Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-17
Retail Merchants association as fol-

Retail Merchants association as fol-
ows:
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City of Rock Island:
We, the undersigned, representing. the
Rock Island Retail Merchants asso-
citation, wish to extend a vote oil
thanks to you for the action taken by
your honorable body April 8 on the
matter of providing a warehouse on
the levee for the steamboat trade, and
we hope that the building of the same
will be pushed without delay.
Respectfully submitted.
RI RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.
GEORGE 81. KINGsBURY. President,
GEORGE A. MCDONALD. Vice President,
GEORGE SCHNEIDER, Secretary.
A delegation representing the Bluff
Improvement association visited the
council rooms. Remarks bearing on
the objects of the organization were
made by President G.. G. Wallick, E.
II. Guyer and William Lucklum.
Aresolution offered by Aid Gall was
adopted condemning wooden watering
troughs. of which there are no less
than so about the city. Aid. Gall
said they were becoming not only a
nuisance. but were also expensive to
the city. as it was found upon investi-
ton that the troughs were wasting
water at the rate of six gallons per
minute.
Aid. Aster, chairman of the ordi-
nance committee, reported adversely
on the ordinance proposing changes
in the plumbing regulations, submit
ted at a former meeting OF the coun-
ell.
Permission was granted the Bur-
lington Railway company to con-
struct a stub switch track across Sec
ond avenue between Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth streets to the
Hammond Packing company's estab-
under the direction of the street and
alley committee.
Commissioner of Public Works.
Aid. Wheelan called up his
ordinance abolishing the office OF
street superintendent and creating
the office of commissioner of pub.
lie works, which had been referred
to the street and alley committee,
the committee having failed to make
report on the ordinance. 1t APP
peared to Aid. Wheelan as though
the committee was endeavoring to
bury the measure, and upon
his motion il was taken up for consid-
Grafton, previous motion that the
committee be given further time in
the matter being defeated by vote OF
s to 5. Aid. Wheelan said that his idea
since being member of the council
favored the employment of compe-
tent civil engineer to superintend the
general public work of the municipal
Ity. 1t would not only mean a saving
to the city, but would insure better
quality of work. Now a street super
intendent is employed in addition to
paving extra for all engineering work.
Others who spoke in favor of the adop-
tion of the ordinance were Aids.
Fender, Lawhead and Beck. Aids.
Johnson, Gall and Concannon eX-
pressed themselves in opposition to
the ordinance. The ordinance was
thereupon put to vote and was adopt
ed as follows: Ayes-Beck, Hiede-
mann, Astcr, Winter, Fender, Wheelan,
Elwell, Lawhead-8. Nays-Concan-
non, johnson. Freed, Willis, CALI.
A commune ,tion was received from
Secretary Gilkinson, Of the American
League of municipalities, announcing
that the fourth annual meeting Of the
league will be held at Charleston, ).
c.. Dec. 1915. The communication
was referred to the new council.