Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-25

MOLINE.

| Busy Year In mprovements.-In his
annual report for the fiscal year end
ed March 81, 1910, Clark G. Anderson,
city civil engineer, presents in detail
ed statement the public Improvement
projects carried out during the munich
pal year of 1909-10. The addition of
considerable territory during the fiscal
year increased the area covered by
the corporation to almost five and one
half square miles. Water main and
sewer improvements were carried on
unrelentingly during the year. Fig
ures compiled from the engineers rec
ords show an increase as follows dur
ing the last five years: Water mains.
so per cent; sewer extensions, so per
cent. Within the city at the present
time there are approximately so miles
of sidewalks of durable material and
221s miles of street pavements. Mo-
line still has plenty of sidewalks and
pavements to lay. however, as there
are now within the city limits approx
imately LOG miles of streets and al
leys. An idea OF the amount of side
walks laid during the fiscal year just
ended is gained from the statement
that an ordinance passed by the city
council during the IL months provided
for 55 separate sidewalk improvements.
Petitions for II other sidewalk i'm
provements were filed with the city
council, approved, and the walks have
been constructed. During the year
1909-10 there were constructed in the
city Of Moline 4,551.4 lineal feet of
/ concrete sidewalks. The report of the
| city civil engineer contains a list of
sidewalks on which the five-year guar
antee expires this year. Twenty-four
guarantees are mentioned. The follow
ing walks, covered by these guaran-
| tees, are reported defective, due to i'm
! proper construction: On north side of
Eleventh avenue from Seventh to
| Eighth street; on north side of Elev-
enth avenue from Eighth to Tenth
street; on west side of Eleventh-and
a-half street from Eleventh avenue
north to alley south of school, except
alley; on north side of Eleventh ave-
nue. from misunderstanding street to
Sixteenth street; on east side of Sec
! ond street from Fis,h to Sixth avenue:
on south side of Eighteenth-and-a-half
avenue from Sixteenth street east 4S5
feet.
Merchants to Talk Commission Plan.
The Moline retail merchants, like
the associations throughout the state,
have taken an active interest In the
1 proposed establishment Of a state law
| which will enable cities to adopt the
commission plan of government. The
members, almost to q man, are in IA
! vor of trying out the recent act of the
/ legislature and put Moline under the
commission plan of government, and
with that in view a meeting has been
! called for tomorrow evening, to be
! held at the association rooms, 422H,
/ Sixteenth street.
| Chapter House iere.-At a meeting
| held in the home of Mrs S. ]. Brandt
| the Moline chapter of the American
Woman's league went into executive
| session and formally authorized the
purchase of a lot to be used as site
for chapter house. An option ex-
! tending TO May has been secured
from Henry J. Gripp, owner of the de-
| sired lot, located on the east side of
/ Fifteenth street between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth avenues. The pur-
chase price is to be $4,000. The chap
ter will issue 800 notes, of SO each,
and will offer as security trust deed
on the east SO feet of the lot, which
! contains improvements valued at ST.
500. The Grip lot has a 10O-foot
| frontage on Fifteenth street and 163
feet deep. The building lot will be 100
| feet square after the SO feet to the
rear have been separated from it. On
this side the American Woman's league
chapter will erect its class house, a
structure which will cost $4,000. The
local chapter now has IS paid-upin-full
members and has a total membership
of more than 100.
%
Club Administration TIcket.-The adj
ministration ticket OF the Moline club
has been named by the nominating
committee and is posted on the bulle-
tin board in the clubs ofnce, The an
nual election occurs in May and 1t is
expected that another ticket will be
announced before the day Of election
arrives. The nominating committee is
Harold Hemenway, r. B. Lourie, ]. B.
Oakleaf, c. H. Ainsworth and F. T.
Windle. The ticket: President, A. T.
Foster: first vice president, L. E Mutt;
second vice president, G. H. Rogers;
secretary, George H Owen; treasurer, |
C. F. Lundberg; directors, C. S. Kerns, |
A. K McCurdy and Henry H. Hansen.
mat Ir-Ir IS very paInru1 Tor him
10 accept favor, even liberation. from |
you. He charged me not to apologize, |
however. as the circumstances are be- |