Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-12
COUNCIL KEEPS
ITS PROMISE TO
SOUTH HEIGHTS
oity Engineer Ordered to Estab-
lish Grades on More Inn
portant Streets.
STREET LIGHTS PROVIDED FOR
Alderman Tuckis Becomes Head of
Finance Committee, Succeeding
A. G. Anderson.

MOVES OF NEW COUNCIL FOR
GREATER ROCK ISLAND.
Provided for five street lights in re-
Gently annexed tract of South Heights.
| Instructed city engineer to prepare
grade ordinance for annexed territory.
| Requests Peoples Power company to
extend gas and electric service in an
nexed tract.
| Ordinance for extension, of water
mains on Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
streets south of Fourteenth avenue and
on Eighteenth avenue is adopted.
Ordinance for sewer in alley in block
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets
and Second and Third avenue is adop-
i ted.
! Ordinance for sewer on Seventeenth
street from the new Best building to
connect with the Fifth avenue sewer
| is introduced.
/ Ordinance for Ninth street paving,
from Third avenue to city limits, is
introduced.
i Condemnation proceedings for OPEN
ing of Eleventh street south of Tenth
avenue are ordered begun.
Il Adjourned meeting to be held Wed
nesday to consider remodeIing of city
hall, to inspect site for proposed me-
chanical filter for waterworks, and to
II consider purchase of auxiliary pump
at reservoir station.
II FIFTH WARD CONTEST.
II Contest of seat of Alderman G. L.
N ceL,,;d - Glad ~, M;Il;ano n Hoobr,n
and city attorney instructed to inves-
ltigate legal points and file written re-
port at next meeting.
The new city council last evening
took action looking to the fulfillment
of the promises made by the old coun-
ell to the people of South Rock Island,
relative to improvements in the terri
tory added to the city as the result of
the last election.
Resolutions offered by Alderman
Smith were adopted, instructing the
city engineer to immediately prepare
} ordinances establishing grades in the
) annexed tract and ordering the plac-
ing of street lights Immediately at the
following locations:
Sixteenth and Aiken streets.
3 Seventeenth street and Twentieth
2 avenue
Seventeenth and Aiken streets.
81 Sixteenth street, half way between
Z Eighteenth avenue and Aiken street.
Aiken street, at top of the hill.
A third resolution was adopted in
; structing the mayor to request the
Peoples Power company to extend its
3 gas and electric service in the annex
ed territory as early as possible.
2I The new tract has been automatical-
lily annexed to the Rock Island school
district, and already enjoys the right
to the privileges of the Rock Island
slpublic schools.
81 The lighting provided for in the res
& olution of Alderman Smith will be TAX
) en- care of in the annual appropria
: ton.
: Improvement Ordinances.
ri The new council last evening accom-
Y plished much for better and greater
Rock Island. and made a very credita
Y BILE beginning of its career. Two pub
x lie Improvement ordinances, one for
q the construction of a sewer in the al
v ley between Eleventh and Twelfth
N streets and Second and Third avenues
v and the other for laying Waterman or
X the HILL were adopted. This work is
v to be done under the special assess
X lment act, estimated cost of the sewer
U being $40S, and of the Waterman SIS,
* 500.
Ri An ordinance for sewer for the &C
" commodation of the Best building OF
x Second avenue and Seventeenth stree
N was introduced, and referred to late
n Injecting. The sewer, while designe,
W mainly for, the Best block, will serv,
X the entire block on Second avenue.
NJ will extend south to Fourth avenue o.
M Seventeenth street. The city engi
N Ineer's estimate of cost is sS,640.60.
Ml An ordinance for the paving of Mint
III street with brick, from Third avenu
~ south to the city limits, was intro
M duced, and action on it deferred. TIL
~ city engineer estimates the cost OF tn
M work at $44,0S0.7S.
" The. city engineer was instructed t
~ begin condemnation proceedings &
N once with view to opening Elevent
W, street south from Tenth to Eighteent
n avenue.
Wl Contest In Begun.
" The controversy between William ]