Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-05

buildings: They are beginning at TIT
west end as follows: a coal chute, 81,
175; a round house with twenty stalls
a machine shop, l00x150, with an en-
CINE room 50x50; Immediately south, {
blacksmith shop, 75xlb0; next east, s
building 50XlS0, to contain two office,
and two store rooms; directly south
at the edge of the yard, an oil house.
40x60; then in the center of the yard
comes the car erecting shop, lO0x300.
attached on the south side is
the car machine shop 100l
100; and attached to this is an en-.
CINE room, 50x50; one hundred feet
east are two buildings, each 50x3OO,
the north n a car paint shop and
the other a car repair shop. The
lumber yard lies south of the cal
shops.
All the buildings will be built
with stone from the company
quarry ON the Beatrice Dran.l
- good quality of limestone.
The machine shop is 1COxl5O
feet, the walls u feet high, and the
peak of the roof 46 feet, with a 7-foot
ventilator above. 1t contains three
pits, lis feet long, with room for an
other as soon as required. Twenty
two lron columns support the shaft
ing. Four double doors on the west
side give entrance to the building,
while it is lighted by iifty-scven WIN
dows. The roof Is Of slate. Back of
the engine-room a seventy feet
chimney, ten feet at the base, is
erected.
With such dazzling prospects and
such wonderful gifts now lying at her
door, it is not strange that
GRAND ISLAND
should be claiming an increase of
1000 inhabitants since the last census,
which accorded her 5000.
Among the important improvements
are Wolbach's store, one of the best
in the state; the public school build
ing, second only to our high school,
and the brick and mortar now being
piled high in a score of blocks, will
soon change the shanty town to a
solid one.
EIDE
A few first class fires would be of
i~ncalcuiable benefit to Grand Island,
and [ would recommend her to bor-
row some of Hastings. To prevent
loss it will only be necessary to listen
attentively to insurance agents.
One real estate firm reports two adj
dltions sold since last fall.
Thummel IL Plat, Union Pacific
land and lot agents, will, on Septem-
Der LIST, put Clark's addition on the
market. | don't know where Clark's
addition is, but they say there are in
this addition choice lots at rare bar
gains, and l presume "They Say is
well posted.
The lumber sales made here during
the season have been wonderful.
Griswold d Bacon and half a dozen
other more or less extensive dealers,
carry just Goodies" of building mate
rails.
NEW THINGS.
The Clarendon house has been par
TALLY rebuilt and Paul II. Rawlins,
the new landlord, says that it is the
best house in town, while the Estes
house, just west of the depot, a bran
new structure with a bran new outfit,
is gathering in those who economic
on hotel bills.
Withers d kolls, a new dry goods
firm that halls from Omaha, are doing
a rafting business on the best corner
in town.
Jordan 4 Justice are putting up an
iron front brick, 23x109, two stories
and basement, hardware stoves, etc.
Wholesale and retail will be the bust
ness.
Mr.. Fl. p. Makely, foreman Of the
U. p. car and building department at
Grand Island, has more new ideas
than half a dozen average men and he
has also "the prettiest masculine
horse iii the state of Nebraska.
H CHINESE
never fail to find out all about the
towns where booms are booming and
yesterday two washee chaps, with
young and rather handsome faces,
rented a room below II gambling hell
and threw a sign across the street,
"Wing Sing Laundry and then the
crowd of men and boys who were idle
gatheredo or the sidewalk and voted that
''the Chinese must 60" Wing Sing
came out with several punches of
cigars wrapped up in true celestial
wrappings, and those hoodlums, my
self included, had a better smoke than
we could get anywhere in the Platte
valley, but the next morning an empty
and a desolate room was the late abode
of poor Washee, Washee. He flew by
night from the heathenish attack of
Christians who came to this country
to gain an asylum from force uniustly
used. With bandaged head and
bruised body the ''heathon Chinee" is
now bordering over what Confucius
said about returning good for evil,
and wondering if the thing "can be
did" OF course the gambling hell
was not disturbed.
A marvellous entertainment of a
magical, electrical, psychological char
acter astonished the natives at The
Presbyterian church and Prof. Bel
lew, the entertainer, is en- route for
Omaha.
Seth p, Mobley and Mrs. Mobley
are receiving 80 many melons OF such
proportions that they keep the saloon
windows in the neighborhood well
decorated with twenty-fve-pound mel
ons and oantelopes. The Independent
will issue melon puffs in supplement
form, but Seth don't seem to issue the
melon slices in any form, and the
bpys are singing
You can't have any OF my mushmelons
When your mushmelons are zone"
G. p. r.. Williams as postmaster is
a sublime success, but G. p. r, W. is
not as handsome as he was when he
WAS winking at the girls from THE
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