Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-16

by the operating department that the
job was undertaken at night so as to
avoid interference with the day traffic.
which was exceedingly heavy. Mayor
McCaskrin stated that he intended
maintaining police guard at the scene
until an adjustment was arrived at.
AIR. Ingram said that this was not neces-
sary; that he would give his personal
guarantee that the company would not
make further move until it was given
official permission by the council. The
mayor and several OF the aldermen
said that Mr.. Ingram's word was good
enough for them.
That Seventeenth Street Sewer Job.
P. F. Trenkenschuh, the contractor,
presented his bill, on the original con-
tract, for the construction of the Sew
enteenth street sewer His bill was
$S,540.S6. This is a few hundred dol
lars short of the figures as confirmed
IN the county court. 1t will be recalled
that mistake was discovered after
this Improvement was well under way,
and 1t was necessary to rebuild it par
TALLY. Mr.. Trenkenschuh holds it was
not his error, and he shall expect pay
ment for the extra work that he was
put to. What this will amount to, he
said, would appear in a subsequent bill
TO the council. 1t was decided to lay
over Mr.. Trenkenschuh's bill until to-
morrow evening, when the council will
nave an adjourned meeting.
Considering Filter Contract.
The waterworks committee, mayor,
city attorney and city engineer are
formulating a draft of the CONTRACT that
IL is proposed to enter into with the
Pittsburg Filter Manufacturing com
pany for the installation Of 5000, 1000
daily capacity mechanical filtration
plant in Reservoir park The draft
mas not been completed, but it is the
hope to have it ready to submit to the
council tomorrow evening. John Leo
pold, engineer of the Pittsburg con-
Germ, is here and is acting with the
committee.
Contractor Asks Release.
II. B. Jordan, who has a contract for
laying concrete walks on Eighth ave
nue. between Thirty-eighth and Forty
hrst streets, wants to be relieved, in
view of the suspension of the work
ordered by the council owing to a
grade dispute among theSowners of the
affected property. The grade fixed in
the Improvement ordinance calls foc
cut of II feet in front of some OF
the homes. The grade question on
this avenue has been in contention Il
years, and the people there are no
nearer an understanding than they
were when the matter was first
preached. Some threatened as injunC-
ton if the contractor was permitted
to proceed. To further complicate the
situation the city is without funds to
grade the street. Mr.. Jordan, TO date.
has $1,7o0 coming on his contract. The
city is responsible. the latter collect
ing from the property. owners. Now
there is a question whether the latter
can be compelled to Iiquidate. if the
Improvement is abandoned, even tenn
porarily. Mr.. Jordan's petition was
laid over for further consideration.
Borrow Money to Clean Streets.
The council concurred in the action
of the mayor in securing loan OF
$780, to be taken care of IN the next
annual budget. with which to clean
the streets of the city, which are at
present in bad condition.
Bids were read from several COM
panies for the furnishing OF boiler
feed pump for the waterworks, tho
same to cost about 5000. The bids
were referred to the waterworks COM
mittee to report its recommendation
back to the council.
On recommendation of Health Com
missioner A n. Mueller the council
ordered the filing of d lot at Eleventh
avenue and Sixth street. in which
stagnant water is allowed to stand to
the discomf1t of residents of the
rieighborhood. The owner, who is
resident of Davenport. Is to be noti-
fed. and if he fails to obey the order
the CITY will fill the lot and collect the
expense from him
Some Coal Troubles.
A near coal scandal was barred by
criticisms directed at his fellow mem
bers of the waterworks committee BY
Alderman McNealy. The other COM
mitteemen are Alderman Blochlinger
and Alderman Prick. Mr.. McNealy
wanted to know by what authority the
committee ordered five cars of coal
from the Hatch-Wilcox Coal company,
Chicago, without consulting him Mr..