Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-02-04

in favor of the electric line TO the SOUTH
eastern bluffs. but he thought the Holmes
company should be given the Fourth
avenue and Ninth street route. There
ought not to be any conflict of rights on
any avenue. and 1t would not be wise
policy on the part of the city or toward
either company, to grant two companies
right of way on Fourth avenue. and he
believed the proposition of the Holmes
company for its Fourth avenue and
Ninth street line was as essential TO the
city's welfare and to our business men,
bringing traffic rs 1t promised to do from
either end to the business thoroUghfare
of the city. as the electric road was.
Aid. Schnell favored the electric line
from the bluff to the lower part of Rock
Island over Fourth avenue. first, last and
all the time.
Aid. Knox presented sort of double
header resolution. granting both compa'
mics the right of way on Fourth avenue.
hll. ElOWhIu HOiib
for the electric road, but said he could
not swallow that proposition.
Aid. Corken thought the Holmes peoN
pie were in earnest. but he was not so
sure about the Moline company, and be-
sides there were plenty of avenues to the
lower part of town without giving one
thoroughfare to two different companies
Aid. Hampton thought the giving of
the two companies similar rights on
Fourth avenue opened the way to spec
ulation. He did not believe that q wise
policy. The city had obligated itself to
a certain extent TO the Holmes company
on Fourth avenue between Fifteenth and
Fifth streets. The Ninth street extension
was as important as the east end line
He wanted to see the Moline Central
come down into the city, but he was just
as anxious to see the facilities the Holmes
people sought to provide to the lower
end.
Mr.. J. J. Reimers made plea for the
Moline Central and in his enthusiast
over the advantages of the bluff lyon
for residence property csst ree1c'ion on
that portion of the cit lying In the
slough. He apoligized or this at once
however. as a sli-)of the tongue, and
stated his srgu-ent in favor of the bluff
rou,e no o;vng the lsboring people in the
fsc,orie.d down town a fast and direct line
IN IT, bluffs W here they could build cheap
ZONES and quickly populate that part of
I the city.
| Aid. Corken resented Mr.. Reimers'
comments on the slough and stated that
people had owned their homes in that
neighborhood while the upper part
of town was still woods.
Col. Curtis was called upon and spoke
from the standpoint of one who
kept no carriage and who depended
wholly upon the horse cars; the
more street railway facilities there-
fore the better. He thought though
that the council should give all fair
chance, and it should consider, too, that
the Moline & Rock Island offers 10 bind
itself in the sum of $4,000, to build by
June LIST. This is surely an evidence of
good faith. snd has binding effect, such
as is not provided for in the proposition
OF the other road. He held further, that
there was still another side to the oues-
ton. 1t was not necessary to carry
working people up into the confines of
Moline in order to give them homes The
Moline & Rock Island company offered
Just as good opportunities fsx reaching q
home getting territory. The councils
wisest policy, would seem to him, to
favor the road that it is sure to get
Aid. Larkin stated that he had consi'-
cred the question of street railway rights
thoroughly. and had come to the conclu.
sion that the council would best serve all
ends by recognizing the company that
means business, and means 10 do what il
agrees TO promptly. The city owed
something to the Holmes syndicate.
improvements had followed in its trail
ever since it set foot in the
city. IL had amply verified every prom
Use made and the city had no reason to
doubt that 1t would continue to do so.
The council should grant it the Fourth
avenue and Ninth street right Of way.
Mr.. f. II. Guyer, of the Moline Central,
was called upon and he stated the obs
jects of his company was to reach terri>
tory which would provide homes for the
laboring people which his company was
anxious TO reach by reason of the Fourth
avenue franchise sought for. II the COM
pany was blocked in this matter he did
not know how the company would feel
about building into the city at all. He
spoke OF the advantages of rapid transit
and attempted to show by citation of
supreme court decisions that the Holmes
company was not in legal attitude be-
fore the council.
The ordinance was then put on its pas
sage and passed by vote of 8 to A.
Aid. Hampton then read the ordinance
for the Moline Central for right of way
privileges over the following route from
Paramount park west on Fourteenth ave.
nue. 10 Tbirtieth street. north TO Thir-
teenth avenue, west to Twenty-fifth
street, north to Eighth and-a-half ave-