Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-12
MOLINE is STILL
GIVING STREETS
Deere & 90. Allowed Switch
Tracks and Right to Tunnel
Under Third Avenue.
NO CONCESSION DENIED
People Behind Council and MIR. Sell
fish Interest Dare Not Come
to the Front.

The Moline city council is still
giving away streets to permit of the
expansion of its factories. If there
have been any protests from the
owners of abutting property or from
citizens not directly affected by hav-
ing the general welfare at heart.
they have not come to the surface.
The Argus dwelt heretofore on the
readiness with which the council of
that city accepted the proposition
of the Moline Pillow company that,
in return for an ordinance giving the
right to lay switch track on Third
avenue from Thirteenth to Sixteenth
streets, it would erect huge factory
building on its property on the north
side of the avenue between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth street. That little deal.
it might be well to repeat, cost the
Monitor Drill company, which is to
remove from Minneapolis, its pres
ent home. in the fall.
United Civic Spirit Wins.
The Moline Plow company, the
parent concern, had settled upon the
Gordon tract, in the east end of Rock
Island, as the location of the Mont
tor plant. and had bought additional
real estate and let contracts for the |
new buildings which were to cost a
small item of a half million dollars, |
but home loyalty. accumulated by |
that united civic spirit that is bring |
ing Moline forward as one of the |
most progressive cities in the west |
interviewed, and Rock Island lost 1t |
was fair game, and Moline won /
honorably. Now the Gordon site may |
be occupied by the Moline Pillow COM
pany for wood storage and foundry |
purposes. And for that we will be /
duly thankful
But the point that ought to be TAX
en- home by the people of Rock Is
land is the successful suppression of
the selfish interest by Moline. 1t is
there, doubtless, but 1t disappears
when the community interest it at
stake. It's an example that might
be emaluated with profit by Rock Is
land other communities that are
and commercially.
Taking Care OF Another.
Now that the Moline Plow com
pany has received every concession
that it asked, even to the practical
of a third of the main
business thoroughfare of the city, the
council has turned its attention to
the demands of Deere & Co. AT it's
meeting the other evening the coun-
Gil granted ordinances giving Deere
& Co. the right to tunnel Third ave
nue. and to criss-cross that thorough
fare and streets in the vicinity of
it's factory with switch tracks. In
fact, the tracks are to be so numer-
Gus that Deere & Co. are protesting
against having their main Office
building INSTRUCTED by one to be own
ed by the Moline Pillow company. But
there is not to be any serious trou-
BILE over it; no suit for damages, or
holdups The two companies are
to get together, and standing behind !
them is the city council, and at the
back of the council are the people
urging, without a dissenting voice,
that the factories be given whatever l
hey desire in street concessions or ,
any other grants that will make it 7
possible for them to build and grow {
and employ more people and help ,
Moline to advance.
That's the kind of spirit that
makes cities out of towns.
Give Them What They Want.
The following is from the editorial
,age of the Moline Dispatch of last 8
THE Argus of Rock Island was right
bout it. The Moline city council is
,oing to grant to Deere & Co and the
doline Pillow company all the conces- v
ions they want in the way of switch l
ng facilities. The Moline Pillow COM
Iany's wants have already been pro il
-ided for. Some of Deere & Co.'S Il
we're granted last night. The others
re held up only temporarily, in order i,