Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
COUNCIL URGED TO.
IMPROVE STREETS.
TO FEDERAL ROADS.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DELE.
CATION APPEARS AT LAST
NIGHTS SESSION WITH RE.
QUEST FOR PAVED CONNECT.
ING LINKS"

Pavement connections with the fed.
eral aid roads leading east and west
from Ottawa wcte brought before
the city council last night by dele.
cation representing property owners
and the Chamber OF Commerce, who
presented a petition asking that
Courtney street and East Superior
streets, within the corporate limits
be improved without any further de
lay.
The delegation. a large one. was
headed by President l., NJ Harvey Of
the Chamber Of Commerce and had
Attorney Clarence Griggs as its
spokesman II was represented to
the commission that there Is urgent
need OF Ottawa paving the two short
connecting links before the heavy
traiiic OF summer gets in full swing
or the city will be declared failure
In doing its bit after the government
had made possible the great high.
way running 10 and out of the com.
munity and costing high into mil
lions.
Draw In City Limits.
The councils plan for drawing in
the city limits so as to exclude prop
erty on the east and south sides was
given the endorsement OF the dele.
cation. The properties to be- taken
out Ct the corporation have no houses
nor buildings Of any kind. and, it
was represented, could not bear the
burden of costly paving as the i'm
provement would be greatly in excess
of the value of the lands.
The property owners, it was point.
ed out, We're willing To have their
parcels taken out OF the city under
this arrangement Should the prop.
CSitiOn be carried through the state.
government and county will Join in
grading and cOncreting the strips of
roadway running past the excluded
lands. The owners and city would
be relieved Of the burden of making
the improvements.
Want Entrance Route Thru Town
A surprise in the form OF petition
signed by sixty per cent of the East
Superior street lot owners asking the
city to pave the four blocks from
Columbus school to the aqueduct was
presented to the council
David Westcott, who operates a ga
rage on East Superior street, cir
culated the petition and said he Sc
cured signatures of every person in
terviewed with hte exception OF two
who refused to consent to the paw.
ing. Those who signed were William
Mulholland Mike Mckenna, Ed Ban.
kert, David Westcott William Lu-
cas-, Charles Deist, o. J. Fox. r. NJ.
Hallagan, d. J. Connolly, f. NJ. Big.
CERT, Mrs. A. S, Phelan, Dennis Dunn,
James White, r. Mullen Thomas
Morgan, Jesse Holmes, John Logs
don, Mike Kerrigan, Emil Amsler. A.
j. Denison, Charles Deyore, II. r.
Kahn, T. J. Dinneen, l.. B. Rose, w
]. Johnston, Mrs Elizabeth Cordial,
owen G. Fox and James A. Fox
Mayor Weeks announced that if
the people themselves were in favor
OF paving, it did not behoove the
council to oppose them. He indicat-
ed that the commission would take
up the matter at an early date and
rush the preliminaries to an early
conclusion.
Need New Fox River Bridge.
Announcing that the state high |
way department was ready to revise |
its plans for routing the Ivy Way |
over Congress street. East Ottawa,
the ENJOYS requested that the city |
lend a hand in getting the traffic to
come into the city over Superior |
street and thence thru the business
district
With the announcement that the |
engineers were willing to alter their
plans which now call for a large fill |
being made through the abandoned |
clay pits Of the east side and con-
nection on Congress street it was
suggested that new aqueduct bridge /
be constructed to replace the present |
structure, declared by experts be-
cause of its two angles to be too haz
ardous for safe travel under the
heavy strain of summer traffic. |