheridan
road may within the next year be fully
established throughout the whole
length of this territory. A very great
interest has been evinced in the Wis
consin cities along the lake shore, and
if it had been possible to obtain the
passage of this bill in the Illinois legis.
lature at an earlier date, there is no
doubt that bill similar in it's character
would have been passed by the Wis
cOnsin legislature. 1t is the intention
of the Sheridan Road association to
move promptly in the matter Of estaD-
fishing and organizing Sheridan Road
organizations in all the cities and towns
between the Wisconsin state line and
Milwaukee, and this at II very early
date. About 26 miles of the road are
in comfortable condition, contracts
have been let for the matchmaking in
Winnetka and Glencoe and there re-
mains but comparatively small parts
of the road yet undetermined. ~