The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-03-15
CITY OPENS WAY
TO BIG STEAMERS
City Dock Leased to Tri-
State Steamship Co.
of Cleveland.
TWO BOATS A WEEK
Traffic on Lake from KenOsha
to Buffalo to Be Regularly
Established under Lease.

The great lake freighters Of the
Tri-State Steamship company are to
make Kenosha one of their regular
ports between Buffalo and Chicago
starting with the opening of the new
season as City Manager c. M. Osborn
announced this morning that the city
had leased large dock facilities to this
company for term of ten years and
the erection of a large warehouse will
be started as soon as materials can be
brought to Kenosha.
Controlling the operation of six of
the largest steamers on the lake the
company plans to make Kenosha one
of its regular ports with the under
standing that it will handle freight
into Kenosha from the east and carry
Kenosha shipping to Buffalo for trans
fer to the eastern seaboard. The
Lakeland" is one of the steamers of
the Tri-State company. 1t has been
used for traffic in and out of Kenosha
fore some time and the company is
convinced that with regular sched-
ule the company can get large bust
ness out OF KenoSha.
Docks Near Water Works.
Under the ease which has been ne
gotiated between the company and the
city the company will take over a
large stretch of the dock near the
Kenosha water station. The property
will be improved by the erection of
great steel and concrete warehouse
for the housing of freight awaiting
shipment or delivery. The company
will have nearly four hundred feet of
the docks and will do all of its own
improvement of them. The company
will pay the city thousand dollars
a year as rent for the dock for the
first five years and at the end of this
period the annual rental will be re-
vised to meet new conditions.
The company operates six steamers
and it is expected that practically all
of them will touch at Kenosha. This
will open direct lake connection be-
tween Kenosha, Chicago, Buffalo,
Cleveland, Detroit and Toledo with a
large number of stops between these
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the company will take a great inter
est in strictly local traffic between
Kenosha and Chicago but that it will
seek to develop the eastern business.
Expect Two Boats a Week.
While the schedule on which the
boats of the company will be operated
has not as yet been worked out it is
expected that two steamers will touch
at Kenosha each week. The company
has for some time been doing large
amount of shipping business for the
Nash Motors company and some of the
other larger industrial companies of
Kenosha.
81 believe that this lease of the city
docks will aid materially in the devel-
opment of the lake shipping for Ke-
nosha," said the city manager this
morning. "We have these docks and
they are of no use to the city at the
present time. The rental of them is
not large but if the leasing of them
will aid in development of better
connection between Kenosha and the
eastern markets this will be some
compensation. The company which
has leased them has been in business
for some time and the company is
fdence of local shippers. It's steam
ers are among the largest in the
freight trade on the great lakes"