The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-01-01
LETs GET OUR SHARE.

The North American Company, the owner
of all the public utilities in Kenosha has made
definite announcement that it plans an ex-
penditure of more than three million dollars
in Wisconsin during the year 1925, for the I'M
provement of the electric railway companies
and it's subsidiaries This includes the Ke-
nosha electric railway and the officials OF the
city of Kenosha should take official notice OF
the fact that this money is to be expended and
seek to make certain that Kenosha gets its
share of it.
In addition the company will expend some
seven other millions in Wisconsin in. the m
provement and extension of other utilities Ke-
nosha should have a like interest in this fund
This great company serves large portion
of the state with utility service and the an
nouncement that it plans extensions and i'm
provements is certain to bring very active de-
mands from many communities. Most of the
utilities owned by the company could stand
extensions and improvements and most of the
places served will not hesitate to claim them
We may be selfish, but we believe that Keno
sha is entitled to first consideration from this
great holding company, and if it's stockhold-
ers are agreeable to the expenditure OF some
millions for improvements, first attention
should be given to Kenosha.
We believe that an intelligent effort should
be made to lay before the directors of this
great company the possibilities of a proper
street railway line in Kenosha. We believe
that the directors should be shown that the
) lack of profitable business in Kenosha has been
largely due to the failure of the company to
anticipate the demands of great growing
city and it's hesitancy to expend money to meet
demands of the people.
The directors of this company are in New
York and Boston and other eastern cities, and
Kenosha means largely to them place on the
map and nothing else They know that this
place on the map has not produced the profits
they had hoped to receive from it but they
probably have not known the reason.
The future success of this company is linked
closely with the future growth of the city of
Kenosha, and the future growth of Kenosha
is very largely dependent on the development
of the utilities owned by this great corporation.
The problem is one of mutual nature and
should be considered as such.
The city of Kenosha has definite plans for
future growth Experts have studied it's prob
lens for the future and have offered solutions
to them. The city planning commission has an
interesting and comprehensive survey of the
transportation facilities of the city and has
tried to look ahead to the betterment of these
conditions This survey should be of great
est value to the directors of this company in
the consideration of it's business problems in
Kenosha.
Kenosha, through its officials, should invite
the men in charge of the expenditure of this
vast sum of money to come to Kenosha and
confer with them or they should make arrange
ments for conferences in some other city. The
city should lay before this company it's hopes
for the future and let the company know just
what experts in city planning believe should be
the development of it's surface street railways.
1t may be that the hard-headed and tight
listed engineers of this company will not be
willing to accept the survey of these experts as
the last word for extensions and improvements
but out of them the engineers of the company
may get some idea of what Kenosha hopes to
be in the future and of how far this company
may aid in the realization of these hopes by
Z '>alpful cooperation
The company is undoubtedly seeking the
good will of the city as municipality and of it's
citizens as the customers of a great business
1t undoubtedly would be willing to expend con-
siderable for the purchase of good will, and the
best way to bring about these expenditures is
by cooperation between the two corporations
most vitality interested.
If Kenosha sits idly by and permits the
funds set aside for extensions to be expended
in other places, the officials of Kenosha will be
most forgetful of the best interest OF. the peo-
pie they are expected to serve.
SIT KNOCKING OUT THE KNOCKERS.