Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — West Siders May Have to Burn Incense. [ARTICLE]

West Siders May Have to Burn Incense.

And now Promotor Brown of the L. & X. W. R. R., says that the line of his proposed road over at the west side of town as shown by the profile filed with the county clerk, and on wihich line he is asking for a $61,000 subsidy from Rensselaer and Marion tp., is only “intended for the carrying of freight,” and that he will run a “passenger line’ up through Rensselaer, on Cullen and Forest streets, to the Monon station. He doesn’t state where he will branch off with his passenger line from the freight line, however. But he will magnanimously build us the passenger line if we will give him that $61,000, although he is under no legal obligations to do so, as he MUST build on the other line, if at all, in order to secure this subsidy. But, by the way, wonder how the people oveE at the west side, along through Fred Phillips’ addition, McCoy avenue and the northwest part of Rensselaer, will enjoy having a freight railroad run along by their homes, carrying hogs, sheep, cattle, stable manure, et cetera?