The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-10-20
WE BUILD ANOTHER HOTEL

on Saturday Some people seem 10 OpJecC SCIeIl-
uously to these paper" structures and they
like to get off over in the corner and smile at
these creatures of hope. The answer is the
old story of Mark Twain. His friends used to
question why the worlds greatest humorest
should waste all the time necessary to- kiss his
wife good bye everytime he left the house and
his characteristic response was, "Well, she likes
1t and so far as I can see it Is not doing any
one else any harm"
These people who build big hotels on paper
like it and so far as we can see it is not doing
any one any harm and - who knows - some
time one of these paper structures may really
take on the form of stone and marble and Won
derful dining rooms, spacious parlors, wonder
full bed rooms to WOO sleep with wonderful beds
made in Kenosha, real place to sleep and
real place to eat. Of course we wouldn' sug-'
gest that you buy stock in)every one of these
paper palaces for the city's guests but just re-
member that there is some stuff that dreams
are made on and that most things which have
really been realized in the world have been
realized because some dreamer thought about
them. 1t takes time for some dreams to come
true and dreams of three hundred room hotels
on prominent corners in Kenosha are among
the dreams which take time even though they
are decidedly timely.
It is Just possible that out Of these dreams
of a new hotel that the dreaming was worth
while. A dreamer does not always know just
what stuff his dream is made ION but some
time the enthusiasm of dream gets under the
hide of people who are able to make dreams
come true.
Kenosha needs more than ever real hotel.
The proper growth of the city is being held
back because of the fact that it can not open a
hespitable door to the stranger within our
gates The development or our own civic life
calls for real hotel as part of the program.
1t is true that the need of it has not been
recognized to the extent that people are willing
to go down into their pockets and put up money
to build it, 1t isn't necessary for Kenosha peo-
pie to put up all the money necessary to make
this hotel dream come true. There are a lot
of men in other cities who have better vision
of the future of Kenosha than some of the men
living on Prairie avenue or Park street. These
men see deferred profits in erecting right
kind of hotel in Kenosha. They stand ready
to risk their capital and risk it freely if they
can lust find a little of the home town support
here in Kenosha. They stand ready to put up
hundreds OF, dollars if the people right here at
home will put up tens, of thousands but they
rightfully suggest that any hotel to be real
success in Kenosha must have some local bank
ing.
They want to have few people about Ke-
nosha who will refer with pride to "Our hotel"
with the understanding that the "our" means
a financial investment. People who have built
and operated hotels know that this home town
money Is necessary to get away with a real
hotel proposition.
The main trouble is to get this "home town
money" The late lamented Sheridan Hotel
Corporation did considerable cumming of
the cards without making any material adj
vancement. Suits in court indicate that the
men who wildly promoted this venture were
rather extravaganza in their promises and
rather careless of facts The next man who
seeks home support for hotel will have bet
ter understanding of things. He will know that
the only way to get Kenosha interested in a
hotel is to stick to the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
There seems to be considerable number of
people in Kenosha who want to convert paper
hotels into brick and stone and mortar. We
would suggest that these promoters hold con-
yention. The coliseum should be large enough
TO accommodate them and if they held this con-
vention it is possible that platform could be
adopted by which hotel can be built Nearly
every one of the men and women who have been
promoting the erection of hotels have a little
something other than "blue sky. Some of
them haven't much but in building hotel
every little helps and it is possible that uniting
all of the little helps about Kenosha would
bring considerable big help toward the fl
nancing Of the hotel. If these people are real
" imbued with desire to serve the city by
building hotel rather than to serve themselves
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