Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-18
FOR FREE BRIDGES.
Council Favors Abolishing Rock
River Tolls.
TO CONFER WITH THE SUPERVISORS.

City Dads DESTROYS Of Transferring Own
ersAip to the County and Throwing the
EotrAnces wide Opeu-Other Matters
D.posed of 1t Lat kveninGs Meeting.
Rock Island county people gener-
ally will laud the enterprising move
of Aid. Dauber in seeking to remove
the charging OF toll across the Rock
river bridges at last evenings coun-
Gil meeting. He said Moline was
contemplating such q move and he
believed Rock Island should no
longer continue keeping the rural
residents from entering its domain
without being assessed to do SO. and
be accordingly advocated a confer
ence between n committee from the
council and the board of supervisors
with a view of transferring the own
ership of the bridges to the county
and making them free. The legality
Of such transaction was questioned,
but City Attorney Haas believed so
far as he was at present informed
that Aid. Dauber's proposition
could be carried out without con-
flictipg with the provisions under
which the bridges are retained. Aid.
Dauber moved the appointment of
committee of seven aldermen, who.
together with the city torney and
mayor, are to consult with the SUI
pervisors and report the outcome Of
their deliberations to the council.
Aids. Dauber, Surman, Gall, Nelson,
Schneider, Schreiner and Maucker
we're named as the committee.
The bridge committee was empow-
cred to enter into contract with Will
liam Pugh for the erection OF the
bridge on Fourteenth avenue and
Twenty-eight street at cost Of 500.
The New Bridge.
Frank A. Blair was before the
council in behalf of the Davenport &
Rock Island Bridge and Terminal
company and asked that the council
in accordance with the ordinance
granting the company's right of way
decide on the location of the Rock
Island pier-and that as soon as pos
sibIe, as he proposed commencing
operations by the first of March. The
council agreed to adjourn until Fri
day afternoon when 1t would locate
the desired point.
The finance committee made q re-
port estimating the revenues for
1896 at $l31, 357. 19-as guidance
for the making OF next years appro-
priations. The estimated expendi-
lures were placed at$13l, 1919.
waterworks Commission.
Aid. kennedy's ordinance creating
| n board of waterworks commission
ers was reported on favorably by the
ordinance committee, but after quite
a lengthy discussion was laid over
for further consideration. Aid.
Msucker thought the ordinance con-
tanned many impracticable points,
and believed, while the appointment
Of such a commission might be a
good thing. many of its provisions
| should be reconstructed before for
NAL passage. In the first place Aid.
Maucker thought the duties devolv-
ing on a waterworks commission
would be too numerous and arduous
to be attended to without compensa-
ton, which the ordinance did not
provide for. Aud he did not think
the city ought to pay out any more
money for the operation of this de-
partment when nothing additional to
what was being done now was to be
expected.
The River Front.
A resolution instructing the ordi-
nance committee to prepare meas
ure for the Improvement of Fifteenth
street and the levee in accordance
with recommendations formerly
made by the committee was pre-
sented by Aid. Foss and passed. the
ordinance to be presented at the next
meeting. Aid. Foss also recon.
mended a meeting of the council
next Monday evening to formally
decide on the First avenue track
Question. and the dads agreed t.