Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-15
COUNCIL REVOKES
SALOON LICENSE
IN SHORT ORDER
w. j. Hall Place Clos ed Perma-
nently by the City Com
missioners.
NEW PROJECTS TAKEN UP
Watermains to Be Laid to Villa De
chantaI and Provisions Made for
Other Public improvements.

BY unanimous vote the city coun-
Gil at its regular session yesterday aft
ernoon voted to revoke permanently
the license issued TO w. ]. Hall to op-
crate saloon at 1924 First avenue.
Mayor Schriver read the resolution
and then stated that the council was
fully informed as to the evidence in
the case, citing the raid OF the place
and the arrest of the six men and six
women as the cause. A vote was TAX
en- and each commissioner declared in
favor of IL.
The council also considered the mat
ter OF the transferring OF ,he license to
operate a saloon, which is held by
Herman Bledsoe. to S31 Fifth avenue.
The mayor stated he was in favor of
refusing the petition which the bar
keeper had presented. but Commission
er Reynolds asked that action on the
matter be deferred for a week, which
was done.
Rosenfleld & Cox, local plumbers,
asked for permission to connect a wa
termain onto the city's pipe for the
residence of B. L. Grimm, 1902 Eigh-
teenth avenue, which is outside of the
city limits.
The mayor stated that he favored
the permit providing the property
owner signed a contract in which a
clause was inserted pledging him to
sign his name to petitions for the an
nexation OF territory to this city when
circulated. The council favored the
plan
The question OF poor drainage in the
vicinity of Eleventh street and Sixth
avenue was discussed by the council,
although no action was taken on the
matter. The officials of the Rock Is
land Wood works have registered sew
eral complaints to the council relative
to damage by water because of lack
of proper drainage. The matter will
be discussed at a future meeting of
the board of local improvements.
Many Public improvements.
Public improvements occupied a
greater part of the meeting. The fol-
lowing projects on motion of the may
or were authorized by the council:
Sewer on Sixth avenue between
Thirty-first and Thirty-fourth streets
and on Fifth avenue from Thirty-first
street to the manhole at the Rock Is
land depot.
Watermains on Ninth-and-a-half and
Tenth streets from Eighteenth to
Twsntieta avenues.
The paving of Sixteenth street from
First to Second avenue.
Initial steps were taken at the coun-
Gil meeting for giving the reople OF
Forty-sixth street between Fourth and
Fifth avenues that for which they have
been long clamoring-sewer and wa
termains. Commissioner Jonas Bear
moved that the matter be referred to
the board of local improvements, which
was done.
Commissioner Hart brought up the
question of the poor condition of the
paving on the Forty-sixth street hill,
which, he said. made it very diHicult
for teams drawing heavy trucks. Some
of the bricks seemed loose and had
sunk.
Commissicn9r Reynolds stated that
he had the matter under consideration
for some time and that he intends to
dump a couple of loads OF sand on the
street the first warm day that arrives.
He stated that the tar had been s5re@d
over the tops of the bricks and not
enough between them.
Water for Villa.
Watermains are to be Installed 10
the Villa De Chantal. On motion OF
Mayor Schriver he was authorized 10
advertise for bids on the installation of
watermains on Sixteenth street, north
500 feet and northwest 200 feet to the
villa De Chantal. The motion carried
by a vote OF 4 to l, Commissioner hud-
gren declaring against the project
4 resolution authorizing the erection
of a number of sidewalks was voted
TO be considered. The sidewalks fol-
low. on the west side of Twenty-sev-
enth street between Eighteenth anu
twentieth avenues; on east side OF
Twenty-fifth street between Etsn-
teenth and Twentieth avenues; on the
south side of Eighteenth avenue Dc
tween Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seV-
enth streets: on the north and south
sides of Nineteenth and twentieth
avenues between Tweney-fifth and
Twenty-seventh streets. The projects
according to the estimate OF City
Engineer Wallace Treichler. will cost
S2.i67.5O.
The weekly payroll Of s611-s1 was
allowed.