Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-03-06
STOOD THE TEST.
Rock islands Council Susta;ns
Paving.
SEVENTEENTH STREET CARRIES.

oEvEATEEMTH STREET CARRIES.
Aids. Ksasedy. Nelsoa ana Foo. s..n "a
Delay the Eneerprise. bot Failing, rney
Ssap isto the waeo.-A CITY Han Prom
esitiss-rhs rwsats -thtra Street Paving
Coatr.ct. and the Biddsrs.
The Rock Island council has been
tried and not found wanting on the
Issue VI furthering permanent pub
lie impr 'vemepts. The paving Oh
OF. lions - well begun and carried
fortL up to this time are to 20 on.
Seven. Goa IN street, the bone Of con.
tcntiOn over which lowered a crisis
in the city's progressive tendency, is
to Ike paved. The council SO ordered
last evening.
The Ordlssaces Pre- sented.
After the council had disposed of
its regular routine, as well as other
business before il. the paving ord,-
nances applicable to Seventeenth
were called up by Aid. Mauckcr un.
der the call Of the ordinance commit
tee. and xt Aid. Bladel's request the
ordinance for the paving Of Seven.
teenth. from Fourth to Seventh ave-
nue.. was put upon its passage, and
carried unanimously. Then the or.
dinancc for the paving of Seven
teenth, from Seventh to Ninth ave-
nue., was presented, and it was
likewise adopted, on Aid. Roth's mo-
ton. by unanimous vote. But when
the third section, calling for the paw
ing Of the street from Ninth to Eirh.
tccnth avenue. was called up and
Aid. Mauckcr moved it's passage, the
opposition which had made no DEM
onstration while the ordinances af-
fccting other property holders were
being passed, broke out in the inter-
est Of extensive land owners. Aid.
Kennedy was the mouthpiece of those
who sought to object. As a mere
subterfugc for his determination to
obstEnct, Mr.. Kennedy asked the city
attorney about the status of the
Twentieth street paving ordinance in
the courts. The city attorney re-
piled that the matter was ready for
hnal argument; and then the would
be willy alderman desired to know
how long it would be before the
council would know what disposition
would be made of this ordinance, and
to this Mr.. Haas replied that it was
somewhat indefinite, though he
could see no reason for any great de-
lay.
Aid. Bladel asked as to the ben Gifts
Of the paving being distributed in pro-
portion to the costs, and the city at
torney responded that these were
all matters for the commissioners to
determine.
AID. Kennedy was thereupon again
heard from in a substitute to the
effect that this section of the Seven
teenth street pavement lay over, and
that in the meantime the city attor-
ney force the Twentieth street pave
mcnt to final settlement.
Aid. COrken, that never failing
champion of progress, was on his
feet in an instant. He could not see
what Twentieth street had to do with
Seventeenth. and if the Sixth ward
alderman thought the council could
not see through his scheme, he was
mistaken. II some poor man con-
stitutcd the only interest in this mat
ter, Aid. Kennedy would have shown
no hesitancy in pushing it through,
but where influence had been bought
to bear of a different sort, he was
quite easily swayed.
Aid. Kennedy said something
about his having always been the
friend of the poor man. which the
aldermen regarded as an unusual de-
velopment OF sarcasm on Kennedy's
part. and then the latter displayed
his spleen by saying that Seventeenth
street was only COW path. anyway,
and that grass would be growing or
the bricks six months after they
were put down. II was up there
Sunday" said KENNEDY, land it's
like going out in the country to pave
that street. 1t is not much travelled
anyway"
street from an unbiased standpoint
he would have seen that the reason
il is not SO much travelled as II
might be now is because it is hui
deep in mud. responded Aid. Mauck
or, land even this very night wag
ons are stalled there, so don't thinl
the aldcrman's argument is worth
much"
| ..Well I want to see Twentieth
street paved before Seventeenth. l,
is the Oldest and most important
street." said Aid. Kennedy.
when il comes to that" rctortet
Aid. COrken. .'Seycntcenth street
was . public highway here before
Twentieth street was heard of. auG
Ms TO the relative importance of tn,
two to the city, think Seventeenth
will stand comparison"
The vote was then taken on Aid
Kcnncdy's substitute seeking delay
and it was found there were but tw'
aldermen who conceded with the OBJ
structi0nist. Aids. Nelson and FOs
sustaining him, while Aids. Roth
Bladel, Kinncr, Schroeder, Corken
Dauber. Mauckcr. Evans, Kusch
| mann and Cpn mar voted in the neon