Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — An Old Enterprise Recalled [ARTICLE]

An Old Enterprise Recalled

AluuUceUo Herald. A suit now pending before Judge Gresham is calculated to revive the memories of some eighteen years ago, when Monticeilo was the home of a railroad president in the person of Dr. W. S. Haymond, whose d-eam of life and intense ambition was to build a “grand trunkline from Chicago „o the South Atlantic seaboard.” We never pass Archer Avenue on the way into the city*of Chicago without recalling the energy and enthusiasm of our lamented friend and fellow townsman, vhtise shibboleth in those days was “From Archer Avenue to Port Royal!’ ’ Like many other public spirited men he sacraficed his own fortune in the interests of his pet enterprise, which after all yielded him nothing but disappointment The trunk line to the southern seaboard is still an unattaited ideal, but the Monon Rou t e is here, and there is no telling how much it owes to Dr. Raymond for its existence. The lawsuit above referred to is an action brought by Chas. E. Pope, Receiver of the old Chicago <k South Atlantic, against the present Monon management to compel the latter to pay for all contract work done on the road before the C. A S. A. was merged into the Air Line. The case came up last week before Judge Gresham, but the Judge was too busy to hear it, and it went over till July.

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