Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-31
bEER PLEDGE
IN PAID YET?
mt, You Are Delaying
Is of the Industrial
Commission.
g FOR R. N. A. SITE
to Subscribers Entirely to
> the Wheels Working
" Pushing the Belt.


have been criticising, unjustly,
ock Island Industrial commission
LEGGED default of its obligation 10
Royal Neighbors of America. in
the society has not yet received
deed to the site for its proposed
head Office building, a bonus Of
ID as q condition of the consolida-
in this city of the main offices of
/ organization.
is generally known that in former
RS the head Offices of the society
e divided between Rock Island and
pria. At the last head camp of the
anization 1t was voted that the Of
4 s should be merged and located
Rock Island. The offer of a site
Atis by the Rock Island Industrial
omission was the inducement that
kded the delegates in favoring this
$4,000 Ger Lot.
The site selected by the commission
accepted by the Royal Neighbors
the lot adjoining the Rock Island
I'D at the north. and owned by the
- pIiNC Vi SIGsOVU was A4ASANC
bn it. The money to pay for the
bperty must necessarily come from
Greater Rock Island Development
kind The Rock Island Industrial
kmmission has done its part. in Co
&eration with enterprising citizens
no gave their time in working up a
bntiment favorable to this city as the
Epme OF the Royal Neighbors which
srminated so successfully. Now il j..
b to the men of the city who have
] ade pied ges to the development funl.
The first instaIlment has been paid in,
nd the second has been called for,
he drafts being made through the
peal banks. The deed TO the property
transferring it to the Royal Neighbors
as been drawn by Attorney H. L.
Iurtis. and the only Formally that re-
hams to be effected is the payment Of
he So, OG0 to The owners of the prop
rty.
Are You One:
Thus yCu can see that if you are one
# those who has neglected TO respond
With your development pledge you are
" tue OCtNlE III NlN-SlAA-S
he transfers to the Royal Neighbors.
t is hoped that al viii make their
.ittances early in the new year.
money is essential to the eXecu-
a of the plans of the commission.
he secretary of the commission,
layer Levi. is planning a personal
isitation to the subscribers during the
coming week, and he should be met
With prompt payments of the second
of the pledges. Mr.. Levi
oday received two checks for large
mounts from the heavier among the
one of them being for 81
CO. II is to be hoped that the others
viii follow suit.
Handsome Headquarters Building.
The Royal Neighbors. while no def
lite plan has been made, propose the
erection Of a handsome headquarters
on the Rock Island Club site.
rhe society is expanding at a sur
,rising rate. having now member
hip of 100000, and surprising. in the
-apidity, of it's growth, any other sim
lar fraternity in the United States.
Another obligation that the indus
rial commission assumed in connec-
ion with the location of the headquar-
ers of the Royal Neighbors here was
he guaranteeing for two years of the
payment of the rental OF the temporary
quarters of the head offices in this
:ity. This obligation has been fulfilled,
| check for $1.75O, the whole amount,
having been given to Miss Myrtle
0ade. supreme recorder of the society,
Now for the Belt.
The chief public enterprise upon
which the Rock Island Industrial com
mission will direct it's batteries during
he new year is the belt railroad. An
is made that another prop
srty owner on First avenue gave an
option to the committee representing
he commission yesterday. There are
low but a few who are holding out
against the belt being built in front
# Their holdings on the avenue. The
committee is using its utmost en-
leavors to convince these owners of
he fruitlessness of their apparent de-
elimination to defeat this undertaking;
hat it is essential to the future de-
of the community, and that
t must be built, no matter what the
ersonal feelings OF a few individuals
night be towards it. It is the concern
f the whole people; the majority IS
or it, and the majority usually rules
q this country owners are not asked
Or any donation of their rights. They
ave been offered fair price for the
rivilege of building the belt on the
venue before their holdings. If they
ersist in their refusal to join in the
onsent. the men who are promoting
ne line in the interest Of the city
lust adopt the only alternative left
hem. and that is resort to condem-
alton through the courts. And this
ill be done.
No Private Interest.
The men who are devoting their
me to the belt are doing so unself1sh-
2. it should be remembered. They