Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-18
BUILDING OF LINE FROM CEDAR
RAPIDS TO oEs MONIES
FoREcAsTEo.
REED AND BOWS INTERESTS
BACK IMMENSE PROJECT
May Secure Control Of Des Moines
City Railway and Extend to Cedar
Rapids by Way Of Boone and Mar
shalltown-N. w. Harris G. Co. Fac
tor in Both Companies.

Cedar Rapids. Dec 1S.-The con-
struction of an interurhan railway
connecting Cedar Rapids and Des
Moines is a possibility of the future.
according to story emenating from
Des Moines, and which has found
credence in this city.
The building of the line and the
plans have been mapped out in the
minds of certain Des Moines men, in
Guiding members of the city commits
sion, so the story goes.
| William Chamberlain of the law
| firm OF Barnes and Chamberlain, has
| filed an argument in the mandamus
proceedings in the supreme court in
the Des Moines street railway fran
| chise case which comes up for argu
ment today and in which AIR. Cham
berlain will appear
To Acquire Des Mones System?
a Des Moines newspaper says: 1t
has been claimed for several months
at the city hall that the Cedar Rapids
interests would take over the Des
Moines city railway system after
franchise is granted. Mayor Hanna
and Corporation Counsel Byers de-
clare that the fling of the argument
by the Cedar Rapids attorney is proof
of their contention that John Reed and
Colonel Dows of Cedar Rapids. street
railway interurban and power mag
mates, viii take charge of the Des
" aines system, Rarnes ard Che y? l>er
lain are The attorneys for the Cedar
Rapids men.
The argument some thirty pages in
length, was received by Corporation
Counsel Byers today. 1t is filed with
the court as friend of the court. the
attorneys claiming that the outcome of
the case effects every other city in
Iowa in granting future franchises.
They urge the court to sustain the city
railway company's contention that the
franchise should be submitted to the
people under all sections of the law in
volved The city is contending that
1t is legal TO send the ordinance to the
people under one section only. The
! fight is over the question of whether
or not the council can attach amend
ments or have its hands tied to submit
| just what the company asks to have
Submitted.
Close Interests Shown.
I from Cedar Rapids it IS learned
! llldl CiOse IeldtiVHS eNlSl bclNtcu tilS
n. w. Harris interests and Messrs.
Reed and Bows. Both af1s. Reed and
Mr. Bows are stockholders in'Sthe Iowa
Railway and. Light Company. which
furnishes power and light to- about
forty communities. Including Cedar
Rapids. n. w. Harris. who owns the
Des Moines system. is a heavy stock
holder in the Iowa Railway and Light
Company and sells its bonds
Here Is just what Is predicted viii
happen. If the Des Moines franchise il
submitted to the people as wished BY
the company: The Des Moines city
company will have a line from Des
Moines to Boone and an interurban VII
be bull, from this city 10 connect a
Boone, giving Cedar Rapids interurban
connection with the capital city anc
making it one of the greatest interur-
ban centers in the central west. Thu
Bows interests own practically all the
light and power plants between Cedar
Rapids and Boone along the line of thu
Chicago and Northwestern railroad
and also a number along the line o
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Pau
road; also some of the plants between
Boone and Des Moines. The same in
terests also own the light and stree
; railway plant at Marshaltown, tn
power plant at Perry and the ga
plant in the same city is the persona
property of John A. Reed