The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-17
POWER STATION
OPENS SATURDAY
New High Voltage Trans
mission Line From Mil
waukee Completed.
MAKES 4TH LINE HERE

Next Saturday the Wisconsin Gas
and Electric company will put into
operation the new 100000 electric
substation on Albers street west of the
North Shore railway. The steel tower
transmission line connecting Kenosha
with the Lakeside power plant at Mil
waukee has been completed, and the
finishing touches are now being placed
on the substation itself. Beginning
on Sunday, Kenosha will receive prac-
tically its entire supply of electric
energy on the six copper cables
stretching from the city limits here
to the huge generating plant south
of Milwaukee.
Construction of the new line was
scheduled to be completed by Deem
Der 10, and the slight delay is more
than accounted for by the unprece-
denied series of autumn rains. Work
began on September 5, and from then
until the last wire was strung there
were thirty-eight days upon which
there was heavy rain. On the in
tervening days, all records for speed
were broken by the construction crews.
Gives Four Power Line.
At present Kenosha receives its
electric power from Racine and Mil
waukee via three pole lines, one on
the North Shore right-of-way and the
others on State Trunk Highway Is.
With the new equipment in operation,
these lines will be used to serve the
suburban district north of Kenosha,
and to act as emergency feeders if
trouble should develop on the $4,000
! volt transmission line.
The company engineers claim, how
ever, that the design of the tower
line makes interference by weather
almost impossible. The towers are
designed to withstand a hurricane.
Many Kenosha people have inspected
the new line, which goes north to the
Berryville road, northwest to the
corner of the county line and Petrify-
ing Springs roads, and thence north
to the Racine county farm near Gatliff
There it connects with branch reach
inch into Racine before continuing on
north to Milwaukee. There are six
cables hung on the sixty foot steel
towers.
The substation itself at Albers
street consists of four outdoor trans
formers weighing sixty tons each
mounted on a steel structure. There
is also brick building containing the
switches and control equipment.
man will be stationed there at all times
Two $4,000 volt circuits come intC
the station, where the voltage is re-
duced. New 27,600 volt feeder line!
go direct to the American Brass com
pany and Nash Motors plants and t.
the Main street substation near The
bridge. Other lines feed the western
ipart Of Kenosha directly
George Lindeman of Kenosha, wa
the contractor who built the brick sub
station building and the reinforced
concrete structures upon which tn,
transformers rest.
Plan for Years Ahead.
4 H. M. Pauley, local manager for TIL
Wisconsin Gas and Electric company
said today that the engineers ha,
planned the new equipment to tax
care of the needs of Kenosha for sew
eral years ahead, and to guarantee
, against any long outage due to weathe
. condition, or overloads. The capacit,
of the new station is equal to 1000
horsepower, and this can be increase
to 100000 horsepower without radica
changes being necessary.