The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-03
Chicago. Kenosha & Milwaukee
Railway Co., May Ask City
to Amend Frost Ordinance
BOTH TO USE SAME TRACKS
Com pany Seeking Through Rights Will
Suggest That Both Companies Use
Ashland Ave., for Railway Pur-
poses.- Would Com promise

The Chicago, Kenosha, Milwaukee
and Lake Geneva Electric Railway
Company will not give up the fight
for right of way through Kenosha,
and this morning one of the officials
of the company stated that his COM
pany had in no way lost hope on ac-
count of the fact that the City Council
committee haa unanimously recon-
mended the passage of the Frost fran
chise ordinance. He stated that his
company may go before the Council
and ask that the ordinance now pend
ing be so amended as 10 make it pos
sible for both the Chicago, Kenosha,
Milwaukee and Lake Geneva road and
the Kenosha Electric road to use the
tracks to be laid on Ashland avenue.
He stated that the company would be
willing to offer compromise to the
Frost interests which would be de-
cidedly acceptable one. cit is GER
tain said the official, 'tthat Mr..
Frost has no desire to parallel his own
line to the north of Grand avenue,
and we would make this proposition to
the Council and Mr.. Frost: Let the
Council grant the franchise to Mr..
Frost, with a clause granting our
company the right to run over the line
from the city limits on Ashland ave-
nue. to Grand avenue. Then we will
take upon ourselves the task Of COM
pleting the road to the north limits of
the city. We would agree to pay for
the new bridge and for the paving on
Caledonia street and our proportion of
the cost of laying the road along the
south end Of Ashland avenue. Added
to this we will agree to make our road
a feeder for the local line by giving
universal transfers, and we will make
a contract with Mr.. Frost that will
give him the lions share of fares re-
.ceived from such transferred passen-
gers. By this arrangement the cost
of the road to Mr.. Frost would be cut
in two, and added to this, the city
would get the benefit of a new through
line from the south which would tap a
country not now touched by the Chi
.cago and Milwaukee road We also
agree to put up $4,000 bond to COM
plete the road within one year"
3 1t is not thought that this arrange
ment will appeal to the Frost inter-
ests, bat it is possible that the Keno
sha Electric Railway Company would
accept the franchises with these
strings rather than to give up the
idea of extending the lines on Ash
land avenue and Grand avenue. The
officials Of both companies seem to
think that the city will meet with lit
tie trouble in opening Ashland avenue
through the property owned by the
Central Leather Company, but state
ments have been given out to the eff
feet that the Leather company would
contest every step of the way. Of
course whatever damages are allowed
would be paid by the property along
the street, and the city would not be
forced to give up cent.
The officials Of the Chicago, Keno
sha, Milwaukee and Lake Geneva road
state that 1t they are denied the right
to lay tracks on Ashland avenue they
will seek right over other north and
south streets in the city West and
Congress streets have been men
toned, and these streets, like Ash
land avenue, would force the COM
pany to make some arrangements for
opening the streets to the north.
The representatives. of the company
in speaking of the matter this morn
lug, said: ''We are going to get
right of way through Kenosha. You
can depend upon that. We have spent
large sums getting rights of way be-
tween Kenosha and Chicago, and it is
not reasonable to believe that we will
throw away all of these rights on ac-
count Of the inability to get fran
chise here. Our proposition will be
laid before the Council in due time,
and it will be one worthy of the con-
sideration of all the people in the city
interested in the development of the
railway service"