The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-01
An Electric and Steam Road from Vim
cennes to Louisville, which VIII
Touch at West Baden.
REPORT OF EXPERT ENGINEER
ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE
PROPOSITIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
Several Other Indiana Concerns File
Articles of Incorporation with
Secretary of State.

The Vincennes, West Baden & Louisville
Traction Company filed articles of incor-
poration with the secretary of state late
yesterday afternoon. This is of the
most important traction ventures ever I'M
dertaken in the State. The plan is to build
an electric and steam railroad from Vim
cennes to Jasper. Dubois county: from
there to West Baden and ultimately TO
Louisville, KY. The directors of the COM
pany are John L. Griffiths. of Indianapolis;
a. Norvale, of Cincinnati; Bomar Traylor.
OF Jasper; Robert NJ. Gray, of Orwell, Pike
county; John o. Davis, of Petersburg;
George w. II. Roush, Edwin p. Millett and
Thomas H. Adams, of Vincennes, and Ell
more F. Cox, of Worthington. The COM
pany is capitalized at $l.5OO,00O and has been
financed by the Municipal Bond and Securi-
ties Company, of Cincinnati, which firm is
the fiscal agent of the enterprise.
Eugene Calhoun, an expert traction engi-
neer OF Buffalo, has surveyed the proposed
route of the road and has made a fifty
page report to the promoters. In his re-
port he says the scheme presents the most
attractive traction proposition in the coun-
will open UP 10000 acres of coal lands in
Southern Indiana, and 1t Is stated that
three companies are ready to open mines
stood that right of way has been secured
between Vincennes and Jasper, a distance
of about forty-three miles, and that work
Oii the CONSTRUCTION Will DE competed Will
in ninety days. 1t is the purpose to build
a track that will accommodate a steam To-
connective, and one of the plans of the COM
pany is to some day haul freight trains
the company will organize at Vincennes
this afternoon, and ii is stated that Thomas
III. Adams will be selected president of the
concern.
OTHER NEW CONCERNS.
Other articles of incorporation filed with
the secretary of state yesterday were as
follows:
company operating the Imperial Hotel OF
this city, capital stock $500, 600: directors,
G. E. Coffin, Charles K. Holloway, Car
ence E. Coffin. Thomas b. Fulmer and
The Democrat Publishing Company, We
way; capital stock, $1,000. Directors, George
S. Peasants, Albert B. Douglass. Fred c.
Demann, George B. Hall, w. c. Benedict.
j. r.. Howe, William Culbertson, Elmer
Hufford, Charles LOOMS.
Indiana Optometrical Company. of In
glasses; capital stock $4,000. Directors,
Winfield s. Orwin, George s. Grub, Will
| liam e. Huston.
Independent Order of Saloon Keepers. OF
Fort Wayne. Directors. Harry Gilbert
| John Kennedy, Burvillus Gaskill, Frank
| Kritzer, Charles E. Hunt, Frank Horst
man. Joseph w. Thorp.
| City, organized to build and operate hotels
in Indiana; capital stock, $4,000. Directors
| John w. Stuart, John r. Stuart, James T.
Stuart.
The Little Gem Oil and Gas Company, OF
| Muncie; capital stock. 10000 Directors
Jere Garrard, ]. e. Crews. ]. H. LETTER
| w. E. Floyd, G. NJ. Austin, G. r. Green
| l.. A. Lawyer.
American Coal and Cooking Company, O,
Indianapolis; capital stock, 100000. Direc
| tors, D. b. Zimmerman. Nathaniel Good
| Frank M. Fauvre, A. II. Nordyke. Rober
| B. Keith
Highland Golf Club. of Indianapolis. Di
| rectors, William r. Root, James e. Keep
| perly. William Donaldson, William w. Car
ter, H. F. Waterman, Samuel E. Rauh,
| N. Cleaver, E. d. Moore, Edward l.. Len
| nox, Arthur F. Hall.
| Winchester Oil and Gas Company, Of Ran
dolph county; capital stock. $4,000. Direc
| tors, z. M. Woodland, K. H. Davis, o. z
Davis. j. w. Thompson. A. w. Thompson
| Charles F. Gray, Benjamin F. Gray.
| The Standard Wheel Company, Of Hi
| nois, filed articles under the foreign cor
| poration law, s2S1, 972 of the company's cap
ital stock being represented in Indiana.
The Building Loan Fund and Savings AS
ISOLATION, of Tell City, filed a certificate
showing an increase Of capital stock from
$4,000 to $4,000