The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-25
WILL BUILD MODEL PLANT
New Machinery To Be Installed and
Company Will Increase It's Present
Capacity Three Fold Within the Next
Sixty Days

The Kenosha Gas and Electric Com
pany on Wednesday fled with the Wis
cousin Railroad Commission at Madison
new schedule Of rates to cover all
classes of electric business in Kenosha
and this new rate which will be lower
than any rate ever offered in Kenosha
will 90 into effect the first of next
month The rates will be made for the
supply Of both light and power and
while copy of them has not as yet
reached Kenosha it is said that the
company has made concessions with
view of being able to get the entire
light and power business OF Kenosha
and the rate will be placed at such
figure as to make it possible for even
the largest industrial corporations in
the city to contract with the company
for power. A meeting of the manu-
facturers of Racine which city is also
affected by the change in schedule was
held on Wednesday night and later the
rate will be explained to Kenosha manu-
facturers and others interested. The
new schedule will include fiat rates for
the lighting of signs and windows and
the change will affect every consumer
regardless of the amount of electricity
used. The residence rate will repre-
sent radical reduction from the pres
emit rates but it will be based on an
entirely different plan of distribution.
The rates for resident lighting will
be lower than those offered by the COM
pany in the past and it is claimed that
the new schedule of rates will give to
Racine and Kenosha the lowest rates
for electric light and power to be found
in any of the larger cities of the state.
In anticipation of large increase
in business following the reduction
of the rates the company ordered
and will install within the next
sixty days a 1000 K. w. generator
which will give the Kenosha. plant
three times the capacity at the present
time. In addition to this automatic
| regulators will be installed at a cost of
$4,000 to take care of the fuctuation
in voltage. The plans of the company
include the expenditure Of between
$4,000 and 100000 in the rebuilding
of the Kenosha plant and the system of
wires in the city. When this work is
completed it is declared that the Ke-
nosha plant will be the most up to
date in the state.
In addition to the changes in Ke-
nosha the company will open large
display room in Milwaukee for the
| sale of fixtures and motors and the
store will be in charge of expert cleo
trical engineers who will give their SER
vices free to people in Kenosha who
plan to install electricity for either
| lighting or power purposes.
| Superintendent R. N. Kimball when
seen this morning said: ~ have not as
yet received copy of the new schedule
| filed with the commission on Wednesday
| but can say that there will be radical
reductions on all rates in the city and
that every patron of the company re-
gardless of how large or how small will
be affected by the rate. The new rate
will demand large increase in the
| business as the rate as fixed is lower
than the present cost of the production
| of the power. believe that the people
of the city will see the great value of
| this reduction and that the business of
the company will be tripled by the
radical change in the rates. In fact
under the new rates it will be a saving
proposition for every user of power in
Kenosha to buy his power from this
company. The up to date equipment
that is now being installed and the in
stallation will be completed in sixty
days will insure the people of the city
the best possible service from the
standpoint of electrical engineers. The
schedule Of the rates will be given to
the public in formal way just as soon
as it is passed upon by the commission
and a copy Of it properly approved is
returned to the company
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