The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-25
SHERIDAN ROAD MEETING.
An Enthusiastic Meeting is Held in Ra-
cine and Good start Made

cine and Good start Made.
At the Sheridan road meeting in
Racine Saturday. night there were
/ eight Kenoshans present, Messrs. II S.
Van Ingen, r. H. Slosson, Samuel
Reynolds, Robert Moth, Joseph Bendt,
johnson Jackson, O. FL. Woodward
and E. r. Head. There were a mum
Der of gentlemen from the other towns
between Racine and Chicago, which,
together with the Racineites, made a
large and enthusiastic crowd Mr..
Horlick, of Racine, called the meeting
to order. Frank Bull was elected
chairman and Charles Washburn sec
rotary Of the meeting.
Chairman Bull spoke of the object of
the meeting and emphasized the fact
chat they were there in the interest of
the Sheridan road, not drive.
Volney Foster, president Of the Sher-
idan Road association, was called for
and gave history of the road as far
as it had gone and of the difficulties
they had overcome, aud said that now
it was an assured fact that the road
would be completed to the Wisconsin
state line and hoped that Wisconsin
would do it's share and complete it to
! Milwaukee. He said he was called a
crank on the subject and that he had
to have his friend, Mr.. Clark, tell him
when to stop talking when he got
started on the Sheridan road. The
property along the road, he said,
would be sure to increase IN value from
% per cent. to 1000 per cent, de-
pending on the location, and that the
value Of all property depended on the
number OF persons passing by the
property.
Mr. Clark, of Chicago, who is called
the wheel horse of the association in
Illinois, was then called for and gave a
very interesting talk. He said il part
that he considered it shame that
there was not a good road between
Chicago andaass Milwaukee. He would
advise Wisconsin not to try to make a
boulevard to start on, but just a good
bank gravel road bed, say about twenty
feet wide and the boulevard part of it
would take care of itself. The rise in
the value Of the AUDITING property
would compel further improvement of
the road. He gave instances of the
increase in value of property between
Waukegan and Chicago located on the
road, one farm in particular near Rog-
ers Park. Value before road went
through was $500 per acre. Now it is
over SIS, 900 per acre.
Mr.. Truesdell, Of Benton, said the
farmers of Benton, were greatly inter-
ested and if the Wisconsin people were
as enthusiastic as the Benton people
the road would be a success.
Mayor De Wolff, of Waukegan, said
that the Waukegan council had built
two miles of road which had been
added to the Sheridan road, and that
the people wanted more and were will
ing to pay for it.
H. S. Van Ingen was called for and
told how enthusiastic the Kenosha peo-
pie were and said that Racine and Ke-
nosha people ought to be more neigh
i borly and when we were connected by
the Sheridan road we would be, and
that the roads which connect the two
cities at present are a disgrace. He
said that the Kenosha people we're very
anxious to have the road laid out as
soon as possible so that the electric
railway would not interfere with it.
r. H. Slosson said the people wanted
the Sheridan road and would Go any
thing reasonable to get it.
j. Fl. Van Vlissingen, a Chicago real
estate man, said that he was interested
in 2, 700 acres of land at the state line
and that his company wanted both the
Sheridan road and electric railway.
Mayor James, of Racine, said the
Racine people would meet Kenosha
| people half way anCl more too.
DR., Beebe, who has a large stock
farm just south of Racine, said the
farmers wanted to know now much it
would cost.
Lawyer Judd told how to make
good road cheap.
Rev. A. G. Grier said: Let some of
the paupers earn their living by work
ing on the road.
The meeting was very interesting
and enthusiastic. A number of other
gentlemen were heard from and ended
finally by a resolution being read by
the secretary and passed unanimously
over the signature of Samuel Reynolds,
thanking Senator Timme and the leg
islators for their action in the matter
and asking them to pass the bill now
before them and appointing twelve
gentlemen from Racine county and
twelve from Kenosha county to present
the resolutions to the legislature.