Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-19
DISCUSS The
ROUTING OF CARS
Proposed Change in Fourth Az
enue Line Brings Forth
Business Objections.
RESULTS IN A MEETING
Position of Third Avenue Property
AMI Business Interests So Far
Neglected.

The proposition to include in the
pending extension ordinances of the
Tri-City Railway company a provi-
sion for new routing of the cars of
certain of the lines at present passing
through Second avenue between Fiji
leenth and Twentieth streets has Civ
en- rise to discussion on the part of
property and business interests on
| Second avenue.
! According to the forecast of the ord
nance, it is proposed 10 require the
! company to double track Third avenue
/ from Fifteenth 10 Twentieth. and stip-
ulates that the cars of the Third ave
nue. line and possibly those of the
/ Long View line, instead of coming
north on Twentieth. to turn at Third
avenue ard proceed down Third to
Fifteenth. where il is contemplated the
Fourth avenue cars will take up their
present route, south on Fifteenth to
| Fourth, and thence west on the latter
/ thoroughfare as now. The same rule
is to apply TO cars coming east; that
. is. they are to come up Fourth TO FIT
teenth, turn north only to Third. and
then to proceed east TO Twentieth, and
thence south to Fourth. and on east
as now. While the change in the
Fourth avenue line has been more
generally discussed in greater or
/ less degree, the suggestion that the
Long View cars also traverse Third
avenue each way has likewise been
urged by some.
Position OF second Avenue Interests.
The Second avenue oojectors base
their position on The theory that
change in the routing of the cars down
Third avenue viii prove prejudicial 10
their interests. and to that end a
meeting IS being held in the parlors of
the Harper this afternoon 10 take some
action that will enable them to bring
! q protest before the city council.
Twenty-Five of the business men
along Second avenue attended the
meeting at the Harper nc use this after
noon. DR.. Joseph De Silva was chair
man and Henry Kreu secretary.
Mayor McCaskrin spoke on the sttua-
ton After a discussion of the
situation a resolution was offered
in effect that none of the lines
now running on Second avenue
be disturbed or diverted TO other thor
oughfares. L. p. Best. owner of the
Best block. recommended that the city
council pass no ordinance for the Tri-
City Railway company without its car
rying a clause providing for. the build
ing of an interurban by that company
from this city TO the lower end of the
county. In this connection Mr. Best
cited what the company was doing for
Davenport in return for the renewal
and lengthening of its franchise grant.
having. for ore thing. promised the
completion of an interurban line to
Muscatine the present year.
One of the leaders in the movement
said to The Argus this morning: I'VE
do rot seek to keep Third avenue from
getting some of the cars, but we want
to hold the Fourth avenue cars above
all others on Second avenue west of
Twentieth street and the same applies
to the Long View line. We are not
standing in the way of Third avenue.
but all the cars should pass through
Second avenue. The policy of the
modern city is TO nave one common
point Il~l ali the cars pas
The Third Avenue Side.
A Third avenue business man. speak
ing in behalf of those interested in
that street as well as Second avenue
used by the car lines, said this morn
ing: 1T is time the Tri-City Railway
company was made to make use of its
Third avenue franchise. As it is now,
&c -;,l
loops. The block between Nineteenth
and Twentieth is practically abandon
ed altogether, and this winter has not
been deemed of sufficient importance
TO dig The rails out of the snow and
frost. In the block between Seven
teenth and Nineteenth the cars of the
Watch Tower l;he drag through going
one way only. while the two blocks
between Fifteenth and Seventeenth
are merely used for the Bridge line
cars going west. If anyone can tell
me what benefit such a service is to
Third avenue property holders and
Third avenue business men, l would
like to have it pointed out. We are
asking for the Fourth avenue cars be-
cause that line was part of the old
route under the original ordinance
was on Third avenue from Nineteenth
street west BY rights. we are en-
titled to both the Fourth avenue and
the Elm street cars on Third avenue.
as both those lines form part of what
was in the first place the old Union
line. Let Second avenue keep the
Third avenue cars. which were always
there, and the Long View and Bridge
cars and half the loop of the Watch
Tower line; but we are getting tired
of the makeshift service we are get
ting. and if there is to be a new ord
nance for a period of 20 years. we
want cars; we want the old tracks
taken up and new ones and double
tracks at that, put down. and then we
want some of the lines TO pass our