Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-14
HART PROPOSES
CAR TERMINAL
FOR ROCK ISLAND
Would Have Waiting Station
Erected at Seventeenth Street
and Second Avenue.
USED AS TRANSFER POINT
Feasible Loop Project Is Discussed
h Meeting Called For Wednesday
Afternoon.

waiting station at Seventeenth street
on Market Square were discussed
at the municipal commission
meeting yesterday afternoon. and a
meeting has been called for Wednes-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock, at which
time the commissioners and interested
property holders viii confer with
President Porter and General Superin-
tendent Huntoon of the Tri-City Rail-
way company regarding the proposed
7 plans.
PRESENTS PLAN
/ Commissioner Archie Hart has de-
. vised plan for looping the business
district and for the establishment of
a waiting station which. it is believed,
will eliminate all fu Taer controversy
between Second and Third avenue
property holders, will be of vast bere-
fiji 10 the public and will better the
service. Mr.. Harris plan provides for
the turning Of west bound Fourth ave
nue. cars at Twentieth street west on
Third avenue to Fifteenth street,
1lence north 20 Second avenue and
back east. The Third avenue cars
would proceed exactly vice versa. that
Is. over the same route on Second
avenue to Fifteenth street, then south
70 Third avenue and east to Twenti-
eth street to Moline
This plan would convert the down
town lines of the Third and Fourth
az enue lines into stubs which would
loop around Seventeenth and Twen-
tieth streets and Second and Third
az enues. There are to be through cars
morning and evenings. 1t is in the
cutting out of the through cars that
the chief objections to the PROPOSE
tion is likely to arise.
NEW WAITING STATION.
The plan calls for the erection of a
waiting station on Market square,
which would be utilized as a term al
ana transfer point. Mr. Hart called
attention 10 he fact that cut Ct town
people coming from points epst 10
Rock Island are notified both at Twen-
ty-fCurth street and at Twentie h
street and Third avenue to change for
Davenport, without ever reaching 1he
business center of the city. The sam"
rule applies as to out of town people
Who come into the city via the Rock
Island Southern. AS soon as ghey
reach Fifteenth street he CONDUCTOR
calls. Change for Davenport" BY
Harts pan, all cars will pass the
Market Square terminal, thus I'M
leading passengers in the heart of the
city where they can transfer as de-
sired. In many cases, these people
will walk about the city and find the
very goods for which they are looking
without going to Davenport. Those de-
string 20 cross the bridge can get their
car at the terminal just the same.
If the plan is agreed upon it will
neCessitate considerable construction
work on the part of the Tri-City Rail
way company in addition to double
tracking of Third avenue as already
provided by ordinance. Four way
crossings at Twentieth and Third and
a. Seventeenth and Third and two way
crossings at Fifteenth and Third would
ia necessary.
II would mean the removal of the
Market place to Flatiron square an
end earnestly to be desired.
Mr. Harris plan calls for not only
the building of a terminal in place OF
the Market square pavilion, but the ap
pointment of a station man whose du
y shall be TO call the approach and
destination of ali cars. This plan ha:
been tried with remarkable success in
number of cities in the United States
Al
tug Des MOines and Denver.
a COmmOdiOus waiting room will BE-
Of inestmable value to the street cal
: patrons, who will not be forced tc
stand out on the corners waiting fol
: their cars during Indictment weather
4 aAll cars viii be called by the s-atior
man. thus giving ample time for pas
seRgers TO gather their bundles anC
step out onto their car.
SOUTHERN TO ENTER LOOP.
Il is also planned TO have the Rocl
Island Southern trains enter the cit,
and utilize the Seventeenth stree
station as their depot, then making
loop of some sort. 1t is believed tina
The Tri-City Railway company coul,
br ~ SN aAlf4 uHOu " ollON NAAc use "
is tracks for such a purpose
1t is pointed out that by the install
laton of such a common center and tn
use Of the proposed loop, that neithe
Second or Third avenue interest vii
be neglected. but to the contrary
there will be presented a greater OF
portunity TO extend the commercia
center OF the city, which at the pres
ent time is confined to practically tw,
blocks. Interested citizens presen
we're heartily in favor of the plan, a
we're the majority OF the commission
ers. and it is believed that the Trt
City railway officials will approve o
I tie advantages which it offers.
MEETING CALLED.
Previous to the introduction of Nj
Hart's plan, Mayor Schriver offered
4 resolution TO the effect that the TT
City Railway company be notified t,
dcuble-track Third avenue from FIJI
teenth TO Twentieth street and TO ru,
the Long View cars east and ives
from Fifteenth to Twentieth on Thir