Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — Monon To Run Trains Through To Evansville. [ARTICLE]

Monon To Run Trains Through To Evansville.

A dispatch from Evansville says: Information Is at hand that the Monon will enter this city over the Southern railroad’s tracks from French Lick, Ind. Little construction work will be necessary except on the terminals in this city. For four years H. Hulman, wholesale grocer of Terre Haute, has been acquiring in small parcels the three blocks of property at Main and Division streets. At first it was thought Mr. Hulman was acting for John R. Walsh. After the Chicago banker’s failure Hulman continued to buy, however, and on a scale whieh showed to judicious observers here that he was acting as an agent and not for himself. Now it develops the Hulman purchases have been made for the Monon terminals. They lie adjoining the Union track on both sides of Main street and within a stone’s throw of the present Southern freight yards. The coming of the Monon is held to mean a break between the Louisville & Nashville and the Evansville & Terre Haute and Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroads, which have worked in friendly relations for years, and the making of a new alliance between the L. & N. and the Monon. Since it is currently understood that the L. & N. and the Southern control the Monon, the new alliance foreshadows a continuous lake-to-the-gulf line under

one ownership. Activity on the improvement and strengthening of the north-and-south lines has been particularly manifest in the last two years in expectation of a largely increased business to follow the opening of the Panama canal. Harriman is believed to have been looking forward to the canal when he authorized the concentration of all the Illinois Central forces on the southern half of that system. The Moore brothers and their associates in the Rock Island-Frlsco system were not behind hand and had plans ready for an extension of the E. & T. H. south from this city to connect with a gulf line at Jackson, Tenn. To protect itself against the invasion of its territory which such an extension of the E. & T. H. would bring and to insure the retention of its business north of the Ohio, the L. & N. is now seeking to get another inlet to Chicago. By bringing the Monon to Evansville the interests backing that line will be able to control the business to and from the Ohio river which the projectors of the defunct Chicago, Indianapolis & Evansville railroad were looking forward to when they constructed a line on paper. With the canalization of the Ohio into an all-the-year waterway for heavy freight, shipments by water will Increase ita volume. It was learned tonight that the L. & N. and the Monon are working jointly now on the plans for the latter’s entry and it is probable that all arrangements will be completed before the winter passes.

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