The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
FEATURE VALUES" BOARD
Experts From Big Factories to Proffer
Aid to the City In Purchasing Sup
plies for Municipality-Ways and
Means Committee to Be Large.

The opening of the new year is to
be featured with the starting of the
aggressive work of the Chamber of
Commerce. This plan was decided on
at the meeting of the officers and the
Board of Directors held at the Chamber
Of Commerce headquarters on Friday
evening and nearly three hours was
spent lining up the important commit
tees which are to have charge of the
various features Of the work. There
will be at least fifteen of these com
mittees and every one of them will
have some special work to do. The
chairmen have not as yet all been Sc
lected, but it is planned to have the
report ready for the meeting of the
directors which has been set for next
Thursday evening.
This does not mean that the work
of the Chamber is not already under
way as several committees have been
appointed and they are busy. The
committee on traffic conditions is es
pecially busy and reports made to the
directors Friday night showed that
progress was being made in getting
better train facilities between Kenosha
and Zion City. The last named city
does not officially seem to be very de-
sirous of breaking down the barrier
of bad train service. Five hundred of
the people of Zion City have signed
petition asking that the south bound
train on the North Western leaving
Kenosha just before ten O'Clock in the
evening be stopped at Zion. Officially
Zion is opposed to this plan, but it is
thought that the traffic committee of
the Chamber of Commerce will be
able to secure the concession even
against the suggestion of some of the
officials at Zion City.
One of the most interesting commit
tees is going to be the "Values
Committee. This committee to be
made up of purchasing agents of some
of the big industrial concerns of the
city, is going to offer its services to
the city council to aid in getting the
best possible values for the money to
be esxpended throughout the country
and it is thought that their services
will be such as will mean big saving
to the city every year.
: Working out the final plans for or
ganization of the Chamber is going to
be quite task, but it is not expected
that any activity of the city will be
overlooked. The big ways and means
committee, the council of war and
peace of the organization will probably
be made up of seventy-five men who
will represent every line of business in
Kenosha and this great committee
will be the working organization of the
Chamber of Commerce. Most of the de-
mands on the Chamber for service will
be taken care of through this committee
There is going to be a committee on
city planning and it IS expected that
this committee will get busy at once
and in conjunction with the city coun-
Gil and the Park Commission work out
a plan for the future development of
Kenosba. Then there is committee on
streets which is expected to suggest
ways by which Kenosha streets can
be made more serviceable to the peo-
pie of the city and kept in better
state of repair; another committee will
look after the playground and recrea-
ton problem and seek to have this
handled in the most intelligent man
ner possible. There will be a commit
tee to look after the various charitable
works of the city, one to look after
the interests of the retail dealers. an
other to look after the demands of the
manufacturers, another to look after
finances of the association, and still
another to look after advertising and
publicity work. It is planned to adj
vertise Kenosha widely through the
Chamber of Commerce. President
Simmons at the meeting on Friday
night urged that the work of organiza-
tion be completed at the earliest pos
sible minute IN order that the organiza-
ton might be made at once a big
feature in the development of the city.
Many of the men in the city who
expected to take part in the work have
assured the directors that Chamber
of Commerce work will be given the
same consideration as their own
private business.