Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — ROAD MEETING WELL ATTENDED [ARTICLE]

ROAD MEETING WELL ATTENDED

EFFORTS BEING MADE TO HAVE JACKSON HIGHWAY NAMED CHOSEN. Lafayette Journal. Twelve representatives from Jmper county were here yesterday to get the people of Lafayette and Tippecanoe county interested in and to cooperate. in the efforts now under way to induce the state highway commission to designate the Jackson highway as a state highway between Indianapolis and Chicago, with certain modifications in Jasper and Lake counties. According to the proposed route the road will pass from -Indianapolis through Lebanon, Frankfort and Lafayette, then west to Montmorenci north to Wolcott west to Remington, and then north to Renselaer and Crown Point, and from there to Chicago. In order to further the work of securing the state highway on the I proposed route a mass meeting will I be held at Rensselaer at noon on Wednesday of next' week, at which representatives from Boone, Clinton, Tippecanoe, and the other counties through which the Jackson highway passes, will be present to discuss the matter and prepare further plans and suggestions. At this meeting committees will be appointed to confer with the chairman of the highway commission, and an organization for furthering the project will be perfected. Henry Rosenthal, of the city board of works, has been named as chairman of the local committee. At the meeting yesterday, besides Mayor Durgan and Mr. Rosenthal, as a representative of the board of works, the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ association was represented by Louis H. Busha, secretary, Moses Schultz, Samuel Loeb, Frank Best, and David Fishman. Mr. Rosenthal is already at work on the selection of delegates from Lafayette, and expects to go to Rensselaer next Wednesday with two automobile loads of Lafayette representatives. 'Much enthusiasm is being 'manifested in the attempt to have the highway commission dteaignate the Jackson highway as the state highway, and there are many and cogent reasons why such action should be taken. In the first place, the line is the most direct from Indianapolis to Chicago, which fact would mean the saving of great quantities of gasoline for tourists and truck drivers; the< proposed line would run over the “Corn Belt” line, which in all probability will be one of the east and west state highways selected by the state highway commission, and would there fore eliminate six miles of construction and maintenance, saving more perhaps than $120,000 in construction cost alone. Besides this, a the Dixie route north and south passes through Watseka, 111., it does not seem probable that the highway commission would favor parallelling the Dixie line with a line nearer than Remington, which is 19 miles west of the state' line, and some thirty-five miles east of Watsckft* The out-of-town men who attended the road meeting of the board of public works office yesterday afternoon were as follows: L. H. Hamilton, Vernon Nowels, F; E- Babcock, E. D. Nesbit, Mayor C. G. Spitler, E. P. Honan, Ex-Senator A. Halleck, City Engineer L. A. Bostwick, Representative W. L. Wood, Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery of Rensselaer, and H. W. Gilbert, W. E. Johnston, and Postmaster Qhinn O’Riley, from Remington.