Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — IMPROVEMENTS BLOCKED [ARTICLE]

IMPROVEMENTS BLOCKED

Monon Refuses to Deliver Gravel to Traction Line. Lafayette, Ind., July 14.—Refusal Of the Monon Railroad company to deliver over to the Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction company at Battle Ground cars of gravel has blocked the proposed improvement of the riverside drive between Lafayettg and the State Soldiers’ home and the board of commissioners of Tippecanoe county is preparing to appeal to the state railroad commission for an order to compel the Monon to make the delivery of cars. The Monon regards the Battle Ground line of the traction company, which runs from this citynorth to the soldiers’ home and on /to the Tippecanoe battlefield, as a competing Ijne and declines to turn over the cars to be taken to points on the traction line. This means ' that the county commissioners would be forced to expend an additional $6,000 to have the gravel hauled from Lafayette to the soldiers’ home,

a distance of four m iles in each instance. The Monon will-deliver the cars of gravel either to Lafavette or Battle Ground, but will not permit the cars to be run to points on the electric line. Less than two years ago the Monon refused to deliver over to the traction line material for a new building at the soldiers’ home, but after- consideration granted a concession because of the home’being a state institution and permitted the cars to be delivered to the home over the electric line. The county commissioners have appealed to the railroad company to grant another concession on the ground 4 that the road improvement is a benefit to the soldiers' ‘home and a public benefit as well.