The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-07-25


For every woman domestic science is
an essential part Of education.-Even-
ing Wisconsin.
Like that Of most of its citizens, the
hindsight of Kenosha as municipal
ity is much better than it's foresight.
If the aldermen knew when the street
railway company applied for the right
to put in an extra track on Market
Square what they know now of the at
titude Of the railway officials towards
Kenosha and it's people, the railway
company would be putting in those
Main street tracks under a contract
with the city to relay the entire pave.
ment in concrete foundations, or it
would not have been putting them in
at all. And it would have been a
mighty good bargain for the street
railway people at that and small
price to pay for privileges which they
are now getting for nothing Compare
the course Of the Thomas B. Jeffrey
company with that Of the railway. The
Jeffrey company willingly and gladly
donates thousands Of dollars worth of
equipment to the police and fire de-
partments in return for the vacation
of small sections of unused streets
practically within their own plant and
of no use or benefit to the people of
the city, on both sides of which they
own all the land, while the street rail
way company grabs large portion of
the best business streets in the city
without giving up cent. The fair
minded people of the city will see no
equity or justice in the city expecting
its great industries which pay out
wages to thousands Of citizens to pay
literally for any favors granted them
while the city railway company which
draws all Of its revenues directly from
the pockets Of the people of the city
has been able in the past to get just
about what it wanted from city coun-
ellis on merely nominal payments to
the city. However, it is believed that
those days when the street railway
company had influence enough in tae
council to get almost anything through
ended with the spring, election never
to return. Some of the aldermen are
very much chagrined at the failure of
the street railway company to show it's
appreciation of past favors by relay
ing the whole of Main street paving
now that it will be necessary to relav
so much of it when the double tracks
are put in, but they need not be. The
lesson will be worth all it costs if it is
well learned and the aldermen show
that they have learned it in their
future dealings with the public service
corporations. There is no sentiment in
business with them and the future
dealings the city has with them can be
conducted on that basis. It should be
clearly understood that the city has
not the shadow of legal right to force
the company to do anything in the
matter. The street committee and the
mayor have merely been trying to in.
duce the company to relay this pave.
ment but, in the language of the
street, the company having secured
what 1T wants in the way Of additional
franchise rights for the present, re-.
fuses to "eome across, Does anv
one doubt that the company officials
would have been able to see the matter
In very different light had the sue.
gestlon to relay this pavement been
made before these additional franchise
rights were granted instead Of afterg
Inc only thing to do now is to wait
until the finances of the city warrant
the expenditure and then make this
much needed Improvement, being care
1ul TO see that the company pays every
cent OF its share of the cost of the
WORK that can be legally collected.
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