Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — Monon’s New Yards Now Open. [ARTICLE]

Monon’s New Yards Now Open.

The Monon is making things hum at its new yards at Sooth Hammond, says the Hammond News, and started things with a jump there this morning. Several men from the local offioe force, inolndiog Messrs .Cross, Bellamy and Hunt are at the new yards for a few days helping to get them in running order preparatory to bringing out the 49th street foroe. Tbe officials of the road have made their selection of a new yard-master, It did not fall to the lot of a Hammond man. T. W. Lamb, of Chicago, is the new appointee to this position. Tbe eating house was thrown open for business this, morning bnt the hotel proper, conducted as a Y. M. C.‘A. hotel, is not yet quite ready for business. In all departments at the yards the Monon will employ over fifty men. This includes a night and a day switch in the offioe of fourteen men. Six engines will be busy all the time at tbe new yards, three for day switching and one at night while two will be used to take the freights to and from Chicago from South Hammond.