Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-07
SIDE TALK.
Discussion Attendant Upon Last
Nights Council Meeting.
The Fire and Police Alarm system
Brick CrOssiDgs-The Jewell
EiIter-Other matters.

portsnce tefore the aldermen for action |
at last gifts session Of the municipal |
assembly.
Aid. Corken OF the fire and light COM
mittee reported that the alarm system
that had been contracted for with the
Gamewell alarm company was unsatis-
factory, 1t had been misrepresented by
that company when it was first put in.
and had not been in working order as
much as two weeks at any one time
since it was first introduced. The COM
mitsee recommend that the company be
instructed to take out the system, and
| the matter was laid over until the next
meeting, He also submitted a recon-
mendation from the chief of the fire de-
partment that firemen be given a cloth
ing sllo vance of Sc % per month, and
| this together with recommendation
that the captain and drivers of the fire
| department be allowed an additional S.
per month wss referred to the fire and
light committee.
| Aid. Kenneay presented q resolution
providing that six brick crossings three
| feet wide be laid in each ward to be dis
tributed under the supervision of the
aldermen of the respective wards, and
the resolution was adopted.
A re- ort from Aid. Kennedy on the
terms Of purchasing steam roller for
work in the city was made, and a pre-
vious report thst had been laid on the
table was called up by Aid. Huesing and
adopted. inc!uuing the new terms.
A petition from business men asking
that he fridge on Fourteenth avenue be
raised grade to permit the desired ex-
Thirty eighth street, was read. The
prayer of the petition was unanimously
g, snted and the ordinance committee in
structed to draft an ordinance for the
same.
A petition from the Geiser Msnufactu>
ring Company to be given permission to
erect frame building on the lot recently
purchase by it on Nineteenth street be-
tween First and Second avenue was read
and the prayer OF the petition was grant
ed. The building will be covered with
corrugated iron and coated with ore
paint.
One o. the most surprising incidents
n
Jewel, of the Jewell Filter company, who
erected the filter which was Congress
man Ben T. Cables gift to the city. II
will BE- remembered that according to the
terms of Mr.. Gables original purchase of
the filter which he presented to the city
as New Years gift Jan /, 1884, the ca
pacity was guaranteed to be 100000
gallons in "a hours, but while the plant
was III course of construction MIR. Jewell
stated that the consumption of water in
Rock Island had so increased that the
plant would filter not to exceed 1900. 900
gallons per day. After the filter had
been erected and its deficiency demon
A.
council provide an additional filter, but
that body realized that it would be q
shameful discourtesy to Mr.. Gable, the
gener GUS donor, who was then abroad, TO
interfere with his transaction with M.
Jewell, and the latter then wrote Mr..
Cable sort of polite bluff intinating that
\ he n
the filter the council would. To this Mr.
Cable replied that he had no idea that the
CITY of Rock Island would show him the
discourtesy to interfere with his contract
with the Jewell company until such time
as the writer had displayed an unwilling
ness 10 do all that was necessary to insure
the plant being 10 the city all that it was
expected to be. On Mr.. Cables return
to this country and finding that the ca
} pacity of the filter had been overesti
mated, he at once arranged with MI.
Jewell to enlarge the same at an expense
almost equal to the original cost in
order to insure q capacity of 2.O0O.OOO
gallons. Inc Improvement was manu.
but still the plant proves inadequate to
do the work expected of it-3,O0O, 600
gallons. Now comes Mr. Jewell with
letter to the mayor in which he says
the plant is still too small and wants to
know # the city will take measures to
enlarge it. He said that he had been
led by Mr.. Gable to believe in q recent
inter view with Mr.. Gable that if the plant
were to be further enlarged it would
have to be done by the city of Roc k
Island. He holds that further filters are
needed. He thinks that four more tub 8
are necessary and that they should be
put IN immediately, as the washing is