Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-06


Salary account ................ 491 Go
police account ....... 1898 S.
Fire Department No. l ..........-... IO4 81
Fire apartment No. 2................ 1SS 50
Eire Department No. 3.. 2l0 50
5 1898 SC
Waterworks expense account ........ 1o5 II
Reservoir expense account 296 40
Water works expense account 1056l7
s11,167 "a
The clerk read the reports of the var
ious city officers, which were received
and placed on file.
The clerk read bill from r. Starbael
for plumbing supplies. Referred to the
finance committee.
The clerk read remOnstrance from
John Hedberg and other residents OF
Sinnet's addition against allowing furth-
CT encroachments on Forty-fifth street,
by the Moline Stone Co. Referred TO
the street and alley committee on mo-
ton OF Alderman Brkel.
The clerk read Il communication from
the Union Electric Telephone & Tele-
graph Co, enclosing the company's
check for SlG9.3S, "a the amount of the
franchise tax now due. Referred to the
finance committee, on motion of Al
derman Anderson.
The clerk read a petition from the
Tri-City Railway Co. for permission to
construct and maintain for twenty years
an additional track for double track
electric railway. from Second to Seventh
avenue, on Seventeenth street; on
Seventh avenue west to Eleventh street,
and south to Tenth avenue; also the
consent of majority of the property
holders along the proposed line, to the
construction of the proposed additional
track
The clerk read an ordinance granting
the Tri-City Railway Co. the right to
lay an additional track on Seventeenth
street from Second to Seventh avenue,
and on Seventh avenue from Seventeenth
to Eleventh street, and on Eleventh
street south to Tenth avenue.
Alderman Birkel moved the immediate
consideration Ct the ordinance. Carried
unimously.
Alderman Birkel moved the adoption
of the ordinance. Carried unanimously
The clerk read petitions for sewer
connections from Channon. Perry & Co,
Blake 4 Murphy, Rosenfeld Bros, and
Ward & Mcmahon. Referred to the
sewer committee on motion of Alder
man Benson.
The clerk read petitions from tho Peo-
pies Power Co. for permission to open
paved street to extend gas service.
| Granted, on motion of Alderman Birkel.
The clerk read proposals to furnish
feed and coal to various departments.
| Referred to the finance committee, on
motion of Alderman Wilson.
The clerk read bids for the heating,
plumbing and electric wiring of the No.
, hose house. Referred to the fire and
light committee, to report at the next
meeting. on motion of Alderman Bloch
linger.
The clerk read report from the
Board of Local Improvements recon-
mending the improvements of Four
teenth avenue from Thirtieth street east
to the city limits by paving with a sim
| gle course of brick payment and stone
curbing, and also an estimate of the
cost of the Improvement, at S45,l37.l3,
Alderman Anderson offered a resolu-
ton approving the estimate of the cost
of improving Fourteenth avenue, from
rhirtieth street to the city limits.
Adopted unanimously
The clerk read an ordinance for the
improvement of Fourteenth avenue, by
a brick pavement thirty-six feet wide.
from Thirtieth street east to the city
limits.
| Alderman Anderson moved immediate
consideration of the ordinance. Car
ried.
ton of the ordinance. Adopted by
unanimous vote.
Alderman Anderson from the finance
committee recommended that Mayor
McConoehie be delegated to attend the
convention of the League of American
Municipalities. Adopted by unanim-
GUS vote.
Alderman Anderson from the finance
tcommittee reported on the claim OF
George Green, that the bill should be
paid by the property owners for whom
the work was done, and not by the city
Report adopted.
The clerk read a report from Health
Commissioner Craig; concerning milk
tests showing the city's milk supply at
present to be pure and wholesome.
Alderman Birkel moved that the re-
port be received and placed on file. Car
ried.
Alderman Hause from the sewer com
mittee reported granting various persons
the right to make sewer connections