Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-21
Results in Great Benefit to EDGE.
water, Rogers Park, Evanston
and Other Places.

live on the countless streets tribu.
tary to North Clark street and Ev.
anston avenue are carrying their
heads little higher now and claim.
Ing, quite Justly, that they have as
good transportation facilities as any.
body In the city July 0 the com.
pany completed the connection Of its
electric line with the cable at the
Clark street car barns, near Diversey
avenue, and now people living In the
suburbs Of Edgewater. North Edge
water. and rs far north as North
Evanston can ride into the heart OF
the city with but single change OF
cars, making q trip Of thirteen miles
for 10 cents.
The management Of the road has
spared no pains or expense to provide
the best accommodation for its pa.
irons. The electric cars run into the
cable barns, and passengers bound
for downtown are enabled to board
cable.trains In the same building.
EDaEwATER Is FAVORED.
Edgcwater residents so far have a
little the best OF II, for the electric
road company Is now running a car
north from the cable barus ut I o'clock
In the morning, which Ia intended
for the especial benefit of theater.
goers and those individuals known ~
might owls" whose labors In the city
are not finished until midnight.
This car does not run beyond the
electric power.house on Evanston Az.
enue In North Edgewater. People
may take the last cable train, which
passes through the LaSalle street
tunnel about 1920 at night, and
reach the northern terminus In time
to catch the electric car, which whisks
them to their homes Ia q quarter Tho
time consumed by the slow.goina
horse.clrs.
Leaving the cable cars at the d.
versey avenue barns passenger cat
board an electric cor on the spot, and
for nickel tako ride Of over nine
miles through the most attractive
part OF the north shore country. tn.
double track, which was completed
the other day, follows Clark street K
Halsted, turns north at that inter
section, and on Halsted proceeds Il
Evanston and Graceland avenues
The portion Of the Chicago and NORTH
Shore Railway lying north Of THU
point has been In operation about
year and has had remarkable success
the passenger trsnic exceeding eve,
the most sanguine expectations Of IL
promoters. Crowds Of city peopl,
take exclusion trips out along tn
lake shore every Sunday. The roat
runs through the heart Of Buen,
Park, Sheridan Park, Argyle, Edge
water, North Edgewater, Roger
Park, South Evanston, Evanston
proper and North Evanston, and AT
fords the residents Of these suburb
quick service. They expect the roa'
to benefit their property, and tn
numbers OF buyers and builders VIII
have sought this section of the coun
try have greatly encouraged them II
this belief.
NO LONGER AGAINST TROLLEYs.
The objections to the trolley car
which many Of the residents alon
the line advanced have been with
drawn. The stockholders OF the com
pany, who include many Of the mos
prominent and public.spirlted men 4
Chicago, assured the people tina
everything would be done to minIm
lie the expected uuslghtliness OF tina
style of q street railroad, and tn
consensus OF opinion Is that the
have kept their word. Light iro
poles to sustain the wires, handsome
well.ventilated and lighted carr
which run every eight minutes O
week days and at intervals Of Nv
minutes on Sundays, rapid transl
attended with little noise, have a
layed all fears and the satisfactio
expressed on all sides Is sincere. Th
company has apparently accomplishe
its object In giving the people In tina
section good transportation facilities
For years they have been demandin
| 1t. and now, they claim, for the fir
time are they receiving what was {
much needed.
Picnic parties looking for q COZ
place to spend holiday form q larg
part OF the patrons of the Mort
Shore Road. Fourth OF July I'll
company carried 25 per cent mol
passengers than on any previous d.
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