Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-02
REPORTS RECEIVED
City Officials Make Statements
as to Work Done by
Them in July.
POLICE WERE KEPT BUSY
Had 30 City Cases and 81 State Cases
Police Matron Dina Ramser
Did Good Work.

The reports of the various city Off
Gals for the month of July were sub
mitted to the city council at the meet
ing held last night. The report of
Mayor George w. McCaskrin, who is
serving in the capacity of chief of
police as well as executive, showed
that there has been collected in fines
from the police magistrate the sum
of $265.60 from SO city cases and
that in addition there were 81 state
cases. There were many different
kinds of offenses committed among
which were the following: Disorderly
conduct, 81; drunkenness, 80; har-
boring a vicious dog, robbery, 6;
assault and battery, 8; riding bicycle
on the walk, /; trespass, /; forgery,
8; discharging fire arms, /; assault,
4; attempted rape, 2; malicious mis-
chief, 2; and assault with intent to
commit robbery, 1. There were 10
wagon calls and 30 ambulance calls.
Sixteen men were given permission
to sleep at the police station when
they stated that they had no other
place to go and that they were with
out funds.
| The report also showed that dur
| ing the month the police force had
collected $3.50.
Police Matron's Report.
| The report of Miss Dina Ramser,
police matron, showed the following
work as having been done: Calls
made in pursuance of the work, Sc:
callers received, 20; number of let
! tiers written in answer to queries,
| IT; women prisoners cared for, s;
one girl committed to the training
school at Geneva and two other cases
| brought before the county judge. In
addition to this several cases of i'm
moral living were reported and one
| young girl was induced to return to
| her home in Joliet, while a man who
| had been seducing little girls was ar
rested and bound over to the grand
| jury.
! The report of D. c. Kelly, superin-
| tendent of the waterworks, showed
| that 11S.456,OO0 gallons of water had
been pumped during the month,
making a daily average of 1881, 161.
/ The pump was run 649 u hours. At
the reservoir the average daily pump
age was 393,257 gallons, making a
| total of 12,10O,9SO.
! The report of Plumbing Inspector
| Thomas Rosenf1eld was as follows:
| Jobs inspected, 27; sewers inspected,
| IL; final tests made, II; city sewers
flushed, 8; catch basins cleaned and
repaired, "a; and one journeyman
| plumber was issued a license.
Want Nuisance Abated.
A communication was read to the
council in which about a dozen petit
| TONERS requested that a nuisance in
the vicinity of Sixth avenue and Sew
enteenth street be abated. It is
claimed that veterinary surgeon is
/ in the habit of keeping from six to
eight sick horses in his barn there
and that the odor from the place is
very repulsive during the hot
weather. The matter was referred
to the health department and the al
dermen from the ward with orders
| to report back next Monday.
| A proposition to send Fire Chief
Edward Newberry to the 3Sth inter
national meeting of firemen to be held
in Syracuse, N Y, the latter part of
this month, at the expense of the city,
was referred to the finance commit
| tee, the mayor and the chief. Similar
procedure occurred on proposition
to send the mayor to the 1 4th annual
meeting of the American League of