The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-04-24
GIVE OUT TEXT OF COMPLAINT
Every Department of the Public Utili-
ties Companies of Kenosha is Includ-
ed in the Formal Complaint Now on
File With the Commission.

mission has notified the officials of
Kenosha that May 7th and May 9Th
have been set as the dates for the
hearing of the complaint of the city
of Kenosha against the Kenosha
Electric Railway Company and the
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company.
An entire day will be given to each
hearing and the complaints will be
taken up in the order named. Ii it is
necessary to give longer time for
the hearing Of all the evidenc to be
presented by the city another day will
be assigned by the commission. Com
missioner David Harlowe has been as
signed to sit at the two hearings.
The formal complaints Of the city in
both cases have been served upon the
| the officials of the company.
The interesting portions of the two
complaints made by the city are as
follows:
"That said railway company oper-
ates its passenger cars upon its said
railway tracks in and about the prin-
cipal streets of said city and refuses,
fails and neglects to give the public
efficient or adequate service upon it's
said railway tracks, in this; that said
railway company requires and compels
its patrons using said railway COM
panY's cars to ride in old, dilapidated,
worn out, defective, unsanitary and
unsightly passenger cars, and cars that
are utterly unfit for and injurious to
the health Of persons using the same,
and cars that have been abandoned
and discarded by other railway COM
panies.
That said railway company has re-
peatedly and at divers times within
the two years last past, promised the
officials Of said city, and the patrons
of said company, that new, better and
modern approved cars had been ordered
and would be installed upon it's tracks,
and one year ago and more represents
ed that said cars were nearly complet-
ed and would be forthwith installed
aud provided for its patrons, and al
though the time promised and repre-
scented for the installation Of such cars
has long past, the said railway com
pany has failed, neglected and refus-
ed, and still does fail, neglect and re-
fuse to improve the car service, or to
provide cars suitable or adequate for
public service.'
The complaint against the Wiscon-
sin Gas and Electric Company is in
part as follows:
I" That the above named company is
a public service corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the
state of Wisconsin, originally organic
ed and chartered under the corporate
name of Kenosha Gas and Electric
Company, and is engaged at the city
of Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the business
of furnishing and supplying gas, cleo
trio current and light, heat and power
to the city of Kenosha, and to the
residents therein aud the public in
general under certain franchises here
tofore granted by the common council
of said city and acquired by said Ke-
nosha Gas and Electric Company,
which said franchises said Kenosha
Gas and Electric Company thereafter
surrendered, as il might lawfully do,
and elected to operate under an indie
terminate permit as provided by the
laws of the state of Wisconsin, and
thereafter operated the plants and
equipment by it acquired together
with electric light and power plants
and equipment operated by Kenosha
Electric Railway Company, which said
plants and equipments the said Wis
consin Gas and Electric Company now
operates under its corporate name of
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company
in furnishing gas, electric current and
light, heat and power to the city of
Kenosha, its inhabitants and residents
and the public in general in said city
of Kenosha. That said Wisconsin Gas
and Electric Company is subject to the
provisions of Chapter 362, of the Laws
of Wisconsin for the year 1905, and
acts amendatory thereto.
That the gas furnished by said COM
pany is not of good quality, but on the
contrary Is poor, inferior, sheds weak
and dim light and is inefficient in
quality.
That the equipment, machinery, mo-
tors, apparatus and appliances of said
company are old, worn out, defective,
inefficient, inadequate, and not of an
improved or modern type, and when
installed many Of the machines, en-
gines, motors and apparatus of said
company were old and second hand as
petitioner is informed; that said equip
ment, machinery, motors, apparatus
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