The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-21
CITY COUNCIL PAVEs WAY
Company Has Secured Ten-Acre Tract
and Factory Buildings to Cost $685.
600 Are to Be Started at Once and
Completed by Middle of May.

The WINNER MOTOR Truck COMPANY
is coming back home Announcement
was made on Monday evening that
the company is planning for the
erection Of modern plant and the
location of it viii be in Kenosha.
Negotiations are being closed today
for the purchase of factory site of
ten acres from DR.. N. A. Pennoyer.
The property is located just north and
west of the Pennoyer Sanatarium and
it is regarded as one Of the best fac
tory sites to be secured anywhere
about Kenosha. The ten acre tract
stretches from the concrete road to the
North Western Railway tracks. 1t is
within a quarter of mile of the lake
shore and it is high piece of ground
which will offer perfect sewer facilities
to the company. The site for the new
plant is already supplied with railway
switch facilities and these facilities
are so arranged that they will not III
any way be effected by any future
plan for the elevation of the tracks
of the Chicago and North Western
through Kenosha.
With the announcement that the
Whittier company will build a splendid
modern factory building on this site,
comes the announcement that the north
side of the city is to be squared. Pc
titions are in circulation today which
will provide for the annexation to the
city all of the large tract of land di-
rectly north of the present city limits
along the lake shore. This includes
the property of the Pennoyer Sana-
tarium and all property north of it to
Adams street and all property from the
lake on the east to the Milwaukee road.
With view of assuring the erection
OF the new plant at once the Common
Council at it's meeting on Monday
evening voted unanimously to provide
for the building Of a sewer from the
site of the proposed plant to the lake.
The owners of the property have all
aged to waive the usual formalities
and they will sign an agreement to pay
for the sewer on it's completion.
1t will take close to four months to
complete the formalities of the annex
alton of the property to the city, but
it is expected that before that time
wheels will be turning in the new
Whittier plant and that the work of
building the main FIVE foot sewer to
drain the new city territory will be
well underway.
The new Whittier plant is to be o
model of modern factory building. It
will be hundred and fifty by four
hundred and fifty feet and it will have
floor space in excess of eighty thousand
square feet. This is. more than double
the floor space of the present factory
Of the company at Winthrop Harbor.
The building of the plant in Keno
sha is going to mean very extension
of the business of the company The
new plant will cost in the neighbor-
hood of $125,000. It will be of con-
crete and steel and perfect fire-proof
construction. It will contain every
modern facility to safeguard the health
of the employees of the company and
it will be a model in every way. Con-
tracts which are now being let provide
for the completion of the big factory
buildings on or before the 18th of May.
With the completion of the factory
the company will employ more than
two hundred and fifty men and with
orders which will insure the operation
of the factory for many months at its
| full capacity it is expected that there
will be large increases in the working
forces of the company before the end
of the present year.
eve are very happy that the coun-
ell has paved the way for the erection
of our new plant in Kenosha,'' said
President Martin Whittier of the com
pany on Monday evening eve al
| ways did want our plant in Kenosha,
but it seemed hard to get started. Last
fall we went up to Milwaukee and
| bought a site for a factory near the
plant of the Federal Steel Company at
| North Milwaukee. IT was good site
but it was not Kenosha and we have
always had hankering for the old
home town. There viii be no delay in
| the completion of the plant. The ey-
tension of our business is such that
speed must be demanded in this build
ing work and we feel that we can have
the plant ready for occupancy by the
middle of May. The plans for the new
plant are all ready for the builders. !"
1t is expected that the building of
the Whittier factory will add very ma
terially to the growth of this busy fac
tory section of the city. The same
section now has the plants of the
Macomber, Whyte and the Peter Pirsch
Company and several other very