Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-16
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Official Proceedings OF the City Council
Last Evening.

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CITY COUNCIL Room. Rock ISLAND,
July 15.-The council met in regular
semi-monthly session at o'clock p.
m, Mayor Knox presiding and all the
aldermen present except Foss and
Tindall. The minutes of the last
regular and adjourned meetings were
read and approved.
The clerk read communication
embodying q claim for damages,
amounting to $14, to a buggy. from
F. H. Cooper. Referred to the claims
committee and city attorney on mo-
ton of Aid. Dauber.
The clerk read a comm unication
from Park Commissioner jackson
asking that money be placed in his
hands to pay park bills. Petition or
dered granted on motion of Aid.
Schneider.
The clerk read a petition from
Rosenfield Bros. and Davis company
for permission to open paved streets.
Granted.
The clerk read communication
from the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union embodying resolu-
tions against the Sunday saloon traf-
fic adopted at meeting in the First
Methodist church. Aid. Kennedy
moved that the communication be
received, and the city marshal be in
structed to enforce the ordinance.
Adopted by unanimous vote.
The clerk submitted a new ordi-
nance to regulate plum bling, etc. Re-
ferred to the ordinance and health
committees to report at the next
meeting.
Bids on the abutments for the
Thirteenth avenue bridge were
ordered opened and the clerk read
offers from Mcfarland. McConochie
& Co. and Frank NJ. Beeler. and a
proposition to erect the superstruc-
ture for $500 from the Chicago
Bridge & Iron Co. Referred to the
mayor and bridge committee to re-
port at next meeting.
Harold A. Weld was given permits
sion to address the council and pre-
scented petition of property holders
adjoining alleys between Fifteenth
and Seventeenth streets and Third
and Fourth avenues, asking a repeal
or modification of the alley-paving
ordinance. Aid. Schneider moved
that the city attorney be instructed
to dismiss proceedings in the county
court. Aid. Kennedy moved as
substitute that the petition be re-
ceived and placed on file, the city at
torney to proceed with the suit. The
roll was called on the substitute
which was lost and the original mo-
ton carried.
Ayes-Surman, Schreiner, Schroed-
err, Dauber, Maucker. Nelson,
Schneider. Fender, CALI.
Noes-Zeis, johnson, Kennedy-3.
Aid. Nelson presented an ordinance
for the payment of the Twelfth street
paving ordinance in installments and
moved that it be not adopted. Laid
on the table, on motion of Aid.
Mauckef.
Aid. Nelson, from the license COM
mittee, reported that in its judy
ment the price Of license could not
be reduced to one auctioneer without
reducing it to all others. Report
adopted.
The clerk read an ordinance for
system of sewers in the Sixth ward.
Referred to the mayor and sewer
committee to report at the next
meeting.
The mayor reported a deficiency
on the Seventh avenue paving assess
ment of $656.29. Referred to the
mayor and street and alley COM
mittee.
Aid. Schneider reported favorably
on the petition of E. H. Guyer for
the vacating of the alley in block 2,
Guyer's Third addition. Report
adopted.
Aid. Schneider also reported ad-
versely on the Twenty-eighth street
property holders petition for
change Of grade, and to establish GER
tain grades in the First ward. Re-
ports adopted.
Aid. Schneider presented plat OF
Highland Park addition and moved
its acceptance. A recess of five min
utes was taken to examine the plat
and on reassembling it was accepted
by unanimous vote.
Messrs. Nelson and Jameson, of
the Sixth ward, were heard in rela-
ton to a grade on Eighth avenue,
between Twenty-ifth and Twenty
seventh streets which they held |
should be changed. Aid. Schneider
moved that when the council adj
journ it be to 8 o'clock Tuesday af-
ternoon. to inspect this grade and
also to inspect the Thirtieth street |
pavement. the city engineer to ac-
the council. Motion car
ried.
Aid. Schreiner. from the sewer
reported the receipt of
bids for drain for Eleventh street,
which were opened and read by the
clerk. Bids were read from Blake &
Murphy. NJ. Yerbury. Davis COM
and Rosenfeld Bros. for
laying the tile in the open ditch and
also in the center Of the street. Aid.
Maucker moved to refer to the mayor
and sewer committee to report the