Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1914 — MORE INTERURBAN DOPE FOR RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

MORE INTERURBAN DOPE FOR RENSSELAER

O. L. Brown and M. A. Peoples Have Lafayette to Kankakee Project —Looks Good.

<Hene is the latest interurban dope. O. L. Brown, who with M. A. Peoples visited Rensselaer several weeks ago, at which time they were planning an interurban from Logansport to Kankakee, 111., was here Thursday. Mr. Brown states that the plan to build the road from Logansport to Kankakee was abandoned and that what appears to himself and Mr. Peoples to be a much more favorable project is to build from Lafayette to Kankakee via Remington, Rensselaer, Mt. Ayr, Morocco and St. Anne. _ After Messrs. Brown and Peoples were here before they devoted some time to trying to interest the people of Wolcott, Remington, Goodland and Kentland in a plan to build the road paralleling the Pan Handle. They later gave up that plan and developed the Lafayette, Kankakee scheme, on which they are now working. These gentlemen claimed when here before to have a record of accomplishment as railroad builders. Their plan is to sell road bonds along the route of the road. While the route proposed is a quite practical one, its building would be impossible if the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co. build their proposed road, which traverses the same territory from Lafayette to Rensselaer. Mr. Brown, however, expects to come back within a few days and may call a meeting to discuss his project. "