The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-06-22
TAKE IN SUBURBAN DISTRICTS
Company Will Ask Franchise for the
Use Of the City's Streets Within the
Next Two Weeks - People Favor
New Line

The people living in the suburbs west
of the city are going to have chance
to get better railway service to the
down town districts in the near future
as it is stated from authoritative sources
today that within the next month the
Kenosha Electric Railway company will
seek contracts from the town of Som
ers and Pleasant Prairie and fran
chise from the city council for the larg-
est extension of their line made since
the building Of the original line.
Manager S. A. Loughridge when seen
this morning admitted that the COM
pany was considering the building OF
the new lines, but declared that he
could not give at this time any inter-
view on the plans of the company in
this regard. He suggested that the
matter would come up in a formal man
ner within short time and that at
that time the full plans of the company
would be made. public. For some time
the engineers of the company have been
looking over the territory to the west
of the city and it is admitted that the
line that is being planned will be a
loop nearly two miles in length which
will connect the Grand avenue line
with the main line of the company at
the west end of Elizabeth. Maps and
charts of the streets in the new sub
division are being made and as soon as
these are completed the route for the
loop will be made public.
1t is understood that it is the plan
of the company to furnish a down town
| service for the people living west of the
tracks Of the Chicago and Milwaukee
line and to this end an effort will be
made to have Elizabeth street opened
to the west of the through line to make
way for the coming of the railway
The property owners who have been
interviewed have taken kindly to the
certain that the extention of the line
will be decidedly popular. The terri
tory between Grand avenue and Prairie
avenue is not popular territory at the
present time, but it is the plan of the
company to go through several subdi,
visions which are now on the market.
This includes the big Crook subdivision
to the south and west of the city and
this subdivision will probably be the
southwestern terminal of the new line.
1t will touch Orchard Knoll and Keno
sha Heights which are now we'll built
up. Most of the people residing in
these districts are employed in the city
and it is thought that this fact will
result in the proposed line being a
paying proposition from the start.
The officials of the company seem to
be convinced that the city is growing
to the southwest and that all this ter
ritory will within q few years be very
valuable territory for the railway com
pany.
Plans are also being considered for a
short loop from the Milwaukee avenue
line to take in the vast territory to the
northwest of the city, including the new
subdivision Of the Kenosha Industrial
association which in a short time is
to become factory district. This line
is being eagerly sought and it is GER
tain that the property owners in that
district viii offer the company every
possible concession to secure an early
completion of a line providing more di-
rect connections with the down town
district of the city.
1t is thought that the council will
take kindly to the franchise ordinance
and that the officials of the city will
put no obstacles in the way of the
company building these lines provided
the company offers proper returns for
the use of the streets and does not try
to monopolize all of the streets going
west.