Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1915 — CONSTRUCTION MAN VISITS RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

CONSTRUCTION MAN VISITS RENSSELAER

Patrick Hirsch, Representing Large Concern, Meets O. L. Brown and Goes Over Route. O. L. Brown, promoter of the Lafayette & Northwestern railroad, drove here from Lafayette this Friday morning and met W. L. Moyer, of Chicago, who is interested with him in financing the road. With Mr. Moyer was Patrick Hirsch, of the M. A. Talbott Construction Co., of Rome, N. Y., and Baltimore, Md. This company builds railroads, sewer systems, etc., financing the projects by selling bonds. It is said to be one of the largest companies in the construction business and at this time engaged in building 118 miles of electric railway between Peoria and Quincy, 111. The company also built the Big Barge canal in New York state, an $8,000,000 job, and the new sewer system in Baltimore. Mr. Moyer, Who has had extensive and diversified business interests all over the country, considers the territory through which the Brown road is projected as very good and expressed himself as feeling certain that it will be built if the tax subsidies are voted.