Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-20
WOULD KEEP CITY
CLEAN ALL Time.
Plan Favored by the Rock Is
land Rotary Club Commit
tee in It's Report.
COSTS MORE, WORTH MORE
Strict Enforcement Of Law In Regard
to Dumping Of Refuse 10
Also Advocated.

FOllOwlnS Is the text or the report
of the Rock Island Rotary Clue COM
mittee made at the meeting yesterday
at the Rock Island club:
Your committee to whom was re-
ferred the matter of a more systemat-
ic and better system of keeping clean
the streets and alleys of our city, and
of bringing the matter to the attention
of the city's commissioners, reports
that through the courtesy of the COM
missioners your committee was enab-
led to have a conference with all of
the commissioners, when the matter
received due consideration by the COM
missioners, and was thoroughly dis
cussed in all its phases.
THE city has been granted full pow
er by the legislature to take care Of
this matter. This power is as follows:
To regulate and prevent the throwing
or depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, gar
bage, or any offensive matter in, and
to prevent injury to any street, ave-
nue., alley or public ground In Sec
ton ten of chapter twenty-six the city
has undertaken to carry out this pow
er by passing the following ordinance:
THAT no part of the contents of or
substances from any sink, privy, or
cesspool, nor any manure, ashes, gar
bage, offal, rubbish, dirt, nor any refuse
or waste, or thing which, by its decom-
position, could or would become often
sive to human beings, or detrimental
to health. or create or tend to create a
shall be by any person
thrown, deposited or placed upon any
street or public place, nor upon any
vacant lot of land, or vacant place
upon the face of any land within the
city of Rock Island, whether such lot
be inclosed or otherwise, without the
written permission of the commissioner
Of health; nor shall any of said sub
stances be allowed by any person to |
run or drop from the premises occu- |
pied by such person into or upon any |
street or public place, nor upon any |
vacant lot of land, or vacant place !
Ipon the surface of any lot of land in |
'aid city nor shall the same be thrown |
deposited or placed by any person, nor
allowed to fall or run from the prem
ses occupied by such person into the
liver, save through the proper under
,round connections"
Subject to Criticism.
in failing to enforce this ordinance
IL our city's administrations III the
ast are subject to criticism, and the
resent city officials nd more than
nder former administrations, in fact,
there is any severe criticism to be
1dulged in, it should be directed to
he public as a whole in neglecting to
emand from city officials enforcement :
this ordinance and in the practice
Universally on the part of the public in
isregarding it and in throwing into
lie alleys all manner of Objectionable /
latter.
at was pointed out to us by the
that the system of col
'ction of garbage and ashes at the
ublic expense, inaugurated a good !
any years ago, when citizens were in
tied to put garbage and ashes in the
legs, but put all manner of waste c
as been responsible for the very gen.
al, in fact, complete disregard of this a
'dinance; that citizens generally, not b
lily put their garbage and ashes in the I
leys, but they put all mannerof waste v
fuse material, sometimes tin roofs a
Id dirt eXcavated in digging founda- u
1nS, anu tudt III the past dS well as at l.
e present time, the city has been n
lrdened with all this extra work. 1t Z
as further pointed out to US that a
hen Objectionable matter was found e.
an alley behind householder's 81
emises. and remonstrance was made Il
the householder, very often he
build deny responsibility, claiming Il
at some neighbor threw 1t behind a
5 house in the night time, and thus Il
has become impossible to locate and n
the responsibility for any particu- Ia
: offense so long as the use OF a pub n
alley for it's disposal were permit d.
], and in fact. that 1t was likewise T
possible TO discriminate between al
hes, garbage and cans. produced un- e,
,rsally, which by reason of its uni O,
rsality. the city is willing to dispose it
and other refuse produced only oc- to
and by few householders, III
d which by reason of its exceptional sc
aracter should be disposed of by the or
ividual producer. he
Enforcement Held Necessary. as
1t was therefore considered by the W
as well as by your COM la
tee. that satisfactory cleaning of tn
alleys should not be maintained is