Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — TWENTY-EIGHT MILES FOR 5C [ARTICLE]

TWENTY-EIGHT MILES FOR 5C

Chicago Offers Longest Trolley Ride for the Shortest Fare. Chicago, March 16.—Twentyeight miles of urban panorama are offered to Chicagoans and visitors for a nickel. The new trolley route was put in operation when a special carload of street car officials and, junke teens departed from Chicago’s* northernmost boundary, Howard avenue. For two hours and forty-nine minutes they proceeded southward in Clark and Halstead streets, then on Vincennes road. When the celebrants alighted at One-Hundred-and-nineteenth street, the southern line of Chicago, they had journeyed twenty-eight miles, 'from Evanston j limits through Morgan park to Blue Island, had viewed practically all of Chicago’s industries and paid only 5. cents each.