Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-19
LONGvIEW LOOP
Tri-city Railway company's
Completed Line to Be
So Designated.
ESSENTIAL FRONTAGE Is SECURED
Ordinances to Be Asked for the East
Half of the Street Car Ser
vice Extension.


The essential frontage has been Sc
cured for the completion of the new
loop line to the bluff. and the extern
sion of the Tri-City Railway com
pany's system in Rock Island thus to
be provided will be designated as the
Longview Park loop. General Mama
ger Lardner so christened it this
morning. The east half of the loop.
with possibly few notifications in
coming down from the bluff. will ac-
cording To the ordinance to he asked of
the city council as scon as the prelim-
inaries are disposed of, be from the
corner of Eighteenth avenue and
TwentS-seeond street. where the
route as 50 far provided by ordinance
terminates, east on Eighteenth ave
nuc to Twenty-tifth, north to Ninth
avenue, west to Twenty-first, NORTH to
Sixth avenue. where it taps the Elm
street Lire for a block to Twentieth.
and north on the latter thoroughfare
to Fourth avenue. where il forms a
junction with the double tracks of the
two Moline lines and thence comes
down town, west on Second avenueto
Fifteenth and then proceeding south
The west half of the loop. an orCli-
nance for which has already been
granted, is from Fifteenth and
Fourth south to Eleventh avenue.
east to Twentieth, south to Eigh-
teenth and east to Twenty-second.
The Loop as Completed.
The complete loop will embrace
four miles, and viii require four
car service, two running each way,
and passing on switches at proper
distances. This will insure service
both ways for people resi1ing on any
part of or contiguous to the loop. the
cars being - or 20 minutes apart.
The fare tie entire distance around
the loop either way will be but five
cents. So that. aside from the
convenience that the line will of
fer to people in parts IF the city not
now served with street car service, it
will afford delightful ride for recre-
alton i'll the summer season.
The Longview Park loop is likely TO
prove one of the most popular lines in
the Tri-City system in Rock Island. |
II will. apart from reaching through
out the circuit, territory that has
been long in need of street car CON
venienccs. prove the last essential
to giving the city the most com |
plete street car service, locally |
speaking, of any city of its size in the |
west.
Frontage CheerrulIy Given
he frontage necessary for the east !
side of the loop was cheerfully given |
by enterprising property holders, who |
the value of the extern
sion of street car service, not alone |
to themselves, but to the city in gen
eral, and the line as adopted over
comes the only objection that was
raised among business men to the
east loop as originally proposed com
ing down TWenty-fOuTth to Third Nv
nnue. AS at present laid out the line
serves every end and meets every re-
Iuirement.
Manager Lardner stated this morn
ng that he had just received tele-
graphic atlvices that the new SO-pound
-ail ordered by the Tri-City company
'or Improvement of the line would he
shipped in time to arrive here Feb. /,
md that if the ordinances go through
he council, us there is every reason
o expect they viii, the first material
hat comes will be distributed along
he new route. so that operations may
Degin as soon as the frost - out of
he ground. I'VE will have that line
n complete operation by the Fourth
# july said Mr.. Lardncr, provided
We arc permitted to-
LongvIew a Popular Name.
In adopting the general name of
.ongview Park for the new line Nam
ger LardEer has made 4 popular .
lovc. He has. in the first place, paid .
he city a neat compliment i'll thus
the new park which the
ne reaches. and in the second place
e has given the loop an attractive
In a word, il is an APP
rCpriate name fer the line in a gen
raj sense. for il means Il long view
Or those who ride around the loop on
leasure bent. The end signs of the
ars will bear the designation Long
lew Park" while the side signs may,
,r tic present at least, contain the p
ames of some of the more important
treets traVersed.
Little Change In Tower Loop.
In connection with the putting in of 5
ne loop line ..anager Lardner an :
ounces u DIODOSth NidiSSC III IN | =
,oD ON the Tower line in Rock Island. :
he necessary switches viii be put in
/ Twentieth street and Third avenue {
permit the running of the cars east r
, that street, instead of stopping at +
ineteenth, as now. Thence they Will
IN north on Twentieth street to Sec
nd. and west to Seventeenth street
ld over the familiar route. This g
i'll leave Nineteenth street. between 4
bird and Second avenues TO the Elm ii
rect cars exclusively and thus do p
way with delays there. Il
Another New Car. n!
Another handsome new big car was 81