Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-21
DON'T JUDGE HASTILY.
All will Come in Due Time..-The
Holmes Syndicate a Trifie slow but
An plaus far fhepEuture.

All will Come in Due Time..-The
Holmes Syndicate Trifie slow hut
sure--PIans for thesFuture.
A great many complaints have come to
the ARGUS about the condition OF the
street car track of the Moline q Rock
Island line below Seventeenth street, and
also of the delay manifested in making
the Improvements promised. We should
not judge Mr.. Holmes too hastily. Great
bodies move slowly. and in the face of
all that he has had to contend with.
he las done as we'll by Rock Island
as CO uld be expected of him. All know
of the inconvenience and loss suffered in
consequence of the destruction Of the
Moline avenue barns month ago, but it
is not everybody that knows, perhaps.
that the syndicate was out on the paving
of Rodman avenue and the causeway on
Rock Island above what it expected. more
than enough to put in all the desired i'm
provements in Rock Island and Daven>
port as well and TO have paved the entire
width of Armstrong avenue with the use
of ordinary cement, whereas the highest
and most expensive quality of imported
cement was insisted upon by the gov
eminent. These miscalculations have
inter 'ered very materially with the orig
inal plans of the syndicate.
But there is good time coming, for it
is the intention to extend the Johnston
rail track west to the pillow works, with
double track to Twelfth street and relay
Thirty fifth street east to the limits of the
business portion of Moline and build
through the city with Johnston rail.
Then there is sloyenly looking piece of
track east of Thirty>fifth street on the
Union line. which will require relsying
from College hill to Edgewood park
The most of the crossings for the railroad
tracks at the foot of Twenty. fourth
street are to be put in yet and there is
some greatly needed patching to be done
on Fourth avenue between Twenty first
and Twenty>second streets where the old
switch was taken up. This will all be
attended to in time. New cars have been
ordered for the entire system and an in
stallment is expected daily. The stan
dard five window size has been adopted
for all the lines except the Second street
line in Davenport, which will be smaller
and the bridge line which will be larger.
The open cars will be proportionately
regulated
Supt. Schnitger has adopted plan for
the Rock Island s. Moline lines which
promises to give more satisfaction than
the old way. AS soon as the new cars
arrive and sufficient stock is bought, the
running time between Thirty>fifth and
Twelfth streets will be reduced to five
mimi les between cars. The blue line cars
will run between Riverside cemetery,
Moline, and the extreme west end of
Rock Island, instead of stopping at Fiji,
tenth street, while the red cars will run
over The old line as heretofore, but only
GO west as far as Twelfth street, where
the double track will STOP. This will
give the lower end of town the same fa>
ciities as before and will not only short.
en- the time one third through town, but
above Twelfth street as well
In the meantime we are frank to say
that riding on a track that seems like
Jolting over the ties or boarding Car for
Moline lettered Bridge and Northwest
Davenport" don't induce full confidence
in the road. any more than it does to see
a car lettered Second Street." running
on Third street in Davenport. But these
arrangements are only temporary and the
cars at present out of place will be re.
turned to their proper lines as soon as
the new ones arrive. Supt. Schnitger is
doing the best he can with the accommo-
dations az his control, and until he has
had opportunity to demonstrate what
he can do. don't criticize him too
severely. The ARGUS. whose first duty
is to The public, will not be slow to speak,
If promised improvements don't come in
proper time.
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