Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-03
THE LONGWEW
for Route as Proposed
Submitted to the
Council.
CHANGES MAY BE NECESSARY
Owing to the Condition Of Twenty
fifth Shareholder Munich
pal Matters.

The petition was read in council
meeting last evening from the Tri-
| City Railway company for permission
to extend its proposed bluff loop for
which the west side has already been
embodied in an ordinance, along the
route as heretofore outlined as fol-
lows: beginning at Eighth avenue
and Twenty-second street and meet
ing the line mentioned in the ordi-
nance previously adopted from the
west, extending east to what will be,
when opened, Twenty-fifth street,
north to Thirteenth avenue, down the
ravine that the Twenty-fifth street
| highway follows to Ninth avenue,
west ON Ninth to Twcnty-first street,
north on Twenty-first street TO Sixth
avenue, west on Sixth avenue to the
present Elm street car tracks to
| Twentieth street and north on TWEEN
tieth to connect with the present
| lines at Fourth avenue. The petition
was referred to the council as n com
mittee of the whole.
1t is possible, in view of obstacles
that have arisen, that some changes
may be necessary in the ordinance so
outlined, owing to the condition of
lIwenty-ffth street, the opening of
which investigation has developed
may prove impracticable. The Tri-
City company is determined. even in
this event, that the demand for the
new line shall not go unheeded and
that the line on Eighteenth avenue
east to Twcnty-fifth and on Nine
teenth avenue, Twenty-frst and
infb I,a IN, Il -
may leave gap at Twenty-fifth
street. The problem the company
proposes to leave for the council,
through its committee of the whole,
to solve.
One plan that General Manager
Lardner has in mind now is to eX-
tend the line along Eighteenth avenue
to Elm and then run it down that
thOroughfare to connect with the
Elm street line at Fourteenth avenue.
Under such an arrangement the 9TH
er end of the division would stop at
Ninth and Twenty-fifth, and the cars
of the Lon9view line would make the
circuit from that terminus to Elm
and Fourteenth avenue. This would
serve the original purposes of the
loop with the exception of the I'M
opened TweDty-ffth street portion
and afford the added advantages of
rapid transit to the territory on the
bluff east of Twenty-fifth street. 1t
would be the loop without the con-
tinuOuS service. In other words, it
would be one long line with cars run
ming both ways from Twenty-fifth
and Ninth around the line as contem-
plated down town and out Fifteenth
to Eleventh and over to Twentieth
and thence to Eighteenth and east
to Elm, and north to Fourteenth and
back again over the same route. In
this way and by means of transfers
on the present Elm street line an
even larger section OF the city would
be fed than by the continuous loop.
a shorter way out of the difficulty
is also under consideration, but this
would eliminate the Ninth avenue por
ton east of Twenty-first and hence is
not viewed with favor by the COM
ers on Ninth avenue have petitioned
for the line.
Brick for Fifteenth Street
The Fifteenth street property hold
ers brought in petition for the paw
ing of that thoroughfare with single
course brick from the south line of
Third avenue to the south line of
Twelfth avenue. The petition, which
is signed by property owners repre-
senting Il frontage of $500 feet, or
enough to carry, specifies that the
roadway shall be so feet wide and
that the Improvement shall be under
taken as soon as possible. 1t was re-
ferred to the board of local improve
ments.
There seems to be little doubt that
ajority of the frontage on Fiji
teenth street could have been secured
on a petition for asphalt paving, as
most of the property holders there
were willing to have paid the differ
ence and secured the more desirable
material. But the difficulties encoun-
tered in the former attempt TO have
that material specified were of a ma
ture that led many to fear that in
case the owners again attempted to
say what they wanted and were will
ing TO pay, the improvement would
be put off another season or longer.
In view of the fact that the bluff loop
of the street railway will be built
this season the property owners were
constrained to take brick rather than
put up with the Inconvenience of n
narrow street unimproved and BIZ
sected by ear line.
Park Entrance Planned.
Aid. McCaskrin, of the park com
mittee. submitted plan for the i'm
proving of the entrance of Longview
park ut Twelfth avenue and Seven
teenth street, the same to be done by
private subscription. a plan Ior the
same was presented to the council
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