Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-02
HOLD THEIR OFFICES
Library Directors and Park Com
missioners Reappointed by
Mayor Knox.
YERBURY RosENFIELDs SUCCESSOR
Attorneys Ask $1,000 For De-
Tending Starkey Suit
Other Matters.

The regular July meeting of the
city council was held last evening.
Mayor Knox reappointed and the
council unanimously confirmed c. j.
Larkin, Louis Kohn and Joseph ii.
Kerr, as members of the public llbrar y
board, and Richard Crompton as COM
missioner of Spencer square, and Fos-
ter Coyne as commissioner of Garn-
sey square. Frank Yerbury was
named and confirmed as successor to
Joseph Rosenfield as plumbing in
spector.
A long petition headed by William
z. Dover was received protesting
against the establishment of scrap
iron yard in the neighborhood Of
Fourth avenue and Ninth street. con-
tending that an institution of this
character is not only a public nuis-
auce, but has a depreciatiDg effect on
the value of contiguous property.
The official vote of the recent school
election was canvassed by a commit
tee composed by Aids. White. Sober
s.rom and Gall. The vote was found
to be as follows: F. G. Denkmann.
l 5l7; DIR. j. W. Stewart, 1884:
Hamlin IL. Hull, l, 53l; g. III. Seidel,
l,4S0; Frank 4. Robbins, 1901; Hol-
land 5. Bollman. l, 306; A. De Soland,
l.. 305; w. j. Pratt, 1882.
starkey Case Fee.
Nineteen hundred dollars is the fee
charged by the attorneys who defend
ed the Belle Starkey $25. 900 dam
age suit against the city, Searle IL
Marshall 81, 800 and j. X. Scott 800.
The case, it will be remcm bered, was
won by the city after protracted
legal battle. the supreme court finally
reversing the verdict of the circuit
court jury, which awarded the plain
tiff sc, 900. The statement from the
attorneys was referred.
At the former meeting of the coun-
Gil the bids received for the construc-
ton of the proposed Twenty-first
street sewer were referred to the
sewer committee, with instructions
to report last night. Alderman An
derson is the chairman of the sewer
committee, but when his committee
was called by the mayor he passed,
had nothing to offer. This brought
Aid. Robbins to his feet Immediately
and he made a motion, which was
carried, that the bids be taken from
the committee and given over to the
council. At this point in the pro-
ceedings Aid. Anderson explained
that he had no intention of delaying
the planned improvement, and the
on Y reason he was not ready 20 re-
d )rt was because he was out of the
city on the day of the preceding
meeting, had not read the proceed
ings and therefore was not aware
that he was supposed to report at n
given time. Aid. Anderson having
squared himself the Robbins motion
was recalled and the sewer committee
was voted authority to award the
sewer construction to the lowest bid
der, who is understood to be the Tri-
City Construction company.
More Money for Fire Alarm.
Aid. Andrews made another stand
in the interest of the new fire alarm
system, moving that $4,000 be taxi N
from the reservoir construction APP
preparation and added TO the fire
alarm fund. This would give the
reservoir Sc, 900. the amount that was
allotted to it the preceding year. But
the mayor ruled Aid. Andrews mo-
ton out of order, holding it would be
necessary to bring in a repeating or
dinance before any change could he
made in the appropriation ordinance
passed by the council at its former
meeting.