Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
Report of Street VII lance Committee
of Civic Department of Womans Club

| bish. they are able to make the col
! lections in one-fourth the time. An
other wagon has been kept busy car
rying away brush and limbs of trees.
! The removal Of brush and limbs cut on
private property is a service which
should not be really expected from
the city, but as it is often difficult to
draw The line between such brush and
brush cut from boulevards, the street
department has rendered this service
except in instances where the guam
tity on private property was 700 great.
1t should be understood that the city
will not haul away trees cut on private
property During the coming winter
the tin cans will be removed, but as
there will probably be more ashes
than the street department can handle
regularly. the housekeepers are re-
dussted to burn their garbage and
keep cans il recep;aCles. The special
reason for this request is that clean
ashes are suita BILE for filling streets,
but mixed with garbage they are OBJ
jectionable to property owners adjoin-
ing such streets. Receptacles' for cans
should be covered to exclude rain or
snow which would render handling
difficult.
The garbage has been our greatest
problem, for while the city ordinance
says the garbage pail shall be a
water-tight covered metallic vessel, the
capacity of which shall not be less
than five gallons" we still find a num-
her of people using wooden buckets,
boxes and even baskets; also many
places where the cans are left uncOv-
cred 1t certainly should require but
little thought and expense to have
these conditions corrected. Il is not
enough to wish things could be better /
and do nothing else Whenever your T.
committee was obliged to call upon
anyone requesting that a little more /
care be taken of the garbage or alley, |
il always brought the same reply, Its .
the neighbor across the way that does /
il Let US hope there will be fewer /
neighbors across the way next year
Our commissioner of public health |
has kept seven wagons busy collect |
ing the garbage and will continue the !
collection until the LIST or possibly the /
18th of November. After we had re- !
uussted the commissioners 70 pay /
special attention to the condition of /
what is known as Commercial alley (
which has always been a difficult place /
to keep in order, special officers were .
placed at that point, and after several .
Offenders had been arrested and fined (.
conditions were greatly improved.
Your committee desires 10 congrat- !
ulate the members of the Womans |
club on the results accomplished i'll !
the short period during which their /
attention has been given to civic mat /
tiers. and also to express an apprecia- !
tiCn of the manner in which our eff !
forts have been received and the (
spiri: of cooperation shown by the .
public III general.
Our city commissioners have exert /
ed themselves to their utmost to rem !
edy the conditions which We are striv- .
ing to oorrec. and have given US all .
the aid in their power
The newspapers have been very
kind in helping 70 keen before the !
public our aims and what We have /
from time to time accomplished.
We believe the day has at last ar
rived when the citizens Of Rock Is
land have awakened to the necessity
OF ieeping their city clean and pre-
sentabie and shat the spirit OF civic
pride has manifested itself in this
community.
Respectfully submitted.
LENA DAVIS AlIXTER.
Chairman