The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-07-25
KENOSHA NOT A WAY STATION
Mayor Declares City Will Enforce
Statutes if Necessary to Force Com
pany to Stop Through Trains at the
Kenosha Station in the Future.

Mayor Dan 0. Head has declared
war against the Northwestern Railway
company and on Tuesday he directed
City Attorney John G. Slater to take
immediate action to force the North
western to stop every train run over
the Milwaukee division of the COM
pany's lines at Kenosha. This action
was taken following the receipt by the
mayor of many complaints on the
manner in which the company was OPP
Grating it's trains. For many years
every train Of the Northwestern be-
tween Chicago and Milwaukee was
stopped at Kenosha. Kenosha was re-
garded as one of the best cities along
| the line and the company saw to it
that all the trains were stopped. Now
an effort is being made to cut down
the running distance between the two
cities and two Of the trains have dis
continued the stop at this point. For
some time the company has been run
ming one train to the south without it
stopping at Kenosha. This train runs
through Kenosha just before o CLOCK
in the morning, and it is followed
within few minutes by train which
makes the same time into Chicago.
Mayor Head stood for this when the
company declared that the reason that
this train was not stopped was the
fact that it was made, up in the copper
country and that it was always filed
with people who had spent the night
on the train and that the company be-
lieved that it would be better to run
| it straight through to Chicago and Of
fer Kenosha people clean cars in the
train that left Milwaukee fifteen min
utes later. There was no great objec-
ton to this plan, but on Monday even
ing the company discontinued the stop
ping u JIG u d1h3 ACdN4AS CAACoSo ceG
o'clock, at the Kenosha station. The
train had formerly stopped here at
7:10 and it had been a popular train
With Kenosha people who had spent
the day in Chicago.
On Monday night many Kenosha
people were waiting at the Chicago ter
minal for this train, planning to get
their slippers on the way to Kenosha,
but they were refused admission to
the train and notified that it would
not stop at Kenosha. They were fore
ed to take train leaving Chicago
thirty minutes later and landing them
in Kenosha at corresponding later
hour
When seen on Tuesday Mayor Head
said: 81 have ordered the city attor-
ney to take every possible legal step
to force the Northwestern Railway
company to stop every one Of its
trains in Kenosha. I am advised that
under the law the city can stop the
trains and if it becomes necessary we
will force the company to operate all
cars through Kenosha at a rate Of
six miles an hour. Any effort on the
part of the company to make Ke-
nosha a way station or flag station
will be promptly met. The company
thought when we allowed the south
bound train to run through the city in
the morning that just about anything
could be put over on Kenosha, but the
Managers of the company will find
that this is no joke and if the sched-
ule for the O'Clock train out of Chi
cago is not Immediately changed so as
to put in a stop at Kenosha, there is
going to be something doing. I am
convinced that I will have the sup
port of the entire council in this work
and we will force the Northwestern to
stop all passenger trains in, Kenosha. "
It is claimed that the Northwestern
company is seeking to work up a
schedule which would place Kenosha
in suburban territory and if this was
done many of the fast trains would
not be stopped at the local station.
Another train which has been allow
ed to run through Kenosha without
ston leaves Chicapo AT 10 % M