Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-31
NOW WE WILL SEE.
No Need of Further Delay on
the River Front.
so SAYS THE CITY ATTORNEY

All Papers Ready tc;BeEin Proceedings in
the County Court Tuesday Morning
Council COMMITTEES Have Had Ample
Time to Report.
The river front improvement pro-
iect may be presented in tangible
shape for action at next Monday
evenings session Of the city council.
if the committees entrusted with the
preliminaries are disposed to present
their reports. The special alder
manic Representatives it was ex-
pected would reach q conclusion last
evening, but the atmosphere was so
oppressive in the mayors office,
which is also torn up, that the COM
mittee postponed action. 1t is be-
lievcd that the weather now being
more congenial, with the fact thar
other places may be found,
meeting may be held tomorrow
night and the important report put
in shape. Much now depends upon
these committees. If their report is
in shape by next Monday highland
there is no legitimate excuse for it
not being so-the council with it.
already expressed majority favora-
bic to the undertaking can proceed
at once.
City Attorney Haas said yesterday:
There is nothing that can see that
should delay these proceedings any
longer. Plenty of time has been had
for the preliminaries. Every for
mality SO far as the council is con-
cerned may be attended to at next
Monday nights meeting. l have all
the papers complete and ready to enter
proceedings in the county court
Tuesday morning. il the council but
gives the authority" This assurance
from the city attorney is gratifying
as well as important. The excuse
cannot be further offered that the
delay is in preparing the necessary
legal papers.
The ExasperatiDg Delay.
| The Union of this morning gloats
over the fact that nothing has yet
been accomplished in practical way
to ward the levee improvement. 1t
says: 1.-The levee is where it always
was, and in the same disgraceful con-
dition. she railroads that have been
holding it down go long maintain
their grip, and it really seems as
safe as ever" This is given as a
sort of prod to The ARGUS, whose
urgent appeals to the aldermen to
save The levee are termed "frantic
calls" While there is some truth in
| tho I1ninn's pbaorv.fiops cfr,puo a q
it may seem-the railroads already
.here are doing no more to hold the
levee down than those that seek to
come, and all practically "have fing-
er in the pie" The Argus, however, is
not frantic, but it is in earnest about
this matter. Nor is it discouraged /;
on the other hand it is determined
No great undertaking is easily won.
The levee Improvement is one of the
most important projects ever con-
sidered in the city's history. The
efforts in its behalf have been uphill
from the first, and none know better
than TIE ARGUS the reason. Never
theless progress has been made. The
ldisgraceful old levee is still there.
but such ground as has been gained
has been neld. A little more and the
success of the enterprise will be as
sured. 1t is because of this fact that
the opposition is perhaps more pro-
nounced now than it has been before.
Much of the delay has been absolute
ly unnecessarily ovokingly so,
but there can be but little more. As
for The Argus, it has interested itself
in behalf of this improvement and it
proposes to stick to it. and its ap-
peals to the aldermen will be re-
lpeated until the warning is so under
stood that no one identified with the
city's interests can fail to realize the
responsibility that rests upon him.
ii Save the leyee