Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — N-W. TRACTION CO. [ARTICLE]

N-W. TRACTION CO.

Fails To Show Up At Hammond With Its SI,OOO Forfeit. At the meeting of the Hammond city council Tuesday evening the Purtelle electric railroad company failed to show up with its SI,OOO cash forfeit and $9,000 bond for a franchise in that city-, as it had vociferously proclaimed it would do. Concerning the matter a Hammond paper says:

No action was taken on the Indiana Northwestern Traction company’s extension of time for the filing of its cash securities. Councilman PascaJy said that he had received a message late in the afternoon from the officials of the company to the effect that they were under the impression that the council would meet next Tuesday instead of the first Tuesday in the month and that, therefore, they were not prepared.

This is the company that has a franchise in most of the towns in this vicinity, including Rensselaer, Remington, Wolcott, Monticello, etc., and proposed to parallel the Monon from Rensselaer to Chicago.