The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-26
The Mayors Answer to the Falsehoods in the
Union.

Union.
The Union, of this morning has quite a
batch of falsehoods in regard to Mayor
Davenport, to which he, for the informa-
ton of the people, makes answer.
The Union says:
''The Water Board discovered year ago that in |
extreme low water there was a possibility OF the |
supply being cut of, and 1t was then agreed that
during last summer they would cut a channel from |
the filters out to the deep water so as 10 assure
constant supply II requires cut OF only about 70
feet TO reach 10 feet of water at the loweststage"
The Mayor says that the mistake of the
old Water Board was in placing the filters
on dry land and then digging channel to
them, They should have been placed in
the stream, with tunnels to them and he
did think of moving them this summer,
and would have done so but for two rea-
sons /, stoppage of water during the
work, and, 2, that the Job would cost more
than it was deemed prudent to expend at
present. He says the channel spoken OF
by the Union would be useless, and would
soon fill up with sand, precisely as the
present one did by the action OF the wind
the other day. He says that two tunnels,
securely covered, and run out into the deep
water spoken of, with slight inclination
down stream, so that nothing would be
drawn into them to iniure the water or fiji!
them up, is the best mode of securing q
full supply of good water, and that this
ought to be done, next year. The expense
would not be large, and it would involve nc
stoppage of water, during their construc-
-, ton.
The Union further says
''The Water Board bought their coal from P.
Gable at ga ea- delivered at the rate OF 81 Pc
ton When Bailey took charge on MS own hook
to furnish all the slack that his own mines yielded
for which, told, he charges the city SIX cent
Z bushel at the rate Of S1-5O per ton-lust ON
l. half more than was paid to MI Cable-
The Mayor says Mr.. Cable charges 81:
D. a car that he claimed to send an average
of ten tons to car, but that a good deal o
k the time the cars were not heaped and con
st tanned less than ten tons sometimes no
- more than s or tons. He thinks the av
erage of all Mr. Cable furnished would b
less than ten tons to a car, and that,
weighed, it would be shown to have cos
;o 81, 25 per ton, and perhaps more, beside
e, the cost of unloading, which is paid by tn
T, City The cost of Mr.. Cables slack h
re figures at not less than five and one fftl
Z cents per bushel
The Mayor says that Mr., Mansill mad
re an application to him to furnish part {
ne the fuel for the City, and that he THE May
20 orr thought he would divide the bushes
but that he was informed by the Superb
tendent that Mr.. Cable would furnish I
re fuel unless he had all the patronage. I
ne then gave an order to Mr. Mansill, wi
il furnishes ticelUe tons for Sl2, the cost b
ing l-3 cents in the coal house He sa
Mr.. Cable has recently sent few c.
loads to the works.
As to his own slack the Mayor says
charges cents bushel, full weight, a
delivered in the coal house-four-ftth o.
VI cent a bushel more than Mr.. Gable; b
oh, he says that the engineer has made tt
in and finds it worth about one third me
T. than any other he has used, The May
ne ne has furnished, he says, perhaps about t,
tons a day from his mines, and he clail
that it is really cheaper than any other Fl
i'm used by the city.
q! The Union also says
Bailey ordered NJ Boyntou to replace only
Of the three whistleso set II twelve feet lower Il
before and 10 have it blow only only three inst
tha Of five times day"
,,or The Mayor says he directed Chief /
hv gineer Yates, of the Fire Department.
ID fix the whistles just exactly as he and I
NO Firemen wanted them The one now
ttIe use is only up temporarily until the repa
can De made.
As to blowing three times a day Il
was ordered by the agreement of ev,
III. member of the Council, at the last meeti
that three times day was sufficient.
,n vote was taken because it was the proRil
,rd of the Water Board to give the orde
ire but every Councilman was of the opin
All that three times a day was sufficient q
+ba advised the Mayor to give the order
: is The Union further says;
He has expended large. sums Of the peol
5 at money on the Milan road, for other reason
n to put il In better condition for the use of his
teams. "
lge. The Mayor says the work on the Mi
'out road was done by order of the City Go
md cil.-though he was, as one Of members
the favor of it and thinks that not one C
lire more has been expended there than was
the interests of the City in promoting
who trade with the country.
sup He says that no team Of his ever u
lall' the road alluded to- that his teams all
EN- the upper road between this city and
on cemetery gate, and from that point c
1t private land on a road built and KEEP
lua- repair by his own private money.
ouse That is all the answer the Mayor de
it necessary to make to the batch Of ia
earn hoods the Union is used by somebod.
e Is promulgate this morning.
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