The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-10-14
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Kenosha is known all over as hos
pitable city. But it is most inhospit-
able in greeting people who come to the
city by interurhan railway trains. These
people may get into the heart of the
city on another electric car if they
want tc wait long enough, they may
ride down town in jitney bus if the
day is not too rough to make it in
convenient for the jitney to run or
they may hoof it down. Out on the
west side of the city the Chicago, Mil
waukee decided that it would rather
have chance to make speed through
Kenoshn than gather passengers from
Kenosha. Up on the north side the
Milwaukee, Racine and Benosha COM
pany wants to get down town connec-
ton.
The old fight between the property
owners along Milwaukee avenue and
the company is being forgotten and a
new and more liberal manager of the
company has admitted that he would
be willing and even tickled to get a
chance to run those "big cars" right
down into the heart of Kenosha.
A lot of people believe that it is
time to end the old fight over the in
terurban cars and allow them to come
down into the city.
This should not be done at the ex-
pense of any property owners rights.
If the property owners have rights they
should be respected and if the railway
company wants privileges the railway
company should be expected to pay for
them. There must be middle course
which would prove satisfactory to all
concerned.
In the old days when Manager
Stearns directed the affairs of the in
terurban line he was accustomed to
hand down ultimatums. He expected
that these ultimatums would be the end
of every controversy. He found out
different. The company decided. that
q more tactful manager might get better
results. Now Mr.. r. B. Way, as man
ager of that part of the company s
business is looking about for the way
out of the difficulty. Mr.. Way has no
ultimatums, he admits that the people
have rights and that the company
wants privileges and that the company
is willing to pay any reasonable amount
for the privileges and go as Ear as poss-
ible to prevent the rights of any prop
erty owner being disturbed. Manager
Way is not in any way seeking to tell
the people of Kenosha how the cars
will come into the city On the other
hand he is suggesting that the people
themselves work out their plan and
submit it to the officials of the com
pany. He has gone further in that he
has intimated that any reasonable set
Element suggested by the property own
ers will not be turned down by tho
company.
Possibly the kindly Offices of the
common council might be brought into
action to get an agreement between the
company and the property owners. Tt
is an open secret that great many
people Of the city want the interurban
cars. These may not be people direct
ly interested as owners of property on
Milwaukee avenue, but they are resi-
dents of the city and they are entitled
to some consideration. The Railroad
commission has gone its full limit in
the matter by suggesting to the com
pany the stops that should be made on
Milwaukee avenue. The suggested stops
meet with the approval of the property
owners. Now the drawback seems to
be as to what the company should pay
to use the street This is matter for
the company and the property owners
to settle. 1t is certain that the people
are in better mood to seetle with Mr..
Way than they were with Mr.. Stearns
and the one necessary thing is to get
some one who will act as the go-be-
tween and arrange the terms of settle
ment
The one man or the body of men who
can make this agreement and bring the
cars in will be entitled to lot of
thanks from the people not only of the
north side of the city but the whole
city.