Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-19
WANTSALLUSERS
OF WATER TO PAY
FOR THE SERVICE
Commissioner Martin T. Rud-
gren Introduces Measure at
Council Meeting.
WOULD INCREASE REVENUE
Building Inspector and Auditor Ap.
pointed-lmproveme Matters
Are Up.

ludt lu6 CITY
eeive compensation for every bit of
water used, Commissioner Martin T.
Rudgren at the meeting of the city
commission council this afternoon, in
troduced a resolution providing that
schools, hospitals and all other public
and charitable institutions be required
to pay for water rent.
The resolution also provided that the
yearly minimum rate be reduced from
s12 TO SO. Commissioner Rudgren be-
lieves if everybody that used water
naid for it, that a still further reduc-
hight be made later.
ON BUSINESS BASIS.
This is merely to put the water de-
partment on a business basis" said
Mr.. Rudgren in discussing the matter
today. Il don't believe the city has
any right TO give any one free water.
l think that all the water used in
the city should be metered and
each department of the city should
have a water account in order that We
may know just what the water plant
is doing. AS it, is now, it is just as if
there was a big leakage, for the schools
and other public institutions. use large
quantities of water, no record of which
/ is kept"
MANY IMPROVEMENTS.
A large number of improvement mat
tiers were also taken up this after
/ noon for their first consideration.
Among them we're the following paw
ing ordinances: Twelfth avenue from
Ninth TO Fourteenth avenue. estimat-
ed cost s21.110: Twelfth avenue from
Twelfth to Twenty-second street, es,
! timated cost S19,76 Sixteenth ave.
nue.. Twelfth street to Fifteenth ave,
nue., estimated cost s5,74940; Tenth
avenue from Thirtieth street to Thir
ty-fourth street: Thirty-fourth street
from Tenth to Ninth-and-a-ha street
estimated cost s10,7G3, all of them be
ing asphalt.
SIDEWALK MATTERS.
A brick pavement On Forty-fourtf
street from Seventh avenue to thf
south line OF lot :. block X. EdgewooC
Park addition, estimated cost s15.01S
a sidewalk on the west side of Forty
fourth street in front of lot No.
block H, Edgewood Park addition, anC
starting at the south line of block
second addition Edgewooi Park, thc
estimated cost being s492, were ais
considered. and the Twentieth stree
pavement from Eleventh 10 Seven
teenth avenue, was Up for final adop
ton.
NpC,N Ribs
Bids were opened on sixteen inc
wafer main from Twentieth to EleI
enth street on Ninth avenue and
twelve inch water main on Eleventh
street from Eleventh avenue to Sc
ond avenue and a storm drain o
Tenth avenue and Seventeenth stree
Contracts were awarded TO P. F. Trer
! kenschuh. A public hearing on tn
proposed brick pavement cn Sevent
avenue from Eleventh TO Twelft
streets was set for June ?.
NAMES INSPECTORS.
!, ]. H. S-app was named as bui.din
inspector, the newly created office prt
. vided for under the ordinance recent
passed. The position will pay 500
month, with the understanding ths
!, the electrical inspection will be supe
r vised by the city electrician. Othe
q applicants for tie place were ORR
Holt, E. ". Gutenberg, f. ". Rue
and a number of others.
GIVEN TO BECKER.
The city audit, which is year
made, is to be under the direction
/ Fritz Becker Of Davenport. He va
Il awarded the contract on his bid
i 1925, the other three being $3.50.