Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — A Busy Thoroughfare. [ARTICLE]

A Busy Thoroughfare.

The amount of traffic that passes over the Washington street bridge in Rensselaer each day is astonishing, considering the size of our city and the numerous other roads entering the city. Sunday was not a very exceptional day for automobiles, yet the writer kept count of the machines that passed over this bridge from 4:25 to 5:45 Sunday afternoon, and the number was an even 60, or one machine for less than each minute and a half. During the same period there was probably a still greater number of horse vehicles passed over this bridge, and about the same ratio was kept up from say 7 a. m., until 9 o’clock at night, both of autoe and teams.