Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1910 — RAILROAD SUBSIDIES DEFEATED IN WHITE COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD SUBSIDIES DEFEATED IN WHITE COUNTY.

Result Will Probably Mean Abandonment of the Route Through Rensselaer and Remington. The election held - in White county. Monday to vote a subsidy for the Northwestern Indiana Traction line which was to pass through Rensselaer, Remington, Wolcott, Reynolds and the small towns along the Monon north of Rensselaer, resulted in a defeat for the subsidy. Three townships voted on the proposition, Princeton, Honey Creek and Union townships. Only one precinct carried, that in which Wolcott is located. The result of this election is to be regretted, as it will probably mean the abandoment of this route entirely. / The surveyors were to have returned here, Tuesday and work north, but when the result of the election became known the surveying crew were sent to Crawfordsville and set to work on an extension of the line which it is expected to build south from Lafayette. The line as originally contemplated would have passed north of Rensselaer, probably through Kniman or DeMotte, a line which is 12 miles shorter than the one through Rensselaer. G. W. Goff, of Rensselaer, one of the incorporators, was responsible for getting this line considered and he hopes yet with the aid of the Commercial Club to get the line to pass through Rensselaer, even if the RemingtooWolcott route is abandoned, which would make the road ten miles shorter. Mr. Goff hopes in a day or two to be able to say if any hope can be held out for the building of the road through here.

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