Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-23

TO bring this about as il would be out
of the power of the city to accomplish
it after the granting of the pending
ordinance for a period of 20 years.
! Several of the speakers mentioned IN
stances where business interests seek
| ing a place in this city were unable
to get locations along the lines of the
/ street car service in the business dis
/ trict and had accordingly decided to
/ go elsewhere to locate.
Committees to Confer.
! Mayor McCaskrin suggested that
the committees from the two avenues
get together in the near future and
adjust their differences in an amicable
manner. The committee from the
( Third avenue men was empowered to
/ confer with the other committee and
/ to represent the avenue at the council
meetings. and to act in the matter as
/ they see fit and Influenced only By
such directions as the majority of the
Third avenue men may see fit to give
II the future.
Another Point to Watch.
Inc proposed franchise for the
Rock Island Southern from the west
end via Fifth avenue and Seventeenth
street to First avenue and thence
east to Twentieth, as now applied for
by the Washes in lieu of the First
avenue right of way originally sought
by them, is still subject to objection,
in one respect at least. The ordi-
nance in its entirety if it follows the
line of the draft, must of course be
whipped into more presentable shape,
and be specific in all that it contem-
plates and permits, but the faulty
provision of the measure as ii applies
strictly to the right of way is found
in the purpose to use West Seven
teenth from Second avenue to First.
This brings up once more the prime
objection of conflict with the Belt
line. In fact such a grant would
tend not only to effectuaIly block the
Belt line but it is in conflict with the
Belt line right of way as already
signed up and which extends through
the block TO Seventeenth street prop
er. For this block the frontage is
already secured by the Belt line.
May Use Eighteenth.
So that it will be necessary to
change the route from Second ave-
nue. north from West Seventeenth
either by using the Tri-City tracks
right down Seventeenth to Second
and thence by independent right of
way over to First by Seventeenth
proper. or by coming over Market
square on the west side from Third
avenue and crossing the Tri-City
Railway tracks diagonally to the low
err portion of Seventeenth street
proper. 1t was stated today that the
Southern might seek TO go east from
Fifth avenue to Eighteenth, and thence
north to First.
The specific requirements of the
Southern ordinance. otherwise, in
Guiding the nature of the coaches.
etc. to be used, Will undoubtedly be
looked after before the council puts
the ordinance on its passage. The
ordinance should be absolutely of the
nature of a street car ordinance. with
no loop holes such as would in the
future permit of it's use for steam
roads or freight traffic. Furthermore.
it should stipulate the exact style Of
the cars to be used for passenger, /
mail and express. When the Daven
port Suburban, which the Washes
promoted. secured its right of way in
Davenport, an express provision was
contained as to the length and style
and type of the cars. The wisdom /
of this requirement was afteTward /
shown, when. while the Walshe.
brought in new cars for the Fourth ?
street line as provided by the ordi- |.
nance, and which, although of the .
double truck variety. were not of the .
strictly interurban type, second hand /
cars were placed on the branch line. .
secured under the same franchise /
Rock Island must know the kind of /
coaches that are to be run through /
this city or it may find some of the /
abandoned equipment of the Tri-Cit! I
Railway company coming back here
from some other city.
Encourasement with Safeguards.
The duty incumbent upon the coun. /
ell is to give the Rock Island South /
ern a franchise for its interurbar .
passenger traffic, but it is also it's |
duty to definitely specify that the cars
are to be of the most improved type
of interurban coaches, and that onI.
modern equipment shall be used at
all times
The council expects tonight to
hear more of the Walsh franchise
and it was anticipated that under the
resolution of last Monday night the
Pillow company street vacation ordi-
nance would also be again brought
up in lieu of the fact that the Washes
whose protest TO the council v,heu tho
PlCW company ordinance was origin
ally under consideration resulted in
its withdrawal by the company, have