The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-11
President Of the C. & M. Carries
War Against John |. Beggs
Into His Own Territory
APPLIES FOR A FRANCHISE
Milwaukee Council is Asked to Grant
Franchise for the Extension
of the Chicago and Mil
yankee Road

Albert c. Frost, the president of the
Chicago & Milwaukee railway COM
pany, has carried his war on John |.
Beggs into the very territory of the
enemy. He has bearded the lion in
his den for yesterday afternoon Presi-
dent Frost made application to the
Milwaukee city council for fran
chise by which he hopes to extend his
road into Milwaukee at once. Frost
has even gone Beggs one better for
the franchise contemplates the build
| ing of a line on north of Milwaukee
through Sheboygan and Cedarburg to
Fond du Lac. The line is proposed
as the northern end of the line which
the company is now operatingEas far
kee the line is to be known as the
Milwa ukee-Northern road. The Mil
waukee papers speak of the franchise
as the most generous ever proposed
to the Milwaukee city council.
A thirty-year franchise is asked.
The proposed ordinance provides for
a 3 cent fare in the city "unti1 the
company shall have constructed cross
lines so that transfers can beMssued;"
that the company must construct
lines wherever the common council
believes there is a reasonable neces-
sity therefor; that the tracks of the
company may be used by any other
internrban system which shall acquire
a franchise and which shall fairly
compensate the Chicago & Milwaukee
for the use of the tracks; that the
company must pay one-third of the
expense of building the disputed por
ton of the Sixth street viaduct If the
Milwaukee road cannot be compelled
to pay for it, and that the company
shall care for the streets between its
tracks.
In consideration for the franchise
the company agrees to furnish the
city with sufficient electricity to
operate all of its swing and bascu1e
bridges. Firemen, policemen and
health officials will be permitted to
ride free in the city, and the city will
be given the right to purchase the
property within the city limits at a
cost price to be determined by arbitra-
| ton.
The franchise contains the usual
clauses relating to the care of streets,
and the replacement of pavements in
good order after they are disturbed by
the company. The company is re-
quired to file bond Of SIS, 900 to car
ny out the provisions Of the ordinance,
and it is provided that two miles of
track must be in operation within
accepted.
The principal hacker of the Mil
waukee-Northern company is the con-
struction firm of Comstock, Haigh &
| Walker of Detroit and New York. Its
| Milwaukee attorneys are Winkler,
Smith, Flanders, Bottum & Fawsett;
Slower 3 Slower; Ryan, Ogden & Bot
tum, and Timlin & Glicksman.
Franchises are being asked of the
common councils of Port Washington,
.Sheboygan, Fond du Lac and Cedar
/ burg and the ultimate object of the
company is to have a line in operation
all along the west shore of Lake
Michigan. 1t is planned to have the
/ fastest cars constructed.
| This is the first effort made by any
company to compete with the Mi1wau-
kee street railway in its ownaterritory,
and the promoters are confident that
/ the territory along the lake will fur
nish ample traffic to support the line,
regard1ess of local traffic within the
| city. 1t is not expected that any i'm
mediate steps will be made to extend
the local lines beyond the straight
| track ACROSS the city.
| The franchise is one of the most
! generous ever submitted to the coun-
Gil as a first draft, and while it prob
ably will undergo numerous changes
at the hands Of the committee, it will
not be necessary to disfgure it as
greatly as usually is the case with
i similar measures.
Undoubtedly there will be great OPP
| position to the franchise from the
street railway, and the action of the
members of the councils committee
on railroads, composed of men who
generally are considered friendly to
| the interests of the Milwaukee cor
poration will be awaited with interest.