Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — RAILROAD PROMOTOR TAYLOR [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD PROMOTOR TAYLOR

Files Suit In Xewtqn Court Asking for $22,000 for “Services.” . -• . • ■ ' j A suit of seemingly large'magnitude but presumable of little merit has been filed in the circuit court against the Chicago. 'lndiana and Southern Railroad Co., Warren T. McCray and Carroll C. Kent. Bayard Taylor, who will be remembered as a railroad promotor familiar in these parts a few years ago, is the plaintiff, and is asking for the modest sum of $22,000.00, alleging such sum to be due him for services performed in promoting the C. I. & S. railroad. Mr. Taylor’s complaint is of great length, and reviews the steps taken in the preliminary work which, ultimately developed in the C. I. & S. railroad. Mr. Taylor had a railroad on paper running from somewhere to somewhere, and was out prospecting. ' Mr. McCray and Mr- Kent being desirous of securing a north and south railroad for Newton county, entered into a contract with Mr. Taylor to make certain surveys, and we are informed, paid him for his services. In the course of the transactions, that followed, a number of contracts were made between them and Mr. Taylor, • and between them and several railroad companies. Subsidies we«e voted in a number of townships through which the proposed -road was to run, and right.of way was secured. But the subsidies were never collected, and when the road was financed and constructed by the New York Central that company paid for all right of way not voluntarily donated. The terms and agreements between the parties at suit are not a matter of public knowledge or concern, but it is well known that Mr. McCray and Mr.. Kent gave liberally of time and money to the project, and secured for . Newton county one of the best railroads in the central west- We are. informed that .Mr. Taylor was settled with for the services he performed, and if he has not been, he has been -a long time in presenting the claim. — Newton County. Enterprise. ■