The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-17
Chicago, kenosha, Milwaukee &
Lake Geneva Company to
Continue the Struggle
MAY GO OVER OTHER STREETS
Managers of the Road Claim That
Frost Can Not Block the Building
Of the Road Through Kenosha
With New Grant


the traction question in Kenosha, the
Chicago, Kenosha, Milwaukee and
Lake Geneva Railway Co. has bobbed
up serenely, and while the Council
put an awful damper on the hopes of
the managers of the company by pass
ing the Frost ordinance without any
of the proposed amendments, the
managers of the company still declare
that it is their intention to get
through Kenosha, and within, few
days the Common Council will receive
an application for new franchise
from the company.
The ordinance proposed by the COM
pany, and now pending before the
| Council, will of course not be passed,
as the route laid out by the ordinance
I is largely covered in the ordinance
under which Mr.. Frost gets his ex-
tensions. The managers of the GEN
eva company had expected the Coun-
Gil to pass the Frost ordinance, and
for this reason they began weeks ago
to figure out some new route by which
they might get through the city.
While the Frost ordinance pretty
nearly blocks all entrances to the city
from the south, the managers of the
through line are now at work, and
they believe that by the purchase of
private rights of way they will be
able to find way to get around the
monopoly and get into the city so as
to use one of the north and south
streets not now held by the local COM
pany. Both West and Congress streets
have been suggested by the local
managers of the company. These
streets run into Strong street on the
south. and it would be necessary to
buy private rights of way from Strong.
street to the city limits. 1t is now ad-
mitted that the Chicago, Kenosha,
Milwa ukee and Lake Geneva will pool
its interests with the Waukegan and
North Shore and the Chicago and Ke-
nosha Railway companies, and the
three companies will make united
assault on the city. If the companies
should elect to go over either West or
Congress streets, it would be neces-
sary for the city to open these streets
across Pike river in order to make
possible the extension of the lines
north to the city limits. 1t is alleged
that the company is ready to begin
work on the building of the road, and
that material has been purchased, but
no start on the work will be made un-
til the franchise through Kenosha is
secured.
The ordinances passed by the Coun-
Gil on last Tuesday morning have not
asyet been signed by the Mayor, but
he has FIVE days in which to affix his
signature, and the ordinances will not
be published until next week. In the
meantime the officials of the Kenosha
Electric Railway company are secur-
Ting the bonds demanded by the or
dinance. The company has thirty
days In which to file the bond for
5000, and SIXTY days in which to file
the SIS, 900 bond. Both bonds must be
surety company bonds approved by
Mayor German.
The ordinance must be accepted
within thirty days by the company,
and there is no doubt butathat the &C
ceptance will be filed, as it is stated
that the company has already began
the purchase of materials for the new
line. -