Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-19
LOCATE DUMP BOAT
Council Decides to Keep 1t at
Seventh Street for the
Present.
PLow COMPANY AND OTHERS KICK
Friday Evening Set for Joint Con-
ference OF Council and Rock
Island Club.

The city garbage and dumpboat
was the subject of numerous petit
tions presented to the city council
last night and from every possible
point where it could be anchored
protest is more or less urgent from
has been formulated, and should the
council submit to all these pointed
requests the boat would be hur-
ried hither and thither without rest.
1t was decided, however. last night
to keep it for the present at the foot
of Seventh street until the old loca-
ton could be made accessible by the
opening Of the highway through to
the river, it having been cut off by
the extensions of the lumber yards
and the plant of the Table Oilcloth
factory. The Rock Island Plow com
pany, through its president. sent in
a petition asking a change from the
Seventh street site, as claiming the
water entering the factory's intake
pipe is affected by the sewage.
Lodges In the Logs.
Weyerhaeuser & Denbmann also
have formally sent i'm their protest
and it was read at the meeting by
the clerk along with the others. The
contention of the lumber company is
that the sewage is carried along by
the inShore current to their log har-
Dor, where it lodges in among the
RATS to their detriment W. j.
kahllle, another of the parties hav-
ing interests in that section of the
city, also placed himself on record
and called attention to the "unsavory
odOr." y motion was made and sec
Onded that the boat be moved to its
old location. 1t was shown that this
was impracticable at present, as there
is no road by which the place can be
reached. Aid. Kennedy pointed out
this defect, but thought that the road
could be opened up through if time
was given. Aid. BirLeI then made an
amendment TO the motion, referring
the matter TO the health committee
and police committee. Aid. Eckhardt,
in speaking on the motion and amend
meut advised immediate action. as he
said the council might anticipate an
invasion of pillow company employees.
as happened once before. if the nu-
sance was not removed from Seventh
street. On roll call Birke's amend
ment was lost and the council voted
to keep the boat where il was with
the understanding that removal is to
take place as soon as a road can be
opened lower down the river.
Joint Conference
Friday evening has been selected
by the council for Il joint conference
of that body and the city officers
with the members of the Rock Island
Club at the lattcr's clubhouse. The
meeting will be for the purpose of
discussing at length the proposed in
dustrial bureau and if possible to ar
rive at some definite plan of action
in regard to it. This meeting will be
in the nature of dinner. the club
having extended the council the invi-
tation and asking the aldermen to
decide on a date. Aid. Birkel moved
the acceptance of the invitation and
suggested Friday as the most suitable
date. all of which was concurred in.
The industrial bureau. which is un-
.doubtedly assured by this action, will
probably be made up of members of
the Rock Island Club and the city
officers and council selected at this
or some later meeting and this body
will then take active steps to present
in a systematic way the many strong
features of the city to the outside
world from a residence or business
standpoint.
Money for Ice.
The council last year gave the w.
{. +. L. the sum of $75 to be used in
purchasing ice for the water barrels
which that organization keeps up
about the city to furnish drink for
the thirsty through the hot summer
months. This year, in view of the in
crease of the price of the frozen
stuff, the council has seen fit to in
crease the amount of the appropria-
tion and 500 was voted last night for
the purpose.
The other business of the evening
was chiefly of a routine nature, petit
tions for sewers, watermains, connec-
tons, the granting of permissions to
plumbers for the opening of paving,
the approving of plats, bonds and the