Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-22

Rosencranz, owning property adjoin-
ing the quarry, has not been satisfied.
Mr. Rosencranz, however, was made
a proposition amounting to $1,000 in
cash, for his consent to this arrange
ment. The company proposed to buy
his place for $4,500-the price he
named-and sell it back to him at
once for $500, on condition that he
make no objection to the stone quarry
operations. The company refused
otherwise to pay $4,000 for the prop
erty, deeming this very unreasonable
figure.
Bond Is Filed.
Alderman Lawler submitted the
bond of the company to cover the OPP
tions it has taken, and the bond was
accepted, Alderman Ellinwood being
the only one to oppose this action.
Then Alderman Lawler submitted
favorable report from the ordinance
committee on the two ordinances, and
the report was adopted. The ordi-
nance to vacate the alley was adopted
with the vote of the two Seventh ward
alderman against it. and The same was
true of the ordinance to grant the
company the right to operate the
quarry.
City Gets Rock.
The alley vacated reverts to the
original owners, and the company will
buy it from them. The city will re-
ceive 200 yards of stone, and 100 yards
of this amount will be placed on
Forty-fifth street below Third avenue,
| by the stone company's teams. The
other 100 yards will be furnished to
| the city when ever desired. Mr..
Johnson of the company stated that
the company has already given the
city AS yards of rock, worth much
more than the rock in the alley.
Alderman Ellinwood made his pro-
test in the form of written speech,
and he was given hand by some of
his following in the Seventh ward.
The mayor, however, put Il damper on
plays to the gallery by reminding the
audience that such demonstrations
were uncalled for and not proper Al
derman Ellinwood talked of Locations
over a gold mine tax lodging, law
yers and influential politicians" and
full pockets but no one seemed to
grasp the significance of the insinua-
! lions.
| One of the property owners on the
other side of Third avenue protested
that the property affectel there is
valued at $4,000 to 100000 and pays
$1,000 to $500, while the quarry prop
erty tax is S1GO. He argued that the
quarry lowers the value of the prop
erty for blocks around 1t.
City Gets s6s7.53.
| The city accepted the check of the
new telephone company for $6S753 for
the amount due the city on the fran
chise tax. The check was accompan-
led by a statement from the cashier
as to the gross receipts.
| Is widows street.
| A protest against the assessment OF
property for alley intersections on the
improvement of Twenty-fifth street
| from Fifth to Seventh avenues. The
protest stated as one reason for com
plant the fact that there are nine
widows owning property along the line
of the improvement. The matter will
be looked into by the committee of the
whole.
| The Bethany Protective association
acknowledged the courtesy of the al
dermen in the baseball game between
the Rock Island and Moline councils
it being stated that the Bethany home
receipts were $107.92, this being hall
of the net receipts.
City Engineer Wallace Treichlel
was allowed bills amounting to $500
for his services in assisting in the
preparation of assessment rolls fol
various improvement. Alderman Ell
linwod made his usual protest, and
was the only one to vote against al
lowing the bills. The bills were de
clared to be proper by City Attorney
]. F. Witter.
Bids Are Opened.
Bids from the Hersey Manufacture
ing company and the Neptune, Ma
tional and Thompson Meter com