Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-09

Paving of sixteenth Street Let to Flick q
johnson.
AT last evenings meeting of the
city council, the ordinances for the
Improvement of the sidewalk system,
which have caused the mayor and
aldermen no end of tedious work and
time. every street and avenue of the
city having been gone over and a
uniform width and grade estab-
lished, were adopted. One ordi-
nance is for the avenues, and pro-
vides for walks six feet wide. The
other is for streets, which walks
are to be five feet in width. If built
under the requirements, the
walks are to be of brick.
Property holders have Is days in
which to lay their walks,
before the incurrence of court costs.
Some discussion was engaged in as
to the uniformity Of the walks,
question arising as to whether per-
son could lay a 5-foot walk where
the ordinance provides for a 6-foot
one, If he done so before the Is DAYS
had elapsed. The city attorneys
opinion being solicited, he stated
that while people laying their walks
within that time exempted them
selves from court costs, the width
set forth in the ordinances had to be
complied with. Uniformity is,
therefore. recommended, both as to
| width and material, as strip of
! sidewalk in the same block contain
ing three or four kinds of material
and laid different widths looks any,
thing but neat and tasty.
The Wide Tires.
Aid. kuschmann, from the street
| and alley committee, to which was
referred the resolution presented at
former meeting, asking that the
wide-tire ordinance be modified, re-
ported adversely on it. Aid. Foss
here brought forth some more of his
chilly sympathy. He said that while
he voted for the report, not believing
in the modification of the city ordi-
nances, he thought that the wide-tire
ordinance should be repealed, saving:
at is not the heavy loads that hurt
the paving. but the shoes on the
horses" He believed great MUS
tice and burden was being inflicted
upon transfers, and understood that
neither Davenport nor Moline were
enforcing such rules. If Aid. Foss
felt so bad for the transfers, why
didn't he make some kind of 4 move
| to relieve themo A motion to accept
Aid. kuschmann's report was car
| ried.
RemIey's Woes.
A communication was read by the
| clerk from Bert Remley. asking that
the city compensate him for the loss
OF time from work caused by injuries
sustained from a fall on a defective
sidewalk last spring. The position
was referred to the claims commit
tee. These petty grievances against
the city are becoming ridiculous. If
the city attempted to build sidewalks
the width that some people need
them sometimes. walks would have
to extend to the middle of the street
Sixteenth Street Contract
Before the opening of the bids for
the paving of Sixteenth street from
Fourth to Fifth-and-a-half avenues.
Aid. Maucker moved that the ordi-
nance for such work be amended
so as to call for a 34-foot street in
stead of 50 as originally advertised.
holding that the street was not trav-
eled much. and that in doing so the
council would be relieving him
greatly in a financial sense. The
motion was carried. The bids were
opened, and Flick & johnson being
the lowest, were awarded the con-
tract. When this section of paving
is completed, it will connect Six
teenth and Seventeenth streets and
Seventh avenue, and will furnish O
nice boulevard driving from Seventh
auenue on either of the above streets
to First avenue.