The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-01
A. S. Terrill & Co., of Chica-
go, Is Planning to Con-
struct a Road from This
City to South Bend.
A DEAL FOR c., B. & C.
RAILWAY NOW BEGUN
Would Electrify Road and 1t
Would Constitute 60 Miles
of Proposed System, North
and South.
palladium Specially

(Palladlum Specially
HUNTINGTON. Nov. Visiting
Huntington in the interests of A. 8.
Terrill & Co., of Chicago, who, it is
understood, is prepared to offer a bid
on the c. B. & c. railroad, more than
$4,000 above any bid yet made on
| the line, c. Fu-ness Hately, vice-presi-
dent of the company, confirmed the
statement that his firm has options on
the Marion, Bluffton & Eastern inter-
urban line and the Bluffton. Geneva &
Celina interurban line
Regarding any transaction for the
purchase of the c. B. & c., Mr. Hately
declined for the present to talk He
will probably visit Huntington again
within a short time. Mr.. Hately's
company desires to buy the c. B. & c.,
and will, if successful, electrify the
line.
Concerning the plans of A. S. Ter
rill & Co.. if the firm is able to acquire
the c.. B. & c.. Mr. Hately said:
See Great Future.
Eve believe there is a great future
for a north and south electric line
through this section of Indiana and
we will, if we are able to buy the road,
put up bond that Huntington will
have station in the very heart of the
city.
I'VE want to build a traction line
from Richmond north to South Bend.
If we could buy the c. B. & c. sixty
miles Of this line would be built along
exactly the route that we want to COW
er, and, with the M. B. & E. and the
B. G. & c. purchased we would have
fine interurban system through this
part of Indiana
with the c. B. & c. we could have
sixty miles of this line in actual oper-
alton within comparatively short
time, as we would need only to string
our trolley wires along it and get the
cars started.
"The experience of Indiana with
freight business over the traction lines
since they have spread so widely
throughout the state has certainly
proven beyond doubt that the trac-
tion lines can handle the freight busf-
ness. Yet we expect, il we are able to
acquire the C. B. & c. line, to have an
interurban road from Richmond to
South Bend that will eclipse as a
freight line any interurban road in the
middle west
Electric locomotives will be put on
the line of the same type as are used
by the Pennsylvania railroad, and
believe can handle any amount Of
freight in this manner"
HateIy Enthusiastic.
Mr.. Hately seemed enthused over
the prospects for an electric line from
Richmond to South Bend. AS vice-pres-
ident of A. S. Terrill & Co., a firm con-
sidered one of the biggest financial
agencies of the middle west, and one
of the most prominent in the country,
Mr.. Hately's actions will, beyond a
doubt, be final so far as that firm is
concerned.
Petitions circulated among local
business men to be presented to the
Huntington county board of commits
sioners asking that the line be elec-
trif1ed are being widely signed. There
seems to be a substantial sentiment
in favor of the electrifcation of the
line, but Huntington business men are
uncertain as to the outcome
It is probable Mr.. Hately will soon
take the matter Of A. s. Terrill & Co.'S
proposal to buy the c. B. & C. up with
the Huntington circuit court. Local at
torneys say a township election may
be necessary to change the contract
with the c. B. & c. to permit of the
electrification of the line through the
courts acceptance Of any bid offered
would Arst be necessity
Accompanying Mr. Hately were W.
w. Gurley and H. NJ. Carter, promi-
nent Chicago attorneys, legal repre-
sentatives of A. s. Terrell & Co. and
the visit is supposed to have much sig
nifcance.