Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-02-21
A STANDARD SIZE.
Attempting to Regulate Tri-
City Wagon Tires.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.

Mayors and Councils, Of thc Three cities,
Meet nj the Harper. and Discus. Plans
some ModtG cations Made, and Genera.
Schedule Agreed up,n.
Responding to Mayor Mcdill's call,
a municipal conference was held ut
the Harper house last evening. par
iicipatcd in by the mayors and council-
men and other officials of the three
cities. Ia consider and act in unison.
IL possible. on the question of "a uni
form schedule for wagon tire ordi-
nances. There were present the fol-
lowing:
Municipal Oacers P.escn,.
Rock Island Mayor Medill. Aids.
Maucker. Daubcr. kennedy. Kuscb-
mann. Nelson. Cramer. Bladel. Roth.
kinncr. City Clerk Hucsing.
Moline - Mayor Bennett. Aids.
CLANCY. Perrin, Lewis. Scllmer. Rel
mcrs.
Davenport-Mayor Vollmer, Aids.
Parkhurst. Lerch, Edingcr. CITY
Engineer Murray, Commissioner of
Public Works Boyn,on, City After
ncy Sharon.
Discussion of the Evening.
Mayor Medi!l called the conference
10 order. and briefly stated the OBJ
ject of the meeting, which was 10
either ratify or to change the sched-
ulc for wagon tires agreed upon ut
the conference of mayors and other
municipal officers held at the Har-
.
councils Of the three cities might, il
! possible. act finally with one accord
on the matter Of wagon tires. The
mayor proposed Mayor Vollmer, of
Davenport. as chairman of the meet
ing. and Mayor Bennett. of Moline.
scconding the motion, it prevailed
In assuming the chair. Mayor Vol
mer spoke OF the disposition of the
Davenport council. with reference to
the schedule previously adopted.
ard which body. while wholly in :.c-
cord with the sentiment of the for
me-: conference. had adopted but one
provision of the schedule. and that
the one providing fer a 3-inch tire on
loads exceeding $500 pounds. This
| the Davenport council though; would
be easier to enforce than VARYING
scale. but the speaker lived in hopes
that nj some future time. the Daven-
port council would arrive at some
decision that would look TO n closer
compliance with the spirit of the
/ previous conference.
Mayor Medill reported that the
schedule had been fully and unani-
mously approved by the Rock Island
council. and that the aldermen stood
ready to adopt an ordinance embody-
ing the provisions.
Mayor Bennett stated that the Mo-
line council had adopted the schcd-
uIe of the conference providing for
1900 to $500 pounds. 2I-inch tire:
$500 Ia 5000. 3-inch tire; 5000 to
5000. 3i-inch tire. and all over 5000
pounds. finch tire. and he felt war
ranted in saving that an ordinance
would I've duly framed and adopted
coincident with the one adopted in
Rock Island.
Remarks were made by Aids. Park
hurst, Lcrch and Edinger. Com
missioner Boynion and City Attor-
ncv Sharon. of Davenport. Aids.
Roth. Mauckcr and kinner of Rock
Island. the three mayors also
participating in the informal
discussion. ut the conclusion OF
which the situation seemed to be
that Rock Island and Moline were
disposed to sustain the schedule pre-
viously adopted. while Davenport's
position favored the single provision
on which the municipal assembly OF
that city had acted.
4 Uniform Schedule Presented.
1t being apparent that mu-
tual concessions would he neces.
sary. the representatives OF
the different cities got to-
gether. and when the meeting was
again called to order, Mayor Mcdil
moved that on the proposition to be
offered. each city be allowed Is votes.
Mayor Bennett then submitted the
following compromise schedule:
Over 1890 and up to $500 pounds,
q inch tire be required; over $500
and up to 5000 pounds. S-inch tire
over 5000 pounds. finch.