The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-19

AuVbnCl ulGunl lOI a. NICobSI IAbllOSIld
sha is going to come true for the city
council at its meeting on Monday even
ing voted unanimously to claim the
lake shore on both the north and south
sides of the city for park purposes and
in some no distant future the work will
be started for the development of
great park system along the lake. The
council on Monday evening following
the recommendation of the Harbor and
Breakwater committee formally voted
to adopt plan for the construction of
new breakwaters from Garfield street
on the north end of the city south
to point necessary for the proper pro-
lection of the Simmons Play Ground
on Washington Island and from the
north line of Park street on the south
side to a point directly east Of Eichel-
man Park. The estimated cost of the
completed work of building the break
waters has not been made but it will
probably mount into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The work is to
be started this year on both sides of
the city and the council by the same
unanimous vote appropriated fortyfive
thousand dollars for the inception Of
the work. 1t is stipulated that the
expenditure he equally divided between
the north and south sides Of the city
$22,500 for each project, and the work
is to start Just as soon as the contracts
can be let and the city can secure the
riparian rights necessary. The com
mittee in it's report held that it was
paramount to secure the riparian rights
before the actual work of building the
outer breakwater was started. While it
may take years to complete the project
it is one that far-sighted people of the
city have urged for many years. 1t
will make possible the building up of
wonderful parks containing many acres
and located at the very threshold of the
lake. The project was first proposed
to the council nearly ten years ago and
since that time the plan has been under
consideration. With appropriations for
the work actually made and the under
standing that this appropriation will be
expended this year it seems certain that
the plan will be carried out.
The entire cost of the breakwaters
is not to be borne by the general fund
OF the city. The report of the commit
tee which was adopted by the council
provided for the setting apart of two
breakwater districts. On the north side
of the city the district will include
all property from the lake to the middle
line of Milwaukee Avenue on the west
and the north and south limits of the
district will be the north and south linn
its of the completed breakwater work
On the south side of the city the break
water district will be bounded on the
north by Park street, on the west by
Church street and Park Avenue and on
this siuth by line drawn through from
the south end of Eichelman park.
The work of securing the riparian
rights of the city is now well under
way in the office of the city attorney
and if it is found necessary condemna-
ton proceedings will be started
Few actio..s of the council will meet
with more unanimous support than this
one to provide for the outer break
water with the accompanying parks
for the people, Experts who have ex-
amined into the matter believe that the
entire work planned can be completed
within the. next ten years without any
great addition to the mill tax of the
city.
Only One Garbage District
The council took up at some length
the problem of garbage collection and
it was decided that for the present no
aunlicatiOns for garbage collectian will