The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
Chicago & Milwaukee R'y Protests
Against License for Chicago,
kenosha & milwaukee Line
LONG FIGHT IS ANTICIPATED
Northwestern Expected TO Join With
Receivers Of Electric Line in At
tempt to Shut Out Rival
Electric Line

The receivers of the Chicago and Mil
waukee Electric Railway Company have
filed with the Wisconsin Railroad Com
mission a formal protest against the is
suance of certificate of necessity and
convenience for the building of the pro-
posed lines of the Chicago, Kenosha
and Milwaukee Electric Railway com
pany between Kenosha and Waukegan
and while the time for the hearing of
this protest has not as yet been set it
is certain that the receivers of the
Frost line are to make a. determined
fight to prevent the entrance of rival
company into this territory. 1t is ex-
pected that the Chicago and Northwest
ern Railway Company will also file a
protest against the issue of any license
for the new line as it IS claimed that
it will be a parallel line to the steam
line as we'll as to the Chicago and Mil
waukee. The two railways interested
in the fight on the new line have a
thorough understanding and the fight
may be so bitter that the license of
the proposed new company may be held
up for many months if not for years.
The attorney for the Chicago, Keno
sha and Milwaukee line when seen this
morning stated that he had been ad-
vised that the protest for the Frost
line had been fled by attorney Quarles,
Spence and Quarles of Milwaukee, but
as yet he had received no copy of the
protest. It is understood that local
attorneys are to be employed to repre-
sent the receivers of the Chicago and
Milwaukee in the fight before the com
mission.
On account of the inability to get
a hearing before the Railroad Commits
sion nothing further has been done by
the managers of the proposed new line
to get right of way through the city
of Kenosha, but iC is stated that this
matter will be taken up just as soon
as a certificate can be secured from
the state commission. At the time of
the filing of the request for the certi-
fcate it was expected that it would be
granted without any contest as the
managers Of the new proposed road be-
heved that this was simply a form laid
down by the state. The matter of the
right of the through company to con-
denim the lands occupied by the local
company has been established in the
Supreme Court on the proposition of
the property now occupied by the Ke-
nosha Electric Railway Company as a
car barns. tt is declared, however
that this decision would not give the
through company any right to seek to
condemn streets now occupied by the
tracks of the local company The at
torneys of the company have suggested
that the company may apply to the City
Council for the passage of franchise
ordinance, but even if this should be
done the company would probably seek
some streets now occupied by the local
company. With the sale of rhe Keno
sha lines to the company so vitality in
terested in the success of the Chicago
and Milwaukee Electric there is little
reason to believe that it will be posi-
bile to make any traffic agreements by
which the newline could use only tracks
owned by the Kenosha Electric Rail
way Company.
It is alleged that the Chicago, Ke-
nosha and Milwaukee had planned to
build the line between Kenosha and
Waukegan this year, but if the certif-
cate is not received from the State
Commission at an early date it will be
necessary to lay the matter over for
another year.