The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-07-27

ny lar the biggest movement Tor Gne
advancement of Kenosha and the devel-
opment Of its great industries was made
public today in the announcement of
the incorporation of the Kenosha Homes
Company.
Four hundred new houses are to be
built in Kenosha before the first of
January of next year and the hundreds
of people who have been working in
Kenosha factories without having a
suitable place to live are going to have
homes and firesides and hoHfea. of which
they can be proud and hoanes which
they can afford to own.
The Kenosha Homes Company is or
gained and fostered by meflinterested
in the development of the city. A
state charter has been issued to the
company and between now and the first
of January the company will.expend
round million dollars building homes
which are to be resold to lllssFT3nd wo-
men in Kenos4a. rhe agass sofa a
prices and terms which will make them
very attractive. It is to be hoped that
through the operations of the new
Homes Company that it will be no
longer necessary for people to live in
tents in Kenosha and that the new idea
will be so well carried out that it will
insure the future growth of Kenosha
along the right lines. Associated with
Mayor Pfennig in the plan to build
homes for the people of the city are
many Of the best known men in the
industrial life of the city.
The company has been Incorporated
with nominal capital and the officers
are named as follows:
President-Mayor Charles H. Pfen-
mig.
Vice President-C. c. Allen.
Secretary-George H. Cook.
Treasurer-Roger N. KimbalI.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer
Conrad Shearer.
On the board of directors Of the new
company are many men prominent in
the business and industrial life of the
city.
1t is announced that this company has
already signed contract with the Ke-
nosha House Building Company for the
erection of the four hundred homes the
work to be completed by the first of
January. The officials Of the House
Building Company are Former Mayor
Dan o. Head, President, and Walter
M Burke, Secretary and Treasurer.
The work of building the new homes
will be started within the next week
and it will be rushed just as rapidly as
possible.
The "live and let live" policy is to
be carried out in the building of this
large number Of houses and the contract
for them is to be let to Kenosha con-
tractors who will be willing to take the
work at wholesale rates. It is expect
ed that every man in Kenosha connect
ed with the building trade who is not
already employed will have part in
the big work.
Not Shacks But Real Homes.
The houses which have been contract
ed for will be real homes. They
will have every convenience known
to modern building. Every one
of them will be located on a
full sized city lot which will furnish
room for yards and gardens and for a i
garage at the rear of the lot The
houses will be of modern construction
and every one Of them will be honestly
built. They will be equipped with mod
ern heating systems, water and gas and
bath rooms and wired for electric light
and fixtures installed. As the initial
cost is placed at million dollars the
average cost Of the houses and lots
will be $4,000.
1t is not the plan Of the company to
go into one district of the city and
build a row of houses all of the same
type and then build another row of an
other type in some other part of the
city but there will be about dozen
types of architecture offered, and vari- |
ations will be made in the various types
81 that every house will he essentiaIIv