The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-06-01
President Arnold of the Electric
Railway Company Says that
Transfers May Come.
REPLIES TO RECENT PETITION
States That His Company Has Every
Motive to Develop New System ''as
Soon as Praeticab1e-He Claims
Company is Misrepresented.

Bion J. Arnold, president of the Ke-
nosha Electric Railway company, has
addressed letter to the signers of
the petition recently sent to him by
kenosha business men in which he
defends the action of the company
and IN which he states that the com
pany has ''every motive to develop
different transfer system, using print
ed transfer slips or otherwise, as soon
as acticable.'' The letter of Mr..
Arnold is self explanatory. 1t fol-
lows:
.. CHICAGO, May %, 1905.
Messrs. H. E. Barden, E. r. Head and
Other Signers of the Petition Adj
dressed to the Kenosha Electric Rail
way Company and Bion J. Arnold,
Kenosha, Wis.
!. Gentlemen: I acknowledge receipt
of a petition signed by sixty-four
business men, purporting to convey
the sentiment of o5 per cent of the
citizens of the city of Kenosha,
| wherein it is claimed that the Kenosha
!, Electric Railway company is not 1iv-
! ing up to its franchise by failing to
issue printed transfer slips, and di-
rect demand is made upon the COM
pany to at once put such transfer
slips into effect.
address you as the first and last
signers of the petition, and through
fhn nfhnr 60 81 ~
| say that it is the intention of the COM
| pany and myself to give careful con-
sideration to any reasonable and con-
sistent request made upon the COM
pany, and especially so when there
are any grounds for anyone to justly
maintain that the terms of the fran
| chise are not being complied with.
| The petition arrived during my abb
sence from the city, and I take the
4 first opportunity of acknowledging it.,
after having had chance to read it
| carefully, since my arrival here, and /
trust that the delay will not be con-
sidered by you and the other signers
as IN any way discourteous, as the
matter referred to in the petition is
one which requires careful consider
alton, which I am now endeavoring to
give it.
think the petition could have been
more justly worded, as it practically
charges the company with deliber-
ately evading its obligations under its
franchise, which charge is absolutely
without justification. The signers
have assumed something to be fact
which has not been so proven, and a
fair analysis of the entire case will
not justify their assumption.
AS previously pointed out by me in
communication to The EVENING
News, published in its issue of April
4, 1905, the company desires to fully
live up to the terms of it's franchise
and to so treat the people of Kenosha
that they will feel that the company is
being liberally managed, but the citi-
zens OF kenosha should bear in mind
that it is always possible for those
having personal motives for finding
fault with a railway company to raise
issues between the people and the
company, based upon imaginary
wrongs, which are misleading, for the
purpose of creating a prejudice
against the company in order that
thir objects may be accomplished,
thus placing innocent signers of petit
lions, not fully conversant with the
facts, ina false position
l. While feel that the schedule Of the
cars isynow such as to give the citizens
the full benefit of the accommodations
called for by the franchise without
necess1tating the use of printed trans
fer slips, it has always been my inten-
ton when the road operated suf-
flc1ent number of cars to make the use
OF printed transfer slips desira BILE, to,
put theH into effect, provided a plan
could be formulated which would not
work hardship upon the road by such
transfer slips being improperly used
by the passengers.
| arnscredibly informed that if any
one is losing under the present sys-
tenn Of operation it is likely the rail-
way company sinstead Of the citizens,
and therefore there is every motive
for the company to develop adiherent]
transfer system, using printed slips
or otherwise, as soon as practica BILE.
Yours very truly,
N BIoN J. ARNOLD.