The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-02-26
Explains What He Proposes
to Do Toward Making Ke-
nOsha Great Airport and
Establishing Landing.
FUTURE TRANSPORTATION
Does Not Ask Council for Money But
Wants Cooperation When He Finds
Suitable Location for Exchange
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Never since Time began nor eversthe
narrow confines of the settlement of
Kenosha were laid out was the govern
ment body of this city confronted with
such novel proposition as that laid
before the city. council on Tuesday
night-a proposition to make Kenosha
a great airport of the world.
In the olden days when Kenosha was
a struggling village on the banks OF
Kenosha river, its town board had petit
ton after petition asking it to fill up
of the mudholes in the first roads so
that pedestrians could more easily car
~ their bacon and beans home on their
shoulders, the mode of transportation
then in vogue.
Later the roads and streets must be
made Of more substantial materials to
accommodate the horse and OK teams
which superseded the transportation on
the back. Still later came the steam
railway wanting concessions and later
still the electric railway, and finally
the automobile. But now comes Alfred
Lawson and explains his beautiful
dream, the realization of wbiea will
tolfs - anspp rtatiaa IN ost Of.
the mud, the crowded paved Streets, the
slender steel rails which thread their
way through the valleys and place it
among the clouds, and in the doing of
this he proposes to make Kenosha the
airport Of the world.
transportation Problems.
Three modes of transportation were
knocking at the doors of the city Tues
daylight for concessions. The North
Shore electric line was just having read
the last time and passed the ordinance
allowing it to construct switch across
Avery street between Erie street and
the alley to the west of that street.
The Nash Motors Company was urging
the city to vacate strip of ground on
Charles street, 10 feet wide and 1000
feet long so that it can enlarge its
plant and increase the production of
automobiles. And Alfred Lawson was
asking the cooperation of the city eoun-
ell in establishing landing field for
his air line, which if successful and his
project results as he claims will put
both these modes Of transportation in
the discard
After most of the business of the ad-
journed session of the city council on
Tuesday night had been transacted, Mr..
Lawson was introduced and explained
his proposition to the council. He be-
gan by giving a history of the modes
of transportation from earliest times,
when all the transportation was by
means Of man s back, on down through
the reign of the horse and the OK team,
the steam and electric railway to the
automobile. He also told how he had
spent thirteen years in perfecting the
Lawson airliner that would fly and be
safe
History of Airliner.
The airplane, while it was built to
fly, was more or less death dealing
machine. Nine out Of ten of the early
pioneers would lose their lives, simply
because the airplane was in its infancy
and they had to develop it. For a
great many years it was a dangerous
toy to play with. I have never been
hurt in an airplane," said Mr.. Law
son, although I've flown about eight
different types. realized that the air
plane was dangerous toy to play with.
[ realized that it must be made safer,
and with the same degree of safety as
they ride around in automobiles.
It was thirteen years ago that I
went into the airplane business. took
to studying transportation right back
to the time when man carried his bur
dens on his own shoulders, then by
pack horses, in wagons, and finally by
steam and by electricity. 1t all work
ed up gradually until finally it was
ready to change to air
ut fank twenty to thirty DAYS to go
to San Francisco BY coach. Then came
along the railroad train, and when they
said that you could go to San Fran
cisco in five or six days. it was said
they were crazy.
Twenty years from now, they will
say you are crazy if you would rige in
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