Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — Kendallville Rochester & Western Again. [ARTICLE]

Kendallville Rochester & Western Again.

This Most Oesir-ible East AndWest Route Still a Possibility. Most of our readers will remember the visit here, the latter part of November, of G. H. Tenney and another party, in the interest of what is known as the Kendallville, 1 Rochester & Western Railroad. Mr, Tenney a gentleman of much railroad experience, and of wide acquaintance among the capitalists of Boston, was organizing a project for a road whose present proposed terminuses are Kendallville, this state, and Gilman, 111. Mr. Tenney has been sick" with a chronic heart trouble, much of the time since his visit, * but is now on bis feet again Today, there is in town, representing his company, R. A. Hamilton, of Goodland, a civil engineer and exsurveyor of Newton county. Mr. Hamilton reports that Mr. Tenney has made great progress in organizing the movement. Has the money in sight with which to build the road, and the contract signed for much of the material. He is looking over the route, judging of its advantages and finding out the feeling of the people. The rout© is through a fine and fertile country, free from completing lines, and taps any number ofgood railroad connections. As to the feelings of the people along the whole route, we think Rensselaer is a fair criterion, and here the people are most earnestly in favor of it, and will be ready to do anything in reason to secure it. Tue question which will naturally arise just at this juncture, is, will this project interfere in any way with the movement foi the Gifford road? And if we get one of these roads, would we want the other?

Our answer is that they do not conflict at all and we want them both and want them bad. Either of them will do us a whole lot of good, and both will do a whole lot more. Both of these roads would put Rensselaer on a 6ure road to a steady and rapid growth, which would put us at once in the position of one of the best and most promising cities in Northwest Indiana.