The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-02
Street BY. Co. Notified Sim
mons Co. Will Not Supply
Power After Nov. Is
NEED POWER FOR OWN USE
Large Additions Made to Factory Plant
Will Require All Power Furnished
by Company's Engines Leaving no
Surplus for Railway Company.

The Kenosha Electric Railway Com
pany will either have to begin the cree
tion of a new power plant Immediately
or make some other arrangements for a
supply of current as notice has been
served on the officials Of that company
that the agreement now existing with
the Simmons Manufacturing Company
under which the Simmons company
supplies steam and extra current to the
railway will terminate on November
Is. Under the agreement made be-
tween the two companies all relations
may be severed on sixtys days notice,
but it is expected that the early mott
fcation from the Simmons company
will give the railway company ample
time to make the necessary arrange
ments to furnish its own power. The
formal notice which was served on the
representatives of the railway com
pany in Kenosha some days ago and
copy of which was forwarded to the
president of that company reads as fol-
lows:
To Kenosha Electric Railway Co.,
Kenosha, Wisconsin,:
May Is, 1910.
Gentlemen
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned, the Simmons Manufacture
ing Company, will not furnish to you
electric current or surplus steam under
that certain paper writing bearing date
May %, 1909, from and after Novem-
Der Is, 1910, for the reason that the
said the Simmons Manufacturing Com
pany will have no available electric
current and no surplus steam from and
after said date, and that all of the
and after said date will be necessarily
used by The Simmons Manufacturing
Company in the requirements of its
manufacturing business, and that all
steam generated by it from and after
said date will be necessarily used in
the requirements of it's said manufact-
uring business.
By order of the board; Of directors.
The Simmons Manufacturing Co.,
by z. G.. Simmons,
President.
The termination of the agreement
between the two companies which has
been in effect only since May %, 1909,
was made necessary by the rapid in
crease in the business of the Simmons
company and the extension of the plant
of the company which is now under
way. The Simmons company now has
under construction two great additions
to it's plant which are expected to- be
ready for use early in the fall and
when the company begins operating in
the new building it will have no SUPP
lus steam or electric current to supply
the electric railway company To
care for its own business and
to continue to supply the railway COM
pany the Simmons company would have
to entirely reconstruct it's boiler plant
and the returns from the sale of power
to the railway company are not large
enough to warrant such extensive al
terations.
The business of the Simmons com
pany is increasing so rapidly that its
officers believe that the company will
have all it can do to keep its power
plant up to the demands of its own
business in the future and that it is
better in every way for the electric
railway company to make this change
now when it can be given plenty of
time to make other arrangements rath-
er than to wait until something hap
pens when it would be necessary to
shut off the supplies from the factory
on short notice. The Simmons com
pany has given no indication of its in
tentions in regard to the building and
equipment of the railway company now
on its land.
Under the agreement between the
companies the Simmons company has
the right to purchase the property of
the railway company at an appraised
valuation. The building itself is val
ued in the neighborhood Of $4,000, but
including the machinery the invest
ment of the railway company probably
amounts to two or three times that
sum. The arc lighting machinery and /
the railroad rotary are portable and
could easily be removed to the new
plant.
Sidney A. Loughridge, general man
ager of the railway company, has lit
tie to, say in regard to the future plans
of the railroad company for power
house. When asked in regard to the
matter he said: "Of course I know
that the notice referred to has been
served on our company by the Simmons
people, but further than that / do not