Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-08-11
John Konosky Will Erect New
Hose House for No. 2
Company.
CITY COUNCIL IN BRIEF SESSION
Aldermen Censure City Attorney
Scott in Connection With Paw
ing Ordinance.


transacted. Probably the most inn
portant thing attended to was con-
nected with the award of contract
fer the erection of new hose house
for the No. , company on the site of
the present quarters on Eighth
street. The mayor and city clerk
were instructed to enter into CON
tract with John Konosky, in accord
ance with the recommendation of the
fire and light committee. The build
ing is to be put up within three
months, and in the meantime the old
house will have to be moved into the
the street and the company be quar-
| tered there temporarily. The sale of
the old building was discussed and an
ordinance providing for its sale will
| be prepared. The new house will be
built according to plans prepared by
Architect Drack, and will include all
modern features and he sufficiently
| connexions to accommodate all the
apparatus ordinarily kept at a single
station with quarters for men enough
| to operate il.
| Rebuke for Scott.
City Attorney Scott was admins
| tered rebuke in connection with the
| INVENT y-ninth street paving for which
an ordinance was passed and then
found to be faulty. Aid. Kennedy
called the matter up and said that il
was the understanding that new
| ordinance was to be prepared by the
city attorney and be submitted last
evening. He said the season is grow
ing late and if the improvement is to
be made on the Hill and the residents
| spared from annoyance from the
washing of the street during another
winter and spring, an ordinance will
have to be hurried through. The city at
torneY'S absence from meeting was
caustically referred to by tie alderman.
who then moved that {. Il. Marshall
be employed to take the matter in
hand and prepare an ordinance and
put il through the court. The mo
ton, changed so that Mr.. Marshall
will be employed only To prepare the
ordinance, was passed.
Aid. BIochlinger called up the Milan
bridge matter in the form of a report
which he. as chairman of the bridge
committee, had presented at the last
meeting and upon which action had
been deferred. 1t was finally decided
that an intelligent settlement of the
question could not be had till the aid
ermen all had an opportunity to in
/ spect the bridges. and accordingly il
was decided that another meeting
will be held at , o'clock tomorrow af-
ternoon, when the aldermen will go
to Milan in a body.
The Tri-City Railway company sub
mittcd an acceptance of the ordinance
passed at the last meeting of the
council for the east half of the Long
view loop and the council voted to re-
ceive the same.
Bonds Approved.
The bonds of Plumbing Inspector
Frank Yerbury. Fire Chief Charles
Hastings. Assistant Chief Peter Frey.
and Patrolmen f. p. Kell. Hardy Het-
ter, John c. Kinney and T. L. Herrick
whose appointments were confirmed
at the last meeting. were received and
accepted.
Louis Mosenfclder. in communica-
ton, offered to give 800 toward the
laying of watermains on Elm street
south of Fourteenth avenue to the
city limits if the work is done in the
next six months. The waterworks
committee reported that the petition
|
street from Fourteenth to Eighteenth
avenues had not been sufficiently
signed and it was voted to drop the
matter.
Mr.. Scott Has His Say.
City Attorney Scott today disclaim
ed any willfuI negligence of duty with
reference to the Twenty-ninth street
paving and intimates that someone
4 I,
was forced to be out Of town and had
written Aid. Kennedy a letter. which
he apparently failed to get and which
would have explained his absence last
evening so that the alderman would
not have brought the matter before
the council in the manner he did. Not
ONLY that. but he declared that the
matter as it now stands is out of the
hands of the council and in the hands
of the board Oh local improvements.
The proceedings were dismissed in
the county court only Saturday and
there is nothing to be done but to be-
gin over again.
According to Mr.. Scott, the board
of local improvements must originate
all improvement ordinances, and be-
fore a new ordinance for the paving
of the two blocks of Twenty-ninth
street in question can be presented
to the council, the board must give
10 days notice of a meeting at which
it is to be decided whether the inn
provement is to be made, the same
as was done at first. Then the ordin-
ance may be presented to the council
with the recommendation that it be
passed Until that is done the city
attorney says the matter is out of the
jurisdiction of the city council and
the action taken last evening he
therefore declares is illegal. He fur
thermore intimates that Aid. Kenne-
dy's anxiety in the matter springs
4 from the fact that he resides on the