Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-09
ORDINANCE TO
REGULATE DRAM
PLACES0FFERED
Mayor Schriver Would Limit
the Number of Saloons to
100-Now SO.
WOULD CONFlNE THEM
No New Blocks to Be Entered anu
Signers of Petitions to Be
Increased.

With the object in view Of limit
ing the number of saloons in Rock
Island to 100 and to make petitions
for same comply with the latest rul-
ing of the supreme court of the state
in regard to signers, Mayor H. NJ.
Schriver presented an ordinance at
the meeting of the city commission
yesterday afternoon to amend sec
ton l of chapter so of the saloon or
dinances. Consideration of the
amendment was carried and the
amendment laid over. 1t is prob
able that further changes will be
recommended and inserted before
there is final action on the new
measure. One of the most import
ant provisions of the amendment
aside from the Limitation of the mum
Der Of saloons to 100 is that provid
I ing that a new saloon shall not be
licensed in a block where there /!
no saloon at the present time.
THE AMENDMENT.
The amendment to the present or
dinance, as presented, reads as fol
| lows:
Providing, however, that the ap
plication for said license shall be &C
companied by a petition signed b
enough property owners to consti
tute a majority of the frontage o.
both sides Of the street or avenu
on which it is proposed to issue Il
cense for a saloon within 500 fee
of the front door of the premises
each direction of the lot on whic
the saloon is to be situated. ]
measuring the 500 feet all street,
avenues and alleys shall be exclude
from the petition but shall be col
sidered frontage and shall cour
against the applicant. The entir
number of saloons in the said city {
Rock Island shall not exceed 100. n
new licenses for saloons shall be gil
en- to any property in block whio
has not already a saloon in operi
, ton. The word block as herein la
used shall refer to a tract of lar
bounded on four sides by streets ar
avenues. It is also further provide
: that in addition to the above prov
sion it shall be necessary that the a
= plicant shall file with his applicatio
petition signed by persons own!I
over one-half of the property in Il
block in which the saloon is to
located and also a majority of t
three next nearest blocks to the
cation of the proposed saloon"
MUST SECURE MORE sIGNERs.
At the present time, saloon m
who seek licenses need only to &
quire the signatures of proper
y owners within 800 feet either way
~ the door of the proposed saloon. I
der the amendment it will be nee,
II sary TO secure signers 500 feet ca
Sc way. If the saloon door is on a CT
~ ner, signers must be secured 70
iS ways and on both sides of the strt
u or avenue. As the amendme
y states, all streets and alleys shall
+ excluded from the petition but sh
% be considered as frontage and us
- against the applicant.
at The intent of the ordinance is
step further in the regulation of
looms, is as comprehensive as it {
Id possibly be made under existing c.
~ ditions, and will be welcome not OIL
ay to the anti-saloon forces. but
he the present interests as we'll Too
en- there are 90 licensed dram sht
and when the ordinance is pass
&C. there will be room for only t
more