The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-05-04
WANT SPECIFIC VACATIONS
Suggests Many Changes in
Order and Wants City to Be Ordered
to Bring Streets to Grade Before
the Elevation is Completed.

Alleging errors in the wording of the
iack elevation order and demanding
more specific provisions for street va
atoms, the Chicago and North Western
Galway company, through its attorney,
William G. Wheeler this afternoon filed
nth the railroad commission of Wis
onsin a petition asking for re-
caring on the order providing for
10 elevation Of the tracks Of
ne company through Kenosha. The
etition Of the company is largely
echnical and it does not make
NY serious protest against any
ling included in the order. No men
on is made as to objections to the
umber of subways ordered by the rail
pad commission or to the length of
me in which the work is to be COM
Ieted, but the petition of the company
emands that the order be changed so
to make it possible for the company
0 comply with it.
The first objection is made to the
rovisions for the change in the switch
racks at Main street. The original
rider provides for the depressing of
be tracks at Main street The attor-
eys for the company insist that the
rider should read, the raising of the
racks so that the street could be car
led over the tracks. Many changes
re suggested to section nine, the sec
ion which provides for the vacation
VI streets of the city. The company
demands that the order direct the city
@ vacate all that portion of West Main
treet which is included within the
fences which the company has built
dong the right of way through Keno
3ha so that the west line of West Main
7tI eet would become the east fence line
Which has been established by the rail-
way company. This is in keeping with
an agreement made with the company
many years ago when the company con-
sented to pay a portion of the cost of
the paving of West Main street.
The company formally demands that
the same section be amended so as to
provide for the vacation of the
easterly twenty-nine feet of New
street, " "the east forty-fve feet of
Prospect. place" the private alley east
Of and adjoining the railway company
right of way between the north line of
Bronson street and the south line of
Linden street.
1t asks for the vacation of the priv
etc alley between Linden and Division
street, the westerly forty-eight feet of
the east and west alley in block six,
east of and adjoining the said rail
way S right of way between Division
street and Linden, the private alley east
Of and adjoining the right of way of
tie company north of Limits street
The petition for a re-hearing also
provides that section nine be amended
so as to read as follows:
GAS a condition precedent to
the obligations of the railway com
pany under this order, the city of
Kenosha, by proper action of it's
common council, and by all other
proceedings necessary to that end,
shall change the grade of all streets.
avenues alleys that must be chang
ed in order to comply with the
provisions of this order, and shall
speedily vacate the following por-
tious of the following named
streets"
This is followed by the vacations de-
manded by the original order.
The formal petition of the company
for re-hearing on the order is to be
presented to the commission at Madi-
son on May 18th and it is expected
that the city attorney will be sent to
Madison to attend this hearing.