Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — MONON RAIROAD TO RESTORE TWO MIDDAY TRAINS. [ARTICLE]

MONON RAIROAD TO RESTORE TWO MIDDAY TRAINS.

Two midday passenger trains, taken off the Monon railroad when the war began will be restored soon by order of the public service commission. One of ihe trains, No. 38, formerly left Indianapolis at noon, passing through Rensselaer at 2:51 and arriving in Chicago at 4:57. The other train, No. 37, formerly arrived in Indianapolis at 2:30 p. m., after leaving Chicago at 9:20 a.- m. This train passed through Rensselaer at 10:55 a. m. The restoration comes as a result of petitions stiled by citizens of a number of Hoosier towns along the Monon. A petition is being circulated at Michigan City, which will ask the commission to order the restoration Of passenger trains No. 1. and No. 2, between Monon and Michigan City, on a branch line, to connect with Nos. 27 and 28. The restoration of these trains will come as welcome news to Rensselaer people, and our local mail clerks especially, some of whom have found their .working conditions extremely distasteful since the removal of these trains. In the cases of some of the local colony of clerks a demotion with an accompanying decrease in salary and less time at home and a harder run had to be accepted, unless they desired to remove to another city where they could be given improved conditions by being given easier runs but no more money, but none of them cared to leave Rensselaer. Now that these two trains have been restored the local clerks will take up their former runs and will be mighty glad of it, too.