The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-06
OFFICIAL PAPER xENOsRA COUNTY
What if Zion Builds?

IF Dowie's City of Zion should pass
from the dream stage to that of real1-
ty. and the vision is materlallz1ng
with rapidity, then, what will Keno
sha do? One of the Chicago papers
discovers a hopeless grinding out OF
existence for Evanston, should Zion
flourish. Would Kenosha likewise be
buried out of sight under avalanches
of cotton bales and bobbin nets? Yes,
if Kenosha should in the future permit
her factories to fly off in a tangent as
water flies from d revolving grind
stone.
The spinal column of town is not
its natural beauty, nor its palatial
residences but it's industries. Kenosha
will be secure so long as it can keep
busy. 1t will begin a retrograde move
ment the moment it shall become over
aesthetic.
AS a manufacturing center Kenosha
is as favorab1y environed as any city
on the Lake. It's industrial promise
and possibility have caused keen and
far-seeing men to plant their factories
here, and awakened in scores more an
appetite for the lucrative returns
which a hundred manufacturing CON
Germs predict and pledge in the imme-
date future. If Kenosha were unfavor-
able applications would cease, and
those hives of industry we now have
ard are proud of would speedily
vanish in air.
The nearness of our prosperous peo-
pie to Milwaukee, a fourishing city
with 100000 population, and its prox-
unity to the great metropolis of the
west assure stretching lines of railroad
that will carry the products of Keno
-sha's mills and manufactures to the
north and the south, and convey with
in its limits 1aborers and capitalists
from different q quarters. n The two
great cities, one of them thirty and the
other fifty miles away, are an advan-
tage rather than a menace. Lake
Michigan, which cannot be absorbed
by Milwaukee or Chicago or the Dow1e-
ties, is at our right hand; it's waters
wait to be cut by the keels of our
steamers, and the Kenosha harbor, one
of the best, one of the safest, with its
water-depth of twenty-five feet, is
ready for any vessel from the south or
the north, or the east, or the Atlantic
ocean that can plough its way through
the bosom Of the sea. Among other
things that Kenosha must do is to
create a supply for vessels that may
tie to our piers and bid for freight. In
short, the future of our fair city de-
ponds on her industries.
We have the ability to build any
thing from a bicycle to battleship,
and the material for all varieties OF
manufacture can be secured in general
as easily, as bysssanys..other city The
factory must be encouraged, and pro-
ttected against lawlessness. With this
prime object in view'slet us aim for
rood highways, a railroad extending
to Duluth if possible, and first class
street railways through and local.
Thus will the population increase, the
city extends its limits, money flow in
the legitimate channels of trade, the
commercial interests of Kenosha
will be built up, and, though Zion
should rise to a commanding position,
and Evanston be absorbed either by
Zion or Chicago. Our fourishing and
pleasant city will hold it's own with or
against any scheme concocted on the
right hand or the left. If Zion builds,
Kenosha, mindful of its industries will
forge onward forever.
Zion is only another step in that ad-
vancing civilization which, in quar-
ter of a century, will witness on the
lake shore between Milwaukee and
Chicago one continuous city, with its
teening population, busy factories,
happy homes and beautiful villas.
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