Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-31
COMPANY READY
TO EXTEND LINES
Tri- City Railway Will Make De-
sired improvements If Fran
chise Is Renewed.
SCI < AID I'M GETTING FUNDS
king of Factory District Assured if
That Territory Is Invaded by
Cars--lErip by Council.
STREET RAILWAY Ex-

Second avenue and Seventh street, to
Eleventh or Twelfth avenue, thence
west to Second and south to old abat-
toir site.
Change in route of Long View line
from Twentieth street and Eighteenth
avenue west to Seventeenth and south
to'Richmond street, South Rock Island,
east to Elm, thence north to Eighteenth
avenue, west to Twenty-fifth and north
to junction with present terminus at
Ninth avenue.
New line from Seventh avenue and
Thirty-eighth, out latter street to Eigh-
teenth avenue.
Company to receive new franchise
for 20 years from date, which amounts
to extension of six years of existing
period of rs years.
A solution of one of the factory dis
trict problems may be the result of
the trip taken Saturday afternoon by
a number of city officials including the
mayor. aldermen and the city clerk
and President ]. F. Porter and Super
intendent ]. G. Huntoon of the Tri-City
Railway company, together with rep
resentatives of the press. The party
went over the route of the proposed
extensions of the street car lines in
four automobiles from the Totten
garage furnished by the company.
The plan which will benefit the fac
tory district to a great extent and
which seemed to meet with the ap-
proval of Mr.. Porter and Mr.. Huntoon
was that the Third avenue line be ex-
tended from Seventh street and Second
avenue out to Eighteenth avenue and
then down to the abattoir. The build
ing of this extension would necessi- |
tate a dixie a dozen or 10 feet high and
this dixie would effectually keep dry
a large portion of the factory area
during times of high water, thus re-
moving the principal objection to the
district from the standpoint of pros
pective locaters.
Water Backs Up.
At present the main reason that |
keeps factories out of the district is |
the fact that during flood times the |
water gets into the section by means.
of the lowlands in the rear and lower /
down stream. The river bank itself |
is plenty high enough and dixie in |
the rear such as would be necessary |
for the street car company to build |
in extending a track to the abattoir |
would close off the space. Factories |
could then build and fill up the land |
in due course of time with the refuse |
from their plants. This was the |
scheme followed by the Rock Island |
Pillow company. When it built its fac
tories the land there was very low, |
but the refuse and waste filed it en-
tirely up to grade many years ago.
Taps New District.
The extension of the Third avenue |
line appealed to all who made the trip. |
The arrangement is to branch off the !
present line at Seventh street and go
from Second avenue out to Eleventh
or preferably Twelfth avenue, thence
over to Second street and then out 10
Eighteenth avenue where the tracks
of the Rock Island road will be crossed
and the dixie built to the abattoir. The
line would then tap a territory at
present woefully lacking in street car
service. The beauty of this scheme
is that it would necessitate no change
in the schedule of the Third avenue
cars and the same number of them
could be used.
The Fourth avenue cars, under the
new arrangement, would continue
over the same route which they now
follow.
To Loop the Long View.
From the lower end of, the city the
autos took the party to the top of the
hill and out into South Rock Island
on both Seventeenth and Thirtieth
streets. The idea of the company is
to extend the Long View line into
South Rock Island so as to embrace
about a quarter Of a mile more land
to the south. They would cut the
present line at Twentieth street and
go out Seventeenth to Richmond ave
nue.. thence over to Thirtieth street,
back to Eighteenth avenue, west to
Twenty-fifth street, and down on
Twenty-f1fth street to the present ter
minus at Ninth avenue. This would
make a loop of the Long View line,
and although as a general rule the Of
ficers of the company expressed them
selves as against loops, they saw rea- .
sons why it was the best in this case. ;
Twenty-flfth treet would have to be
improved before this plan is worked
out, but it would be worth it in the
end, as the line would result in won l
derful building up of South Rock ISL /
and and a consequent desire for an 1
nexation.
New Line on ThIrty-Eighth.
The territory for a proposed new line on
Thirty-eighth street was the next place
visited by the party. The aldermen q
from the Seventh ward were enthusi-
astic about the possibilities of a line /
running from the new factory in the {
old Gordon tract on Fifth avenue to
the city limits Alderman Ellinwood
also insisted on having the line extend
from the city limits on Thirty-eightb F
street over to the I.nIae View loon ON | a