The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-18
People Living on Streets Where
Railway Co. Seeks Extension
Of Time May Kick
ALDERMEN MAY ACT SOON
No Formal Protest Has as Yet Been
Filed With the City Council and the
Railway Company May Get Fur
Their Time for Building.

! will be some opposition 10 the extern
sion of the rights Of the Kenosha
| Electric Railway Company on certain
streets OF the city which were named
as part of the original franchise and
property owners have already begun
to buttonhole the aldermen and urge
| that the ordinance now pending be-
fore the Council be laid on the table
and that the rights which were grant
ed in the original ordinance be allow
ed to end at the time set by that con-
tract with the city. The sKenosha
Electric Railway Company now has
the control of many streets in the
city and people are beginning to be-
| lieve that some way should be left for
a competing line.
ThereIare some of the property
owners on streets mentioned in the
ordinance for extension who would
welcome the coming of the railway
company, but there is at the same
time many people who have pur-
chased property on the streets since
the original grant was made by the
| Council who are bitterly opposed to
the building Of railway on these
| streets. The ordinance for the ex-
tension of the time for the building
on these streets has been before the
| Council for many weeks and it is pos
sible that the Council may act on it
at an early meeting. If the people of
AZ ~ 4N a1yn n G.
against this ordinance it is up to them
to get busy at this time and not go to
the Council after the ordinance is
passed and demand that the Council
rescind the action.
One of the members of the Council
in speaking of the matter this morn
ing said: "The Council seems dis
posed to give Mr.. Frost little more
time to lay tracks on these streets but
! | doubt if the Railway Company will
ever use any of the streets. Their
holding of them, however, will block
the coming of any other road and it
hardly seems fair for the City Council
to block the other roads in this
manner. The ordinance for the ex-
tension Of the time for building has
been before the Council for nearly
three months and in that time no
formal opposition to it has appeared.
From this fact many of the aldermen
believe that the people interested are
perfectly satisfied to have the roads
built on these streets. Without the
filing of a single objection the Coun-
Gil would certainly be warranted in
passing the extension ordinance.
It should be remembered that if this
ordinance is passed the company will
have the right to build on these
streets under the terms of the old
ordinance and it will not be necessary
for them to get the consent of the
/ property owners or to agree to give
any further paving or other street
imp rovement than that called for IN
the original ordinance. The rights
under the former ordinance will ex-
pite in a few months and it would be
practically physical impossibility
for the company to put in the lines
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expiration of the rights. The com.
pany will have to do some very tall
hustling to get in the proposed ex.
tensions in the city for which the
time limit is the middle Of next Jan.
uary and at the rate the work is now
going forward it looks as if this would
be we'll nigh impossible. More thar
two miles of track is to be laid under
4 the extension ordinance.