The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-07-13
MAY BRING PULLMAN CARS
Committee in Charge of Housing Dele
gates May be Forced to Seek Aid from
the Railway Company Stevens
Point to Send Boosters Here.

Sixty-one Wisconsin merchants this
morning notified the local committee
in charge of the coming state conven
tion Of the Retailers in Kenosha, that
they were coming to the big meeting.
It was the first batch of reservations
to reach the committee. Twenty six
Of them were from Madison, twenty
more from Appleton, ten from Wausau
and the remainder from some of the
smaller cities in the state Milwaukee
sent in later in the day demand for
twenty-four reservations and it is GER
tain that before the end of the week
there will be reservations for no less
than two hundred delegates and
visitors. The convention does not
meet until August and the state com
mittee in charge has estimated the
number of delegates and visitors at
more than five hundred. Every time
there is an increase in the estimated
attendance the local committee heaves
a sigh for the local committee has the
biggest proposition ever put up to a
half dozen men in Kenosha There
is money plenty for the entertain
ment of the convention and many
special features along entertainment
lines have been insured DIT the Hsai
question confronting the committee is
g Where are these fellows going to
Sleep Counting all the rooms that
can be reserved at the hotels and all
the rooms in private homes offered the
committee now has provision for about
a hundred and fifty people and this is
only few more than reservations
have been made for right now.
This morning word was received
from Stevens Point that "booster"
trip to Kenosha was being planned by
the merchants Of that city and that
it was probable that there would be
some forty or fifty Stevens Point peo-
pie make the trip.
cit is just possible that we can ar
range to take care Of the visitors by
having Pullmans pulled in and placed
on the tracks of the Chicago and
North Western road said Chairman
Johnson of the committee this morn
ing. eve had hoped that it would
not be necessary for us to resort to
heroic measures, but there seems to
be mighty few vacant rooms in homes
in Kenosha and those that are vacant
are evidently not for rent. We have
reserved every room possible at the
hotels, the sanitarium and other pub
lie places and about the only other
hope is the county Jail and the city
lookup. We are hopeful that these
two places will not be in use at all dur
ing the convention. We do not want
to have to send any of the delegates
to Racine during the convention and
we are not sure that Racine would be
any better able to take care of them
than Kenosha. We are making one
last appeal to the people of the city
to throw open their homes for the en-
tertainment Of our guests. We are
still hoping that they will do it,
Secretary Theleen of the Retailers
Association, declares that the attend
ance at the Kenosha convention is go
ing to be greater than at any previ-
Gus meeting of the state merchants.
The entertainment committee has work
ed out the plan for the entertainment
of the visitors and the program has
been submitted to the state committee
for its sanction. 1t will be made pub
lie within the next few days.