The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-08-16
C. & M. E. Officials Give out Plans
ofAir Line Road Between Chi
cago and Milwaukee.
THEATRE TRAIN FOR KEH0SHA
Company Plans to Make it Possible for
Kenosha People to Attend Mi1yyan-
kee Theatres add Return sHome
the Same rSight-Other Plans

the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric
line is the grade and rails from Ra.
cine to Milwaukee. The steel has
been laid from Evanston to Racine.
The. grading crew is now working.
north from Racine, with the steel
gang only a mile and quarter be-
hind. Just when the new interurban
will enter Milwaukee will depend
largely upon the weather. Under
most favorable conditions 1t cannot
reach that city before jan /, 1907,
and with delays Of any kind it may
not reach there before June.
The grading from Evanston to RAJ
cine has been made to accommodate
four parallel tracks, concrete abut-
mercts reinforced by steel have been
erected for every bridge and culvert
to accommodate four tracks. Eighty
pound steel for two tracks has been
laid to within few hundred yards of
the city limits of Racine, and the
other two tracks are TO be laid be-
tween now and the time the road is
opened for traffic. The main power
house at Waukegan has been COM
pleted and equipped, four Of the six
sub-stations have been completed and
are now being equipped with the nee
essary machinery. One of these is
located about one mile south of the
city limits of Racine. The grading
from Racine to Milwaukee is being
rushed as fast as 200 men and twice
as many horses can do the work.
When the road is completed it will
comprise practically an air line from
Milwaukee to Chicago, the greatest
curve being / per cent, and the great
est grade being a fraction of / per
cent. One of the constructing engin-
GERS said Wednesday that, though il
was impossible to tell just how the
speed schedule would work out, the
track had been built SO that the trains
could be run at the speed of 90 or 100
miles an hour between stations. At
two points along the route, the inter-
urban will cross steam roads at grade,
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. PAIL at
Racine and branch Of the Chicago &
North Western at Kenosl1a. At both
places the crossings will be guarded
by semaphore towers, making stops
unne cessary. Somewhere in the vi
cinity of South Milwaukee the inter-
urban will cross the new air line of
the North-W Western on stell viaduct,
and at Waukegan the internrban will
tunnel under the present main line
of the North Western.
No announcement of how the Chi
cago & Milwaukee Electric is to get
into Chicago has been made, but it is
known that deal is now pending be-
tween the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul and the interurban for the use of
the ST. Paul tracks from Evanston to
Chicago. The knowledge of this
proposition being under consideration
has given rise to much gossip in RAJ
cine to the effect that the Chicago &
Milwaukee Electric will be controlled
if not owned by the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul. This gossip is given
further color by the additional fact
that the Electric has purchased land
in Racine for the purpose of laying
two big VS. connecting it with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. No
official of the Electric could be found
Wednesday to verify or deny this re-
port.
BY many the laying Of US to con-
meet with the St. Paul is considered of
no significance further than to verify
the statement made by the officials
that the Electric will go into the
freight business as extensively as it
will into the passenger traffic. That
the entire roadbed is being prepared
for four tracks indicates to those who
have been following the business that
the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric is
to become a competitor of both the
ST. Paul and the North Western in
the freight as we'll as the passenger
business between Milwa nkee and Chi
cago.
Cars for the passenger traffic have
been ordered. They are to be of the
Pullman pattern and of steel con-
struction. The motor cars for the
through train service are to be geared
to make 80 or 90 miles an hour, and
the schedule these trains will make
after the road has been in operation a
sufficient length of time to warrant
some experiments in speed will be
from Milwaukee to Chicago in an hour
and one-half.
One of the features of the service is
to be theater train which is to leave
Kenosha about O'Clock at night and
arrive IN Milwaukee, after making
the one stop at Racine, in time to per-
nit the passengers to see the curtain
raised in any of the Milwaukee
theaters.
All navigators entering or leaving
Waukegan harbor are warned to keep
at least forty feet from the harbor
face OF the piers in order to avoid
damage to their vessels by stone that
is being temporarily deposited along
side of the piers during the prceess of