The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-07-13
WOULD PURCHASE PROPERTY
Plan Is Connection With Strong St.
at Chicago Street With Provisions for
Closing Up Cober's Alley Which Is
Declared Menace to Life.

An east and west street extending
all the way from Durkee avenue to
the west limits Of the city is the dream
of property owners living on Eagle
street and Park avenue and the plan
includes the wedding Of Eagle street
and Strong street by the purchase or
condemnation of private property on
the part of the city A petition seek
ing to accomplish this end will be pre-
sented to the Common Council at the
meeting to be held on next Monday
evening and it is thought possible that
the council will act favorably on
the plan.
At the present time there is no east
and west street running from the lake
to the west limits south of Prairie
avenue until Selma avenue is reached
and this road is on the extreme south
limits Of the city. There is no way to
get west from Park avenue from Dem
ing street until the Cober alley is
reached and it is declared that this
alley, used for traffic, is menace to
the lives of children living in the
neighborhood and that it should be
closed up and the new street opened as
an east and west avenue. Property
owners are declared to be sufficiently
interested in the plan to pay at
least part of the cost of the
opening of the streets 1t would
not be possible to make per-
fectly straight street by connecting
Eagle street with Strong street, but it
is declared that the bend in the street
would not be bad one and that it
would be much more acceptable than
the bends in many of the other streets
in that part of the city. The plan that
has been suggested by the property
owners includes the closing of the
Cober alley which was dedicated as a
public alley many years ago and the
sale Of the property to the abutting
property owners and the purchase Of the
property known as the Burr Simmons
property on Park avenue. This prop
erty extends through to Chicago street
and has frontage on Park avenue
of between ninety and hundred feet.
Tt would offer ample room for the OK
tension of Eagle street to it's full width
for connection with Strong street.
Strong street runs past the north end of
Sheridan Road playground property
and it now runs through to Chicago
street. To the west it runs to the west
limits of the city.
Mayor Pfennig discussed the matter
with committee of interested prop
erty owners this morning and he de-
clared that he felt that this was the
time to provide for such an east and
west street and insisted that if the city
waited until some time later the prop
cry would be more expensive and
the cost of opening the street con-
siderably increased.
Tt is possible that the city could Sc
cure the Simmons property at rea-
sonable price by purchase and that
condemnation will not be necessary.
1t is understood that the property is
on the market and that it will be sold
at a reasonable price. Plans are now
under way to ask for the paving Of
Strong street next year and with this
street extended to connect with Eagle
street it would be made one of the best
east and west streets in the city.
That the plan would meet with hearty
support of the public in general is GER
tain and it is thought that many of the
residents of both Strong and Eagle
streets would be willing to contribute
something to the opening Of the street.
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