The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-05

to $l26.50 was read and on motion of AL
derman Wollenhaupt referred to the street
and alley committee.
On motion of Alderman Daily the mayor
was authorized to have the city engineer
bring all sidewalks TO grade.
Il. Patterson, general agent of Watkins
Patent Portable Gas Attachments, was
present aud addressed the council as to his
method of lighting the city by gas. pro-
posing to supply the city lamps for $25
each per year 1.-THE lights burning during
the dark of the moon) or burning from
dark to sunrise for $50 each lamp and fur
nish the lamp lighters.
The following was read by the mayor:
REPORT.
To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council
Your Committee to go East and investigate the
question of light are able to make the following
report:
The Company in Boston have done business about
q months They experimental and established these
lights about the first insfhe city of Newton. Your
committee visited that place and travelled over ten
miles among the city lights. We found the lights
Uniform and good and in the very best OF order.
Your Committee, in comparing the light with coal
gas, (as We often found both kinds on the same
sreet found 1t impossible to distinguish one from
the ether.
We lind in all the places we visited where they
are using these lights that they are well liked, and
no place where they choose to abandon 1t. On the
other hand, they are all increasing this light In
New Haven, Conn, where they have used it two
gas lamps all the time While your Committee
We're there, they gave an order for fifty more ian
terms and burners In Worcester they using
between five and six hundred of these lights, and
they say they give perfect satisfaction In consid
grafton of all we learned by personal inspection Of
lamps used for from one TO two years, aud in con-
sideration of the large amount of money saved to
your taxpayers, We cheerfulIy recommend that
the experiment be tried in Utica, that it may
Themselves that there is way in these days of
economy and reform that we may have as good a
light as we get now and save 25 per cent. of the
cost. IL. G. CASE,
II. RAY BARNES.
On motion of Alderman Carse a COM
mittee of Aldermen Carse and Huber with
the mayor were appointed to investigate
and report upon the subject at next meet
ing.
On motion adjourned,
s. F. COOKE, City Clerk.
A MERRY CHRISTMAS The holidays
are now near at hand and it is about time
we commenced thinking about the kind Of
presents we are going to make, and the
kind we would to receive. Pa and Ma
must receive the hint in time
| There are many other things that we
might think of and suggest; but to our
mind, nothing is more appropriate than
some kind of musical instrumant. Music
not only gives us pleasure, but often is
the source of much usefulness. We may
like the piano forte, others the organ, and
again others the violin, guitar. banjo
flute, either, or cornet. The music from
ear. according to the different tastes,
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ching musical as suitable gift FIR wife
husband, sister. brother, or sweetheart
we beg to commend our friends Messrs
julius Bauer & Co., corner State anc
Monroe Streets, Palmer House, Chicago
as the proper persons to go to. They
have the finest store in this country, anC
keep large stock of everything in theil
line, from jew harp costing ten cents
to grand piano valued at two Thousand
dollars. They are general western
agents for the Celebrated knate Pianos
which received The highest award at th'
Centennial. and are also manufacturers O
The Favorite Bauer Pianos, aAd the I'm
proved Bauer Organs both of which hav
attained high standing among artists o
: amateurs Besides these, they keep othe
makes Of instruments. ranging in pric
from 5000 to $500. TIE other instrument
sold by them are Of their own importation
| from leading European manufacturers, AN
PARTIES applying to them for any article i
their line can rely not only on receiving h
very lowest prices, but also goods that ar
? first-eass and as represented.
Their long establishment-twenty tw
r years-wiil vouch for their fair dealings
: Remember Messrs. julius Bauer 4 G,
are under the grand Palmer House, Cor
( State and Monroe Streets, Chicago. dit