The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-15
HOUSING PLAN
GETS UNDER WAY
Chamber Of Com m cree
Meeting Tuesday Clears
Decks For Forming Home
Building Corporation.
WILL PETITION COUNCIL
Members Pledge Themselves To Con-
tinue Appeal To City Council For APP
pointment Of City Planning Commits
sion Enthusiasm Is Rampant.
WILL PETITION COUNCIL

The decks were cleared for action
for the building Of hundreds Of homes
IN Kenosha at an early date when at
the meeting of the Kenosha Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday evening at the
Elks club resolution was unanimous
ly passed empowering the housing
committee Of the organization to meet
with representatives Of the Manufac-
turers Association and form a build
ing corporation by which capital could
be advanced to all who desired to-
build houses in this city. The resolu-
tion came at the end of a thorough re-
discussion of the whole project which
showed that the members of the Cham
Der of Commerce were anxious to help
the manufacturers in getting the build
ing program under way immediately.
The meeting also gave an opportun-
ity for afnst heEinsg the plan for seeur-
ing City Planning Commission for
the city and members pledged them
selves to bring the matter forcible be-
fore the council at the next meeting
Of that body by attending Ell masse to
press their petition. The members of
the council were conspicuous by their
absence, and this helped to drive
home the necessity of taking the
the question to the Council Chamber to
impress the city fathers with the inn
portance of immediate action. The
petition to the council will ask for an
appropriation to provide a city planner
to help in all building projects under
taken in Kenosha and prepare the way
for the growth Of the city to that Of
a small metropolis in few years.
The Tuesday evening meeting was
success in every particular. One hum
dred members Of the Chamber Of Com
merce were present at the gathering
and the dinner which preceded it. Fol
lowing the presentation of the situa-
ton by Chairman George S. Whyte of
the Housing Committee many members
Of the organization took part in the
discussion and led to the resolution
which is expected to produce action in
a few days. Attorney G.. A. Mittel-
stead as chairman of the entertainment
committee presided over the meeting
and introduced the various speakers on
the program. In the preliminaries it
was unanimously voted that in the fu-
ture similar meeting of the members
of the Chamber of Commerce would be
held on every second and fourth Tues
day evening of the month.
tits Up to You''
Chairman George s. Whyte in his re
view of the situation caught the pith
of the whole affair when he declared:
This is no mean city. We have a
splendid start but it up to you gen
tlemen to say whether Kenosha shall
go ahead and fulfill her destiny or shall
stay where she is. y He urged that the
problem was one which not only the
manufacturers should solve, but which
was as much a problem for the mer-
chant, the professional man and in
fact, every resident of Kenosha.
Chairman Whyte cautioned that the
building could "not be done on wind
or promises and that the committee
had succeeded in arousing the enthus-
iasmsof the manufacturers in the prop
osition but that they must now be
backed by other business men before
the plan could go farther. He recalled
that the Black Cat Textiles Company
through its representative, R. S. kim
ball, had told the committee that this
industry had been forced to build
branches iii other cities not because
they desired it but because good work
men could not be attracted to Kenosha
as long as the housing condition re-
manned as bad as it was. He also de-
csared that at least two large concerns
in Kenosha were considering making
extensive enlargements if this problem
could be solved successfully. He prais-
ed the plan of the Kenosha Homes
Company to start the ball rolling'' bv
building sixty homes as announced in
these columns on Tuesday, but declar-
ed that at least one thousand homes
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