JOHN M. SAEMANN
(1844-1927)
Newspaper Articles
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
SHEBOYGAN�S DRIVING PARK.
The County Fair Likely to be Taken Away
from the Falls.
Sheboygan, Wis., Aug. 4. � Sheboygan has a new driving and exposition park. After many long efforts, the initiators have succeeded in interesting citizens in securing for the county a park somewhat in correspondence with the city�s commercial importance, and have purchased and completely equipped grounds just northwest the city limits which in general excellence are unsurpassed in the Northwest. Twenty acres, carefully graded and enclosed, contain a half-mile oblong race course, 80 feet in width, an Exposition building, 26 feet high, 154 feet in length and 55 in width; a grand stand 150x20 feet, with a seating capacity of 1,000, and accommodations for sixty stock sheds. The park has two handsome entrances at the northeast and southwest corners, the latter being a terminus of the street railway. Sept. 5 to 8 the first annual fair will be held, the premiums for which are the highest by far ever offered in the county. Excursion trains will be run and those from Milwaukee will stop directly at the park. That the county fair will be removed to Shboygan next year is a certainty, and even the denizens of the Falls, where this fair has hitherto been held, agree that the change has been only a question of a short time, and, as far as can be learned, the feeling among the farmers seems to be one of general satisfaction. The removal of a county fair to the county seat might be reasonably supposed to be attended with some ill-feeling, but that there is little here is shown by the fact that many of the stockholders in the Driving Park association are residents of the Falls. The increased premiums have already attracted the stockraisers� attention, and the promised representation of the stables of J. I. Case, together with the uneqaled [sic] agricultural products of the county itself, assure this first annual fair success. The officers of the Sheboygan Exposition and Driving Park company are: President, Fred. Pope; secretary, John M. Saemann; treasurer, Geo. B. Mattoon; superintendent, H. C. Pope. For the expedition and success which has marked the growth of both the association and its park, the greatest credit belongs to Jno. M. Saemann, whose unremitting efforts have attained a desired success.
From The Milwaukee Sentinel
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
August 5, 1888
Issue 40, Page 5, Column C
SHEBOYGAN.
A Land Company Organized With $50,000
Capital � Extension of Street Car Lines.
Sheboygan, Wis., December 5. � Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday with the secretary of state organizing the Lake Shore Land company with a capital stock of $50,000. The incorporators are J. M. Saemann, Geo. B. Mattoon, E. E. Pantzer of this city and Fred F. Merrill of Milwaukee. This syndicate has purchased 153 acres of land just adjoining the south city limits and will lay it out into building lots. The company has also acquired an interest in the Sheboygan Street Railway company and will at once extend the street car lines through the recently purchased land. The streets are to be graded, sidewalks built and the main street paved with cedar blocks. Fifteen acres of the tract are covered with fine timber which will be set apart for park purposes. The street railway service will also be improved, new cars added and a portion of the lines double-tracked. Real estate is quite active, there having been three large deals consummated within the past few weeks.
From The Milwaukee Sentinel
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
December 7, 1890
Issue 6, Page 13, Column A
1898
Offers to Build Road
J. M. Saemann Makes a Financial
Proposition to the People of
Sheboygan
Sheboygan, Wis., Jan. 15. � John M. Saemann, president of the Sheboygan Electric Railway company, to-day made a proposition to the Advancement association that may solve the problem of the construction of a railway as a feeder of or connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system. He proposes, if the city will aid the project to the extent of $45,000, to construct a first-class and thoroughly equipped steam railway from Sheboygan to Plymouth, through Sheboygan Falls, to connect with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system. The road is to be open to the use of the St. Paul company, which will be in a position to run trains from its northern division within the city limits of Sheboygan. In addition to this, Mr. Saemann proposes to equip the line with electricity for a passenger and freight business. He will put on 300 horse-power electric motors, capable of hauling passenger coaches at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour, and which will pull from fifteen to twenty-five loaded cars at a trip. The passenger, according to the plans that have been agreed upon, provides for an hourly passenger service between this city and Sheboygan Falls and Plymouth, and a freight train schedule in conformity with a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul time card. The run to Plymouth could be made in about thirty minutes, including the stop at Sheboygan Falls. If the proposal of Mr. Saemann is accepted, he will have the line completed and in operation by Sept. 1 next. The estimated cost of the line equipped is $335,000 to $340,000. Mr. Saemann expects some aid from Sheboygan Falls and Plymouth, as both towns will be greatly benefited by the line.
From the The Milwaukee Sentinel (Wisconsin)
16 January 1898
Issue 6, Page 12, Colume B
Gentlemen: �
The undersigned, the Milwaukee Northern Railway Company, hereby make application to the Village Board of the Village of Cedar Grove, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, for a franchise granting it certain rights and privileges necessary to construct, maintain and operate an interurban electric railway across, and upon certain streets in the village of Cedar Grove, a copy of a proposed ordinance granting such franchise being hereto attached.
Milwaukee Northern Railway Company;
by J. M. Saemann, President.
Dated at Port Washington [Wis.] this 6th day of January, 1906.
Source: unknown.
1901
ELECTRIC LINE A CERTAINTY
John M. Saemann Feels Most Confident
Completed by June 15
Will Make Run Between Here and Elkhart
in One Hour in Comfortable Ride
John M. Saemann, president of the Sheboygan and Elkhart Electric line, went to Elkhart this morning to superintend the work of going on at that point. Before leaving, in a quiet chat with a Tleegram (typo?) representative, he made the following statement to the query as to whether the line would really be built:
�The road will be built as sure as you expect death. We feel confident that cars will be running between here and Elkhart by the middle of June. The reports that farmers are unwilling to work for us, because of fear of being paid in stock are absolutely misleading. We are paying all people working for us in spot cash. We had to turn some away, because they did not have the necessary tools. This line and the men back of it are not to be compared with the Central and the St. Paul venture. The money is ready for the road as we go along, no matter what happens. We have paid somewhat like ten thousand dollars in cold cash already.
�In company with Prof. Jackson of Madison I went over a great part of the road early this week and acting on his suggestion we will reduce the grade, which by the way is steam road grade, so that we can make the run between here and Elkhart in one hour.
�This road will be of greater importance to the city than two steam railroads, not perhaps so much to the manufacturers as to the dealers and s hop keepers. A very conservative estimate places the number of passengers that we will bring here daily at two hundred. These will be people who would not come here under any other condition. It can not but help increase business.
�Everything about the road and its equipment will be first class. We will have motor cars of the most approved pattern and the ride will be as comfortable as money and ingenuity can suggest.
�We have a private right of way that has been aid for in cold cash and franchises that are both liberal and broad. Foremost corporation lawyers have passed upon them and pronounced them the most faultlessly and best of its kind that ever passed under their notice.
�You may rest assured that the line will be built and that it will be a bonanza for Sheboygan.�
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