The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-23
EnumeratOrs For the New Directory
Find a Large Increase in the
Population of the City.
is NEARING THE 10000 MARK.
Directory Men Claim That Kenosha Has
Increased 5000 in Single Year.-Fac-
tories EnIarging and Spreading Out.

| The representatives of the A. G.
Wright Directory company, of Mil
waukee, who are now making canvas
of the city for the purpose of issuing
new directory of the city and county
are making some startling and inter
esting statements in regard to the in
crease in the population of the city
during the year just passed.
Last year the Milwaukee men took
census of the city for the directory
and their statements showed that the
city had a population of about four
teen thousand. This year they de-
clare that there has been a phenome-
nal increase in the number Of people
in the city and they predict that the
| increase will be at the least calcu1a-
| ton two thousand and it is probable
that the increase will reach the three
| thousand mark. Hundreds of new
names are finding their way into the
new directory and the euumerators are
being forced to go to streets hitherto
not noted in the directory lists. If the
growth of the city is as great as the
| lists of the enumerators show the pop
u1ation of Kenosha is close TO the
seventeen thousand mark and it is pos
sible that it is over this amount.
During the year past several parcels
of property from the town of Pleasant
Prairie and the town of Somers have
been annexed to the city and in this
manner the population of the city has
been increased by few hundred peo-
pie but the increase will not account
for any increase like the one claimed
| by the agents of the directory COM
pany. The men claim that the large
increase has been in the factory dis
tricts and that the factories employ
ing only few men a year ago are now
employing from two to three hundred.
Many of these men have been brought
in from other places and this
fact is shown by the large number of
new names that are being taken for
the directory.
An examination shows that the re-
ports from the directory men are true
and every factory in the city with the
single exception of the Badger Brass
company have increased their force of
workmen. At the Hosiery works the
increase has been a large one. The
A. D. Meiselbach company, the Ram
bier Automobile company and the
Cooper Underwear company have
doubled in single year and all these
factories have been forced to seek
their men from other places.
This growth among the workers of
the city is shown in the steady increase
in the number of houses built in the
suburbs and in the additions close to
the city limits.
Hundreds of houses built by men
employed in the different factories
have gone up IN Kenosha during the
year just closing. The sale of the
Balm subdivision has opened up a new
boom for homes and during the com
ing year there will be several hundred
more homes built. In 1905 Kenosha
promises to nave at least population
of 10000 people and if the ration keeps
up for the next three years as in the
past the city will pass her envious
Northern neighbor and seek with
West Superior the honor of being the
second largest city IN the state.