Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — Vandebilt Said to Have Gobbled the Three I. [ARTICLE]

Vandebilt Said to Have Gobbled the Three I.

Indianapolis Journal. If the report of the transfer of the Indiana, Illinois & lowa road to the Vanderbilts be true, it greatly changes the railway situation in the seotion through which the road passes and is of more importance than would appear on its face. It will relieve the Vanderbilt roads from another competitor between Detroit, Toledo and Chicago. The Indiana, Illinois & lowa runs from Clinton to Bt. Joseph, Mich., and arrangements were being made to complete to Toledo and Detroit, but it is stated this move of the Vanderbilts will head off a feeder for the Lake Shore system. Under the new arrangement it is stated the through freight and passenger business from the East will be turned over from the Vanderbilts’ Eastern road to the Three I.’s at South Bend, Ind., and will pass south of Chicago through Streator, thence to Mendota, 111. from which place it will come to Clinton over a track owned jointly by the Three I.’s and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. The same route will be taken for east-bound traffic, and by utilizing this line much delay at Chicago will be avoided.