Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-05
Committee Now Has No Doubt
But That Sufficient Names
Will Be Secured
NAMES NUMBER 600 At NOON
Committee Will Meet Tonight at tn.
Council Chamber to Check Over the
Lists-Fifth Ward, Which Opposed
Last Interurban, Lends Success -
Road May Touch LaMoiIIe Instead of
Luray.

having supervision of securing the
names to the interurban election petit
ton, the success Of the petition is al
ready assured. UP to noon today there
the different lists that will form the
petition.
The committee will hold meeting
tonight in the council chamber, begin
ming at 1880. AT this time the lists
will be checked over, and plans made
for interviewing resident freeholders
who have not yet been seen.
The committee today began check
ing over the list of resident free hold
ers alphabetically. The names of thes
who have not been seen are placed on
cards, with street addresses attached,
and will be given to the sub-commit-
tees having charge of the signatures In
the different parts of the city.
Fifth Ward Helps.
Councilman TONY" Psenicka, OF the
Fifth ward, who came into headquart-
ers this forenoon for another petition,
after completely filling the one he was
carrying, said that of all the people he
had seen in the Fifth ward there were
but three who opposed the interurban.
The Fifth ward, two years ago. was the
only precinct in the city that voted
against the former interlrban. At that
time the ward went a little over fifty
votes against the proposition
New Survey in Prospect.
At noon today E. G. Killey. the en-
gineer in the employ of Hamilton
Browne, who has been working on the
surveys between here and Melbourne.
and on the city extensions, during the
past six weeks, left in company with
r. E. Click for Melbourne, via La
Noble, overland. Upon the suggestion
Of Railroad Commissioner N. S. Ket-
chum and Merritt Greene, a proposed
new survey to Melbourne, touching at
LaMoille instead Of Luray, is In con-
temptation.
LaMoiIle Better Point.
According to all present surveys to
Melbourne Luray is the only town al
which the proposed line touched. Mr..
Ketchum and Mr.. Greene urge that La
noble is better point, larger town,
and probably always will be larger.
They also urge that the farming popu-
lation is greater along the proposed
new route, and that the road would tap
richer country.
Another important point is in view,
in going to LaMoille instead Of Luray,
for the promoters think that eventual
ly the Newton & Northwestern's line,
at present under course of construction
from Boone to Ames, will be extended
to Colo and State Center, and could
meet the Marshalltown line out of La
Noble.
Two Routes in View.
The probabilities are that several
routes, with LaMoille stopping point
en- route to Melbourne, will have pre-
liminary surveys. At present there are
two in view One is to go west on Sum-
nit street to the end of the corporation
limits, thence southwest to LaMoille,
and on to Melbourne, Another is ID
run south on Twelfth street, crossing
the Iowa Central tracks at the Greene
farm, then follow draw across the
McCombs land to the Northwestern
railway, then paralleling the North
western to LaMoille.
Eastern Men Coming.
Messrs. Saunders and Jones, of New
York, who form a copartnership under
the same firm name, will reach the city
Monday, to be in conference with the
promoters of the proposed interuban.
Messrs. Saunders and Jones are asso-
ciates of Hamilton Browne, and are
among the heaviest operators of inter-
urban lines in the state of Connecticut.
They expect to be here several days,
being en- route to Kansas City, where
thew have in view the building of line
of an interurban railway from Kansas
CITY to st. Joe.