Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

NEW SWITCH LINES

W. W. Worthington, General Manger of the Ft. W. C. & L., accompanied by a civil engineer and his attorneys, was in the city this morning making arrangements for a series of switches, which, taken all in all, will be several miles in length. The switches are intended to reach the factories of the Hemingrays, Ball Bros., and the Muncie Flouring Mills. The main line of the switch will be a point on the Ft. Wayne railroad just south of the city direct to the Ball Bros. Glass works. The right of way has been given and the deeds were made today. The system of switches will be extensive. That is, they will be so arranged that all points of this property, now sub-divided, can be easily reached by short branches. The work on the switches will be commenced as soon as the ground will permit. Mr. John Wagner, the roadmaster, will arrive in a few days with a force of men, who will begin making the grade.

The Bee Line people are a little slow with their switches, but the prospects seem fair that they will build the roads now at an early date. The Bee Line people, who are rather stingy economists, are at last convinced that there will be enough business in the neighborhood of the Ball Bros., plant to warrant the building of half a dozen switches.

When this territory is traversed with good switches, giving easy access to our many railroads, it will be a much easier matter to secure the factories which we expect to locate here.