Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1914 — SAYS INTERURBAN IS SURE TO COME [ARTICLE]

SAYS INTERURBAN IS SURE TO COME

H. E. Shellhouse, Engineer, Says - That Construction Will Start in Early Spring.

H. E. Shellhouse, chief engineer for the projected Lafayette Northwestern interarban, who is in charge of a gang of engineers and workmen, who came here Wednesday evening, went to Lafayette today. The workmen returned to Wolcott. Mr. Shellhouse is a graduate of Purdue University and has been engaged in a number of important engineering projects. He was employed, he states, by the O. L. Brown company to make a finished survey from West Lafayette to Morocco. This survey has been completed as far as Wolcott and "the preliminary survey has been made to Rensselaer. 'The workmen will take up the job of completing the survey f oni Wolcott to this city at once. Mr. Shell house states that he has confidence that the road is to be .built and that his instructions are to proceed with the survey to Kankakee, which will take most of the winter, as it required more than five weeks to make the survey from West Lafayette to Wolcott. Mr. Shellhouse says that this is the first completed survey that has ever been made over this territory and that When he is through and his blue prints completed -they will furnish a complete construction plan for the road.

Asked why Remington had been missed he -replied that railroad mileage between points'was of great importance and that the route chosen, which is from West Lafayette to Montmorenci, thence through Round Grove township to Wolcott and then to Rensselaer is the shorte&kjhat can be found, that somethin&Hike four miles is saved in skipping Remington and that this •is more than the added business from Remington would make up for.

* The preliminary, survey to Rensselaer which was completed Thursday enters the range line road south of the college and comes north along the highway. As to just where the survey will enter town or just how it will leave on its way to Mt. Ayr and Morocco Mr. Shellhouse could not tell. He said that would depend upon the conditions established When the completed survey was made. When he settled the bill for his gang at the Makeever hotel he arranged for the accommodation of the gang upon their return next week and they will probably make this place headquarters while pushing the survey to the westward. The men with iMr. Shellhouse are all a fine, clean looking lot and Mr. Shellhouse says they are practically all college educated men. They -Are clothed incorduroy suits and caps all the same color, and have a business looking appearance.

Rensselaer people are certainly hoping that the road is built.