Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — MANY WENT ON THE FRENCH LICK TRIP [ARTICLE]

MANY WENT ON THE FRENCH LICK TRIP

Rensselaer Furnished 182 Passengers for Excursion—Train Delayed by . Derailed Car— Fine Time. Agent Beam was right about his calculation for the French Lick excursion. He said the middle of last week that there would be one hundred or more and there were 132. The train was delayed at Limedale. A freight car loaded with stone had gone olf the “derail” track. The train did not reach French Lick until about 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, almost four hours late. There was ample time, however, to visit the hotel grounds, springs, etc., and to see the camp of the 23rd U. S. Infantry and to witness the parade and exhibition drill. Returning the train left French Lick at about 9 o’clock and arrived in Rensselaer this Monday morning at about 6 o’clock, The passengers spent about twenty hours on the train but all we have talked with report a fine trip. The passenger ticket sales at the Monon Sunday exceeded S4OO.