The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-10
Managers of Geneva Company
Make Public Amendmentto be
Proposed for Frost Ordinance
WILLING TO REVERSE PLAN
Managers of the Company Claim They
Are Willing to Build the Line
and Give Frost Right to Run
Local Cars Over Tt

The managers of the Chicago, Ke-
nosha, Milwa ukee & Lake Geneva
Railway Co. have prepared an amend
ment, which is to be offered to the
Frost ordinance now before the City
Council, and this ordinance will be
presented at the next meeting of the
Common Council. The amendment
provides that the company building
the line shall grant to the Geneva
company the right to run cars over the
line. In this connection it is stated
that the Geneva company is willing 70
accept the ordinance proposed to the
City Council by President Frost, and
allow to the Kenosha Electric Railway
Co. the right to run cars of the local
line over the tracks. AS TIE amend
ment is of general interest to the
property owners Of the city, it is pub
lished in full as follows:
Amend section 3'of the certain or
dinance entitled, ''An ordinance
granting additional franchise rights
to the Kenosha Electric Railway Com
L
of Kenosha," by adding new para
graph to section "3' of said ordi-
nance, which said amendment shall be
numbered 'so'' and be as follows:
9. Said grantee shall permit the
Chicago, Kenosha, Milwaukee & Lake
Geneva Electric Railway Company,
its successors, lessees or assigns
hereinafter called the Geneva Com
pany), to operate cars over the tracks
constructed under this ordinance on
Ashland avenue from the south limits
of said city to the north end of said
avenue, as the same now is, or may
hereafter be; thence across the bridge
to be constructed across Pike Greek;
the north limits of said city, for the
purpose of carriage of passengers,
mail, express matter, personal bag
gage and packages, and bicycles as
baggage, and for the carriage of ma
teria1 for construction, improvement,
maintainence, operation and repair Of
the railway constructed by the Geneva
company, within or outside of said
city or operated or leased by it, DUR
ing the full term of this franchise, or
any extension thereof, upon the usual
and customary terms for the Joint use
of tracks by street railway com anies,
and, for the power to propel cars over
tracks on said route; the said cars be-
longing to said Geneva company, here
matter mentioned, and to be operated
by it over the said tracks, to include
interurban electric cars reaching said
north and south limits Of said city Of
Kenosha from points outside of and
beyond the limits of said city, whether
the railroad upon which said cars
shall reach the said limits of said city
be constructed by the said Geneva
company or any other company, pro-
viding, however, that such cars and
carriages shall be used for no other
purposes than those hereinbefor
mentioned, and, providing further
that said Geneva company and said
grantee shall grant and honor respec-
lively transfers for all passengers
within the city limits upon the cars
operated by said companies, their sue
cessors, lessees or assigns.
Amend section Z of said ordinance
by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing:
''And provided further that said
grantee shall, within said thirty days
from and after the passage of this or
dinance, file with the City Clerk of
said city, an agreement between it
and the said Chicago, Kenosha, Mil
waukee & Lake Geneva Electric Rail-
way Company wherein and whereby
the said grantee shall agree with the
said Chicago, Kenosha, Milwaukee &
Lake Geneva Electric Railway Com
pany to permit it to use it's tracks, as
provided in paragraph ''o' of said
section 49, and the said Chicago,
Kenosha, Milwaukee & Lake Geneva
Electric Railway Company shall agree
to use said tracks and the power to
operate cars thereover, in accordance
with the provisions of saidsparagrap phi
''9' of said section 80 for consid-
GRAFTON to be agreed upon by said
companies, and, in the event that
they cannot agree, then the price for
the use of such tracks aud such power
shall be determined by arbitrator,
one of whom shall be selectedsby said
grantee and said Chicago, Kenosha,
Milwaukee & Lake Geneva Electric
Railway Company, and the two so
chosen shall choose third arbitrator,
and the decision Of the arbitrators
shall be final between the said COM
panies, the parties to said agreement
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