Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — The Old Continental. [ARTICLE]

The Old Continental.

The long , projected great through east and west railroad, a)ong the line of the old ' bntinentaVrailroad, seems now almost certain to be realized. Work on the Ohio portion of the road is already being pushed forward at a very rapid rate, and the enterprise is in tliehandaof men who will not let it drop. The following in regard to the road from a late, number of of the Fort Wayne Sentinel gives some new information regarding the present condition of the enterprise, and also ahows how much of a certainty the road is, at least in Fort Wayne:. Yesterday afternoon a committee from the Business Men’s Exchange went to Toledo to interview Vice-President Haskell with a view to securing for Fort Wayno the principal construction shops of the New York, Mahoning and Western road, which is backed by a New York syndicate, Norvin Green, manager of the Western Uninn Telegraph company, being its president. Mr. Haskell explained that the general name of. his road was the United States Central, projected j from Red Bank, Pa., where it had-, a direct line to New York over] the Lackawanna road, to Omaha,! via Fort Wayne and Chicago. In Ohio the road is called the New York, Mahoning and Western road; iu Indiana, the Ohio, Indiana and Missouri River Railroad company, because the laws require separate organizations in each state, to be finally consolidat-I ed and styled the “United States ! Central road.” The road is now built to Findlay, Ohio, where they have repair shops. Their construction gang, of 800 men, are working towards Fort Wayne and their engineer corps and right of way agents are staking a line across Jackson tp., this county. It is the Jstraightest and. shortest route between the east and west by 150 miles, making not a oiirveJiere or there on its way. They are coming to Fort Wayne with their line if they do not get a : cent, but they want to locate their and principal construction . hops in this city. They ask 5200,•00 bonus for cconstructing their Thops in this city ami are anxious tor immediate action, as the line is to reach Fort Wayne within ninety days.