The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-05-03
The Chicago Papers and the &. aud II. !.
Rail ftOaI.

The Chicago Papers and the T.. aud IL. J.
Rait Road.
We have occasionally felt indignant, but in the
main more amused. at the course Of the Chicago
papers in reference to the Chicago and Rock Is
land Railroad. Always pretending deep int.
rest in the success of this road. they scarcely let
day pass but they make an underhanded thrust
Al It's very ytals, One day it is announced with a
flourish that Gen. Furbrz. or some other equally
famous and public spirited Chicago iinancier ,
has returaed from the East with his pocket fall of
rocks and all the arrangements made for mm ed.
ately extending the Aurora Branch" on bee
line to Rock Island, tho Branch and the Rock Is
lanl ruad uniting at point some % miles north
Of Peru. Next II is grav.ly asserted that by the
charter Of the Chicago and Rock Island Company
they are prohibited from going within six miles
nf the Indiana state line Then, hv way Of stir.
ring up racusics, it is asserted that on account Of
the limited means Of the Company, it ha. been
determined TO attempt no more for the next half
dozen Of wears than to construct the road from
Z. Island to Peru and to depend thence for Rail.
road connection with Chicago upon some zgzas
route ekcd out by a connection, in some unex
planned way, with The Galenl branch If the Cen.
trail Railroad and the aforesaid Aurora Branch,
And finally, as it is proposed TO connect the Rock
Island with the Michigan Southern Road. every
species Of ml,rhood and detrac;icn is resortei to
poison the public mind against that Road It
asserted that, on account ola defect in its charter
the Michigan Southern can't get out Of Michigan.
that it is owned hy the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank Of Michigan, which i. about to break, &c, &c,
Bu! rs the Michigan Central il a rival road, il is
coming sraightvay into Chicago, notwithstanding
il has not now AMI never will obtain, even n right
Of way Gu, Of Indiana; ii Is forthwith to be pros.
ecu'ed with ,isor &c. Gr,--vilh columns more of
the same kind of stuff with which the Chicago
papers are daily teemng
Now all this i the purost ropdnciHc. There
is not line Of truth TO two hundred Of falsehocd
in all the Chicago papers have said in reference
to the Rock Island Road in three months. The
mass is unmliiSated falSehood--the offspring OF
Chicago chasrin, disappointment and spleen The
Junction with the Aurora Branch is nonsense, the
idea Of commencing at Rock leland is not dream
ed of-all is stuff, stuff Chicago i. chagrined be-
cause notwithstanding all her boosted sharpness,
in the great game Of railroads, she hns been com
p!e,e'y outwitted Bought Up as she has been,
or at least ler press and public men, by the Mi.
chgnn Cenirnl Company, and determined that that
rond must come To Chicago. at all events and all
others stop outside cf the state, she has lain and
watched the state line with the fidelity and fero
cousness Of Cerbcius. Yet in spite Of all her
vigilance. the Michigan Snu,hern--,he hated com.
papy-quetly crosses the lne--uot even stops
to pallry with the sen;iuels--and walks straight
across the state to Rock Island, and never deiyns
M apology to Chicago for leaving her some seven.
teen miles to tho right. Yet why should the wrath
Of Chicago he therefore kinlled against the Mchi
gan Southern and Rock Island Company Surely
It is no fault Of hers that Chicago is so unfortu.
nate as to be located some | ! miles north Of the
natural and selected route Of the great railroad
from Boston 10 Council Bluffs, and eventually 10
Oregon and California We believe both comra
MES are willing and intend to construct brauche,
to Chicago ami afford her citizens every facility If
travel and transportation enjoyed by more iorru
nately located cities.
1t ear scarcely be necessary for us to say by
way ofcon,radic,ion to the pompous nonsense Of
the Chicago papers, tina, no change has been
made, or can be made exeep, by another meeting
OF is contemplated in the plan Of operations ad
opted at the April meeting Of the Chicago md
Rock Island company at Pcru. That plan was, in
few words, to go On and survey the road at
onre and locate it-commencirg at point on the
Indiana line due west Of Lapotte and follow as d
rect a line as practicable thence via Joliet and OF
tawa to Peru. Then commence the work at the
Indiana line and push it through to Joliet, with
branch, from the bend Of the Calumet, to Chicago
the present season and the next season com pete
the whole line Il possible to Rock Island There
have been too many pledges given and compro
misses made lightly to alter this general plan, and
we have no doubt it will bs rigidly adhered to to
the end, Chicago malice and iustan to the contra
ry notwithstanding.