Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — CLOSE CHICAGO-DETROIT GAP. [ARTICLE]

CLOSE CHICAGO-DETROIT GAP.

Imerurban Owners Plan Financing of Connecting Roads La porte, Ind., Sept. 22—Arrangements to finance an interurhan line between St. Joseph and Detroit, which will be announced tomorrow,, will complete the only gap and finnish a straight connection by interurban between Chicago and Detroit. The road will tap several small cities which have an aggregate population of 100,000 ahd is said to have good prospects. Backing is said to come from the owners of the Kalamazoo-Grand Rapids line, which is desirous of having direct connections with Chicago by electric road.