Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — Improvements on the Monon. [ARTICLE]

Improvements on the Monon.

Great improvements on the Morion are now to be pushed with all possible dispatch. The capital stock of the road has been Increased, and 83,200.000 of the additional Stock has been sold, for cash, and this amount will be spent in the improvement of the road. Over 5,000 tons of heavy steel rails b%pe been purchased and are now being put down, together with 250.000 new cross-ties. All wooden bridges will be removed and replaced with new lrou and steel ones. New locomotives, freight cars, and passenger coaches have been purchased. The terminals at Chicago and Louisville aie to be ooubled In capacity. Somewherj In- the neighborhood of 81 ,000;<Jbo is to be spent In the p-t paratlon for the World’s Fair. All the sid.ngs along the route are to be greatly lengthened so that the speed of trains can be increased with safety. A dining-car line is to be established between Chicago and Louisville. The’Monon is now the only road having a dining-car servico letwoen Chicago and Cincinnati, and the 8 srvice is to be extended to tbe Louisville line. In short, the M. nun is to be made part of one of the best equipped and biggest systems that have a te. mi nal In Chicago.