Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1910 — NORTH WESTERN TRACTION STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

NORTH WESTERN TRACTION STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE.

Promoters are Going Over Proposed Routes and Say Construction Is Certain Before Long. B. S. Fendig was in Monticello on business Wednesday and met Mr. Hanley, who is the general superintendent of the Armour elevators, and president of the construction work of the Northwestern Indiana Traction Co., the proposed electric line that has been commonly called the Purtelle line and for which the Rensselaer city council passed a franchise recently. In company with Mr. Hanley was L. C. Garver, the chief engineer. They have been in Hammond, where a franchise for their company is pending and assured of favorable action, and they stated to Mr. Fendig that construction will begin in Hammond within three weeks. It is not fixed definitely that the road will pass though Rensselaer, but it is expected that it will do so and Rensselaer wijl get it if the people want it badly enough to grant the required assistance. Just what that will be we do not know, but probably it will require the voting of subsidy assistance. When the company pro-: moters come here with a proposition they will doubtless find the commercial club anxious to give aid that will result in Rensselaer, getting this much needed road. Mr. Hanley said to Mr. Fendig that the road is very much alive, more so than ever before, and that co-opera-tion along the line will assure and hasten the construction.