Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — Findlay Fort Wayne & Western Again. [ARTICLE]

Findlay Fort Wayne & Western Again.

Any item of news concerning the above named road, is of great interest in this county. As already fully explained, this company has already surveyed a line for an extension from Fort Wayne to Kankakee, 111., and the survey passes about 8 miles north of Rensselaer. The officers of the company Iftive held out some hopes that Rensselaer might, by proper effort secure the deflection of the line sufficient to bring it through our city. It is a consummation greatly to be desired and will be worth almost any exertions and expense upon the part of our people. All recent mentions of the road in the city newspapers speak of its early construction as a settled fact. The latest of these mentions was in today’s Indianapolis Journal. In connection with the statement that Calvin S. Brice had secured eastern and western outlets for all his Ohio and- Indiana lines. It is stated that the Fiudlay, Fort Wayne & Western has permanent traffic arrangements with Brice’s lines, and is about to build its extension from Fort Wayne to Kankakee. Evidently this is no idle talk. Such great railroad men as John Jacob Astor, and Calvin S. Brice do not talk of building new lines merely for talk’s sake.