Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-12-08
BRIDGE SCHEME.
More Conjecture as to the Low
er End Project.
WHO Is AT THE BACK OF IT

One Report That the Rock Island ID. An
Air Line-The Resignation Of General
Manager St. John Railway News of Gen.
ersl Interest.
There has been much discussion
and conjecture as to the lower end
bridge prospect since the fact became
known, and many have been the the
cries as to who is at the back of the
undertaking. The chances are, too,
that when this is revealed it will oc-
casion considerable surprise. That
the bridge, which has already been
described in THE ARGUS. will be con-
structed the first thing in the spring
is practical certainty; that it viii
be steel bridge built for railroad
purposes only. and that at present
the enterprise is being furthered in
dependent of any railroad corpora
ton is also assured.
What Railroads Arc Interested.
While it has been supposed that
either the c.. b. & Q. or c., M. & St.
P. would be apt to use this means of
spanning the Mississippi at this
point, there is also some suspicion
that the Atlantic & Pacific Railway
Construction company may eventu-
ally utilize it in its great continental
air line. Beyond this, and more i'm
portant in it's significance. however,
is the quiet rumor that when the
bridge is completed the Rock Island
is to take possession of it, and thus
not only give it a line directly
through the city by utilizing the
Peoria tracks frem Twentieth street
west and running its main passenger
trains through the city, and its
freight trains the old way over the
government bridge, but give it abso-
lutte control of all means of crossing
the river between Rock Island and
Davenport. As has been said several
times before in The ARGUS, Presi-
dent Cable has long felt the incon-
venience Of a single track over the
Rick Island bridge, and while this
was relieved to some extent by the
mountaineering of the slough bridge
and island, yet the serious obstruc-
ton to traffic remains in the single
track across the main bridge. The
control of the lower bridge, though,
would obviate all this difficulty, for
it would give the Rock Island belt
across the river here. trains could be
run east one way and west the other,
or one bridge could be used for
freight and one for passenger. The
latter plan seems to be the one more
favorably inclined to, as by running
it's passenger trains down through
Rock Island. the road could, without
loss of time, comply with the wishes
more attached naturally than to Dav-
export. by providing a depot down
town, while its passenger station in
Davenport would not be as far out OF
the way in that city as its Moline
avenue station is here now. Little
difficulty would be experienced in
connecting the tracks from the
bridge with the southwestern and
main line divisions on the Davenport,
side. and the company could run a
dummy to the Perry street depot
there as easily as it does to the Mo
line avenue one here.
Railroad Pickups
Division Superintendent W. G
Besler. of the o." was in the cit.
today.
f. H. Stokes, travelling passenger
agent from the Lehigh Valley, was il
the city.
Engineer Feighor is back at hi
post on the c., B. & G., after week
vacation.
Travelling Passenger Agent r. Keep
pier, of the Nickle Plate road, was il
the city this week.
Travelling Passenger Agent F. d
Armstrong, Of the Missouri Pacific
was Rock Island caller.
Division Agent H. ID. Mack, of tt,
c., B. 4 G., has returned from :
couple of days trip along the di
vision.
Superintendent of Constru ction C
W. Cobb has force Of men putin,
down q new platform around the r
l. & P. depot.
John Volk and force of his mel
went to Lafayette yesterday to re
build the r. l. & P. depot, destroyed
by fire week ago.
The c., B. & q. contemplates run
ming fast mail and passenger trail
between St. Louis and St. Paul OF
the east side of the river, beginnin,
with the first of the year.
Mrs. j. c. Stanton, of Beardstown
wife of Conductor Stanton of the C..
b. e. O., is recovering rapidly at st
Anthony's hospital, where she had
cancer removed from her breast.
B. b. Ray. travelling passenge
agent for the Louisville Il Nashville
was in the city the past few days, il
the interests OF his road. Mr.. Ra,
was formerly assistant yardmaste
for the c., II. / & p. in this city.
An unusual amount of grain, ry
and barley especially, has been com
ing in over the c., NJ. 4 St. p. iron
tho north ovorano M 20,