Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-26
TABLE MOTION TO
REFUSELlCENSES
FOR TW0SAL00hS
Applica lions of Robert j. WEIGH
and Henry Van Dale Receiv-
ed and Placed on File.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL AGAIN
Commission Adopts Another Resolu
tion to Notify Owner to Remove
Dangerous Structure.

Although every member of the COM
mission is opposed to granting saloon
! licenses for the Buffalo and Billy
Rice's place. the council yesterday af
ternoon refused to adopt resolution,
denying applications of Robert j.
WEIGH. for the former at 316 Twenty
fourth street, and Henry Van Dale, for
the latter at 2107 Fourth avenue.
When the applications were read,
Mayor II. NJ. Schriver moved that they
be received and placed On file, which
carried. Commissioner Jonas Bear
then offered a resolution that the ap-
plications be refused. Commissioner
Rudgren Immediately opposed this ac-
ton, intimating that it would weaken
the city's case, should the anticipated
mandamus proceedings develop. Com
missioner Rudgren, therefore, offered
a substitute motion that the matter be
laid on the table and this carried three
to two, Mayor Schriver and Commits
sioner Bear voting no. Mayor Schri-
yer insisted that the applications
should be either accepted or denied
and could see no valid reason for side
stepping the issue but the majority of
the commission took an opposite view,
for legal reasons.
Must Remove Hotel.
The question of the removal of the
old Commercial hotel on Seventeenth
street, owned by John Bengston, came
up again and resolution offered by
Commissioner Hart passed, that the
owner be served with a notice to tear
it de- n because lit is in a dangerous
and dilapidated condition and is a
menace. to the safety of persons pafE-
ing near said building. The building
is in such condition that it is liable to
fall into the street at any time"
The sum of s25 was voted to the G.
A. R. for the Decoration day fund.
A license was granted to Claus Dau
who will operate the saloon at 800
Fourth street, formerly run by w. A.
Pannell. Julius and Almond Duyve-
jonk were given a license to operate
saloon at 126 Twentieth street. Mayor
Schriver said he had been asked by
Belgian saloon keepers for a permit to
conduct dances on the evening of Dec
Grafton day in rooms adjoining their
thirst parlors. The commission agreed
has been the rule in the past
Fritz Becker. Davenport, was given
the contract for the annual audit his
bid being S25 under that of his next
competitor. The mayor was authorized
to purchase a new typewriter for his
Office. A petition from property own
ers on Fourteenth avenue, from Elev-
enth to Twelfth street protesting
against using that thoroughfare for a
dumping ground, was referred to Com
missioner Reynolds. An invitation to |
the city officials to participate in the |
parade of the 1000 Block Business |
Mems association was accepted
Consider Ordinances.
A number of ordinances for public |
were considered as fol- |
lows:
Watermains Twenty-first street. |
to Nineteenth avenue, esti- |
mate s7S3; Twenty-fourth street, |
to Twentieth avenue.
to Twentieth and Twenty
fourth to Twenty-fifth street, estimate |
s3,42160.
Watermains and sewer = Twenty
eighth street, Fifteenth to Sixteenth
avenue: Twenty-eighth street, Six
-eenth to Fifteenth avenue estimated
s1,2S4.
-eenth to Twenty-seventh street. as
Dhalt, estimated S2.4909O; Second ave
1pe, Second to Ninth street, Seventh
street, Ninth to Fourth avenue, brick.
estimated s13,S37.