Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-10-12
ROTARY CLUB WILL.
TRY TO SOLVE IVY
WAY ROUTE IN CITY
PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
HOPES TO IRON OUT KINKS IN
MUCH MooTEp QUESTION OF
HARD ROADS ENTRANCE INTO
OTTAWA.

Efforts to get the people OF ottawa
ivy" way through Ottawa, and to de-
eide on which course the highway
Is to follow, will be made by the pub
lie affairs committee of the Ottawa
Rotary club. Yesterday at the meeting
OF the organization Engineer Robert
Fulton OF the state highway depart
ment informed the members Of the
club that a petition containing 400
signatures had been filed with the
department of public works and build
ings In Springfield, asking that the
highway be brought into Ottawa thru
the east side.
The petition, which was filed by
Ottawa people, was secured after the
residents OF East ottawa held public
meetings in an effort to divert the
course Of the road from East Ottawa.
The public affairs committee, which
Ia headed by Attorney Clarence
Griggs, was asked to devise some
means of getting all the people OF
Ottawa to unite on one way OF get
ting the road into ottawa. Mr.. Full
ron predicted that the department
would not build the remaining strip,
which connects the Ivy way east of
the city, with the city pavement as
long as there was big division
among the residents Of Ottawa as to
the course il would take.
He exhibited blue prints showing
the departments former plans for
bringing the roadway through the
bottoms east of the city, and enter
ing Ottawa on Congress street, down
Congress to Shabbona, south to Main
and down Main to the Fox river
bridge. These plans called for ter
foot fill through the bottom land.
He spoke on the objections the
people OF East Ottawa raised to the
highway coming by their property and
the later petition which was signed
and filed by 400 interested people
asking that the route be brought that
way.
After a discussion the matter was
turned over to the public affairs com
mittee for a solution.
Reports on Moriarty Hill.
Chairman Griggs in making the
public affairs committees report, an
nounced that the Moriarty Hill via
duct work was being delayed by the
Rock Island railroad. The company
was unable. to get their span acros.
the railroad tracks, due to an nabili
ty to secure materials. The con
tract has been let, he stated for ths
HI on this side of the aqueduct, ant
ten per cent grade off the bridge
on the south is being made to con
meet the present road, west of the
bridge over the creek
n Mr.. Griggs also reported that the
city authorities were to meet Col
Miller and the waterway engineers il
Chicago next week to settle the de
tails of a bridge over the side cut
He stated that it was expected sit
factory agreement would be reached
at this meeting.
The contractor of the Fox river
bridge, Mr. Griggs stated, had ex
pected to have work on the struc
ture completed by Jan. /, but owing
to delays in getting materials the
bridge would not be completed before
June l. These delays were attrib
uted to railroad conditions.
He also reported that the city was
ready to proceed with the paving o.
Courtney street, but as the Mid Yves
Engineering Co. were using the stree
to haul cement over that it was ne
cessary to keep the highway oper
and delay the pavement.
Mr.. Griggs stated that the aque
duct bridge was in need of repairs
but added that as the city had ex
cluded the structure from city prop
erty, and the township had not ac
cepted 1t, he had not been able t.
learn who was responsible for tn,
repairs.
DIR. S. e. Parr reported there would
be an intercity Rotarian meeting a
Champaign on Nov 4, and urged tina
large attendance at the meeting
which will occur ON the day the
Northwestern-Illnois game is played
in Urbana.
At the opening of the meeting
Thomas B. Farrell read the COVER
nors and presidents fire proclama
tions and asked all the Rotarians t.
iOin in fire prevention movement.