The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-19
DEMAND EXTENSION OF TIME
Committee Wires President Today Re-
questing That He Extend the Time
Given to Kenosha to at Least An
Hour Expect Favorable Response.

Kenosha is going to burn red fire
and make merry for half hour when
President Taft comes to Kenosha on
Oct. 9th. This morning Mayor Scholey
received telegram from the secretary
of the president fixing the hour for
the visit of the president to Kenosha
and as usual Kenosha has received the
bad end of it. Racine, Fond du Lac
and other points along the line have
been demanding more time from the
president and as result the visit of
the nation s chief to Kenosha has been
reduced to a measly thirty minutes.
According to the message received
the president will arrive in Kenosha at
6:l5 p. m. and leave at Gas. There
is one thing certain, however, and that
is that if Kenosha gets just half an
hour of the presidents time it will
be half hour of cordiality. The mem
bers of the committee arranging the
visit, including the mayor and Robert
Verne Baker the chairman of the Re-
publican county committee, got busy
this morning and are keeping the wires
hot in an effort to have the time given
to Kenosha extended to at least an
hour. They hold that it will take that
long to pull off the reception that has
been planned in Kenosha. The presi-
dent IS secretary in his telegram in
sists that the president wants to make
q short address to the people of Keno
sha and in addition to be given chance
to see the city in an automobile parade
The mayor and the members of the
council are willing to repeal the auto
mobile speed limit for the one blessed
half hour but even with everything cut
loose it will be hard for the president
to see Kenosha in fifteen minutes
The Coliseum has been engaged as
the place for the public reception to
the president and if he once gets into
GuC Stllo0uuL ~ - C0IGdIu CldG JUG Hall
hour win be extended
The committee to welcome the presi-
dent will be named within the next few
days and it will be made up OF the lead
ing men of the city regardless of poll
tics
The plans include the meeting of the
president with at least one hundred
automobiles and he is expected to ride
at the front of a procession that will
take in AL the principal streets of the
city. There will be bands of music in
the parade and all along the route red
fire will be burned and the people will
be asked to decorate their homes and
join with fire works and cheers in pro-
claiming to the president that Kenosha
is one of the most loyal cities in the
country. Members of the committee
on arrangements feel certain that the
president will be able to give Kenosha
a little more time than given in the
schedule as he goes from Kenosha di-
rect to Chicago and remains in that
city for four days, With four days of
Chicago ahead of him it is pretty GER
tain that the president will look fav-
orably on a plan which will give him
the hospitality of the $4,000 people of
Kenosha for little longer time than
is stated in the message received this
morning.
However, regardless of the time spent
in Kenosha the committee will make
the reception one that will impress up.
On the president the fact that Kenosha
is on the map and that it is the one
real big enthusiastic city Of Wisconsin