Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-21
SUPPORTERS FOR
BOTH AVENUES
Business Men Will Have Two
Petitions on Car Routes
Before Council.
WHAT is WANTED ON THIRD
Desire Fourth Avenue, Elm Street and
Bridge Cars to Operate Going
One Way on Thoroughfare.

Consideration of the entire stree
as it applies to local lines, proposed
extensions, and the routing of cars in
the business section and the entrance
of the Rock Island Southern, are like
ly to occupy the attention of the city
council tonight.
With the extensions the Tri-City
Railway company is to make, provided
it receives a 20-year franchise from
date, involving the completion Of the
Long View loop. a line into the south
west factory district, and one out
Thirty-eighth street, from Seventh TO
Eighteenth avenue. the public is IA
miliar. The question Of the new rout-
ing of cars through the business dis
trict, to include Third avenue as well
as Second avenue. without depriving
the latter thoroughfare of the facili-
ties it now enjoys, together with the
subject of an interurban provision in
the new Tri-City ordinance. all these
things are apt to receive the attention
of the council While there is a diff
ference Of opinion, and some rivalry
arising between Second and Third ave-
nue. business interests, apropos of the
routing proposition, it is argued in be-
bc'f of the interurban matter that the
Tri-City Railway company is giving to
Davenport a suburban line to Musca-
tine in its new franchise on that side
and already brings one into Moline
which that city will not permit to
come on to Rock Island, that the COM
Sh h.
south into Rock Island
The Rock Island Southern.
AS to the Rock Island Southern, of
which the Walsh brothers are promo
ters, and which has been brought to
the doors of the city. it is believed TO
be a settled fact that the promoters
will not be allowed a franchise on
First avenue. That is as good as set /
tied, the consensus of public opinion, /
as has been so often stated in The /.
Argus. being that the remaining space /
on that street from the west end to
Seventeenth be reserved for the Belt .
line, and that no exclusive franchise
of any description be permitted there. |
A right of way on behalf of the Walsh
es is being secured via Fifth avenue
east to Seventeenth street. and thence
north to First avenue, using part of
the Tri-City railway tracks on Seven
teenth
In the event of that route being in
accessible a suggestion was offered
today that the Rock Island Southern
route for its passenger traffic only be
laid along Third avenue from the west
end east to Seventeenth, or even Nine
teenth. with a loop around First ave
nue. between Seventeenth and Nine
teenth. This would afford the interur-
ban a belt line directly through the
center of the business district
Two Petitions.
Two petitions on the routing of street
car lines in the business district will
be presented to the city council at its ,
meeting this evening-One against di-
1erting any lines now on Second ave :
hue to any other avenue, and another ,
rom the business men Of Third avenue
asking that they be given street car ,
service that they have so long been -
ienied and which they maintain is :
holding back the development of that d.
horOughfare for business purposes.
Dhe petition Of the Third avenue own :,
RS is signed by about every property