The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-30
Kenosha Is Rapidly Losing Her Fame
As One OF the Big Shipping
Ports on the Lake.
FEW VESSELS COMING INTO PORT.
Allen Company Will Ship Bark by Rail
Kenosha This Year-Yachts Coming.

| The lake season in Kenosha this
year promises to be the most uninter-
esting ever known in the history of
the city, and it is evident that the
prestige of Kenosha as a lake port is
waning. There will be a few lake
cargoes brought into the harbor this
year, and outside of the few boats
loads of coal brought for the different
coal merchants the waters of the har-
Dor will be practically undisturbed.
In days gone Kenosha was harbor
where dozens of sailing and steam
vessels could have been seen every day
in the week, but times of lake ship
Iping seem to have changed in the city,
and docks built at cost of thousands
of dollars are being allowed to go to
rack and ruin while the competing
railway is building it's tracks up to the
very waters edge. Only three boats
will make Kenosha a regular sailing
schooners ]. V. Jones, the Alice and
the Jura. These three boats are
owned by the N. r. Aliens sons aud
they will be retained in the bark car
rying business. All the other boats in
which the tannery had an interest have
| been either sold or leased for the sea-
son, and these three schooners will be
| the Only ones used. The building of
the new spur railway to the Allen plant
has made it possible and profitable for
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the bark in by rail, and it is thought
that in another year the lake trade in
bark will be entirely suspended. The
bark is now being taken from the
Michigan points By car ferry to Mil
waukee and is being shipped into Ke-
nosha by rail at lower figures than it
was ever brought by boat, and this
fact has sounded the death-knell of the
lake shipping interests. The bridge
tender will have little to do during the
coming summer. Very little lumber
is now being brought into Kenosha by
boat so that the only cargoes left for
the sailing masters to bring to Keno
sha is the coal for the furnaces of the
factories and homes.
| There will be no freight line touch
ing Kenosha during the present sea-
son. It was thought that either the
Barry Line or the Graham and Morton
would have a boat touch at this port,
but the schedules of these companies
have been announced for the year and
none of the boats will touch either at
| KauoSha 0r Wa1keOsn
With this decay in lake traffic the
city is gaining some fame as yacht
ing center aud theBclub house of Com
modore Morgan, of the Chicago Yacht
club will be a social center the COM
ing summer.
The work of releasing the yachts
from their winter homes has already
been begun, and within ten days more
score of the yachts will be floating in
the waters Of the harbor waiting for
the first trial spin of the season. It is
expected that that the boats will not
leave the harbor until late in May,
and their owners will arrange several
interesting races for the opening sea-
sou.
Many of the best boats of the Chi
cago club and quite a number of the
| Milwaukee squadron have been here
during the winter, and are now being
put ia readiness for another summer
of racing.
With the departure of the sailing
vessels ample room is being left for
the erection of club houses for the use
of the different members of the Chi
cago and Milwaukee yacht clubs, and
it is thought possible that several of
these houses will be erected during the
/ coming summer