The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-05
! rHEwATER WAYS DELEGATES.
Their Advent Into Chicage---A Large
Delegation.

The following from the Chicago Inter
Ocean shows that the Rock Island dele
cation arrived at Chicago all right:
There is spirit in every river town,
and sounding throughout all Illinois, that
the Hennepin canal must be made a "go,"
and that the present congress must be the
legislative body to do it. It's sort of
"get up and get" squirt; it means business;
it makes every man an agent and gives
every interested town mission. Satur
day there arrived at the Grand Pacific the
first delegation to the western waterways
convention to be held in Washington On
Tuesday and Wednesday. 1t viii be a
big convention. and will talk mighty
earnestly to congress. The delegation
was from Rock Island and consisted of
Major J. NJ. Beardsley, exMayor Henry
Carse, B. D. Buford, Elmer Hurst, Alex.
Steel, J. J. Parks, and Capt, Durham, of
the government steamer General Barnard.
Today comes another Rock Island dele
cation composed of Mayor J. z. Mott
and seven members of the common coun-
Gil. With this second Rock Island dele
CATION will come a delegation from Mo-
line and in time for the convention. dele
cations from Davenport, Dubuque, Keo-
kuk, Burlington. Clinton, Lyons. etc.
OF the second Rock Island delegation
there came, and are at the Grand Pacific
J. ]. Reimers, and S. ] Collins. Daven-
port, too, has men waiting here to pro-
coed to Washington, in Chas. Nipple, Mr.
Martin, the Hon. Geo. H. French, and j
W. Green. .
Major Beardsky speaks in a sanguine
manner of canal prospects; says congress
will likely appropriate 81. 900, 900 TO start
the treasured project If there's power in
delegations, the major speaks with pro-
phetic voice. Major Beardsley, as mat
ter of fact, cannot but hope while in
Washington that the right kind of light
ming will strike him. also. since his term
as postmaster shortly expires, and of
course he wouldn't be unwilling to serve
Rock Island in that capacity again. Peo--
pie speak well of him, too, if ex-Mayor
Carse's remarks as to the efficiency of
Major Beardsley's. service and his im-
provement of office and facilities are any
criterion. A member of this same dele
CATION just gone on is also somewhat of
a candidate for the same place-Mr
Steele. hardware man of good repute.
His friends ale moving in his behalf. A
petition has also been secured in the in
terests of Major Beardsley. The latter
declares himself square OUT for 0glesby,
and for Logan. If a candidate. He nat
HIr Nv To- 4 hn NlaO f-r Al.a
state convention, but thinks Chicago has
as good a chance as either. Peoria or
Springfield. s- ga.
ON SUNDAY. -.s-4"
Three deleg ations to the Western Wat
erways Convention, passed through the
city Sunday, leaving on the afternoon
train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
While they are in enthusiastic sympathy
with all purposes of this important gath
! ering, they viii specially urge an appro-
priation for the beginning Of the con-
struction of the Hennipin Canal As
stated congress viii be asked to appropri-
ate 81 900, 900, and they feel confdeni
1t will be granted. Just at present they
say they are devoting all their energies to
the accomplishment of this great object
The gentlemen composing the delega-
| tons are as follows:
Rock Island Mayor J. z. Mott,
Aldermen +. NJ. Sinuet, G. Stengel G..
W. Henry, William Gray, C. J. Larkin,
and Captain T. J. Robinson.
Davenport. NJ. Eldridge. President
of the Board of Trade; John Hoyt, Chris
Mueller, Dr. J. II. Morgan. August
Reimers, Julius Schutt. W. R. H. Alex
ander, and Benjamin Barr, members Of
! the Board of Trade
Moline-C. Fl. Deere, M. Rosenfeld
and W H. Lewis.