Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-06-28
4 SOLEMN SOUND.
ourfew Bells Warning to Chill.
dron.



anss.
As Carfew peAied its solemn warn
ing for the first tinein Rock Island
at 9 O'Clock last night. two citizens
stood in front OF . peanut stand on
Second avenue. One WAS Aid. Dau-
Der, the other . chubby resident of
Twenty first street who stopped grow
ing when he was 10 years old. The
alderman listened to the nino strokes
Of the bell. and shen turning to the
street verder said, s.here give me .
sack OF psaaat :" Having purchased
1t and handed il to his companion
with the injunction, .'now you pat
for home. and you had better take
the alleys, too" The recipient did
not step to argue. but started forth
with to heed the warning Of the
Fourth ward representative. He
darted up Eighteenth street and
through an alley making . turn that
brought him out on Third avenue,
and jass as he emsoged he ran into
the arms Of Aid. Wheelan. chair
man. Of the police committee, and
Chief Fender. who were out looking
for small game under the new law.
The diminutivs citizen had hardly
made his appearance when he city q
Representatives seized him. Thew
exchanged no salutatiens with him,
bat quietly escorted him TO his home,
placed him inside the gate and tax
Ing his sack Of peanuts away from
him, walked of. The citizen sal
down on his door step and was med
itatisg on the experiences of the Is
minutes that had flown as furnishing
material for his forthcoming work
on my Last Battle" whom the
heavy tread approaching brough,
. new terror in the shape of . sten-
torian sdmonition that il he did no,
get In out Of that he would be taken
down, and a. the citisen closed the
door behind him he was heard tc
mutter something about not liking
the New England blue laws, any.
wsy.
There were varied experience,
under the operation of the law. Aid
johnson, it is relsted, WAS pursued
for an hour mp one street and dcwr
another BY q copper ambitious Il
land the first infringement, while {
little man, who is employed in 0 rail
road freight office, was obliged Il
swear under an electric light that b,
was going for q doctor, in order Il
escape detention. Tim Collins rod,
Between Rock leland and Moline OF
. street car for two hours, not dar
ing 10 alight IA either city as eacl
time he ventured en- the platform b,
cav 8 copper making for him, until
the car made its last trip. and h,
escaped for home through an alley
He will wear his pedigree on hi
shirt tonight. There are people VII,
protest that . mans sizs does no
protect him. for Dom plants hav,
come from Frank Raible. Lse Gait
John Enitzer and Charley Spencer
about resolving suspicious glance,
from tia municipal oonsta bulary
force.
Curfew Bells Ring.
The ringing Of the bslls wa,
awaited with considerable interest
the hour OF . being telled on tn,
bells on the three houses Of the pait
fre department.. Tho signal was re
sPected all over the CITY by children
away from home whose ears ver,
erect for the sound. and who upo,
hearing 1t hastily made tracks.
The police found no occasion Z,
dstain any children for violation oil
the Curisw law, although quite 9
mum bsr were overhaulcd and warned
to seek their homes. Chief PendsI
ssys he does not propose to DO nm
reasonable. bat to give all ample CD
portunity to comply with the law
but IL there 10 . disposition to i'm
pose upon lenisney. such cases viii
DO properly attended to. The chic
states his men have met moro boy,
since last night who swore they wer,
going on IL than were dreamed OF 1,
Rock Island before. Such misrspre
sen tatiOn will not bo uermit&ed 4,