Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-26
OOINCS AT TOWER
Tomorrow First Sunday for New
Devices of Amuse.
ment.
PLAN NEW LIGHTING SYSTEM
Is Now Being NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. II
Elimination All Over Grounds
Music Every Day.

improvements more extensive than |
ever made in any one season before are
being completed at the Watch Tower. |
Tomorrow will be the first Sunday that |
the new amusement devices will be in |
operation, but it will be Decoration
day before the improvements will be
entirely completed, and the entire
grounds thrown open to the public.
Several thousand dollars have been
spent this spring in permanent i'm
provements of the grounds, and besides
these a number of new amusements
have been installed.
Additional Lights.
One of the features Of the improve
ment is the extensive direct lighting
system that is being installed. A wire
has been connected direct from the
Peoples Power company, and about
1000 additional lights will be installed,
the old circuits from the street car feed
wires being left intact. The main i'm
provement in the lighting is the placing
of II arc lights in the grounds. This
will do away with many of the dark
places, and Manager Krell says that
this has aroused some of the younger
people to such an extent that they have
protested against the illumination of
the favorite lovers corners. The new
circle swing will have 500 lights, the
new Penny Arcade is allotted $50, the
band stand which has been moved and
enlarged will have 40 additional lights
Five hundred new lights will be placed
in the main inn, 80 of these being used
in the ballroom on the second floor,
100 new globes will be placed on the
tObOggan, and large number will be
used to light the new merry-goround
that is to be installed early next week
The toboggan slide has been entirely
rebuilt. and is now in operation again.
The circle swing is expected to be go
ing tomorrow, and the roller coaster
which was installed last season is do
ing a great business. The installation
of ladies' toilet room in the basement
of the inn at the east side is a feature
of the permanent Improvement. The
Penny Arcade building will be par
TALLY opened tomorrow, and will prob
ably be in full blast by Decoration day.
Music Every Day.
The management of the Tower is
planning to make the grounds even
more popular than last year Instead
of having music at the Tower three
days a week as last year, Ogden's or
chestra has been engaged for every day
of the entire season, and Peterson's
band will give a concert every Friday.
beginning June /. Professor Shank has
been engaged for IL weeks to provide
the moving pictures. The plans for Il
loop of the street car track through the
grounds have been given up, and in
stead arrangements are being made for
loop at the foot of the Tower on the
newly purchased land just opposite the
station. This will necessitate the con-
struction of trestles over the ravine,
and it is probable that this much need
ed improvement will not be made this
season.
The ground devoted to lawn will be
much more limited this season. walks
having been laid out in the plot just
west of the inn and the tract west of
the old pavilion having been thrown
open entirely. The number of seats on
the verandas of the inn and about the
ground has been increased by 100. and
other additional benches will be pro
vided. That the Tower will prove more
popular than ever this season is WIT
messed by the fact that last Sundays
business was as heavy as any day dur
ing the entire season last year, except
ing holidays. Special attractions are
being secured for the summers holt
days.