The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-27
FORMER MAYOR LAUDS PLAN
Dan o. Head E. T. o'Brien, John G.
Slater and N. j. Werner Tel Crowds
of Thousands TO Wipe Out the Dis
grace of City,s Main Thoroughfare.


= Announcement has been made =
: of the list of speakers to have
charge of advancing the propa-
ganda for the strengthening of
' Main street, at the theatres the >
y coming week. The schedule is: y
Wednesday Night: >
Jos. G. Rhode. ..... Rhode. =
Dan 0. Head. ......... Burke. =
A. E. Bukmaster. 49,. Majestic.
+. @. Stemm. ........ Butterfly.
Thursday Might, 500 O'clock. :
In every Public School Build =
ing Of the city, also the City y
Hall and the College of Com .
merce Building, Sheridan Road :
and Market street.
Friday Night: >
a. D. Buckmaster -. yirginian. ?
IoHn g. Slater ..... e. ulz his. .
SATURDAY NlSht.
r.. I. O'Brien. $3.50. .Virginian.
John G. Slater 1850. Blue Milf
=
tJust picture yourself a stranger,
coming into Kenosha from the north
with the knowledge that Kenosha was
the home of the Kenosha Plan, and
with the wonderful story of how Keno
sha has met every patriotic demand
made upon her. You come in over a
magnificent concrete highway, over
Milwaukee avenue, one of the finest
paved streets in Wisconsin and down
into the main portion of the city.
When you strike that old 'S' about
the Main street bridge, when you pull
yourself up over the out of alignment
abuttnlent at the south end of the
bridge to find that you are blocked by
a switch engine at the crossing, you
wouldn It have very good opinion of
Kenosha would you9 Of course you
can't be tbridged' because it is impos-
sible to open the bridge. Just stop a
minute and think if this is what you
want the stranger coming into Kenosha
to think of your home. town and mine. -
This was the appeal that former
Mayor Dan o. Head made to a crowded
theatre of people at the Rhode Opera
House on Tuesday evening in support
of the plan of Strengthening out Main
street and building a new bridge. He
was cheered to the echo by the crowd
of people who showed clearly that they
were in favor of eliminating the E'S"
and making Main street look lot mors
like the street of a modern city.
The record Of Kenosha is at stake''
declared the former mayor. "We have
to blush on account of the lack of civic
pride. We are proud of our record in
everything but we blush because we
have not kept up our own town. f"
Mr.. Head then explained to the peo-
pie just what it was going to cost to
straighten out Main street and build a
new bridge. 'fI do not believe" ne
continued, that we are going to allow
the expenditure of few cents for each
year to interfere with us keeping Ke-
nosha on the map. There is no improve
ment provided for Kenosha so badly
needed as the building Of this bridge
and the Strengthening out of this street.
Tt is the part of the city that most
strangers see and it is at the present
time the disgrace of the forward NOV
ing spirit of Kenosha.
s'Vote Yes for the bridge bonds next
Tuesday. Vote to keep Kenosha where
it is today, the finest little city in the
whole United States"
While the former mayor was hurting
civic Improvement bonds at the Rhode,
other prominent speakers were doing
the same thing at other theatres in the
city and fully five thousand people
at different theatres in the city
heard the gospel of civic Improvement
on Tuesday night.
City Attorney John C. Slater present.
ed the question to big crowd at the
Burke, bringing his fine analytical
mind into play in showing the people
the need of the proposed Improvement
and showing just what it was going to
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