Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — OBJECT TO NEW DEPOT PLANS. [ARTICLE]

OBJECT TO NEW DEPOT PLANS.

Residents Of Near Present Location Protest Against Removal' Two Blocks West. —- : -- The citizens of Rensselaer of the northeast part of the city are protesting against the alleged proposed plan of the Monon to build its new depot—when it is built—two blocks west of the present location, or near the Brady elevator crossing. They say that if the company is to move the location to secure room room, that to move it to the Franklin x street crossing, one block east of the present' location, Is the more preferable, and, they contend, the Franklin, street location is slightly nearer to the center of the Makeever hotel crossing than the Brady crossing location. In proof of this contention they had the county surveyor measure the distances Thursday, and it was found to be 2,802 feet from the Franklin street crossing down Division to the Forsythe residence corner and up Washington street to the center of the Washlng-

ton and Cullen street intersection, and 2,803 feet to the. same point by nearest route’ from the Brady crossing.

The vacant ground on the south of the tracks at the Brady crossing, where it is talked the 'new depot will be erected, was owned by the Alfred and S. P. Thompson estates, and in the recent division of the latter’s estate the undivided onehalf was set off to S. P. Thompson’s widow, May F. Thompson. This plat of ground has 145 feet frontage on Forest street and ie 250 feet east and west, containing 96-100 of an acre. It has always been contended that the curve just west of this crossing made it an undesirable location for a depot, but H. R. Kurrie, who is now attorney for the Monon and to influence more than anything else will be due the credit of Rensselaer’s getting a new depot—if we do. get one—-is a son-in-law of Mrs. May Thompson, and would, therefore, naturally be Interested in having the depot located at this point.