Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-12
Alderman Prick of Ordinance
Committee Occupies Floor
Good Part of Evening.
SEVERAL ARE ADOPTED
Other Measures Go Over for Consid-
GRAFTON Later-Steps to Stop
the Waste of Water.

and calling up other ordinances for
second reading and adoption.
The ordinances, and the action taken
on them, briefly. were as follows:
For construction of sewer on Thirty
fourth street and Ninth avenue.
Adopted
Regulating the trimming of trees.
and requiring that trees over public
streets and sidewalk be trimmed 50
that no branches are within IL feet
of the ground. Adopted.
Prohibiting the blockading of First
avenue crossing by railway trains;
Adopted
For laying of 6-inch water main on
Eighth avenue between
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets
at estimated cost of $712, by specia!
assessment Laid over under the
rules.
Declaring il nuisance 10 maintain
chickens or other fowl within Is fee
of any street or 80 feet OF any resi-
dence. or Is feet of any well or els
tern, under penalty of fine of S. to
800. Laid over under the rules.
Requiring circuses using streets for
parade to furnish bond of $1,000 20
cover any damage to streets and paw.
ings. Laid over under the rules.
Prohibiting the sale of condensed
| milk except in packages Or cans lab
| eled with the brand and manufacture.
er's name, and containing 30 per cent
of solids. of which 81 per cent must
be milk. Condensed milk must be
made from pure unadulterated milk
from which cream has not been re-
moved. The present ordinance refers
to a standard, but does not fix one.
| Adopted.
Placing the making of water connea-
| tons in the charge of the superintend-
ent of the waterworks. and of sew er
connections under the direction of the
plumbing inspector, and authorizing
hem to make the necessary rules A
penalty of $40 to 500 is provided for
violations. Laid over under the rules.
Regulating cement sidewalk con-
struction, and requiring a $1,000 in
Identifying and guarantee bond Con-
tractors TO pay a s. license fee. and
to be bonded to protect the city against
damages for accidents. and to guaran-
tee work for two years. The ordinan ce
is one prepared by Harve G. Badgerow
Of Chicago, resident manager of the
Title Guarantee & Surety company NJ
Scranton. Pa. Laid over under the
rules.
Requiring a covered wooden box as
la receptacle for stable manure, with
penalty of from 81 TO 500 for viola
tions. Laid over under the rules.
| For the paving with brick of Lin
w. E. Bailey's additions. at an est
mated cost of $3,49770. Laid over
under the rules.
The ordinance prohibiting the block
ing of First avenue by trains is com
mendable and settles an old source O
complaint. Trains will not now b,
allowed to block crossings more thai
two minutes. where in the past the,
have interrupted traffic several min
uteS at time.
Plant IL Nuisance
A petition asking that action b
AIKEN against the asphalt plant o,
Fourth avenue between Forty-third an
.'orty-second streets, was presented
and resolution was adopted declarin
he plant nuisance The plant !
used for making material for work il
Moline
Waste of Water.
Steps were taken to reduce the vast
of city water, and to prevent the neces
sity of pumping raw water through tn
mains. The mayor was authorized t
publish a notice to water consumer
that the ordinance regulating tn
hours of sprinkling must be obeyed
and the police officers will be instruct
ed to strictly enforce the ordinanc
: and report violations. The report O
the superintendent showed a dali
pumpage of 3,3S2,0OO gallons, and
total pumpage of 104.S56000 durin
: July. Consumers must sprinkle onl
: during the two hours specified in tn
morning and the three hours Above
: in the evening.
The ROCK Island Exposition compan
= was granted free water for the pul
pose of sprinkling Eighteenth avenu
from Ninth to Eleventh streets, an
Ninth street from Seventeenth t
Eighteenth avenue, this week.
), Autos Are Reckless.
III Alderman Holzhammer called after
10 ton to the fact that autoists are dri
% ing recklessly on Ninth street afte
le leaving the exposition, and orders wei
4. given to have an officer posted in eac
re block between Eleventh and Fig
ID teenth avenues, to compel the driver
,r of the cars to maintain speed of n,
It. more than four miles an hour The
|; is no sidewalk, and the street is n,
ID lighted, the result being great dang,
Ito the crowds leaving the ground