Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-02-21
TOMALE CART EVIL
Council 6alks at Granting Per-
NIT on Eighteenth
Street.
INJURY TO THE RESTAURANTS
Proprietors of The Latter Should
Be Protected, Aldermen
Hold.

before the city council AT its regular
meeting last evening. The stand taken
by Aids. J. p. Sexton and r. c. Benson,
representatives from the Fourth ward
was commendable. They maintained
that owners of property should be
consulted before a permit was granted
70 install one of these portable enter
prises. The protection that the res
taurant proprietor. an employer and
taxpayer, was entitled TO should not be
lost sight of either.
| The discussion followed the presen-
tation of a recommendation from the
| license and markets committee to al
| low J. +. James. the former restau-
| ranter. to operate a wagon at Eigh-
| teenth street, north of Second avenue
Accompanying the report was a letter
| from NJ. e. Ochs. of Davenport. owner
of the building alongside which ii was
proposed TO locate the wagon, giving
| his consent.
Owners should Have Notice.
There are already too many of
| these movable lunch counters in the
city" Aid. Benson said. They are an
hurry TO some of our business men.
This council has no right to put one
of those wagons in the neighborhOOd
of my home or place of business with
out giving me time to be heard. |
would just as soon vote a permit to
Mr.. James as any other citizen, but
there has been no former notice that
he would seek TO establish himself in
the location mentioned. That is a
prominent business street. and doubt
less there would be objection TO the
locating of one of those wagons there
Aid. Sexton said if the council allow |
ed a wagon on Eighteenth street he |
was satisfied there would be a half
dozen petitions for the council to pass
on at the next meeting seeking similar |
concessions at corners between Seven |
teenth and Twentieth streets. He held
that if the lunch wagon was an evil
the council should endeavor to lesson |
it instead of increase it. The report
of the license and markets committee
was laid over under the rules until |
the next meeting.
Valuations Suggested.
\ suggestion that it might profit all
cities situated from each other at a
not inconveniant distance TO adopt was I
suggested by Aid. Ogden. a member
of the Davenport council. who had a /
business engagement on this side OF
the river early in the evening. and en- |
braced the opportunity to be a specta- |
tor at the session of the Rock Island |
municipal assembly. Aid. Ogden said |
since his election to the council he had |
often thought of the advantage it would |
be for the city councilmen of the tri- |
cities to exchange official visits. He |
said there were questions in the Dav-
export council frequently that Rock |
Island and Moline were interested in, |
and it would be helpful for the alder
men from those cities to be on hand |
when action is taken.
Invitation il Accepted.
The case applied as well TO Daven-
port In order to start the ball rolling !
Aid. Ogden requested that as many of
the Rock Island aldermen as could ar
range to do so be present at the next
regular meeting of the Davenport |
council ON the evening of Wednesday, |
March l. On that date the committee |
that has been on tour of the country |
municipal lighting con- |
Davenport will be home and in readi- |
ness with the report of its findings. |
Aid. Ogden said a REIMBURSEMENT of the |
rates was sought for on his side of the |
river. and he believed that the Rock |
Island men would hear much |
that would interest them at the !
meeting referred 10. The invita-
tion was accepted and the alder
men who desire to attend will meet |
at the police station the evening In
Question at 100 O'Clock to board a
special car rendered by the Tri-City !
Railway company To Davenport.
Good Wishes for Mr.. WiIkens.
The council accepted the resigna-
ton as member from the First ward
of William Wilkens. Mr.. Wilkens is
now a citizen of Back Hawk town
ship. having completed the removal of
his family and household furniture
there yesterday He has leased the
William Trittle farm for a term of
years. Mr.. WiIkens has been employ
ed for years by the Rock Island Plow
company He has long wished TO 60
TO the country TO live, as inside work
was not agreeable to him. He was in
his second term in the council from
the First ward. and had made an hon
orable record. The council rendered
him rising vote OF appreciation and
well wishes in his new undertaking.
His retirement will necessitate the
election of two aldermen in the spring
from the First ward. one 10 I'LL the IN
completed term. and the other 10 sue
coed Frank Westbay. whose term viii
have expired Westbay expects 10 he
Z candidate for the police magistrate
before the republican city
township convention.
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