The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
REGION PLANNERS
HONOR KENOSHAN
Lawrence Tasting is Vice
President for KenOsha
District at Chicago.
OTHERS RECITE PLANS
Representatives of 80 Towns
of Indiana, Illinois and Wis
cOnsin Attend Session.

Last night, at Hotel Sherman, Chi
cago, state, county and highway Of
fcials from a 100-mile circle sur
rounding Chicago, taking in the Keno
sha lake district, heard Col. Sidney D.
Walden describe and illustrate the
super-highways now being built around
Detroit. Col. Walden, who is presi-
dent of the Detroit Rapid Transit COM
mission, was the speaker of the even
ing at the dinner of the Chicago
Regional Planning association. In at
tendance at this meeting were Kenosha
city officials and leaders in the regional
planning movement.
The Regional Planning association,
pnly two years old and active for only
nine months, arranged the two days
meeting which closed last night to
lay foundations for the cooperation
of state, federal, county and munich
pal governments in preparing regional
plans that will preserve the beauty and
utility of the lake boulevard and park
system from Gary, Indiana, north
through Kenosha, for the benefit of
future generations.
Heading the association for another
year, is d. H. Burnham, under whose
guidance the present year has been so
successful. Dwight H. Perkins was
made honorary president for life.
Kenosha Man HOnored.
Vice presidents elected last night,
one from each of the districts included
in the association, were as follows:
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Cermak, Chicago; Lawrence Hastings,
Kenosha; George E. Hershman, Grown
Point; John C. Mechem, Geneva. B. F.
.1fleck, was reelected treasurer;
Robert Kingery, secretary, and Jacob
L. Crane, teachnical executive. Ten
directors elected for the three year
term were Rodney Brandon, Moose
heart; Joseph X. Britain, Chicago;
William Busse, Mt. Prospect; Mrs.
Harold L. Ickes, Winnetka; Major r.
r. Kelker, Jr., Chicago; Charles E.
Merriam, Chicago; Arthur Montzheim-
err, Joliet; Chas. M. Nichols, Chicago;
Frederick w. Penfeld, Glencoe; and
James R. Smart, Evanston. WI
wide roadways are acquired as
lands are subdivided, or by purchase
or condemnation" said Col. Walden,
"but we have worked out two methods
for our work which are of special
interest to Chicago and the surround
ing region.
some is the power to purchase
cheaper land in back of the frontage
desired for widening, and trade if for
the more expensive frontage. The
other is the division of cost of the
entire improvement, whereby the prop
erty actually benefited assumes the
greater burden, and the city at large
from half in few cases, to a third
in more, and to nothing, depending
on the extent, if any, the projects will
benefit the city as a whole"
2O4 Foot Roads for Detroit.
"Around Detroit we are building
net work of GIT miles of 204 foot wide
super-highways," said Col. Walden.
1--WE have already completed and uns
der construction 80 miles of this pro-
ject, Is miles on Woodward avenue
north from Detroit to Pontiac having
two Al foot concrete pavements for
one way traffic; Michigan avenue to
tho west, two 20 foot pavements which
will later be widened t the ID foot
width, and on Gratiot avenue to the
northeast, one thirty foot pavement
and the right of way mostly acquired
CIR widening this strip and building
econ done to our standard for one
way traffic.
"Real estate operators have not OBJ
iected to defeating these rights of
way, on the contrary they have i'm
plored us to lay out additional super
highways to reach properties they
own, so they may contribute the road
way, and get the increased land value
already apparent on the super
highways now being built"
Col. Waldon's talk followed an after
noon study of the Regional Highway
plan for Chicago, which is being de-
veloped by state, county and federal
road officials of this region. James
7. Voshell for the U. S. Bureau of
Public roads, r. P. Benedict, assistant
chief engineer, Illinois division of
highways; Geo. E. Hershman, Indiana
state highway commissioners, James
7, Donaghey, state highway engineer
for Wisconsin, F. E. Ertsman for truck
owners of The Chicago region, and r.
T. Kelker, Jr., led discussions which
Drougnt the pan and program TOT
wider roads in the Chicago region
nearer actual construction.
80 Cities, villages Represented.
Chicago aldermen, members of the
county boards of twelve counties of
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, and
the mayors and presidents of over 80
cities and villages in the Chicago
region heard Col Waldon's talk, stud
led the charts he threw on the screen
and were inspired by the possibilities
of going ahead with the super-highway
project for the Chicago region, COM
parable to or even greater than that
underway in Detroit.
In the morning Dwight H. Perkins
opened the second day of the Regional
Plan session with program of outer
forest reserve belts, beginning in the
Wisconsin lake region, following the
Fox river valley, the lower Des PLANES
and up the Kankakee river as far as
La Porte county, Indiana, completing
the circuit at Dunes Park, and Col
Everett Gardner of the Indiana con.
.servation department told of acquiring
dumas land for tho state narL