Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1915 — SUBSIDY IS ASKED IN WEST LAFAYETTE [ARTICLE]

SUBSIDY IS ASKED IN WEST LAFAYETTE

Brown Co. Asks Tax Aid Amounting to $71,000 in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County. The promotion of the Lafayette A Northwestern Railroad Co. by O. L. Brown is being carried to all townships through which it is to pass on a tax subisdy basis and Mr. Brown and those with whom he is'associated appeared before the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce of West Lafayette Wednesday and asked endorsement of a plan to vote a subsidy in that city and WeUsh township. The amount of tax aid asked there is $71,000. The Chamber of Commerce directors refused to pass a resolution offered in support of the subsidy but expressed themselves favorable to the road.

Mr. Brown outlined to the directors of the Chamber of Commerce the plans for construction of the road, seating that bonds would be sold and that the M. L. Talbott Construction Co., of Rome, N. Y., would build the road. He stated that there was possibility of subsidy aid in the sum cf $256,000, that the road could be bonded for $14,000 a mile and that the balance necessary to construct could be sold in preferred stock. v The Lafayette Journal attacks the proposition of subsidies and advises the people of West Lafayette against them. West Lafayette has no railroad now and all the baggage for Purdue students must be taken to Lafayette proper for checking out. It is probable that the construction of the interurban would prove a great benefit to West Lafayette, even though the .Journal is unable to see the justification for the tax aid.