Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-12
City
Improvement
Hints
TOWN BETTERMENT.
What Is Being Done In Various Com.
munitics In This Direction.


A committee of the board of trade in
Lowell. Mass. has taken an inventory
of all the billboarus in the town and
has communicated with the authori-
ties requesting that the leasing of
boards on city property be discontin-
ued when the time comes for their re-
newal. The committee says that the
revenue received is a trifie compared
with the harm done to the beauty of
the town.
Following the example of large cities
and more recently many small ones.
Easton, Pa, has adopted an antispit-
ting law, and the measure has been
signed by Mayor McKeen. People
who have been in the habit of spit
ting tobacco juice over the sidewalks
or on floors of public buildings will be
placed under arrest and fined for their
offenses if they are continued. No
tees of warning have been posted.
Conspicuous improvements have been
made this summer in the appearance
of the business section of Utica, \. Y.
New cement walks have been laid on
Genesee and other central streets.
This has been the result of agitation
started last winter by President Baker
| of the council, who says he was led TO
give attention to the matter by his
observation that, whereas the city was
| spending thousands of dollars-up into
| the millions, in fact-to provide proper
places upon which dumb animals might
| travel, the ways which humankind
must tread were left in condition I'M
| fit even for the animal kingdom.
| SunnySide, one of the longest streets
in Burlington, Ia, is to be paved its
entire length in the near future. The
| street extends from one city limit to
| the other, and much of the property
| abutting the street is farm land. AL
| though the legal assessment derived
from this property would not begin to
pay the cost, the return value of the
pavement has been fully promised by
citizens anxious for the Improvement
| and who are more than willing to pay
their full share of the. assessment
AS 4 measure for the protection OF
the school children of New Orleans
| City Health Officer W. T. O'Reilly vii
make a suggestion to the school board
that. beginning at the next term. al
pupils be compelled to bring their OWL
drinking cups and that common cup:
and dippers for the use of all be abol
ished.
Under an ordinance recently passed
by the city council of Knoxville, Tenn.
it is unlawful to put down any side
walk in the city limits except of con
crete. The specifications provide TO
inspections by the city inspector, ant
every safeguard is thrown around tn
ordinance to give the property owne
r good sidewalk and protect hin
| against any inferior work.
The park and cemetery commission
! of Grand Rapids, Mich, have adopte
!, formal resolutions in reference to crit
3 | cisms that have been made against tn
superintendent of the public parks O
account of their being engaged in pr
r vate landscape work. The board take
:. the ground that the performance c
I such work for citizens of Grand Raj
y ids results in the substantial improve
ment in the appearance of the tow
| and that when done for neighbour
!. towns they are simply doing neigl
!, borly act which tends to raise til
:, prestige of Grand Rapids in matter
of outdoor art, besides having a tent
ency to educate the superintendent
:, and give them larger experience.