Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-02
BR0WH|N QUINCY,
Eurlington's General Manager
Talks New Depot
There.
COMPANY TO SPEND HEAP OF MONEY


$4,000 freight House and Other
Diz Impr1vsmsn Proposed by the
Road In the Dem City-Ipw sbou. Ro, X
I,iaud.
The Burlington Railway company
has ader consideration the erection
81 new passenger and freight depois
in paincy. az an Outlay of Sii5, 0G0,
the former 10 cost a round sl0O, COO,
and the rosd also proposes 20 construct
loop to connec. its main line in the
Gem City with the new tepots. The
Burlington has al ordinance before
the council OF that city asking the
.acation OF the ends Of several streets
that the Improvements contemplated
Nigh. be carried through rs soon rs
possible. General Manager Brown,
oi the company. made very nice
tslk to the QlIncy council the other
night. lie mad. he said, been con-
nected With the Burlington system
for 25 years, IS O! them on roads in
which Quincy Is directly interested
In all the latter period he had never
come TO Quincy without bsiDg re-
minded By wda, he say, or through
aduonition on the part Of citizens, OF
the necessity for better facilities 8:
.ha. point. Two years ago lie was
called 20 Chicago aad placed ia The
position Of general manager, and
about the iirsE important. su6jsc1
70 which he gave attention
wa5 that OF giving to Qaincy
adequate terminal facilities ard call
ng the attention OF the eastern PEG.
pie 20 rae matter. A wear ago il
VAS decided that the time had come
20 rebuild the bridge :here, aud the
board OF directors made an spptopri-
alton for the purpose. When il
came TO consideration 81 the cree.
lion OF new depo.s an estimate Of the
cost a the ground necessary We
made ~ g. 90. ju. thus far In
the preparations there hiss been spen,
Sii2.0OJ, plus $4,000 spent Is yesrr
sgp when negotiations had gone
loout IS far as they have now, and
Jailed OF consummation through
no fault o; the company. II per.
clitied 10 20 ahead the company
would nos spend 100000 for pas
sengor depot and in the neigh Dor,
hood oi $4,000 for freigh. depot
AMI the money necessary to con-
s;ruct a loop lire to connect the mair
line with ihe depots. In pas: years
il had been suggested that QIiasy
Soa!i give $4,000 or 500 900 Il
the rail-osd company il the company
Soald give the city better termiuli
facilities. The invariab,e reply was
that the company could not ask the
city or citizens to donate to them ,
dollar. This policy was still bein,
carried cut. aad everything in the
ray OF property in Quincy needed
by the company would, Mr.. Brown
said. be paid for at 100 cents on
every collars worth.
Carried Ont To IN. Letter.
Mr.. Brown assured the aldermen
that the plans Of the company for {
loop lire and the other improvement.
would toe carried out to the letter
The people Of Quincy, he averred
hai little appreciation Of the into!
cradle nuisance the backing snc
hooking and switching necessary
under the present bridge arrange
ment were to the travelling public
10 his travels he hsd heard Qliuc,
cursed, not 10 one place, bat from
ore end CT the country 20 the other
ard b.. on account Of the Earring
ani stopping AID backing aud
switching necessary TO get iato to wn
and out Of il. The company nov
proposed TO give to the city. he sal,
rt advised.y, the best termlna
facilities betSee =. Louis aud ST
Paul to be found in the Missis
sipi valley. II proposed building
the vsgon bridge 60 auIiously aske,
for. Oh course, the company nigh
no, give everything asked for. Their,
is the terminal OF tie wagon bridg,
on one side. He would not soy tia
il vas impossible TO grant the re
quest that it be on Broadway. II
cid not know; that was n matter sill
under consideration. lie did no
want to promise even by implication
anything tina. he was not sure wou.,
be carried out. He old not want &
place himself T. position whel
upon his return to Quincy at an
time i: could be said lna, he was
man who had promised to give III
city something aud broken bis woyd
He would not do it.
Mr.. Brown recently talked new dc
pot TO the Rock Island city council
aud gave the assurance that "
might exPec; ,hc beginning Of opera
items on the Twentieth street prop
erty by next spring, anyway. Tn
people here are banking on what Mr
Brown PROMISE, snd will he ere.,l
disappointed il their bopes are no
realized 10 relation to the new Bur
liHgton passenger depot by the tim
tho biua h;rds waYhie AGAIN