The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-06-08
Enter Into Contract With
Harland Bartholomew,
Famous Palmer.
COURTHOUSE TO WAIT
Contract Provides for a Com
plete City Plan Outlining De-
velopment of the City.

i4AVus FOtS entered into contract with
Harland Bartholomew, famous city
planner, for the preparation of a
definite city plan for the city of Keno
sha, outlining in detail the approved
methods for the development of Keno
sha SO as to make it both prosperous
and beautiful city. The contract ex-
tends until 1924 during which time Mr..
Bartholomew and his corps of workers
are to make a complete survey of the
city and to prepare charts and maps
which will outline to the most minute
detail the city plan which he is to
make for the city.
The employment of a city planner
comes as result of, the investigation
made by the city council under the
direction of W. H. Afford, president of
the council, and the city planning
commission. of twenty citizens, re-
Gently named by him.
Not a Stranger Here.
City Palmer Bartholomew is not
stranger in Kenosha. He was in this
city several weeks ago at which time
he addressed the city planning COM
mission, the city council, the members
of the county board and of the school
board and other organizations, i'm
pressing them with the need of a
definite city plan. At that time he was
asked to submit a contract to the coun-
Gil for carrying on such work for
Kenosha which contract was returned
on Monday evening and unanimously
accepted by the council.
AS supervising expert, Mr.. Barthlolo-
NEW is to be paid $4,000 by the city of
Kenosha. The contract also provides
for the paying of his crew of workers
and their expenses at fixed prices, the
total cost to the city being estimated
at $4,000. In private conversation
Mr.. Bartholomew told President Afford
that $4,000 was the outside figure
81 am almost confident that the work
can be done here for $12,000," he said.
at is possible that the total may be
as low as $4,000"
Has Had Wide Experience.
The city planner whom Kenosha has
employed is a man who has had wide
experience in this field of work. He
has directed the city planning for
Omaha, Memphis, Utica, and other
cities. His offices are in st. Louis. At
the present time he is engaged in MAX
ing city plan for Madison and is thor
oughly acquainted with the Wisconsin
laws governing cities of the state.
The contract declares that he will
put efficient men on the work in Ke-
nosha Immediately to make a prelim-
mary survey and that report of this
will be made Immediately. Later maps,
charts and diagrams will accompany a
report outlining complete plan and
taking care of all the elements in
cluded in modern city planning.
To Inform County Board.
The council also voted that immedi-
ate steps would be taken to inform the
county board of supervisors of the CON
tract which had been made with the
city planner and that request be
made that the building of the new
court house be postponed a short time
longer until preliminary survey had
been made. 1t is declared that it is
not believed that the city plan will
interfere in the least with this, but
that due caution should be taken to
prevent the erection of so large a
building before it is known that it will
fit in with the plan adopted for the
future development of Kenosha
No action was taken by the council
regarding the election of city man
ager Several new applications were
received and were placed on file.
County Board Will Wait.
The county board in its opening SEES
sion this morning voted unanimously
to hold open the courthouse building
matter until the next meeting, hoping
in the meantime to have the result of
Harland Bartholomew plan for the
civic center and courthouse site. This
action was taken after w. H. Afford,
president of the city council, had ap-
peared before the board and informed
the supervisors that Mr.. Bartholomew
had been accepted as city planner at
the meeting of the council Monday
evening and that he had wired the city
planner today to commence work at
once. A. H. Lance also addressed the |
board and Architect Joseph Lindl ad-
vised the board that delay of per-
haps two months was well worth while |
Mr.. Afford explained that no "honest, |
right thinking person would want to
deprive the county board of the site
for the new courthouse which they |
were so much in love with"
"You are going to build magnif- |
cent building" he said, sand it should |
have the proper setting. Nobody wants
to shove it off. But the question is the !
proper setting, and it may very well |
be that when the plan is worked out, |
it will be found that the place you have
is the ideal spot. Your courthouse is
planned for fifty years, and if you
make mistake now, you will have tc
wait fifty years to correct it.
''Mr Bartholomew understands the /
urgency of the plan for center first
Of all and will commence on that at
once together with the major street
plan. He promised that that would be
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