Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1912 — CHIEF ENGINEER OF INTERURBAN OPENS OFFICE HERE. [ARTICLE]

CHIEF ENGINEER OF INTERURBAN OPENS OFFICE HERE.

Construction Work will Begin Here as Soon as Contract Can be Let and - Preliminary Work Done. H. J. Wilson, of Chicago, chief engNorthwestern Traction Co., (the Purtelle road) dropped into town yesterday afternoon and at once got busy with attorneys of the road and before evening he had rented offices in the Roti) building and paid a month’s rent. Mr. Wilson states that he is here to stay for some time and that work of construction will begin south of town and be pushed as rapidly as circumstances will permit. He says he expects engineers here today to do the necessary work on the line and that the contract will be let within a few days for the construction work and that they expect to have the work of grading and the steel laid in the township yet this fall. He claims to have succeeded in financing the road and says its construction is certain. Eugene Purtelle, the promotor of the road, arrived in town last evening. It is understood, however, that the entire matter of the construction of the road is in the hand Mr. Wilson and that Mr. Purtelle has lost active control of the road, but that if it is built he will have some interest in it, for the work he has already donei Here’s hoping that they make good and that cars will be running through Rensselaer next year.