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Subject: Liked The Starlight - The New Fair Ground - Tri-City Amenities -Hallet Kilbourne
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:19:03 EST

HISTORY OF DAVENPORT AND SCOTT COUNTY
VOLUME 1
CHAPTER 36

THE SALAD COURSE

LIKED THE STARLIGHT

The first ordinance regulating street lamps was adopted at the council
meeting of April 2, 1857. It specified that the lamps were not to be lighted on
"clear nights." Starlight was plenty good in those days. In 1855 Antoine
LeClaire erected street lights as a public benefaction at an expense of from $35
to $40 apiece. J. M. D. Burrows, and perhaps others, did the same later.

THE NEW FAIR GROUND

"The best way to reach the fair ground is to go out Brady street to Locust,
and proceeded up the latter about a mile till the Bird farm is passed, when a
board enclosure and road leading to it may be seen."

TRI-CITY AMENITIES

The firemen of Davenport, Rock Island and Moline assembled for a trial of
the fire fighting machinery November 14, 1857. Moline threw first water, at
the Presbyterian church, 167 feet high. Davenport came next, but a large
nozzle and a fateful wind kept them from scoring, while Rock Island won the match.
There was a spread afterward at the Rock Island engine house and R. M.
Littler presented a new broom to be again competed for. The Davenport company
was escorted to the ferry and the affair ended in many hurrahs.

HALLET KILBOURNE

When the railroad had been completed to Walcott from Davenport an excursion
was run by capitalists who owned property there August 22, 1855. Those who
attended were sanguine and the sale was a success, nearly $12,000 being
realized. The auctioneer was a young Davenporter named Hallet Kilbourne. Years
afterward he proved a most contumacious witness before a congressional
investigating committee and his name went the country over.

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In 1851 a Mr. Russell purchased the 245 acres known as the McClellan Heights
tract for $2,500. The land is worth more now. A year later A. C. Fulton
bought the 200 acres of which he made many additions for $10,000.

Debbie

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