The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-11-23

arc doing some healthy work on
the streets. 1t would seem that
either the fellows referred to are not
what they seem, or that the officers are
too active for them. We are inclined to
believe that the latter is the case.
"A water supply pipe, two aud half
inches in diameter, is being forced disgon.
ally through Ohio leveo beginning on the
outer slope opposite The Halliday and aim
ing to come forth in trench near the
boier.house of the Cairo Distilled Water
Ice Company, at depth Of eighteen feet
below the surface of the ground there. The
distance from the point Of beginning out
side of the levee, to where it is to connect
with the ice factory's pumping apparatus
inside, is about five hundred feet, On
Monday or Tuesday about one hundred and
fifty feet had been forced into the levee,
and there the work was then stopped in
order to await the arrival of stronger
couplings, which it was thought ad.
vsabe to get because the strain
upon the pipe wss so great that
some of the couplings in use were thought
to be too light to stand it, This pipe
will supply the water only for the boilers,
but for the ice tank, water will be OBJ.
tanned from two drive wells which the com
pany intends yet to sink One Of these
wells is to be seventy feet deep, the other
considerably deeper One reason why drive.
well water is preferred to river water for
the manufacture of ice is that the former
is considerably cooler than the latter; and
the reason why the company will have two
driyewells is that there may be less danger
OF failure Of the supply of water because
Of the disorder Of the source, The new
couplings are expected to arrive today and
then the work on tho boiler supply
pipe will be resumed. Mr. Charles
Far has charge Of :nis work
To The BULLETINS few lines con
graduating the Argus upon it success dur.
Ing its four years of life just closed and ex-
pressing wish for the continuace Of the
same, the latter paper makes the following
explanatory reply, in which it tells some
forciblc truths about the newspaper bust
ness in Cairo "TaE BULLETIN has our
thanks for its expression Of good will,
which is most sincerely reciprocapd; but
for fear that midget may be exaggerated
in the minds Of readers, we may say that it
amounts to a very modest income, which is
we'll earned by the performance Of great
variety of duties and hard work So far
as the Argus has met with success, the fact
has been due chiefly to the course Of is
conductors, in performing as much Of the
labor required on it themselves as is prsc.
| ticable. Every person connected with it
is an energetic persistent worker, and no
expenditure is permitted for display or
grandeur, In any city the size Of Cairo
no newspaper office can support ornamen-
tai appendices. The BULLETIN office, we
notice recognizes this fact and acts upon
it, aud hence its uausual financial success
in great measure, we presume. The uews-
paper failures in Cairo have been numerous,
The BULLETIN and Argus being the remains
Of many experiments in that line Of bust.
ness, Some have failed from lack Of indus.
try aud judgment III their conductors, some
from too much enterprise; for be it known,
that the largest income apaper can expect
to realize in Cairo will not admit of more
than small fraction OF the outlay re-
CURED by metropolitan newspaper enter
prses. And as net income, the most sue.
cesstul publisher here must be content with
that of the average shop keeper or mechan.
ic.n
Orders blye been issued by Mayor
lhistlewoOd to the police force OF the city
TO enforce, 10 certain extent, the ordinau
ces against switching and permitting cars
10 stand upon the tracks above Second
street On the Commercial avenue tracks of
the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific railroad.
The orders do not aim to interfere with the
running back and forth Of trains at all, but
do aim to prevent IN future the making up
of trains anywhere above Second street on
the tracks mentioned These orders are
prompted by a strong pressure from proper.
ty owners in the lower portion of the city
aud others too, who have found the switch
luz carried on FROM Sixth and Sew.
enth streets down an almost
unbearabIe daily nuisance. The large bust.
ness Of the company has compelled it to do
an unsual amount of switching of late,