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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
Sporting
Chatter

Barnes and Young, the two new
Giants, have got away to fine start
and have already made themselves
popular with the fans.
Jack Coombs follows the same sys-
tenn in his pitching that Matty used,
He believes in getting his team mates
do some of the work and doesn't try
to pitch every ball past the batter.
The Robins infield is nothing to
boast of, but the outfelders cover a
vast amount of territory. Myers,
Johnston and Hickman all being fast
men.
Ollie O'Mara is responsible for
more than half of the Robins pep
while they are in the field.
Walter johnson famed only two
strikeouts were a long time coming.
Shanks continues to star for the
Washington team both at bat and in
the field. Every move he makes
brings a big hand from the fans. Hits
for extra bases are becoming common
with him
Baseball fans, have you bought
Liberty Bonds? Before the games at
the Polo Grounds and at all other
National League and American League
ball parks representatives of the
Third Liberty Loan will be on hand
to sell bonds to loyal American citi-
zens. If you haven't loaned some of
your money to Uncle Sam do it now.
You can buy Liberty Bonds today and
every day after O'Clock at the Polo
Grounds. A $50 bond means one vote
for your favcrite Giant in the popu-
larity contest started on Tuesday.
Don't hesitate! Get in line and dig
deep! Theb all players are invest
ing in this ironclad security! Follow
their example!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

Boston Red So Here April 28Levnsky Boxes Williams Tonight
HOW TEAMS STAND
IN MAJOR CIRCUITS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
National TRaone

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
National League.
Chicago 6, st. Louis 4.
Cincinnati Z, Pittsburgh 6.
The New York-Brooklyn game was
postponed on account of wet grounds.
The Philadelphia-Boston game was
postponed on account of rain.
American League.
Chicago 5, st. Louis 0.
Cleveland 6, Detroit 2.
The New Washington game
was postponed on account of wet
grounds.
The Boston-Philade1ph game was
postponed on account of rain.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

ship, he taking six of the nine games
and the high string of 1873. The
scores:
Lindsey-1o2 81 90 IS 100 80 SO
131 100. Total, 912. Average 1912.
Teller-S7 81 1913 81 ia 1872 1853
116 101. Total, 999. Average III.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
BULLARD five
LOSES TO ARMS
Gunmakers Too Strong for
Billiard BoWlers and
Take 2 Games.

The Billiard Machine Co. bowlers
dropped two out of three games to
the Remington Arms last night in a
special match at the Park City alleys
and drew down a side bet of $50. The
biggest crowd that has witnessed a
bowling match in this city in some
time was on hand.
Next Thursday night the two teams
will meet again under the same con-
ditions. The scores:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

day night, outpointed Tom GIBBONS of
St Paul in a ten round bout at Scran-
ton last night
1t Is quite certain now that the
much discussed bout between Jess
Willard and Fred Fulton will be lin
tied to ten rounds, probably without
decision, and will be staged midway
between the cities OF Minneapolis and
st. Paul The Minnesota Boxing
Commission has announced it's will
dngnesS to permit a decision. It
seems that while the commission has
barred decisions there is nothing in
the boxing law Of Minnesota prohfb-
hing vendicts and it is within the
power of the committee to waive the
prohibition in any case in which it
bees 1T
The prospect of a worlds heavy
weight championship bout limited to
DO minutes Of action fails to stir us
TO anything approaching even mild
enthusiasm. Nowhere in the history
Of pugiIism can we find an instance
bf aSten round bout to a. decision for
hstitle-not alone in the heavyweight
biassAa11It in any other division. It is
likely that when the final arrange
ments are announced it will be found
that willard is not to risk his cham
ptonsl1ip by the decision route. A de-
Asion at the end of ten rounds would
lay the title holder open to consider
nile danger, for Fulton is a clever
boxer and in a 30 minute engagement
would stand a fine chance of out
A1n a 6OrnonP
bout the advantage would be all with
willard.
1t requires no vivid imagination to
develop a word picture of what old
John Il Sullivan would have said
Ebout heavyweight championship
hight of Ten rounds to a, decision. We
noubt il the class is so decadent that
Such a procedure must be stopped to,
but practically every possible scene
pf action has been barred to the box
1rs. It's either minnesota, Wisconsin
pr Louisiana, and willard will moi
hight at New Orleans. They go q
rounds to a decision there-and be
tides the champion says it is too no
IN the Crescent City on July 4. 1t is
likely to prove just as hot anywher
Else.
w The proposition looks like a joke
but the worst part Of it is this, if tht
Right were to be staged in dear oil
New York our citizens would star
nifty riots to throw their money at thu
boxers and would make the bout on
" the biggest successes in the histor!
If the game.
Final articles of agreement for a 1
round tout at New Haven on April 2
were signed yesterday by the man
Lgers of Willie jackson and Pats,
Cline. The contest will take place a
he ARENA, under the auspices Of tn
Temple Athletic club.
Eddie Wallace of Brooklyn easil
defeated Joe Cxid) Burns of Montrea
1t Montreal in q fast ten round bou
last night. Wallace had Burns back
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
RED SOX ARE COMING,
KIM OFF NEW HAVEN CARD.

Kunzi IS the
of
will
with
Haven with a tract
his old tricks the
in grabbed the first train for
his
said Muvih11 the
said a with
On
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
TELLER BEATS LINDSEY.

Naugatuck, April 19-Fred Teller
of Naugatuck won from Mort Lind
sey Of Bridgeport in the game yes
terday in the state duckpin champion
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

SWEET PEAS, vIOLETS, TULIPS,
DAFFODuS.
JOHN RECK & SON.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
TODAY IN PUGILIsTIC ANNALS.

19OS-Frankie Burns defeated VIII
lie Burns in six rounds at New York.
1909-Ian Hague knocked out
Eunner NOR in the first round at
London.
1912-Young Dyson defeated Ray
Wood in IL rounds at New Bedford.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

Jess Barnes has a brother with the
american expeditionary force in
France.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
American League.

GAMES TODAY.
National League.
Brooklyn in New York.
Boston in Philadelphia
Chicago in St. Louis.
Pittsburgh in Cincinnati.
American League.
New York in Boston "a. M and
P. Nj
Philadelphia in Washington.
st. Louis in Chicago.
Detroit in Cleveland.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
By T. F. Magner

has re-
of
baseball denies and
polishing the opening of the season less
Crimson team
will Soldiers Field April 81
Adar of New York in the
A April 22 The
seina O. Fitz
Marty Bromide of Hartford,
NO LETTER FROM CORCORAN
to
Kchel Mickey
Buffalo other regular business
still
friendly with local fans
POOR ST. PAUL!
will
st. Paul do to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
CLUB STANDING TODAY
Ring Activities

Clay Turner. the Indian boxer who
meets George Chip here next Wednes-
day night, outpointed Tom GIBBONS of
St Paul in a ten round bout at Scran-
ton last night
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

Williams their
enter
local public and
in Batr has made for himself
diersan the fsuc
with
headner In the of four rounds Red
Cofe Mohawk
ed a. plant here
A
RED SOX ARE COMING.
of
with President Harry Frazee of the Boston Red so
game their regular this The
will
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
NOLETTER FROM CORCORAN
POOR ST. PAUL!
LEVINsKY VS.. WILLIAMS TONIGHT.

Hutton conference will be held in St Paul-pro
Lul ever do to Colonel Miller?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

Eddie Wallace of Brooklyn easily
defeated Joe CT<id) Burns of Montreal
1t Montreal in a fast ten round bout
last night. Wallace had Burns back
ng away all through the bout.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

Final articles of agreement for a Is
round R,out at New Haven on April 20
we're signed yesterday by the man
Lgers of Willie Jackson and Patsy
Cline. The contest will take place at
he Arena, under the auspices Of the
Temple Athletic club.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

Asst sos 460 1893
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31

President Wilson, full of evaslons
denials and assurances
Allies in Serbia reached the Dan
ube and isolated Turkey.
Oct. 22-President Wilson told
German government he would take
up with the allies the subject of al
armistice; but that the L. s., if il
must deal with the kaiser and his
crew, demanded not peace negOtia-
tons, but surrender.
British broke through German de-
/ lenses south of Valenciennes-
Americans made advance in ter
rife fighting in Mouse valley.
/ Serbs, Slovenes and Croatians
announced formation Of sovereign
/ state.
/ Oct Galatians began big often
sive on the Piaye line.
! Oct. 26-French in big advance in
/ Serre-Oise region.
/ Ludendorf resigned.
/ Declaration of independence of
l the peoples Of middle Europe pro-
mulgated in Independence hall,
! Philadelphia
/ British occupied Aieppo.
/ Oct. 27-Germany replied to
I President Wilson, asking terms for
armistice.
/ German reichstag put control OF
military in civil government
/ Allies crossed the Piave in Ital-
ian drive.
Oct. 2s-Austria-Hung asked
/ for separate armistice and peace on
allies terms.
Oct. Equestrian lines beyond
the Piave smashed by allies.
Turkey presented separate peace
proposals.
Oct 30-Entire Turkish army on
the Tigris captured.
Austrian commander in Italy
asked General Diaz for armistice.
Oct 31-Armistice with Turkey
went into effect
Allies opened new drive on Client
Kingdom of Greater Serbia pro-
claimed.
Croatian parliament decreed sep
aration Of Croatia. Slavonia and
Dalmatia from Hungary
Nov. American First army
smashed German line west of the
Meuse
AllieS drove Germans out OF IS
towns in Belgium.
Austrian army fleeing across the
TagliamentO in Italy.
Count Tia. former Hungarian
premier. assassinated.
Ukrainians and Teutons captured
Lem berg.
Nov. king Boris OF Bulgaria
abdicated and peasant republic
was established.
Hungary's complete separation
rom Austria declared.
Americans made great advance
on both sides of the Meuse.
Trente taken by Italians.
Valenciennes tahcn by British
Nov 3-Trieste occupied by ItaI-
FANS.
Armistice with Austria signed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31
Oct. 1LConererupan Iohn A

Oct 1LCongresgnan John A
Sterling of Illinois.
Oct 22-Dr. +. K Brooke Epis-
copal bishop of Oklahoma
Oct 25-Charles Lecoca French
composer.
Oct 26-Ella FIagg Young. for
mer superintendent of schools OF
Chicago.
Oct. 27-Eugene Hale, former U.
s. senator from Maine.
Oct. 30-Nelson n. Lampert, well
known Chicago banker.
Nov. 4-Mrs. Russell Sage.
Morton F. Plant, financier and
yachtsman.
DR.. Andrew White, educator and
diplomat.
Nov. 8-Robert j. Collier, editor
and publisher.
Nov. 15-Gen. H. C. King, soldier
and author, in New York.
Nov. 19-Dr. c. r. Van Hise,
president of University of Wiscon-
sin.
Joseph r. Smith. president of
Mormon church.
Nov. 22-Former Governor W. D.
Hoard of Wisconsin
Nov. 25-N NJ Kaufman, copper
and iron magnate and hotel man of
Chicago.
Dec. Edmond Rostand, poet
and dramatist, in Paris.
Dec. 81. W. Page, head of U.
S. bureau of roads.
Dec. 12-Effie Ellsler, actress,
aged 95.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31
SPORTS

Feb. -Kieckhetcr wen three
cushion billiard championship from
De ORC.
Feb. 25-Jack Dempsey defeated
Bill Brennan in six rounds at Mil
Waukee.
March 15-Kieckhefer successful
ly defended three-cushion billiard
championship against Cannefax.
March 23-Michigan university
won the eighth annual indoor con-
ference meet
Aug. 19-Kieckhefer retained the
three-cushion championship. beat
ing Maupome.
Sept. 11-Boston American league
team defeated Chicago National
league team for worlds champion
ship, and professional baseball quit
for period OF the war.
Nov. S-Kieckhefer retained the
three-cushion title. defeating Nc
Court.
Nov. 22-Kieckhefer retained the
three cushion title. defeating Can
nafaXl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31
WAR CAUSE OF
PAVING SLUMP
Only About Half as Much Street
improvement Completed in
1918 as in 1917.
TEN PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
OF These Brick Was Material Used
in Eight-AsphaE Less POpu-
lar Than Previous Year.

OF all the public improvements
hit by the war city paving suffered
the most heavily.
During 1918 only 3,43S miles OF
paving were laid in Rock Island,
with total cost of s156,215.1S, as
compared to So miles and an ex-
penditure of $222,03992 for 1917.
In 1916 the cost of paving reached
a total of $200,92446.
The sum expended in improving
the city streets during 1918 is $685.
S24.74 less than for the same pur-
pose in the year preceding, while
in 1917 approximately two miles
more of paving was laid.
OF the 10 paving projects under
taken, brick was used in eight of
them, while asphalt was used in
two.
The largest job as shown by
the annual report of Wallace
Treichler, city engineer, was that
Of Ninth street, from Eighteenth
to Fifty-second avenue. Material
used was brick, the work costing
SO 741t1.
Following is a list of the paving
projects, their location, the mate
rial used. width of the street and
cost as given in the annual report
Of Engineer Treichler:
Ninth street, Eighteenth
to Fifty-second avenue;
brick, "a feet wide IS 93,741.11
Tri-City Railway com
pany right of way;
brick .............. 5,O2O.SO
Twenty-fourth st + e ct,
Eighteenth to Twenty
third avenue; brick, u
feet wide ... 22,473.95
Fifteenth street, Second
to Third avenue; brick,
50 feet wide ........ 4,631.SO
Fourth avenue, Twenty
third to Twenty-fourth
street; brick, 80 feet
wide 4,5J6. Is
Eighteenth street, First
to Second avenue;
brick, 50 feet wide -, 6,3O5.OO
Seventeenth street, First
to Second avenue;
brick, 50 feet wide 49,. 4,S63.6
Eighteenth-and-a-half to
Nineteenth and Nine
teenth-and-a-half ave
nues from Eleventh %
Twelfth streets; as
phalt. "A feet wide 49,. 7,31S.47
eighth, Twenty
ninth and Twenty
ninth-and-a-half streets
from Seventeenth to
Eighteenth avenue; as
phaIt, "a feet wide. 7,264,17
Total ...............s156,2t5.18
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31
SMALLADvANCE
IN DEATH LIST
But Few More Reported to County
Clerk Than in 1917 Despite
Fiue Epidemic

Despite the influenza epidemic
with it's high mortality rate. but
few more deaths were reported in
Rock Island county in 1918 than in
the year preceding, according 10
figures compiled by County Clerk
Henry B. Hubbard.
During the 12-montbs period
from Dec. l, 1917, to Nov. 80. 1918.
inclusive, there were 1878
deaths as compared with 1,245 on
record from Dec. l, 1916, 10 Nov.
80, 1917, inclusive.
The total number of births for
this period last year falls slightly
below that OF the u months pre-
ceding. From Dec. /. 1917, to Nov.
30, 1918, 1928 were born in Rock
Island county, while in the u
month previous two more, or ,430,
are officially recorded. The total
still births shows an increase,
with 81 fer 1918 as against 50 in
1917.
An accurate record OF births IS
impossible on account of laxness
with which they are reported by
many physicians. This has proven
true in Rock Island
Many records OF birth do not como
for sometimes over a year after the
date OF birth, although the state
law stipulates that births shall be
Immediately in order that
an exact record upon which to
base census tables may be con-
piled by the proper authorities.
Births, still births and deaths
the county from Dec. !.
1917. TO Nov. 80. 1918. inclusive
reach She following totals:
Still
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31
DISASTERS

Jan 1-Confagraion in Norfolk,
Va; loss $2,OOO,0O0.
Jan. 13-Million dollar fire in In
dianapolis Industrial district.
Feb. 14-Forty-two children kill
I'd in nunnery fire in Montreal
Feb. 24-Liner Florizel. st. Johns.
n f, to New York, wrecked in biz
zard near Cape Race; 90 lost.
March 9-Twelve killed in col
lapse Of moving picture theatre go
Winchester, Ky
Five killed and $5,0OO,OOO damage
by tornado in northwestern Ohio.
April 13-Seventy killed I'm burn
ing of insane asylum at Norman,
Okla.
April 21-EarthG@ake in southern
California: towns OF Eamet and San
JacintO wrecked.
May Savannah liner City 81
Athens sunk in collision with
French cruiser of Delaware coast;
sc lives lost.
May 1S-Nearly a hundred per-
sons killed by explosions in Aetna
Chemical plant, near Pittsburgh, Pa.
June 22-Circus train telescoped
at Gary, Ind; GO killed
June 29-Fifty persons killed by
collapse Of building in Sioux City,
Iowa.
July shell factory explosion in
England killed so.
July Explosion in munitions
plant near Syracuse, n. Y, killed
l6.
July 6-Excursion boat sank iu
Illinois river; IS lives lost.
Guam devastated by typhoon.
July 9-Hundred persons killed
in train collision near Nashville,
Tenn.
July 12-Japanese batteship
blew up, killing 500 men.
Aug. 2l-Tornado In Minnesota
destroyed Tyler and Comors. kill
ing about so.
Oct. 3-Sheu loading plant st
Morgan, y. J., blew sp; 81 killed.
Oct. 11-Severe earthquake in
Porto Rico $50 killed.
Oct. 12-Great forest fires I'm
Minnesota: many
towns destroyed and about one
thousand lives lost
Oct. % steamship Princess So
phia wrecked on Alaska coast; $40
lives lost.
Nov. 1-Ninety-eiEht persons kill
ed in wreck on Brooklyn Rapid
train
Nov. 21-About 1900 killed by ex-
plosion OF muniuon trains in Bel
GUM.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31
EVENTS OF YEAR
TOLD IN BRIEF

Continued From Page Tenn
! Allies smashed Hindenburg de-
| fenses on 2O-miIe front between
Cambria and st. Quentin, and Fran
/ co-Americans started new drive
east of the Mouse
Oct 9-British occupied Cambria
and pushed far beyond.
Prince Frederick Charles of
Hesse elected king Of Finland by
landtag.
Oct. 10-Irish mail boat Leinster
torpedoed; 400 lost
lie Cateau, railway center, taken
by allies.
Oct. 11-Argonne wood cleared Of
Germans by Americans.
Kaiser called rulers Of all feder-
ated states to conference.
Oct 12-German chancellor sent
reply TO Wilson, saying Germany
accepted all his terms and agreed
to evacuate all invaded territory.
Entire German defense system in
Champagne smashed.
oct. 13-La Fere and Laon taken
by the French.
Serbs captured Nish.
Oct. President Wilson reject
ed Germany's peace and armistice
proposals.
Allies began big drive in Elan
ders, taking Roulers and other
towns.
Italians captured Durazzo.
Oct. I5-AIlies took Melin. flank
ed Ostend, and threatened Bruges; ;
L 900 prisoners taken.
Oct. I6-General retreat from
northern Belgium by Germans.
Americans captured Grand Pre-,
north OF the Argonne
Allies pursued Austrians into
Montenegro.
oct 17-Germans evacuated Os-
tend, Lille and Douai
Oct 18-Allies occupied Turco-
ing, RoubaiX, Zeebrugge and Thielt
Independence OF Czecho-SIovak
nation declared by its provisional
Emperor Charles decreed feder-
Of Austro-H Hungarian en-
pire.
Oct 19-President Wilson reject
ed Austria-Hungary's peace propo-
sails.
Allied armies in Belgium reached
the Dutch frontier
Fourth Liberty loan closed, heav-
lily oYer-subscribed.
Oct. 26-15,0 900 retreating Ger
mans interned in Holland.
Oct 2L-Germany~ made-reply to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31
CUPID ENTRAPS
1O43 VICTIMS
Marriage License Total for 1915
Falls Considerably Below
High Mark of 1917.
WARS END CAUSE DECREASE?
Slump of Last Three Months Shat
tiers What Might Have Been
u Season Record.

Just 1,043 love-1orn couples
tripped happily altar-ward. victims
Of Dan Cupid's ruthlessness, during
the year 1918. Jan. 1 to Dec. 81.
inclusive, according to the record
Of marriage licenses issued as com
piled by County Clerk Henry B.
Hubbard
This number falls considerably
below the high-wateT mark reached
IN 1917, when 1924 we're given per-
mission to form "entangling alIi-
ances" to the mystic and alluring
strains of Lohengrin and Mendels-
sohn.
Evidently lii ole Dan Cupid is
some grand prognosticator. What,
until October, might have been a
race winner of newly-weds limped
in a poor second in the race against
the 1917 record, due. 1t is thought,
TO rumors of impending armistice
and early peace terms between the
allies and the central powers. APP
parently Dan could have foretoId
in October that within the shorI
space Of a month peace was to
knock the bottom from the matri-
mOnial market, with a correspond
ing drop in the par-value of nup-
cial stock. Had the war continued,
with its increased impetus to mat
ing, it is probable that all previous
marriage license totals would have
been OutdOne in 1915
Apparently sensing early in Octo-
Der the rapidly waning strength of
Mars, God Of war, Dan Cupid,
matchmaker de luxe, at once cur
tailed his activities. AS a result,
October, November and December,
usually good matrimonial harvest
months, are credited this year with
only 70, n and So marriage licenses
issues, respectively, while the to-
tals for the same periods in 1917
we're so, 108 and 124.
Unlike former years. June, 1918,
with 104, did not exceed its fellow
months in the number of monthly
nuptial permits. given out. being
surpassed by September with 10Y,
June. 1917, with 40. however, cas-
ily retains the individual monthly
1 ecord.
The number Of licenses issued
during the last u months is third
largest of any to be reached in the
last six years, however. The totals:
1913. 1919: 1914, 500: 1915, 917;
1916, 1927; 1917. 1924; 1918, 1.043.
Monthly Totals.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31

Continued from Page -.
and between Sixteenth and Eigh-
teenth avenues, and contains 20
homes. This group is especially
fortunate in containing samples Of
practically every type of building
and arranged with relation TO each
other and having one street laid
out especially for this group.
Group B is located between Thlr-
ty-ninth and Forty-first streets and
between Fifteenth and Eighteenth
avenues, being the largest single
unit and containing ia homes.
Groups c and d are located be
tween Forty-third and Forty-sixth
streets and between Fifteenth and
Eighteenth avenues GO homes be-
ing built in this area.
The officials of the United States
Housing corporation have express
ed genuine satisfaction with the
manner in which the houses for the
government have been designed and
built in Rock Island, feeling that
they are a correct solution OF home
designing such as the residents of
Rock Island are accustomed to and
will enjoy living in.
While the war was in progress il
was necessary to adhere to the rul-
ing Of the war Industries board re-
garding the use OF certain scarce
materials, such as lead, brass and
sheet metal, but since the signing
of the aruIistice the architects have
received instructions to complete
the buildings as nearly as possible
in accordance with the city ordil-
ances, and fortunately the work
was at such a stage so that this
could be done. and the buildings
when completed willsrepresent the
very best in materials and work
manship which could go into homes
Of this type. ~