Telegram-herald., 1886-07-17
THE RAGING RIVER
Separates the Valley City and
Divides It's News.
NOTES GATHERED FROM NEST Sl0I
F73s the "est ar oge-st Improvement
Pfogrsssss- "a from stock ng-
st Duf ~ O. p Tor - atlr

tloHlD- 4let Hafe t.ru ll lp laar lulE,
First ID was sewer. then the Street Rail
aas Coalf ANS lore Do up lo iay tuer if.4ck
ou. / forsot. ueiore faaf tle street ass
-raiei ana u0N Ebey are going % rasrafe
aua .ei it agalu. lhss had 90 change
ile grade 90 the corner 81 West Bridge and
--oesilE SIS after ihe whole warz was
completed. costing s2H0 mare With ai tue
50 called improvements they have buried
lp lle water Lxln4uts luu would hardie
peneve it out they are i0oi and Aail
under lle gravel Il lre should olc4r
THE tIre Department would have a. spend
bali an hour ligg ug Them up. il Is an an
pleasant matter Co property owners her
bouts and should be- looked after.
John Watson. who resides in the old
stone homestead located ou Ihe bluff over
hanging the West Brdge-st hail, was
Watching the progres, of tile improvement
on that roaaway yesterday and remarked 90
q Dy staudtr just forts mine Yrafs agO
wal6ed up tlis bill and drank out offs onder
brook, bat 1 didn't think al that lime
would ever 0e living here The town didn'l
amount 10 very much, bat what little
growth there was. was 0n the West Side
There were zoo Indians located near Butter
worth ave a halt century ago. the head
inen of the tribes being Biackskin N0onda,
and Micnixinay. have seen the tOwu
zrOw up all around me and
improve, except in one respect
ater, and on this account i was
forced 10 leave the city and locate beyond
s corporate limits / lived on the corner
Of Jefferson aud West Brdge-sfs for eleven
years but the water got 50 bad / was com
peied 10 take my family away. Here We
nave every natural advantage Street cars
land Within a stones throw OF our door,
and We have pure cold spring water tor
our uss-nOt muddy creek water like town
people"
Work on the West Bridge-st bill improve
ment is prog ressing satisfactorily, there
being dozen men and two teams
al work now. and the force
will be increased as the work progresses
| Prior 10 the commencement Of the work
the grade averaged fifteen feet rise and il
was almost wholly impossible for loaded
/ teams going to or from the city. The aver
/ age cut and fill is nine and one half feet and
/ the grade will in some places be nine feet
/ and others eleven, making an average of ten
/ feet. The road bed will be thirty-three feet
/ in width and The improvement as cOntem
/ plated. 3t0 feet in length, commencing al
/ NAlley-ave. and running To a point 100 feet
/ from the top Of the present hill.
| The work will ne completed by September
lst, but the paving not being included that
! lDfAtOn Ol the Improvement " III DiVbdOtN
! not be done this wear The owners of prop
trtv along the road will build substantial
sidewalks, Of regulation widths. and the
| improvement Will be of incalculaOle benefit
! 70 West Side merchants opening up a. II
will the ii lest farming country in the dis
trict
Work on the improvement of Lincoln
| Park progresses slowly. two men being at
work Yesterday while a boy kept them
company They have already unearthed a
miniature stone quarry in laying out the
walks, and if they delay the work much
| longer may unearth the Nandellinde mur-
derer Walks ten foot wide. graveled etc
are staked out similar TO those in Fulton
Street Park, the trees are being trimmed
and by Fail the park Will present a fairly
attractive appearance.
J. W. McKenny. the genial good ma
tured. elongated agent of the L : Il VI. 5
railroad. had a nsrrov escape from drown.
ing the other night. A child fell in a els
tern on Gold-st and in his haste to rescue
her jim Jumped in head first Luckily the
water was shallow and the child and jim
were both saved.
Mort Dgkema received word from hi.
father, Z. Dykema, yesterday, to the effec
that he and his wife had reached
the Netherlands safely and We're hav
ing a good time. Mr.. and Mrs. Dykems
are accompanied by the Whitman family
and will remain in the old country abou
three months
glance az the Werlich building on Wes
Bridge st. at $50 y. m Yesterday nigh
have gwen the impression that furlhe
work on it had b EN- stopped. But on in
vestigation il would have been found tha
ihe men had retired 10 the brewery for beer
II sbnuv- how ea-rly a ft1i~faks rairlr arise
The house on West Bridge st. which fo
many months has been reported a.
haunted" has been tas;ily fixed up anC
is again occupied This house was the ont
m which Lizz.e Holmes died under sucl
peculiar circumstances, IL being still an un
solved question Of murder or suicide
horse attached to a light wagon owne,
by Menhennck & Wolf of % Monroe 81
became frightened on Fourth-st yesterday
aud running onto the sidewalk broke th
harness The animals eve was also hadl,
injured
The West Side and East side bows had
set 10 above the dam yesterday, and severa
of the little fellows were badly used up
Each section claims the water above the
dam for swimming purposes.
The sidewalk running up the Wes
Brdge-st grade has done duty for ten lonl
years 10 IS now iu rickety and unsai
condition and should be rebuilt
II keep everything in stock. said Admi
raj Lord. of West Bridge - yesier
day. but second hand coffins and cxpec
some of those i'm tomorrow.
The barn in the rear Of the Planters
House is an old citizen lt was built ii
1855. and Is the last relics Of the Slate
Mission
The boiler plate sheet mp street will "a,
TODAY that new sidewalk Is being laid =
the corner of Michigan and First SIS.
President Dpnbam inspected the new
Stranan and Bank Block yesterday Wori
on 10 i- progressing rapidly
Dr Wetmore will return from the Nortl
the first of next wfek and open a Aedics
studio on West Bmdge-st
Pafroimsn John QuigE who has beei
SICK for tS0 dsys, returned % the Stocking
sf. bcaf yesterday.
The sidewalks on the West SIDE are gen
eraiIv in befter condition than those ora th
East side
Mrs r Parr. ~ West Bridget eu
fertsined party # NicksbarE friends yes
fsrisy.
Nearly every forer Farien on the Wes
si8e II resp eudent with Nsture bnEnte-
hues
The river below tbe dem is very iov sni
can 80 easily rsd across
The scnhner building on YES Rrive-sN
is uearr fnsle1
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