Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-21
ALL BUT SETTLED
Pump Deal Goes Through Coun.
Gil and is Ready for the
Mayor.
NOW UP TO THE MAYOR
Appropriation of $4,000 in Contract
With Snow People-South-
west Drain.

AS was forecasted in last evenings
Argus, the pump combination succeed
ed in closing up its deal with the city
for the Snow pump at last nights
meeting of the common council. The
proposition is now up to the mayor on
the question of approval of the ordin-
ance appropriation. and it is not gener
ally anticipated that he will withhold his
signature. If he does the lineup of alder
men in favor of the transaction is suf-
ficient TO carry it through anyway, veto
or no veto. Ii was desired that there
be at least two more votes in the coun-
Gil in order TO make the contract abso-
lutely binding. and they were recorded
on the affirmative side when the time
came. There were but three negative
votes in the final roll call. Aids. Eek
| hart. Oberg and Trenkenschuh
And SO the new pump was bought
The amount appropriated for the same
is s24.99O. The big engine TO be built
| by the International Pump company,
and known as the Snow type with S.0O0,-
900 gallon per day capacity will be deliv-
| cred by June l. next. The council has
expended the money which the city has
been laying up for a new pump, and
now will come the question of remodel
ing the waterworks building to accom-
MEDIATE ii and the reconstruction of
mains. where needed.
Revise the Ordinance.
The ordinance as drawn assumed
that the mayor and clerk had entered
into a. contract with the Snow
lpeople. and when the ordinance
came up for passage it was found that
these two officers had not yet signed
the contract. Aid. Anderson then pro-
ceeded to amend the proposed ordin-
ance in a manner that made it in itself
a contract without the signatures of
the mayor and clerk AS amended the
appropriation ordinance was passed.
and it is now up to the mayor and
clerk to sign. With their signatures
the pump purchase is complete.
Systems to BE Separate.
The question of the construction of
the drainage system in the southwest
ern part of the city came up with the
problem for solution as to whether the
storm drain and the sewer system
should be combined or made separate.
Ii was finally decided that it is eXpedi-
ent 10 make them separate.
City Engineer Treichler informed
the council that one by one the states
are making laws which prohibit the
running of the house sewage into the
streams, and while Illinois has no such
laws, it seemed TO him only a matter
of five or ten years until such an en-
actment would be passed AS long as
-,
t may be held off, but if st. Louis wins
its injunction suit against Chicago the
law will probably be passed soon.
i Not Necessary Immediately.
1t was deemed advisable by the city
lengineer TO so construct the drain that
when such an enactment is effected
the house sewage can be turned into
a different outlet from the storm water,
which will go TO the river. 1t is not
necessary to go to the expense of com
Ipleting the two systems at once, but in
1.-THE construction of the one at present
the other must be contemplated. The
board of local improvements and the
finance committee were authorized to
proceed with the expenditures neces-
sary to prepare the plans for this
drain. 1t will be paid for by special
assessment
kramer Turned Down.
| Lawrence Kramer, former deputy
marshal. was turned down hard by the
council last night. Mayor McCaskrin,
who retired him as deputy marshal,
nominated him for the position of
health officer TO succeed the late Emil
lOsterman, but the council refused con-
firmation by a vote of 10 to 3, Aids.
Sexton Dauber. and TrefZ alone voting
for him