The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-12-17
IT Is ALL ONE ROAD.
THERE ARE SEVERAL BRANCHES
TO THE ELECTRIC ROAD.
BUT 1T IS PROBABLY ONE CO.
What Is Being Done at Various Points
and How All Seem to Be working
Together Toward One End
The Line Partly Built.

All things are apparently working
together, through by what on the out
side looks like separate agencies to
get through electric line between
Milwaukee ard Chicago. The line
which was wanted by Messrs. Slush &
Co. through Kenosha seems to be but
part of the general plan of several other
fellows to get local franchises and then
all combine in It general company and
run through trains.
1t is understood now that the
line is about complete between South
Milwaukee and Racine, that another
effort is to be made this winter to get
another franchise from the council
through Kenosha. Messrs. Slush and
Bishop we're here recently and looked
the ground over again. While they
had nothing to say about asking for
franchise, they were very careful to ask
that certain rumOrs which had been set
afloat here and which might be con-
sidered as initiating against their inter
ests in case they should ever want such
a"document, be corrected and set right
They seem to eye this piece of country
rather jealousy. At the same time it
will be noted that the fellows who are
asking franchises on the south side of
the state line are not paying any at
tention to this field.
Active work has been begun on the
electric railroad which will connect the
two cities, and which is designed to be
an interurban rival to the branch of
the North Western road, which binds
together the same cities. The line re-
Gently completed from Racine to South
Milwaukee will form part of this sys-
tenn. At South Milwaukee connection
is made with the Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light company's line.
F. W. Cornish, c. G.. Trusdell and
by the trustees of Lake Bluff, has
granted to G. E. Loss a franchise to run
an electric line through the village.
Loss has agreed to have a road six
miles in length, connecting Waukegan
on the north with Lake Bluff on the
south, in operation by June l next
Mr.. Loss made this promise to the
Lake Bluff committee immediately after
Il hearing with the Lake county board.
That body unanimously granted Mr..
Loss franchise for his line from the
limits of South Waukegan to the limits
of Lake Bluff. The two franchises will
give the promoter the right of way to
the southern boundary of Lake Bluff,
and there for little while the road will
find it's terminus.
There seems to be but little question
that the intention is to have the Loss
line absorbed by the extension of the
North Shore (Louderback) line when it
shall have been completed to the point
where the Lake Bluff line ends. The
North Shore line has recently been ex
tended from Davis street. Evanston,
north through North Evanston and
westward across the North Western
railroad track where it taps the coun-
try about Crosse Point.
Engineer Rudolph has surveyed for
the Louderback interests line running
clear through to Milwaukee. The sur
veyed line has been followed aud con-
structed some distance beyond North
Evanston, and there, upon great reels
at the roadside, is electric cable enough
for miles of the track. The surveyed
line follows che ridge westO the North
Western road through Winnetka, Glen
zoe and Lakeside, and then crosses to
the east before it reaches Highland
Park.
Frank p Hawkins, of Highland
Park, recently secured the right-of-
way for the Louderback interests
through Highland Park, Highwood and
Fort Sheridan.
Mr.. Hawkins says: I" 1t probably
will be the question of but short time
before an electric railroad will be rum
ming through all the towns and cities
lying between Chicago and Milwaukee.
Mr.. Loss road is we'll under way, and
he has secured some valuable franchises
on condition that the work be proceeded
with at once. There is little doubt in
my mind that he intends his road shall
be absorbed By the North Shore road.
Mr.. Louderback has the paying end of
the system.
As a passenger. carrying line this
electric railroad can hardly hope to
compete with the North Western road
for the patronage of through passen-
gers, but it can secure living return
from strictly local business and by
the carrying of people between the vii
lagos, for the electric cars will of
course run much more frequently than
the North Western trains. TIE only
thing I believe that has kept back the
work from North Evanston northward
has been the hard times.
The Modern Mother