The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-22
HOLD CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO
Kenosha Auto Club to Send Delegates
to Big Meeting to be Held Week
from Monday at Which Time Final
Plans for Road Will be Worked Out.

Inc old question OF the completion Of
the Sheridan Road is working again.
Thursday afternoon a party of Chicago
road boosters, headed by w. G. Edens
of Chicago, passed through Kenosha
enroute for Milwaukee to boost the
completion of the concrete road be-
tween the two cities. This time the
plan is to be made to go and officials
of the Kenosha Automobile Club, the
real factor in the building of roads in
this section, have been invited to 60
TO Chicago week from next Monday
to attend conference at which time
1T is expected that the final plans for
the completion of the road will be
worked out. Mr.. Edens and his asso-
clates have also visited Racine, South
Milwaukee and Milwaukee and have in
vited boosters from all of these cities
to attend the meeting in Chicago.
Mr.. Edens declares that the business
men of Milwaukee are not nearly as
enthusiastic over the building of the
Sheridan Road as are the business men
of Chicago. He holds that the PROPOSE
ton IS better for Milwaukee, Kenosha
and Racine than it is for Chicago as
with the Sheridan Road completed
these cities are sure to reap the bene-
fit of having large number of tour
lists coming north from Chicago He
holds that many Of these people will
be bound for the lake districts OF Wis
consin and that the Wisconsin cities
will reap business harvest from their
coming. The Chicago boosters declare
that all legal complications which
arose in connection with the proposed
building of the road in Illinois have
been cleared up and that the Illinois
towns, villages, cities and counties are
now all ready to go ahead with the
construction of the concrete road and
1T is expected that most Of the work
In Illinois will be done during the year
1916. 1t is declared that Kenosha
county is the most backward county
along the route of the famous road in
getting the work out of the way. The
town of Somers has done its part and
before July Of 1916 it is certain that
the lake shore road through the town
will be built of concrete and open for
traffic. The Pleasant Prairie end Of
the road is the bothersome part for
Kenosha county. Only small por-
ton of the road has been built in
Pleasant Prairie, but 1t is expected that
the coming year will see the building
OF at least two and half miles of the
road 1t is not expected that the road
will be completed between Kenosha
and the state line in 1916 unless some
provision can be made to give great
deal of outside aid to the work.
The road boosters from the Wiscon-
sin cities are expected to make the
trip to the Chicago conference in auto
mobiles and this will give them a
chance to visit every portion of the
road and see just what has been done
and what is planned to be done dur
ing the coming year.
The Chicago men now backing the
project are determined to secure the
completion of the road from Chicago
north to the state line and they are
counting strongly on Kenosha and Ra-
cine counties to do something next
year Milwaukee county has already
planned for the building of the con
Meeting line between the north limits
of Racine county and the city of Mil
waukee/and all of this road will be
built in 1916.