The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-04
Property Owners, Common Coun.
Gil and Pres. Frost Discuss
Conditions on Elizabeth st,
MUST GIVE UP QUICK SERVICE
Railway Company Will Not Insist on
Its Rights on Elizabeth Street if
the City Takes Out the Ten
Minute Service Clause


street has become a fight in which
levery user of the street railway in
I Kenosha is interested as at meeting
of the Council, the property owners
and Mr.. Frost held at the City Hal
last night, Mr.. Frost declared that the
proposition was either double track
on Elizabeth street or no ten minute
service in the city. Elizabeth street
is willing to hold out for the twenty
minute service if it will keep one
track off the street but there is little
reason to believe that the City Coun
Gil will vote to release the company
from the ten minute service PROPOSE
ton. The matter was discussed from
every standpoint at the meeting last
night and in fact Mr.. Frost and the
various property owners who came to
the Council meeting to protest against
the double track talked round in a
circle and when they all got through
| talking the matter was no nearer an
| adjustment than it was when the
argument started.
| The meeting was mild affair and
| no one lost his temper and no one
told the other one what he thought of
him with the one exception that
| Alderman O'Brien managed to break
into the monotony late in the night
| and he handed out few choice per-
sonal remarks to John O'Donnell
which the latter overlooked entirely
and there was nothing doing. In
mparison with the meeting of Mon
day night the meeting was about like
a Sunday School picnic along side a
gathering of the Chicago Anarchists
on Raymarket day.
President Frost declared that he
was of the opinion that the people
residing and owning property on the
street were needlessly alarmed as he
street at this time failed to show any
thing of what it would be when the
work was completed. He submitted
blue prints to show that even with
the double track there would be an
abundance of room for wagons to use
reduce the space between the tracks
and yet pave twenty feet of the road
way and that he would do his part of
the paving at once SO that the people
would have the use of the paving in
the coming winter.
Mr.. Frost insisted that he would not
be arbitrary in the matter, and that if
the people of the street insisted on
single track he would lay only sim
gle track, providing the Council
would release the company from the
ten-minute service proposition. He
said that this was the only way out of
the difficulty. The plan to build
switches and turn-outs was suggested
but Mr.. Frost stated that this would
be irnpracticable if there was to be
ten-minute service.
One alderman suggested that the
street be Widened, but this brought
new protest from the property
owners, who declared that such
widening of the street would result in
the destruction of their shade trees.
The prin cipa1 orators from Elizabeth
street were John O'Donne11, Philip
Harr1an, Jr., ]. A. Killeen and Chas.
Voighe, and all of them had the same
story to tell-the property owners
we're opposed to double track under
any consideration, and that while
they were satisfied that Frost was in
no way to blame for the conditions as
they exist today, they insisted that it
was up to the Council to find some
way to give the relief asked for.
The old plan of taking the kickers
over the road was suggested by Mr..
Frost, and he stated that there was a
street in Winnetka which had the
same conditions exactly. The prop
erty owners will appoint committee
to go down and look at this street on
Sunday, and then report will be
NJ ade to the Council on Monday mig hit.
There is no tendency on the part of
the Council to drop out the ten-min-
ute service clause, and if any changes
are made it is pretty certain that they
will come from an agreement between
It is thought possible that the prop
erty owners would feel very kindly to
the project if the railway company
would consent to pave the remaining
twelve feet of the street, but Presi-
dent Frost declared that he could not
consider such plan.
The most kindly spirit was shown
at the meeting last night, and while
the protest of the Elizabeth street
people was urged to its full value
there we're no threats of court action
or injunction. It is thought that if
the Council finds no way out of the
difficulty the people Of the street,
while protesting, will consent to the
tracks going down.