Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1888 — The Old Continental. [ARTICLE]

The Old Continental.

The long projected great through east and west railroad, along the line of tfte old Continental railroad, seems now almost certain to be realized. Work on the rapid rate, and the enterprise is in the hands of men who will not let it drop. The following in regard to the road from a late number of of the Fort Wayne Sentinel gives some new information regarding Ohio portion of the road is already being pushed forward at a very the present condition of the enterprise, and also ahows how much of a certainty the road is, at least in Fort Wayne: Yesterday afternoon a committee from the Business Men’s Exchange went to Toledo to interview Vice-President Haskell with a view to securing for Fort, Wayne the main aud principal construction shops of the New York, Mahoning and Western road, which is backed by a New York syndicate, Norvin Green, manager of the Western Uninn Telegraph company, being its president. Mr. Haskell explained that the general name of his road was the United States Central, projected from Red Bank, Pa., where it k had a direct line to New York over the Lackawanna road, to Omaha, via Fort Wayne and Chicago. In Ohio the road is called the New York, Mahoning and Western road: in Indiana, the Ohio, Indiana and Missouri River Railroad company, because the laws ed and styled the “United States Central road.” The road is now built to Findlay, Ohio, where they have repair shops. Their construction gang, of 800 men, are working towards require separate organizations in each state, to be finally consolidatFort Wayne and their engineer corps and right of way agents are staking a line across Jackson tp., this county. It is the ; slraigh test and shortest route between the east and west by 150 miles, making not a curve here or there on its way. □They are coming to Fort Wayne with their line if do not get a cent, but they want to locate their main and principal construction shops in this city. They ask $200,000 bonus for their

shops in this city and are anxious for immediate action, as the line is to reach Fort Wayne within ninety days.