The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-03
MET THE COMMITTEE
Promoters Haynes and CIauson Dis.
cuss the Railway Question With
the Council Committee.
THEY coNcEDE A LOCAL LINE


Paving of Milwaukee Avenue-Promoters
Promise to Reimburse Main Street Prop
erty owners-No Free Lights.
The special railway committee of
the Council and Messrs.< Haynes and
C1auson, of Chicago. who are seeking
franchise for an electric railway
through the city, met at the City Hall
Thursday afternoon to take up the
amendments proposed by the commit
tee to the Council on last Monday
night. Every member Of the commit
tee was present at the meeting, and as
result the chairman of the committee
stated this morning that he was of the
opinion that the city and the promot-
they ever had been.
The amendments proposed to the
franchise by the committee were taken
up one by one and most of them were
accepted by the promoters without ar
gument. The great snag was the
amendment providing for the paving
of Milwaukee avenue. This amend
ment was positively refused by the
promoters and on this account it is
claimed that the franchise can never
be passed, as the North side aldermen
have demanded this concession before
they will vote favorab1y on the fran
chise. Mr.. Haynes stated that it
would not be possible for the company
which he represented to accept the
franchise with such a weight tied to
it. He considered the demand an
unreasonable one and stated that
the final proposition in regard to
the paving of Milwaukee avenue was
that the company would pave seven
feet where single tracks were laid and
sixteen feet where double tracks were
laid.
In regard to the Main street
paving the committee changed their
minds so that the company would be.
forced to pay the property owners a
portion of the cost of the paving of
the street. This proposition was
favorab1y received by the company.
The clause proposing that the COM
pany rebuild the Main street bridge
was accepted without comment as the
company stated that they had counted
on this work from the first.
The greatest victory gained by the
city was the consent of the promoters
to put in local line for the benefit of
the city. This was named as part of
the ordinance and agreed to by both
the members of the committee and
Messrs. Haynes and C1auson.
The line as mapped out is to start
from the corner of South and Main
streets, thence west to Fremont ave-,
thence south to Elizabeth street.
thence west to Crate street, thence
north along Crate and Newell
streets to Market street and east on
Market to Main street. This line is
practically the same local line as the
one mapped out in the DeWo1f fran
chise.
In regard to the local line the com
pary agree to run cars every thirty
up at all times.
The amendment to the franchise
providing that the company rnish
lights on all streets passed over, was
knocked out by the committee after
hard fight had been made for its addi-
ton to the ordinance. Some of the
members of the committee held that it
was not a necessary provision, as the
city already had splendid lighting
plant, and other demands would be
made which would more than balance
this.
The promoters agreed thai there
were to be no loops or turnouts on
Main street. With these changes the
committee found their proposition
complete with the exception of the
clause providing for remuneration for
the city at the end of ten years. The
promoters then submitted another
proposition. They agree, that if the
city will allow them to use the Main
street bridge, the promoters to pay for
all repairs needed, that they will in
c1ude all the other changes accepted
and give the question of remunerating
the city after fifteen years, favorable
consideration. The promoters posi-
lively refused TO consider a plan for
remuneration after ten years, and the
committee consented to change to
fifteen years.
The committee demanded that the
company put up a bond of SIS, 1000 to
guarantee that the work would be
started within sixty days after the
franchise was accepted, and required
that the entire line be in operation
within fifteen months from the date of
the acceptance of the franchise.
Here the promoters and the commit
tee had another hard fight, the COM
mittee holding that the line should be
completed in year, and the promoters
holding that three years should be
allowed. The compromise was finally
made on fifteen months.
After the deliberations were over
the committee refused to make any
recommendations to the Council in re-
gard to the franchise on account Of the
refusal of the promoters to accept the