Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-10
MAYOR AS REFEREE
In Paving Dispute Between Prop.
erty Owners on Fif-
teenth Street.
TWO PETITIONS AT HIS OFFICE
One For and One Against--B id 5
to be Asked on Twenty
first.

1t appears from the report of the
board of public improvements made
at last nights meeting of the city
council that property owners on Fiji
tenth street have gotten their dates
mixed on the paving proposition
before it two petitions, one asking the
improvement of the street from First
to Twelfth avenues and another OPP
posing it, and in perusing the sigma
lures it was found that many of the
owners had signed both documents.
thus making it impossible for the
board to know in a number of cases
who favored and who was forninst the
pavement The board reported that
1t could not cay, on account of the
confusion in signatures. whe' her. as
claimed by the supporters of the i'm
provement, there was a ma lority of
the frontage signed for it. anu it was
decided that the fairest way to settle
| the dispute was for the mayor to
| open at his OIL e in the city hall two
petitions, one for and the other
/ against the improvement, aud invite
property owners on Fifteenth TO come
/ forward and sign their names To the
one of their choice.
Bids on Twenty-Hrst
The assessment for the paving of
| Twenty first street from Second to
Tenth avenues having been confirmed
| by the county court il was voted as
| the sense of the council that the board
OF public improvements advertise for
bids on the work. Mayor Kuox in
this connection took occasion to deny
statements attributed to him opposing
the Twenty first street improvement,
stating that whoever had circulated
such a story was guilty of a deliberate
| falsehood. He wanted to be under
stood as favoripg the paving o; the
street, but was not in &C ,ord wit h
some of the details of the proceeding
affecting the assessment IF property
in the block between Second and
Third avenues.
Two Ask Damages.
Mrs. Mary Larkin. 24O5 Fifth-and-a a.
half avenue, had q communication be-
fore the council ia which she stated
that July 10 last she tripped on a water
Iservice pipe in the sidewalk near her
home and fell, sustaining a fracture
of the left arm. She has since been
under the care of physician and asks
the city to recompense her.
| There was another claim from Mrs.
caroline johnson, S210 Tenth avenue
whose home was quarantined during
the recent smallpox outbreak in that
neighborhood. She wants $50 foI
loss of time for herself and son. Both
claims were referred for investiga
ton.
Gillespie Has Kick.
The following communication from
John Gillespie was referred to the
aldermen of the Fifth ward:
ITO the II lnorab!e Mayor and City
Council of Rock Island, State OF lii.
nois, this 9th Day of September, 1901
As citizen of the United States and
a voter of the Fifth ward, would like
to know why we citizens of the
east part of said city are barred
out from working in the west
part of said city. l was told by q GER
tain citizen from the west part OF
said city that no one need apply for
work in the excavating of a certain
cellar in The First ward unless l be-
longed to the First ward, as l under.
stand the excavatiDg of the above
named cellar was given to the above
named city for grading purposes
Now | would like to know as n citi-
zen why the First ward, or Second
ward. or Third ward are privileged
cbaracters. They can work anywhere
to the line of Moline One citizen
told me this morning that he was
sent up here by the alderman of his
ward, First ward. to see the street
commissioner and authorized him &c
send him down there to wsrk in said
cellar. The undersigned has got good
reason to complain. got five hours
last week and eight hours the week
previous.
Adjacent property owners peti.
toned for the placing of a street light
at Third avenue and Eighteenth
street, complaining that this locality
is the darkest in the business district.
The petition was referred.
| CondoIe with Mrs Mckinley.
At the suggestion of the mayor
Aids. Anderson, White and Robbins
were appointed committee to draft
resolutions expressing the sympathy
of the city for Mrs. Mckinley in heI
hours of trial while the president is
lowering between life and death from
the assasEin's bullet.
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