. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . g saidbranch of said road makes it impossible for the citizens along said line ofroad to reach Chicago and do any particular amount of business and returnto their homes the same day. Thoy also allege that they are unable to reachthe county seat of their county and return the same day. It was claimed ui)on the hearing that the freight business along said lineof road also had increased, and was very profitable to said road, and thatthe passenger train service was such as to greatly inconvenience and dis-commode t
. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . g saidbranch of said road makes it impossible for the citizens along said line ofroad to reach Chicago and do any particular amount of business and returnto their homes the same day. Thoy also allege that they are unable to reachthe county seat of their county and return the same day. It was claimed ui)on the hearing that the freight business along said lineof road also had increased, and was very profitable to said road, and thatthe passenger train service was such as to greatly inconvenience and dis-commode the i)eople in all of the towns, cities and villages from Mendotathrough to Savanna and Rock Island. Upon the hearing it was insisted by all parties in interest that an adequatetrain service shouhl be i)laced upon this branch for the accommodation ofthe traveling piiblil, and it was also insisted tliat said additional trainschedule, as presented by the respKtiv(> i)arties in int(•r^st, will not onlyaccommodate th< niiblir, but prov. a financial bmctit to tlie railroad. It. 133 was contended upon the part of the railroad that the train service that wasbeing given was adequate, or nearly so, as the business of the line m ques-tion would permit, and that any other trains placed upon said branch, know^nas the Clinton branch, must necessarily be run at a loss. It was suggested by the officials of the road at the hearing that if theyhad the time and opportunity they could present figures to demonstratethat it would be unprofitable to run any additional trains, but that it wouldcost several thousand dollars to procure such figures on account of the greatdetail that would necessarily have to be entered into to determine that fact. The matter of the need of such service was presented to the commissionby commercial organizations of Mendota and Clinton, of Moline, RockIsland. Davenport, Iowa, and Sterling, besides petitions from a number ofother smaller cities and villages along th
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