The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-29
STREETS MUST MEET
Aldermen to Force Property
West on Prairie to Meet
Hannah Park Streets.
SEEK BEAUTY IN PLAT MAKING

Mrs. James Hannah of Chicago,
owner of Hannah Park, one of the
most beautiful subdivisions on West
Prairie avenue, has started fight to
secure regularity of streets in the big
territory west Of the city fronting on
Prairie avenue, which is certain to re-
ceive a lot of support from the officials
of the city. She is demanding from
the city that land plated to the west
of her property be made to have streets
which will conform with the streets in
Hannah Park laid out and made a mat
ter of public record more than ten
years ago. In the plating Of her sub
division Mrs. Hannah has wisely pro-
vided wide thoroughfares and regular
blocks and she has the legal advantage
of having had the plot Of the land ac-
cepted by the town of Somers some
five years before the new law provid-
ing for the acceptance Of such plats
by the city went into effect.
The law now provides that the city
shall approve Of all plats Of land with
in radius Of mile and half from
the city limits and the point is per-
tinent one at the present time on ac-
count of the fact that owners of land
to the west of Hannah Park have sub
mltted to the city a plat providing
streets and lots in that land. The
streets in this plot do not meet the
streets in Hannah Park and there are
discrepancies In names of streets and
IN the laying out of the blocks. AL
Iderman Hegeman of the street COM
mittee of the council has announced
that his committee will not accept the
plat now proposed until changes are
made which will make possible straight
connecting streets in this great section
Of the lands laying west Of the city.
Mrs. Hannah declares that the city
has made a great error in accepting
| the plat of the Bullamore subdivision
just west Of the Balm drive. She de-
clares that the Balm drive is a private
roadway and that the city has made
/ no provisions for the extension of ex-
isting streets and that the Bullamore
subdivision can never be made to con-
form to street lines as established in
| the property to the west of it. She
has demanded from the aldermen that
they see to it that the same error is
not repeated in the land to the west
of her property.
| The streets in Hannah Park provide
| for outlets to Prairie and Grand
avenues, but there is no outlet to the
east. The streets running north and
south are laid out to a width of sixty
/ feet while those running east and west
are fifty feet in width. Mrs. Hannah
has purchased property in order to
connect these streets with Prairie
! avenue. There is still large track
of land between the park and the Bull
lamore subdivision and it is thought
that when this land is plated the city
will insist that the streets jibe with
the streets in Hannah Park. If this
plan is followed by this and succeed
ing councils it will be possible TO have
the great territory west of the city
on Grand avenue and Prairie. avenue
laid out in a regular manner.
The one plat now before the com
mittee will probably be acted on at
an early meeting but the committee
will insist that street lines be chang
ed SO as to secure uniformity. The
city would have no power to change
the streets in the property of Mrs.
Hannah as they became town line
roads years ago.