Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-04
PAVILION ORDERED
Anticipated Stand in Spencer Square
Disappears This
Fall.
AWARDING OF THE CONTRACT
Aid. Benson Goes Down in Pocket to
Pay $45 in Excess of APP
preparation.

There is to be a new pavilion in
Spencer square this fall. The city
council last evening, after repeated de-
lays. awarded the contract to Diedrich
Hohenboecken. and the mayor and
clerk were authorized to enter into
contract with him. Mr.. Hohenboecken's
bid was one of three. the others having
been submitted by Henry Tappendorf
and Heidemann & Schroeder Mr..
TappendOrf bid to build the pavilion
for S2.1O0. Mr.. Hohenboecken for 81
.045 and Heidemann & Schroeder for
$2.3SO
Mr.. Tappendorf adhered more close
ly 10 the specifications than did Mr..
Hohenboecken and would have been
awarded the job but for the discovery,
latter the aldermen had INDUCED in
heated half-hour discussion, that his
check for 800 accompanying his bid
was not certified. Mr.. Tappendorf was
at the meeting. and explained that his
failure to have the check certified was
due to his arriving at his bank after
closing hours yesterday afternoon. He
considered that small technicality on
which 70 disfranchise him.
Aid. Eckhart said he would continue
voting in opposition 10 the erection OF
| a new pavilion until Spencer square
was brought 10 the proper moral
standard. He said that man could
not walk through the square at night
without being insuited. II was a sum-
mer rendezvous Tor what he termed
park fairies They would lay in
wait for men and would corral them
while they were sauntering through
the park
Benson Says IL IL Il FnlSehOOd.
All. Benson had been in Spencer
square at night and had never been
:nsultcd. If one was looking for fair
les probably he could find them in
Spencer square as easily as any other
similar spot. or in the streets of the
city But if one minded his business
there was no danger of a fairy grab
bing him. Aid. Benson was indignant
at the assertion of Aid. Eckhart. He
said that the statement was a false
hood
Aid. ECkhart did not mind a little
thing like a member of the council
terming one Of his statements a lie.
but Aid. O'Connor did not take kindly
to it. He thought that he was includ-
ed, as he had charged in the council at
a former meeting that a person could
not walk in the square at night with
out being insulted. He thought it was
high time there was q cleaning up in
this park. 1t was dedicated to the re-
spectacle people of the community and
not to the loose characters.
IL For the Public.
Aid. Sexton said that the parks were
for the public. There was no way of
preventing questionable characters
dropping in there at night for a rest.
They would be there despite any ac-
ton the council might take 1t would
be difficult matter TO halt every wo-
man that passed into the park at night
and demand of her certificate of
moral character. If the fairies got too
thick for him he would walk around.
He would not try to wade through
them. But what he did object To was
strings TO the BIDS of contractors
Mr. Tappendorf had made an error
several months ago when bids were
| first invited for the building of the pa
vilion. and he said if it had not been
for this error there would be a new pa
| viliOn in the square now. He said that
Mr.. TappendoTf had so constructed his
bid that no one but a builder could
understand it. The mayor assured Mr.
Sexton that Mr.. Tappendorf's bid was
according TO specifications. Aid. Rob
bins believed that the council should
waive the certificate check require
ment and accept Mr.. Tappendorfs per
sonal check. Mr.. Tappendorf was
known to all the aldermen and they
| bond.
| Henson to stand Difference.