The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-13
5000 MILES OF Wire REQUIRED
Big Conduits Are Provided for Many of
Streets of City and the Company Will
Do Much Work Outside the District
Manager Howe Hurries Work.

The Wisconsin Telephone Company
is to spend $68,688.66 on improvements
and additions to it's Kenosha plant in
the very near future. According to
advice received by Manager Glenn
Howe from the company at Milwau-
kee, this estimate has been approved
and some of the material has already
been ordered. These extensive i'm
provements, while effecting to some
extent the whole Kenosha plant, con
Germ most vitally the down town dis
trict of the city. This, of course,
will make vast Improvement in
the business center.
The company's plans call for the
installation Of new underground
conduit on Congress street from Mar
ket street to Strong street.
In speaking of this, Manager Howe
said "For the benefit Of the lay
men I might say that telephone con-
duit is a pipe-like encasement to pro-
tect the cables from the wear and tear
OF the elements, whether it be under
ground Or otherwise. 1t is usually
made of composite brick-like ma
terial, and is laid in sections. One Of
these underground conduits will also
be installed on Market street from
Congress street as far as Second street.
There will be many poles removed
from the streets of Kenosha. Many
of those poles which are reset will be
placed in alleys and private rights
Of way.
In all, the telephone company plans
to install about three thousand miles
of wire in underground cables. This
means that the "boys' will be at
work in the trenches" for some time
to come after the work is started
which will be about May LIST.
However, they haven't anything on
the "aviation corps" for nearly three
and one-half thousand miles of wire
will be strung in aerial cables during
the same time by other crews of the
plant department. This same plant
department is a mighty factor in all
telephone development. It is the force
which actually does the work of in
stalling new telephone property and
repairing old ones. On the other hand,
after the plant men have built and kept
i'll repair the property in the shape of
a we'll equipped plant, it is then up to
the traffic department to do their part
by rendering smooth running and
satisfactory service And this service
must be satisfactory from the com
pany's standpoint as well as to the
public. For the Bell system is contin-
ually aspiring to higher grade Of
service, and the public learns to de-
mand this service after first being
shown its advantages by the accom-
plishments of modern telephone science.
Outside of the numerous operators Of
the company whose relations with the
public are so mutually pleasant, it is
the commercial department that has
most Of the personal contact with the
subscribers.
These four departments of the COM
pany are the very foundation stones
on which the Bell system rests; and
upon their cooperation depends the
class of service which subscribers
participate in
Two facts have caused the Wis
consin Telephone Company to plan the
above mentioned extensive outlay for
their Kenosha plant. In the first place,
the remarkable growth of Kenosha as
a commercial center in the past few
years, necessitated a considerable en-
largement of their local plant. In the
second place, their engineers have
shown that Kenosha s expansion in the
future will continue as in the past.
This is not mere guess work, but has
been well established by a prolonged
and scientific study. The Wisconsin
Telephone Company, then, believes in
Kenosha IS future and that they will
be advancing their own interest mutu-
ally with that of the city by being
prepared to adequately meet these
future demands.