Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-06

Last evening met Mr.. z. c. Boyce, late
IL a member Of the Cincinnati Board of
Public Works and now heavy contractor
on street work. Mr.. Boyce is heavily inter
ested in the large paving contracts soon to
be let by the Queen City authorizes. and has
been on tour Of inspection TO number OF
cities with view to examining the various
STYLES of psvemen,s lately laid down. He
stopped of here to see how our
brick blocks wefo standing the racket
and yesterday afternoon he made an
examination of several OF our recently
paved thoroughtarea He expressed great
satisfaction with the material used, it i'm
pressing him as being cheap, durable and
easily constructed and repaired. asked
him what they were going to put down IN
Cincinnati, and he said: They have set
aside half a million dollars for paving pur-
poses, and originally intended to use granite
blocks, and ssphaltum, bat think when
they hear my report they will devote about
half that sum to bricks, using them
along Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and
Seventh streets, and up alone Walnut
Hill, where the traffic is not of the heaviest
description. Down town in the wholesale
district, about the coal yards, dePots, the
landing and such localities. we will have to
use blocks; | am satisfied the brick would
never stand the wear. Our big trucks hsu'
from FIVE 10 ten and fifteen tons at load
with four, six and eight horses; our Goa
wagons take hundred and twenty-five bush
els, and our big safe trucks, stone wagons
and that sort Of vehicles would soon do up
the brick pavement But along the
streets devoted to retailing and
in the residence quarters the
bricks are the very thing. Asphaltum costs
Just about double what your streets cost, and
is no better, it. indeed, it is as good. think
have better method of putting down
bricks than that in vogue here. l would
gil up the street TO depth Of foot,
first, of course, removing the original soil
or pavement, with broken stone, and then
roll it down with q twenty-six ton roller
The stone would be covered with two inches
of sand, and on this would lay the bricks
rolling the whole afierward with q lighter
roller. An admirable street would be the
result"
When Judge R. Il. Cochran was here a
few days ago took occasion to ask him q
few questions regarding the present de
pressed condition of business and the pros
pect for the future. He said he thought
there was some signs Of improvement IN
two or three sections of the country, nota
bly, in the East, where the clouds seemed to
be slowly but surely lifting. If business was
10 improve, it would be far better to have
the return to prosperity very gradual, as
revival under those circumstances would be
apt to possess elements Of permanancy'
The railroads, he said, had suffered very
greatly, and were, many of them, IN straigh.'
ened circumstances. Passenger traffic had
fallen off in even greater proportion thar
freight and the companies were anxiously
looking for autumn with it's expected relief
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A farmer told me yesterday that this yen
Of grace 1885 would pass into history as
The great insect year. | asked him why
and was informed, in return, that all classes
Of small creeping things, from that bane o.
the housewife, the red ant, to snakes, are on
hand in greater numbers than for genera
ton. The agriculturalist could not &C
count for this surplus of vermin, as the sea
son had not been particularly favorable tol
the development Of bugs, etc, and we agreed
to leave the matter to the scientists fol
solution.
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hear a revival of evening paper talk
This time a business man is connected with
the project in the capacity of financial
hacker, while local and imported talent /,
10 do the literary and mechanical portion
Of the work. | hope the rumor is true
but the tale has been SO often told thai
some folks will have to see the first number
ofthe journal before they will be convinced.
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There was q general overhauling Of over
coats and heavy wraps last evening.
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