Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-22
sANATORIUM SITE
AGAIN PURCHASED
BY CITY COUNCIL
,..r Months of Delay Com
mission Finally Gets An
other Location.
uY FROM HENRY WILKINS
Contains ass Acres and is Said
- Be We'll Suited for De
sired Institution.

ne CITY commission by unanimous
x, Yesterday afternoon purchased
.u site fer the municipal tubercu-
:. sauatorIum from Henry {.
[-ns paving $4,000 for 4.3S acres.
-,,,sd at Seventeenth street and
Esshar-
mis- makes the second piece OF
--,,srtv which the city has bought
- location for the Institution. which
:, people voted TO levy an annual
AZ for several years ago The other
=. the CITY still owns. II is on Thir-
18th avenue between Twenty-sev-
81 a1d Twenty-ninth streets. and
as secured from William Thinner
IKE for the sum OF $1,000. Vigorous
.-o,ests from adjacent property own
-. however. caused the city commits
son 10 vote not 20 use the land for
s,.uital purposes. and since that time
ne council has been vainly attempting
% obtain site that would be
.siisfactory.
The medical commission in charge
o. the plans for the proposed instiJU-
6cn. composed OF DR.. Joseph DeSilva,
Dr. Louis Ostrom and Or. b. J. Lach-
nsr. had been invited BY Mayor II. VI.
Sehriver 10 attend the session, when
fnaI effort 10 reach some conclusion
C q site was scheduled 70 come up.
he first named was unable to attend.
5ur the last two and Or. \. y. Muel-
sr. new city health physician. were
present and urged immediate action.
Tired OF Delay.
Mayer Schriver brought the matter
- By saying that he was dead tired
With this continual side-steppinE OF
the issue and declared that if some
ste was not chosen soon he would
Tel like letting the whole matter
irop.
The wilkins. Reddig. Roth and other
itss were considered. and then May
v Schriver offered a resolution that
be Willms land be purchased. and IT
arTisd unanimously. The doctors re-
used u suggest a choice. They de-
Jared they would attempt TO make
my location chosen available for their
IMPOSES.
What we want is a site" declared
D. Ostrom. II we cannot get the
,sst. then we VIII take what we can
,et. but We must have location at
nee. You gentlemen cannot realize
he urgent need there IS here for an
nstituti-n OF this character. People
lave died who should have lived had
here been a hospital such as we de
ire
Extend Sympathy"
Robert p. Galbraith, manager of the
Sherman hotel on Seventeenth street,
about an Increase of $50
n his water bill in the last six months
Superintendent r W. Sharp explain
ed that the meter had been tested and
mat il ran slow, so that all the coun-
dl could do was to extend sympathy
The same fate awaited the plea OF
George Reddig. who asked the commits
Thich private party had paid the
cty 10 connect with a sewer which he
isd laid on Seventh avenue.
Ordinances for the following i'm
r0Tements were considered:
Paving. Sixteenth avenue. Twenti- !
sth to Twenty-second street: Seven I
isenth avenue. Twentieth to Twenty
sseond street: Twenty-first street. Six J
zenith 10 Eighteenth avenue: estimat- ]
q ecet, 1851. Paving, Eighteenth 4
asenue. Sixteenth 10 Twenty-seventh /.
street: estimated cost, s2G,599. Side I
Saiks, Fourteenth to Eighteenth ave /
nue. Thirty-eighth 10 Forty-secold
Hreet; estimated cost. 81. $40
Turn Down Plea.
communication was read from the /
Aoek Island Bridge & Iron works.
saieh constructed the new elevated
sster tank for the city. in which the