Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — INTERURBAN NOT DEAD SAYS HAMMOND TELEGRAM. [ARTICLE]

INTERURBAN NOT DEAD SAYS HAMMOND TELEGRAM.

The Indiana Northwestern Traction Company Seeking Franchise at Hammond .and |iooks Very Promising. Some people may have thought that the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co. was dead, but according to a Hammond despatch its promoters are quite active. A dispatch to an Indianapolis paper says: The Indiana Northwestern Traction company is to operate in Hammond within six months and connect with Dyer within twelve months, if the city accepts the franchise now being hammered into shape by the representatives of the company and the board. The life of the franchise is to be thirty years, and building operations are to begin within thirty days. The company is to deposit SI,OOO with the city, to be forfeited by the company if it fails to build and operate within the specified time. Hammond people generally and all the people along the proposed line are hoping that the road will materialize. The road will run through Dyer, St. John, thence to Cedar Lake, practically paralleling the Monon to Rensselaer. From Rensselaer the line is proposed to branch off, going south to Lafayette. A spur line is also proposed from Cedar Lake to Crown Point. A special session of the city council is called for next Tuesday night to take the franchise up and if possible pass it in order that the building may begin at once. -