Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
GRANT LICENSES
FOR The PLACING
OF BILL BOARDS
Ordinance Covering Nuisance
Introduced at Meeting of
City Commission.
MUST SECURE PETITIONS
Property Owners in Vicinity of Pro-
posed Location Must Approve
Of Site.

The bill board evil was again
brought up at the meeting OF the city
council yesterday afternoon. An or
dinance covering the nuisance had
been drafted and was read. Commits
sioner Archie Hart fathered the prop
osition at former session declaring
that something must be done to cur
tail the placing of the eye sores on
the most prominent streets.
II seems that the state legislature
gives cities the right TO regulate the
bill board matter. The height, dis
lance from the ground and other fea-
lures must conform TO the law. The
ordinance provides for the city issuing
a license and states that no new board
can be placed within 300 feet of a
property unless signed by the prop
erty owners OF that locality.
A petition was presented signed by
q property owners, declaring the bill
boards on Fifth avenue between Thir-
ty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets to be
not only unsightly but a positive det-
riment to property values in that vicin-
ity. The communication which asked
removed
was placed on file without action.
BUY FLUsHER.
A street fiusher was ordered pur-
chased from the w. d. Etnyre com
pany of Oregon, Ill. II is a uniform
power fusher, a type the commissions
ers finally determined on after a thor
ough investigation of the pneumatic.
toward which the officials first leaned
and then used a woman's perogative
OF changing their minds"
A communication was read from E.
II. Corbin asking for a permit for a
picture show on Forty-second street
and Fourteenth avenue. The matter
was referred to Commissioner Hart.
City Engineer Wallace Treichler re-
ported 70 the council that a sidewalk
in front Of lots 2, 3 and 4, Johnson's
subdivision on Seventeenth street and
Fifteenth avenue, had not been put
in. although an ordinance covering il
was passed months ago. The improve
ment was ordered made.
STREETS TO ELKS.
The streets of the city are to be
~ aNNlSdllg NuIutu 10 llle ElhS dL lQe
time Of their state convention here.
4 communication from the local lodge
was read asking for the use of the
streets and sidewalks for decorative
purposes.
Permission was asked to place two
arches on Eighteenth street, one on
First avenue and one on Second ave-
nue. and TO set up temporary wooden
lamp posts along the east side of
Eighteenth street 70 correspond with
the permanent ones on the west side
of the street between First and Sec
ond avenues. and 10 place festoons OF
electric lights on both sides of the
street in the business district. II
is desired TO place platforms in the
streets for the purpose OF reaching
the wires from which TO hang deco,
rations on Second avenue from Eff
teenth to Twentieth streets with the
consent OF the owners of the wires
and other reasonable platforms in
front of such buildings as the owners
may wish TO decorate.
TO REDUCE RATES.
Commissioner Martin Rudgren in
troduced his resolution providing fol-
the reduction of water rents from ST.
TO 50 a year and stipulating that al
churches, schools and religious and
charitable institutions be required &c
pay for water. II is hoped in this