Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-08-15
GETTING ALONG NICELY.
The Paving Undertaking Being Rap.
idly Pushed --Bide Improvements.

The Paving Undertaking Being Rap.
idly Pushed---side improvements.
A citizen from Peoria. who formerly
lived in Rock Island and was in the city
yesterday, observed with delight the Sec>
ond avenue paving progress. That
work as far it has gone," said he, sis a
good deal better looking than it was in
Peoria at that early stage. 1t looks well
now. but wait until it is rolled, and
Rock Island will have the finest pave,
ment in the state"
That's what the majority of our peo-
pie are beginning to think. the further
the work progresses. There are some of
course that are hard to satisfy and
hard to convert into the meth
DDS and practices of progress
sive age. They stand around and
shake their heads and point ont defects,
ETC., but they are coming around all right
aid by and by they will take all the
credit upon themselves for the success of
the paving project.
The contractors suffered some little de.
lay at the intersection OF Second avenue
and Seventeenth street, owing to diffi~
Guilty in getting macadam for the founda-
ton, but it was received this morning
and there is again smooth sailing. The
paving between the street car tracks has
been pushed ahead to the middle of the
block bounded by Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets.
The ARGUS a few days ago spoke of
the disposition on the part of down town
Second avenue property holders to petit
tion the council for an asphalt pavement.
There seems now to be desire to have
the same brick pavement extended to the
pillow works from Fourteenth street, the
limit of the district to be paved under the
present contract. IL this should be
done. what grand stretch of
paved thoroughfare it would make
nearly a mile. Let it be done
this fall, or as soon as the frost is out in
the spring at the outside. There is going
to be paving done on Twentieth and
Twenty third streets in the early spring
at the outside, and the lower end does
not propose to be outdone-which is
right
Ex-msyor Kimball, one of our Oldest
residents. showed his public spirit yester-
day. when he said, Il endorse this idea
OF street paving most thoroughly. and
hope it will spread all over the city. l
haven't got much property here, only my
little home out on Seventeenth street, but
if the time comes when the street past my
house can be paved, / shall sign a petit
ton to have it done, and if l can't
do better will sell my home and pay for
it" That's the kind of talk that makes
the town grow. There is no danger of
Mr.. Kimball having to sell his home.
The public improvements. that he is like
all good citizens advocating, will so en-
nance the value Of his property. that he
can afford to pave his share without its
crippling him. Mr.. Kimbsll is just at
this stage the kind of man Rock Island
can't get along without.
Its also agratifying fact that the bust
ness portion of the city is to have a sys-
tenn of substantial walks. according to or
dinance. One citizen diligently spread the
report yesterday that Mayor McConochie
had said the sidewalk ordinance need not
be respected, and no attention need be
paid to it. This report caused great in
dignation, and the mayor upon being
asked as to the truth of the assertion.
emphsticslly denied that he had ever
made it.
Second avenue will have as fine walks
as pavement before frost comes.