The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-18
Railway Company Resumes Work
on Elizabeth Street Despite
Protests Of Property Owners
INJUNCTION IS ONLY RELIEF
Property Owners Will Fight If the
Road Is Encountered So That It Is
Not Fit For Use BY the Peo-
pie of the City

The Kenosha Electric Railway Com
pany has taken the bull by the horns
on Elizabeth street and large force
of men are at work this morning
laying the double tracks on the street
and thus far there has been no pro-
test on the part of the people owning
property on the street beyond the pro-
tests made to the City Council. The
work of laying the tracks is being
pushed forward with all speed and it
is expected that the work will be COM
pleted by the first of next week. The
rails are being laid on the South track
today and the work of opening the
trenches for the additional track will
be started tomorrow. The company
has large force of men at work and
the number IS being increased as
rapidly as men and teams can be
secured. Manager Russell stated this
morning that the company had not
been interfered with and that he did
not expect any interference from the
property owners.
John O'Donnel1, who has been con-
sidered the leader in the fight against
the double track on the street, stated
when seen that the property owners
would protect their rights and that
Attorney r. V. Baker and attorneys in
Milwaukee had been retained to look
after the matter for them.
Mr.. O'Donnell did not state that
an injunction would be served on the
company but he stated that the
property owners would act in case
''the laying Of the double tracks en-
numbered the roadway in such way
as to make it useless to the property
owners. This statement seems to
indicate that the property owners
will not act until after the company
has completed the laying of the tracks
and then seek to have the tracks
pulled up if it is impossible for the
road to be used by the people living
in the neighborhood. This will give
the railway company possession of
the street and it will be hard thing
to- force the removal of the tracks.
The hands of the property owners are
ractically tied by the action of the
Council in granting the franchise as
the attorneys hold that fight by in
junction at this time would be we'll
nigh worthless and the money would
be spent without any results save the
delaying of the laying of the tracks
on the street. It is declared by the
attorneys for the company and by
others not interested in the case that
the Courts could not go behind the
action of the Council unlesss it was
shown that the streets had been
rendered worthless by the action of
the railway company in laying the
double tracks.
Some of the property owners seem
to have given up the fight and it is
not thought that these people will
take any part IN any fight in Court.
AS a last resort one or two of the
property owners sought to seek the
paving of the entire street from
the railway company but this plan
was turned down and these people
have now retired from the fight. The
railway company is anxious to get
the work on other streets under way
and it is certain that no time will be
lost in getting the double track on
Elizabeth street. No arrangements
have been made for paving the street
as suggested by the railway company.