The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-12-31
Chicago, kenosha & Milwaukee
R'y Go. Asks State Commits.
sion for Right TO Build
TO PASS THROUGH KEN0SHA
Agents of the Company Will Come to
Kenosha on Monday 70 Seek OPP
tion for Righ5 of way and Line
is Said to be Financed

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have been ratified again and this time
it would appear that the company is
planning to take some steps toward
building the long projected road as
late Thursday afternoon the officials
of the company filed with the State
Railroad Commission at Madison a pc
tition for a certificate of convenience
and necessity which will make it pos
sible for the company to at once begin
on the building of the road and repre-
/ sentatives of the company who were
in Kenosha on that day declare that it
is the intention to begin work on the
line within a very few weeks Agents
of the company will be in Kenosha
on next Monday morning to seek OPP
tions for a right Of way and it is just
possible that the City Council will be
asked to pass an ordinance providing
the company with rights to build
line from the north to the south limits
of the city.
/ This sudden outbreak on the part Of
the old time company came after
meeting of the officers and directors
! held in the Fort Dearborn bank build
ing in Chicago on Thursday morning
AT this meeting it was definitely an.
nouneed that plans had been completed
for the financing Of the road and the
attorneys were at once directed to APP
ply to the Wisconsin Commission for
the license which is necessary before
the line can be built In regard to the
financing of the line one Of the repre-
sentatives Of the company said: "The
finances needed for the building of the
line are entirely provided for and when
the work is started there will be money
on hand to pay for the completion of
the entire line projected. There is no
doubt, but that the Wisconsin Railroad
Commission will issue to us the certi-
fcate sought and with this we will be
able to begin work Just as soon as the
new building season opens. The plans
made include the building Of the entire
line brom Kenosha to Chicago at once.
It is our plan to purchase outright a
right Of way through Kenosha if this
plan is possible, but if it is not we shall
be forced to begin condemnation pro,
ceedings. The officers of the company
George G. Wilcox, president; Volney
Foster, vice president, and Frank R.
Grover, secretary and treasurer, have
been working on the plans for financing
the line for the past four years and it
is certain that these men have sue
ceeded 1t is the plan of the company
to build from Kenosha to Waukegan
on the east of the Northwestern tracks
and at that point the road will cut
over to the west. We may 90 quite a
way west, but not so far that we will
not be able to take care of all the
traffic in the north shore towns. We
shall have no difficulty in effecting an
entrance to the loop district in Chicago
as we have been offered several ways
Of getting into the business portion Of
the city, but it is probable that the
Chicago connection will be the North
western Elevated.
The officials of the company seem to
have no fears but that the Wisconsin
Commission will grant the permit asked
and they seem to think that the fact
that the Chicago and Milwaukee road
is practically parallel line will not
make any difference to the company.
1t has been limited that the Chicago
and Milwaukee may be converted in,
to steam road and pass under the
control OF one Of the big railway syndi-
Gates and should this be done the Chi
cago, Kenosha and Milwaukee, would
have clear field for the interurban
business. The plans for entrance to
Milwaukee have not been worked out,
but it is declared that the company
will build into that city just as soon as
possible. Of course a line leading into
the center of Kenosha, could easily find
a connection with the Beggs line to the
north of the city and this would offer
an immediate connection with Milwau-
kee.
AS to the action of the company in
regard to the right of way through
Kenosha it is understood that the com
pany will follow the route outlined
several years ago striking the city on
Balm avenue and running thence west
to point within two hundred feet of
the Northwestern line and then orth
the Northwestern line and then north
limits Of the city. Some of the work
Of securing this right of way was done
more than year ago. The company
is said to have spent a large sum of
money in the purchase Of the right of
way between Kenosha and Waukegan
and # the statement in regard to the
company being financed is true there
will be little trouble in the company
getting through Kenosha. It is expect
ed that some more definite statement
of the proposed right Of way in Keno
sha will be made when the agents come
here next week seeking options on
property.
Men in close touch with coterie of
Chicago bankers who are said to be in
terested in the line declare that the