Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-16
SEVENTH AVENUE
NAME TO STICK
Movement to Change it to Col
lege Boulevard Success
fully Opposed.
OWNERS ENTER A PROTEST
Concurring Ordinance Fayorably
Considered by City Council
Street Ordered Opened.

Forty owners of property-facing
Seventh avenue between Thirty-fifth
and Forty-sixth streets had a petit
ton before the city council at it's
meeting of last evening protesting
against a movement to have the
name of that thoroughfare changed.
College boulevard. in view of the To-
cation of the Augustana institution
on that thoroughfare, had been ad-
vocated as a permanent name, and
members Of the council had been
urged to so designate it in the re-
vised ordinances of the city now I'M
der consideration. Accompanying
the petition of the owners of frontage
read last evening was an ordinance
providing that the name be Seventh
avenue boulevard. The ordinance
was favorably considered, and was
laid over to a future meeting for
final passage. In this connection
Alderman Charles Borst offered
resolution, which was concurred in,
tnstructing the city attorney to draft
an ordinance restricting heavy traf-
dc on the asphalt streets of the city.
Order Street Opened.
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth ave-
nues that has been a source of an
noyance to councils for years, and
last evening" Alderman J. c. Simser,
chairman of a special committee, re-
ported recommending that the thor
, oughfare be opened to its full width.
alderman John Holzhammer was eX-
Cused, by request, from voting on the
report. The other IL members of
the council divided evenly, and the
mayor cast the deciding vote, sup
porting the report. The lot that OBJ
structs the street is in Stapp's addi-
ton. 1t is claimed that the owner of
the property simply fenced in part
CT the street, and the city attorney
is to take steps to restore to the mu-
nfcipality the property given in the
original dedication.
water in south Rock Island.
Major C. w. Halves was given per-
mission to connect his new home in
South Rock Island, at the head OF
Twenty-ninth street, with the city
Waterman and sewer. but not until
the members of the council had en-
gagged in a lengthy discussion as to
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benefits in that territory until the
people there appreciated them suffi-
GENTLY to support annexation with
the city.
Junk Yard Protests Ignored.
The council concurred in a recon-
mendation of the street and alley
committee that the protests of own
ers of adjoining property against the
federation of the Taxman junk yard,
Fourth avenue, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth streets, be ignored.
For several weeks neighbors have
been appearing before the council
complaining against the yard, which
has been maintained in its present
location IA years. Investigations
proved that it was not a menace to
the health. OF the locality. and the
committee accordingly took the po-
sition, in view of former court rul-
ings, it could not legally be declared
a nuisance.
On FOur-Party Line.
]. A. Boman recently filed a COM
plant with the council that the Cen
trail Union Telephone company was
charging him on a basis of a two
party line service for his telephone
when he claimed, he was on four
party line, and he demanded an in
vestigation. The street and alley
committee reported that it found
that Mr.. Boman's telephone was on
a two-party line.
Must Remove Building.
Morris & Lewis were ordered serv-