Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-07-18
UNITED FOR ACTION
Rock Island and Moline In
Corner Stone Laying.
THE MEETING LAST EVENING

Sommltteo9 appointed 10 cooperate WIN
Those Of the Twin City Councils and
the Board Of supervisors-E Exercises
About August 10.
The meeting responsive to the
Joint call of the mayors OF Rock ISL
and and Moline at the Moline Art
rooms last evening to take action
looking to the making Of the corner
stone exercises of the new Western
Insane hospital twin-city event be-
fitting the occasion. was well at
tended, Rock Island in fact being
the more largely represented city of
the two. Indeed, this city has taken
the initiative in the preliminaries.
having already through its council
named Its official committee headed
by the mayor, and indicated a pur-
pose to do the right thing in other
ways. The board of supervisors has
likewise named committee and has
appropriated the magnificent sum Of
5000 as an evidence of its public
spirit and appreciation OF the cere-
monies. The city of Moline will
next Monday evt n ng name its COM
mittee and otherwise follow the ex
am pie of the Rock Island council, it
is thought. The meeting last even
ing was for the purpose of consider
ing ways and means. Whe rever
corner stone ceremonies in other
| parts of the state have been held SO
far, where state institutions have
been begun in the past year, they
have been signals for demonstrations
of the pri ie, liberality and public
spirit of the communities in which
they haze been located. The cities
OF Ro * Island and Moline propose to
sustain their regulations and to do
this considerable sum of money
must be raised. The county board
has, as usual, come out at the slim
end of the horn, just as it did with
the laying OF the corner stone Of the
court house. 1t is proposed that the
hospital corner stone laying shall be
more of success than that one was,
and as the public was obliged after
all was done to pay deficiency of
the expense on that occasion it is The
purpose now to have the coming
event properly managed and a suili-
cient fund raised to carry everything
through OH an elaborate scale.
Last Evenings Meeting.
The meeting of last evening was
called to order by Mayor Gustaf
Swensson, of Moline, who was, upon
motion, elected chairman. Super
visor W. P. Quayle, Of Rock Island,
was called upon to act as secretary.
President T. j. Medill, Of the hospi-
tai commission, was called upon for
remarks and spoke at some length,
the committee in shaping it's plans.
There was an extended discussion as
to the best mode of procedure, in
which William McEniry, of this city,
and DR.. J. w. Morgan, of Moline,
were the chief speakers. A motion
finally prevailed empowering the
chair to name a committee of four
whose duty it should be to select a
COMMITTEE of 10 for approval by the
meeting to act in con JUNCTION with
the committees of the county board
and the cities of Rock Island and Mo.
line. Mayor Swensson appointed as
the selecting committee Mayor B. F.
Knox and William McEniry, of Rock
Island, and DR.. j. W. Morgan and
w. F. Eastman, of Moline. That
committee retired and soon reported
the following as composing the com.
mittee of the meeting and it was
unanimously approved: c. II
Deere, DR.. j. F. Myers, c. H, P,pe
DIR. j. w. Morgan and +. G Allen.
OF Moline, and Henry Carse, William
McConochie, William McEniry. Dr.
j. W. Stewart and Charles McH agh
of Rock Island.
MIR. McEniry moved that it be the
sense of the meeting that Mr.. Deere
as the chairman of the committee
call together all the committees at
rs early a date as practicable to con-
slider plans for united action. Mr.
Mediil was upon motion made al
advisory member of the commit ee
and resolution was adopted tina,
the corner stone ceremonies tax.
place no. earlier than Aug. 10. as it i:
hoped to make it a great military
event, and many OF the compan es /
is planned to have participate will be
in camp in the meantime. President
Medill is to correspond with Gov
Altgeld with view to learning hi:
wishes fully with regard to the ex
act date.
1t is Gov. Altgeld's purpose tt
spend a week of vacation aud rest a
guest of friends in Rock Island dur
ing the time the corner stone is t.
be laid.
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