Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1897 — The Findlay Fort Wayne And Western. [ARTICLE]

The Findlay Fort Wayne And Western.

It seems to be taken as a settled thing, everywhere that the above road is to be built, the ensuing year. It crosses Jasper Co. from east to west 8 or 9 miles north of Rensselaer. Recent facts tending to confirm the belief that the road is to be built at once, are that the officers of the road, immediately after their recent meeting at Findlay, and with John Jacob Astor, the president of the company at their head, proceeded at once to Kankakee, 111., the western tenninus of the line, and in company with the chief officers of the Illinois Central, their western connection, made a thorough examination of the surroundings there. Since the Kankakee visit the Central people have begun various changes and improvements at Kankakee which strongly point to the conclusion that they are preparing for the advent of this new connection from the east. Furthermore, it is not at all likely that men like John Jacob Astor will go as far as he has gone in this matter just for a bluff, nor yet for amusement.