The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
BRING VILLAGERS TO THE CITY
Association Votes to Get Out Booklet
to Show the Advantages of the City
as a Manufacturing and as Home
City-To Have Wide Circulation.

new slogan brought into prominence at
the regular monthly meeting of the
Kenosha Retailers Association Thurs
day evening and the association is go
ing to give encouragement to any plan
which will establish a closer relation
between the villages of the county and
the city. A lot of the jitney drivers
who have found the business eongested
IN Kenosha are today considering the
plan of seeking new routes. Before
the end of the month it is pretty GER
tain that jitney lines out of Kenosha
to Bristol, Somers. Pleasant Prairie,
and possibly Salem will be established
and when the warm weather comes in
earnest it is certain that there will be-
lines of jitney buses running to all tho
resorts in the western part of the
county and that the rates of fare charg.
ed will not be great deal greater than
those now charged by the railway com
pany. If the jitneys have brought bet
ter transportation than the street rail
way company and by better service Sc
secured large bulk of the business in
Kenosha, the people out in the rural
districts can be expected to give the
jitneys the same kind of a welcome.
1t is declared that it would be an
easy matter with two cars in operation
to establish an hourly service between
villages of the county and the city. At
the present time the Chicago and
North Western Railway Company is
running two trains daily to the villages
of Kenosha county. The transportation
facilities have been inadequate and it
is certain that iitney service with
approximately the same rates of fare
would meet with success.
Scores of Kenosha county farmers
would be glad to come to Kenosha
lot oftemer if they could reach the city
without being forced to go miles to
railway station and wait some times
hours for trains. With a jitney run
ming past their door it is certain that
these people would find Kenosha a lot
more accessible than it has been in
the past. Several of the men who have
been leaders in the jitney business in
Kenosha, today declared their willing
ness to give the plan of rural iitneys
tryopt and they are figuring out
schedules of fare Tt is probable that
a schedule on the mileage plan can be
worked out which would prove success
full. With a rate of two cents mile a
loaded jitney coming in from Salem
could do a fair business.
The announcement of the possible
coming of the jitneys has had the i'm
mediate sanction of people in many of
the Kenosha county villages and it is
certain that they would give the plan
support. A much larger business could
probably be developed in the city from
people residing in Kenosba who would
be glad to take the automobiles with
no other purpose than to secure the
ride out into the country and return.
It is certain that this would be a great
holiday business for the owners of the
jitneys and that many people would be
more than willing to pay a considera-
bic more than the railway fare in order
to make these trips. The tryout of the
plan by the jitney men will be watched
with a lot of interest. For years eff
forts have been made to induce cleo
trio railway companies to get into this
business, but they have held that the
traffic would not be sufficient to meet the
investment demanded. With the auto
mobiles pioneering the way it is posi-
BILE that the time would come in short
order for extension Of electric lines.
At the meeting on Thursday night
the association decided to start some
systematic advertising of Kenosha.
The officers of the association are to
start work at once on little booklet to
be used for advertising the city and it
is planned to have thousands of them
ready for circulation by the time of
the Home Coming celebration.
This little booklet is to contain lit
tie history of the city and this will be
followed by statistics showing just why
Kenosha is the best manufacturing and
home city in this section of the coun-
try The booklet will be made attrac-
tive and it is certain that it viii bring
a lot of favorable comment to Kenosha
and be the means of extending Keno
sha IS sphere of influence.