Show WONT WON'T RUN TRAiNS ON SA DA TH DA DAY Y Indiana Church Railroad Has HasS S Six Day Schedule of Business ROAD IS AN EXPERIMENT J I I lope Hope to la imy UI E nc t Da Hay Day o of Week t Nov XU 2 21 Can I.-Can Can an In- In I L railway l miles mile t 1 connecting three important cit cit- t and at its terminal completing a which extends from frim the thc northern north north- ern rn n to the southern limits of lie lie- successfully full operated on a n six day t l' schedule This flits is the proposition that If fr i f confronting the thO Interurban ban n Railway Hallway company L I jl The rime road was planned by the promoters pro pro- r. of the thc Presbyterian resort at Vinona Inona and has been completed complete for Cor t ent six twenty miles with the aid of or sub- sub sidles sidle voted o b 1 by the people along its an find and o of bonds sold to persons who ho were attracted to 10 It both b by financial financial fin fin- ancial and by my r religious motives Themen The Themen men len back of oC the thc enterprise are aie all In some capacity with the assembly L It They timey conceived ed time the Idea of build ng the time road rond from flom I to Peru and amid dx ent Ix miles of or It ha has been built t. t md IHl 1 Is Js now being operated This por- por r Ion flon extends from Elkhart to War War- w w. and from Irons the latter place tp Peru work Is being pushed with prospects of or Us Its early completion I At Elkhart the tine line connects with the time Northern Indiana Railway a which runs to Michigan City and has a al branch to Mich lich and aud at Peru j ij IL connects with the he Indianapolis and ond Northern which runs to this this' city through the populous cities of or I Koko- Koko mo Tipton and o l s With the time completion of or tile the Elkhart division the thc question of or Sunday traffic I came caine before the b of trustees It was wn conceded that the heaviest travel tra over O interurban n lines is on and that the prosperity of or man many lines hues J Is la due clue largely lo the fact that excursion trains rains are arc run cv every ry Sun Sunday n from frum city I to lo city The weekday da travel Is IH large but the Sunday travel Is from three to 10 times Ir greater ater and ond It Is on Sunday Sun Sun- day that most mone money Is made When Thon the question came before the directors of the Interurban I railway If there was waR a decided difference o of opinion an among ng l m Sol ul C C. Dick Dick- C cy superintendent of the Winona assembly as as- and one of the pr promoters of or time the was enterpriser d c as opposed to running railroad trains on Run Sunday a lie He de declared le- le that tim till enterprise had been i undertaken ln IJ by tho the Winona assembly a- a religious organization that subsidies haul hall been Hilt and bonds pui purchased chased 1 h by people who put faith Hh In the time enter enter- i prise because it backed ed by men I t. t i r J b ho W vere IQ Ic with whim the time church I an nd that Hint It would he be contrary to ovary every I e teaching of that church to m make l-e l the I c roads a of oC Sabbath desecration merely for th the Jko ka of or gain Many ran o of those engaged cd in the Ute enterprise enter enter- prise were wela not nOl convinced con The bonds had beon been s lI d l i land and the directors were under a mo el l obligation tho they said to pa pay tho ho Interest that the thc Investors had bad a right to io expect How Ho arc nrc we to pay Interest at ut 5 6 per pcr cent on 2000 of bonds when wo we discourage i traffic Irame on a n da day that It would be bc the greatest tI they fl asked I One of the tho directors went so far as to tu say In that the thine w was vas Impossible and that the directors would have to conform to the usual of operatIng operating ing railroads or 01 go out o of the bust busi nc ness Prole Protests ls nl also o came In from the cities with which the road connected The directors directors' or he Northern In Indiana In- In diana railway believed that the traffic on their theil road would be materially lessened nh on nn Sunday Sunda If lC excursionists could go no further than Elkhart and the directors of the time Indianapolis and Northern declared that they boy would be beIn beIn beIn In the same me box if their patrons patrons could not be bc ajo assured of or connections at P Peru ru So man many arguments in iii favor of Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day trains train were brought to bear that there thelt was w a prospect ct o of the thc directors deciding In n favor or of Sunday Sunda travel hut at that thal Juncture It Is said sahl Mr h Dickey Iickey announced that lint he would resign as superintendent of the thc Assembly If tho m ime w road was operated Ion on the Sabbath This to have hn settled the matter definitely and when the he directors met the they voted against Sunday tr travel trel el elThe The rho cars on the sixty eight miles of or loa road 1 from toni rom Elkhart to Peru will wiil nil all allstop stop at H midnight on Saturday the power houses will Iii be bc cose closed and the will be oft off duty till midnight midnight mid mid- night Sunday Not ot n a wheel ii is t tm to turn on the tho entire s system tem on Sunda Sunday and andIn I In Indiana lana Is to lo have one road that will observe the Sabbath punctiliously re regardless regardless regardless re- re of ot whAt i the thc others Im may do Church people throughout tl th-j th state I arc are applauding the action of the di directors dl- dl r rectors an and ancl are arc predicting at the tho i la n railway y w will prove pro the time biggest mone money marker ker In In Indiana The bonds have ha been issued in denominations denominations de do- nominations of at 1000 and man many persons have ha invested In In them more mor as a matter of sentiment than for gain on un the In investment While time the controversy regarding Sunday trains was jis going on man many o of these investors In it is said told tollI the thc directors that they were mcm members ers of oC the tho church were opposed to Sunday desecration and would rather lose their money than Ihan have havo it Il earn tarn dividends by violation violation viola vlola- tion of the tho Sabbath 1 Some Seine of the lar largest cst Investors lu took the rhe same r-ame view and tho thoc e who were Opposed to carrying observance observance ance Conce F fo far tar finally acquiesced in the conclusions of the majority hoping that the proposed cd plan would not prove pro to 10 be bc a failure All Mi admitted that this regard for the Sabbath ought to be bl rewarded by In heavy travel on other da lays days of th tho week nil but man many were Wel I lot entirely satisfied that such would be bc the case Practical interurban l railroad men 01 ore of ot otone one mind ns as to the venture and that L Is that cutting out Sunday t travel 11 1 will greatly reduce reduce- tho the receipts I of oe the road and amid lI tl to that extent jeopardize tho the profits The They do not say ay that the he road loid will not pa pay but they but the they do say ny that they do 10 not know of any other interurban property in the state stale that would pa pay dividends were it not for Ih the Sunday Sunda travel The Vl In Interurban directors meet this statement with the assertion that there Is not an nn Int Interurban road in ir the time state that i it is not bonded for two 01 or three times thuds its cost cust while the time Winona company has not lint 1011 and will not ot soil sell a 0 bond In exo cx- cx exI I CAK ies o of 1 If tile the tH atta t ul it of the time road I 1 While other roads road thc they say are ale paying pay pay- Ingo ing ng dividends on a capitalization of a mile milc the he road is c capitalized at mit OOOO a mile and this tills I is lilt all It will II cost and amid all it IL will have hu to pa pay Interest on Tho The capitalization c the they declare Is honest an and the road will bo be mana managed ld hon honestly stI and economically and at the panic Fame time tho the Sabbath will wUI be bo respected respect respect- ct- ct ed cd and amid not made a means means means' of gain The Themen men at mit the med head of or the enterprise d do doriot doriot riot not doubt that It lL will be he a success though thou h It will be the only railroad in III inthe the Jw country that lint does hoes not run Sunday trains P |