Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-01
Santa Fe and low; Cen
trail Effect Tr.fic
Arrangement.
sTRAINs 1sT LNUARY
Promoters Encourage Early
Completion of Dit to Ac-
commodate service.

The Atchison, Topsla & Santa Fe
and the Iowa Central are two new
lines Of railroad to be acquired by this
city as a result of tie construction. CT
the Rock Island Southern. Traffic ar
Engagements have been effected for
term OF years and, beginning the first
OF the new year, Santa Fe and Iowa
Central trains will be running into
Rock Island. Official announcement
to this erect was made today by J.
w. Walsh, one of the Walsh brothers,
promoters and builders of the Rock
Island Southern
''The Rock Island Southern will be
completed Dec. 90" Mr.. Walsh con-
tinued "All that remains to close up
the break In the vicinity of Main Hen
derson ID IL miles. At the rate of
progress our forces are making It
ought easily be finished by the goth nf
the month. The line then will be pre-
pared to handle freight trains into
Rock Island. The identification OF
the line Is now under way and this
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able to send the first electric train
into Rock Island the first day OF next
April.
Lease OF Rock IsIRnd Tracks.
"As the public knows pretty gener-
ally, our line has been In operation
for two years between Galesburg and
Monmouth. The extension that we
now are completing is between Mod
mouth and Rock Island, with a seven
mile branch to Aledo. At Presumption
the line connects with the Mercer
county branch of the Rock Island road.
From Presumption to Fourth avenue,
in this city, we have a lease for the
use OF the Rock Island tracks, for the
operation Of both our steam and cleo
trio trains. The life of that lease is
25 years. From Fourth avenue 20
Twentieth street we are to be permit
ted to come in with Our steam trains
over the tracks of the Rock Island,
but at Fourth avenue that company
ends its accommodations for our cleo
trio trains. Therefore we will be
obliged to seek another arrangement
for the handling of our electric trains
into the city, or, rather to our terminal
at Twentieth street and First avenue
We have secured 25-year lease for
the joint occupancy with the Rock
Island of its Twentieth street passen.
ger and freight station. a lease OF
similar duration has been taken on
the old Peoria roundhouse and storage
Yards of the Rock Island road on First
avenue in the west part of the city
The house will accommodate nine en-
gines and the storage yards will hold
500 cars.
Would Join Belt.
"The difficulty that now confronts
us IS in getting our electric trains
from Fourth avenue, where our ar
rangement with the Rock Island ends
to our Twentieth street terminal. We
are going to ask your commercial or
CARNATIONS to give us aid in that di
rection. The belt line would serve
our needs most satisfactorily, and We
are willing to bear any reasonable pro
portion of the cost of building thai
line in order to obtain the facilitie:
that we mi1st have to give the public
the service that We contemplate
passengers VINO come In over Jne
Southern will be transferred at TWEEN
tieth street to the lines of the TriCity
Railway company and will be carried
to any point In the tri-cities on trans
fers. We will have our own passenge1
cars running across the government
bridge and into our station at the foo
of Brady street, Davenport, where We
have taken a lease on the old Milwau
kee station, now used by the l. &
For the first year we will have a pas
senger train every two hours coming
into this city. The second year thS
schedule will be reduced to a one-hou1
service We estimate that we viii
bring an average of $4,000 passenger
annually to the tri-cities, and that ou'