The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
kenosha Electric and Waukegan and
North Shore Electric to Use Same
Lines in Ken0Sha.
EAST LINE TO BE BUILT AT ONCE
Proposed Passenger and Freight Line Will
be Connected With KenOsha Lines
Price of Righteousness as Asset

| The proposed Waukegan and North
Shore Railway Company which is to
be built along the flats East of the
Northwestern road during the coming
summer will have no trouble in secur-
ing right Of way in Kenosha as it is
announced today. on unquestioned
authority that the Waukegau and
North Shore Company are working in
connection with the Kenosha Electric
Railway Company and the tracks of
the local company viii be open to the
| use of the new company as soon as the
| road to the Southwark is built. The
completion of this road is in fulfillment
of the plans laid by B. ]. Arnold years
ago and long before he became inter
terested in the Kenosha road and this
later venture was simply one of the
chains that is to bind Chicago and
Milwaukee together with girder of
steel rails. The two roads are con-
nected and Mr.. Arnold will furnish the
Waukegan and North Shore road with
a right of way through the city of
Kenosha. The route has already been
laid out and the right for its construct
ion is granted to the Kenosha Electric
Railway Company by the franchise
ordinance under which the company
is now working.
When Mr.. Arnold stated that he
wanted an Eastern route in Kenosh
before the passage of his franchise
ordinance he was laying the foundation
for the connection with sthe new road
and the route IS laid out will be along
South Main street from the present
tracks to English Court, thence East
| to Exchange street and South along
Exchange and New Exchange streets
to the Balm drive at the limits of the
city. Here the road will unite with
the road being brought up from the
South. 8
It is possible that Mr.. Arnold will
build the line Sourh as far as the state
line. No action to condemn land South
of the city has been started and for
this reason it is thought possible that
the two companies have already
reached the agreement with property
owners affected by which the invasion
of the road will be a peaceful one. II
is not known whether the new road
will attempt to carry freight IN
Kenosha, but it is probable that some
modification of the franchise will be
sought which will permit freight to be
carried to central depot.
The local agents of Mr.. Arnold do
not admit that a merger has been
formed with the company being pro-
noted by Alexander Clark and Volney
Foster but they state that it is proba-
BILE that traffic agreement will be
made by the two companies which will
give both companies the use of track
age in Kenosha.
The fight for the right of way
through Zion City is now on in the
Lake County Circuit court and this
fight will probably be finished in
another week. Zion is preparing to
sell high and the hearing on the value
of the different pieces of property is as
| good as minstrel show For the first
time in the history of courts righteous
| uCSS udS OCCOu1C LA dSSCl duQ InC
residents of Zion City have sworn on
the witness stand that the fact that
Zion is city of rig hteousness has
greatly increased the value of the
property now being condemned. The
fixing of the value of righteousness is
to be left to the court and the verdict
will be watched with interest.
H. S. Van Ingen, who is largely
interested in the road, states that there
is no longer any doubt but that the
road will be built this year.
The two companies have no plans
for the line North of Kenosha but
| there is little doubt but that it will be
merged with the lines now controlled
by the Milwaukee Electric Railway
and Light Company as soon as the
lines are completed. With the build
ing of the Waukegan and North Shore
road the field will be filled, and it will
be almost impossible for the Milwau-
kee company to secure parallel route
between the two cities without going
| to the far west.
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