The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-02-12
For the Gate City.


Claggeps GulIey Grade.
Editors Gate City:
see BY the Times of the 9th, new plan
for grading the first Ward, proposed BY Col
Clagget, which Propose to designate as the
ssGuley Grade,' with bridge ACCOMPANY
ments. hope the city fathers will not hur-
nv the plan through until they have time to
examine another that is being agitated IN
the western part of the city, which in the
language Of a prominent citizen, "would
serve superseder'' on the gulley and bridge
plan by doing away the necessity of altering
the hin streets. The plan is to cut canal
1 from the lower chain of the rapids through
/ Cattaraugus to Johnson street, down John
son street to Fifth, down Fifth to Maiden
Run, down Maiden Run to Bloody Run,
thence via Swartz's Lime Kiln to Nassau
! Slough. This would increase our river front
three fold, and make ample wharf aooommo-
dations all over town, just as Chicago has,
and as we grow and progress, we can have
the Mississippi enlarged to the size OF Lake
Michigan, which would help us materially in
| the contest in which we are about TO engage
with the aforesaid village, as to which shall
I be the metropolis Of the Mississippi Valley.
| Now this plan may not have the sanction OF
san intelligent friend of European birth,
| and NAV not cost FIVE hundred per cent. less
than the gulley grade. But it is just as
/ practicable, Just as much needed, and will be
! done Just as soon. Now some inquisltiye per-
sons may want to know how the sides of the
canal are to be supported when they will be
from forty to one hundred feet high. ! shall
not answer that question until Col. G. or his
s'ntelligent friend of European BIRTH in
forms us how they are to support the sides
of their cuts. at the corner of First and Con-
cert streets, which would be near eighty feet
high, at Second and Concert, where it would
be some sixty-hve or seventy feet, and yari-
Gus other places whore the cuts would be
equally as heavy, and how citizens living on
Blondeau and Concert, between First and
Third, could get to and from their houses if
they cut down Concert and Blondeau and
leave the cross streets as at present, and also
! inform us what FIVE hundred per cent. less
I means, and also let us know who demands
/ that Concert and BIondeau should be cut, and
/ Fulton, Franklin and Morgan not cut.
/ hope it is not because Col. C.. or his "intelli-
gent friend of European BIRTH do not reside
on the doomed streets.
| will do Col. c. the justice to say that Of
all the malcontents who have opposed all the
| grades hitherto attempted to be made, he
alone has offered substitute, and if in so
doing he has made himself ridiculous, as
we'll as his ''intelligent friend of European
BIRTH" they will have the consolation OF
Nkne wing that they are not the first great men
WON the public fail to appreciate.
NJ COMMON SENsE.
i For the Gate City
Pursuant to a call published in the daily
uapers. those friendly to the organization of
Hook and Ladder Fire Company met at the
Office of Scofeld Bros, on Friday evening,
February 8th.
The meeting organized by calling B. bod
son ~ tHe Cidlf, anu elVStihs a. ~ No. ~
rotary. L. L. O'Connor stated the object of
the meeting.
On motion, a committee was appointed to
draft Constitution and Bylaws for the gov
ernment of the company.
| On motion, committee was appointed to
prepare and present petition to the City
Council, asking for an Apr opriation Of
twelve hundred dollars for the purpose of
procuring the necessary fire apparatus for
the Company.
On motion, the meeting proceeded to the
election Of officers Of the company, to serve
| for the term of three months, which resulted
Is follows
President, l., l.. O'Connor Vice Pres
dent, R. Ayres Secretary, A. Lynch; Treas
urer, d. Is. Smith, Jr.; Chief Director, B.
Dodson A. c. D., ID. B. Smith; Axe Direc-
tor, p. II. Shoemaker; A. A. D., Robert
Harris; Ladder Director, j. T. Harris 4.
l.. Director, j. Ii. Creighton; Hook Dlrec-
ter, w. f. Wilson A. ii. D., X. II. Petit
Bucket Director, John Bertram; A. B. D.,
G. W. Sanders.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Gate City, Eve
ming Times, and Post.
L.. l.. o'CONNoR, Pres't.
A. LYNCH, Sec'y.
For the Gate City.
Kansas.