Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-24
TRIP
City Councilmen Look Over the
Levee Project and Rock
River Bridges.
SEE SMOKE CONSUMERS
Action Referred TO Special Meeting
Called for Tomorrow Even
ing.

Members of the city council spent
yesterday afternoon in looking over
three important pending matters, the
Rock river bridges. which are sadly
in need of repair, the levee between
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets,
where the Rock Island Sand e Gravel
company proposes to build a rip-rap
wall, and the smoke consumers at
the waterworks pumping station.
The members of the city council,
Fred Gall, manager of the Sand &
Gravel company, E. H. Stafford, at
torney for the company, President j.
F. Porter and superintendent j. G.
Huntoon of the TriCity Railway COM
pany, left the city hall in automo7
biles and drove to the foot of Nine
teenth street. The Sand & Gravel
company plans to build a rip-rap
wall between Nineteenth and Twen-
tieth streets and do away with the
sand barges which are stationed west
of Eighteenth street. A railroad
track will be built along the wall and
cargoes will be unloaded from all
boats. A crane will be used for
handling heavy cargoes.
1t is maintained the building of such
a wall will add greatly to the appear
ance of the levee. The proposition is
to build wall from the tool house of
the Rock Island road at Twentieth
street west to the warehouse OF the
Acme and Carnival City Packet com
panies level with the railroad tracks.
There will bg slope leading up from
the river so that landings may be made
by smaller craft.
The wall is to be built of rip-rap in
stead of concrete, because a harbOr
line may be established later and will
be at least 100 feet out into the river.
a concrete wall would be built there,
and one built now would be useless
then. Mayor McCaskrin is DESTROYS of
having the wall extended west to the
Milwaukee depot at Seventeenth street,
with a gradual and even sweep.
Bridges fn DiIapidated State.
After the Sand & Gravel company
project had been studied, the council
men put in few minutes watching
the operation of the smoke consumers
on the boilers at the waterworks pump
ing station ON Twenty-fourth street.
The tests will be continued.
The next stop was at the north span
of the Rock river bridges. This struc-
ture is badly in need of repair; in
fact, it is in such condition that it is
considered dangerous to traffic. All of
the bridges are in need of replanking.
It is hoped to secure the financial as
sistance of the Tri-City Railway COM
pany in improving the bridges.
While the councilmen were in Sears
they inspected the plant of the Black !
Hawk Clay Manufacturing company
upon the invitation of Superintendent |
Fred l.. Engelbrecht.
On reassembling at the council room |
after the inspection trip it was voted |
to hold a special meeting tomorrow |
evening, at which time the several |
committees to which were referred the |
Sand &c Gravel company ordinance, the |
repairing of the Rock river bridges, |
and recommendations on the smoke |
consumer tests, are expected to have |
reports ready. At this meeting it is |
likely also that the officials OF the Tri-
City Railway company will be present
to reopen consideration of the COM
pany's new franchise ordinance
Ordered to Provide Footpath.
The company was ordered, upon a
motion offered by Alderman Ellinwood,
to provide footpath in connection
with it's Forty-second street bridge
leading to Rock Island arsenal, the same
10 be for the accommodation of the
arsenal workmen. This, of course, is
on the consent of the war
department, with which the city clerk
has opened correspondence.
Miss Sue Denkmann and H E Cur
lis, who are building new homes in
hat locality, asked to be permitted to
ay a six-inch water main on Thir-
,eenth avenue between Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-fifth streets The petit
ion, which was through Channon &
Oufva, was referred to the board of
public improvements and the superin-
.endent of waterworks, with power to
act