The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-23
Movement Put on Foot to Start an In
dependent Telephone Company
in This City.
PATIENCE NO LONGER A VIRTUE.
New Company Seeks to Put In an Independ-
With Independent Companies Later.

Patience has ceased to be a virtue,
and the poor service of the Wisconsin
Telephone Company in Kenosha has
a movement for the construction of IN
independent telephone line IL the city.
C. A. Sterling and ]. Stone, two men
who have been prominently connected
with the building Of independent lines
in the State during the past two years,
came to the city this morning and took
the Initiative in the plans for the new
company.
Of course the plans of the proposed
company are still in embryo, but there
is such strong feeling of the need of
competitive system in Kenosha that
there is little doubt but that the matter
will be taken up by the patrons of
the phone lines in the city and pushed
to successful conclusion. While
double telephone system is not the
most DESTROYS thing to be found in
city the size of Kenosha, the demand
for better service is so urgent that it
is almost absolutely necessary for
some decisive step to be taken. The
| telephone men had a long converse
ton with the City Clerk this morning
and the matter was discussed from all
standpoints and the men decided that
the opening in Kenosha was a good
one.
The promoters of the new line are
.N11 10
in the city, and for this purpose they
will make an effort to raise fund of
! 100000. As far as possible the stock
in the company will be held by citi-
| zens of Kenosha, and the line will then
| be more of local institution, With
500, 000 it is claimed that the company
will be able to put in the most modern
system. The wires can be placed
underground, the instruments can be
of the most modern type, and the serv-
ice furnished can be of the best. With
such a line and the support of the peo-
pie of the city, it is thought possible to
| furnish metallic lines for customers in
the city at the rate of dollar and a
half and dollar 3 month, to be regu-
| lated by the sort of service demanded
{ The company will, of course, be
/ forced to secure a franchise for the
CONSTRUCTION of the line from the City
| Council, tit is thought that this will
be granted with little trouble, as the
sen timeut favoring a new line is SO
strong.
Within few days the promoters of
the company expect to make known
more definite plans for the organiza-
ton and equipment of the company,
and at that time the names of3the men
back of the company will be made pub
lie. us secs
In speaking of the matter this morn
ing one of the interested Kenosha peo-
pie said, 'It is the plan to make this
independent line purely local affair,
but al the same time we will seek to
form union with the Bristol Te1e-
phone Company, and in the near fu-
ture it is possible that the lines of the
Racine Independent Telephone Com
pany will also be connected with the
Kenosha lines. A union of the indie
pendent Telephone lines in Southern
Wisconsin is greatly to be desired, as
the companies are forced to work
against one of the strongest corpora
tons in the country, and for this rea-
son the companies demand all the sup
port that can be secured"
The proposition to build new line
in Kenosha will certainly touch pop
ular chord, and it is to be hoped that
the company will have every encour-
agement in its work.