The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-20
NO EFFORT TO STOP TRAFFIC
Big Bunch of Autos Meet First Car at
the Limits and Act as Escort into the
City Celebration of opening of New
Branch to be Held Later.

Commencing Saturday, June 10,
1912, the first through car from Mil
waukee on the NJ R. s. K. interurban
line will enter Kenosha over the Mil
lWaukee avenue tracks Of the Kenosha
Electric Railway arriving at the Mar
ket Square terminal at 2:15 p. m.
/ Regular interurban cars will leave
the teFninal at 2:3o p. m. for Milwau-
kee and every hour thereafter on the
half hour until 1890 p. m. The last
car for Racine only, leaving al l1:3o
lp. m.
4 The first car will leave the Kenosha
terminal daily at $50 a. m. and hourly
thereafter on the half hour.
For tickets and information, apply
at the public service waiting room at
! the Market Square terminal
early this morning by the officials of
the Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light Company and it was proclaimed
to the people of the entire city by
hand bills on the very heels of the
conference held on Friday afternoon
at which it was evident that the COM
pany and the council committee could
not reach an agreement. The appear
ance Of the hand bills came as a sur
prise as it was expected that the cars
would not reach the city until later.
The managers of the company at a
conference on Friday evening decided
to put the cars into the city and open
the way for any test that the prop
erty owners might see fit to make.
With this hurried arrangement the
plans for celebration and all prelim
inaries we're dropped and if there is
celebration it will have to be held
| later.
! Officials Of the company claimed
that they did not fear an injunction
as they felt convinced that any attor-
ney would advise the property owners
that they had an adequate remedy at
law and that they could collect dam
ages from the company if they could
show any damages in the courts.
! Track men were kept. working late
into the night last night in order to
get the connection on Main street
completed SO that the big cars could
|get to the terminal on Market Square.
The announcement was carried out
to the letter with the exception that
the first car to run to Market Square
was about six minutes late due to a
| broken wire on the lines in Racine.
The big car struck Milwaukee avenue
at 2:20 and Mayor Dan 0. Head was
rectly followed by local car the trip
to the Public Service building was
made without incident. No effort was
made to stop the progress Of the car.
There was no band Of music on hand
/ for the celebration and none of the
officials Of the Milwaukee company
with the exception of Superintendent
Stearns were aboard the first car.
However it was crowded with pas
sengers who were enjoying the nov
city Of having the first ride into the
center of Kenosha Out at the north
end Of the line line of automobiles
were in waiting and with footing of
horns they accompanied the car down
town. People on Milwaukee avenue
were out in force all the way from
the limits to the bridge. At the bridge
there were a number Of the officials
of the city who were anxious to see
how the bridge stood the strain Of the
big car. The car went over the bridge
without causing even culver of it.
At Market Square more than 500
people were in waiting for the coming
Of the first through car and nearly
twenty of the passengers took the car
out of Kenosha for Racine and Mil
waukee. No effort was made to inter
fere in any way with the operation
Of the car.