Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1906 — L. & N. NOT BEHIND C. I. & E. ROAD [ARTICLE]

L. & N. NOT BEHIND C. I. & E. ROAD

Vice-President Carter, of Latter, So States; But Roads flay Work Together. Indalnapolla News: John B. Carter, vice president of the Chicago. Indianapolis & Evansville Bai I road Company, and president of the Carter Conatraction Company, which is supposed to build the proposed road, denied Saturday that there ia any connection between the 0., I.lj. and the Louisville & Nashville, which according to report, is planning to build a road from Owensboro, Ky. through Indianapolis to Chicago, following a route almost identical with that outlined by the C. I’. & ,E. - Because of the points of similarity ip the plans of the two companies, it had been rumored in railroad circles that the C. I. & E.. which obtained a franchise recently in Indianapolis, was a subsidiary company of the L. & N, This is denied emphatically by Mr. Carter. Report has it that the L. & N. has about completed arrangements for crossing the Chio river about a mile below Owensboro and building to Chicago, inasmuch as the Chicago <fc Eastern Illinois has severed its traffic agreements with the L. & N , thereby cutting off the latter road from connection with Chicago- , Mr. Carter says he does not think that the L. & N. contemplates building north of the Ohio river. He says that his road has considered making traffic agreements with the L. &• N. whereby the C., I. & E. might use the L. & N. station and terminals at Louisville and establish through connection to New Orleans, and that, so far as he knows, such arrangements may yet be made. This would be impossible if the L. &N. contemplated building a line of its own from Evansville to Chicago. From this it is thought that the tacit traffic agreements made by the L. &N. with the C. I, & E. gave rise first to the report that the L. & N. was to build to Chicago and then that the two roads were one and the same. -’3 Inasmuch, however, as the New York Central has arranged with the L. &N. for the Big Four to use the L. & N. terminals and station at Evansville after the extension of the Big Four from Mt. Cnrmel to Evansville is completed, it is doubted if the C. I. & E. will now be able to make arrangements with the L. & N. for the use of the same terminals. The New York Central would probably object, inasmuch as it will be able to handle the L. & N. from the South to Chicago after the new extension is completed. Norisit likely that the L. & N. would desire to make traffic arrangements with two Chicago lines. Mr. Carter says he is not worrying about the situation, and feels, he says, that satisfactoryfconnections for points in the South can be made when the time comes for suoh connections to be desirable.