Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-28
THE PAVING PROJECT.
Progress of the Work Up Second
Avenue.
Surmises = 20 When the Present I'm
dertaxInC VIII be Completed
Next Years Extensions Outlined.

The Second avenue pavement will by
noon on Monday have entered the
block bounced on the west by Fifteenth
street. There is quite a bunch OF tracks
to pave between at this intersection as II
is where he bridge line of the Holmes
syndicate turns into Fifteenth street on
its way to Third avenue. and this fact
will require little more time at this
junction. The advance squad of curb
stone sdjusters have almost reached
Fourteenth street. This leaves but
one more block to be put in
shape ara that is the unfor.
tunate and much vexed one lying
between Sixteenth and West Seventeen tn
streets. The necessary grading here will
be done tie first of the week and it is
hoped the PAYERS will with fair weather
reach it by week from tonight. 1t will
take at least one week to complete it and
it may be expected that the 18th of the
month will not much more than witness
the entire rounding up of the job. Then
the gutter at the corner of Eighteenth
street and Second avenue for a short dis
lance is to be Strengthened, and it is also
the desire of the mayor to remove the OBJ
noxious crossings at the corner Of
Nineteenth street. With this to do, the
con tractors may congratulate themselves
n the latter part of the month
sees them out of the way. In this
connection the street superintendent
has duty to perform in en-
forcing the sidewalk resolution along the
paved district where new grades. have
been made. and he would fill his position
much more acceptably il he would attend
to It with out delay. The street and al
ley comm ttee should get at Union square
and then Second avenue will present the
appearance that is intended it shall, yet
this fall.
People all over the city, eDthus-
isstic over the success of the present
paving, are beginning to talk of probable
extensions of the good work early in the
spring. [; is the plan and purpose of
the council to order the paving of all the
interesting streets from, and including
Twentieth street. west to Fourteenth,
early in the spring. block at least
on eacl side of Second avenue
This would extend the pavement
to First and to Second avenues and prac-
tically insure the paving of the bulk of
the business portion of the city and the
approaches to all the downtown depots
and the river. The council, it is also
quite likely, will be petitiOned to pave
both Eighteenth and Twentieth streets
back as FAR as the bluffs, and Second ave-
nue. west to the pillow works. II this
much is to be done next year-and it can
and ought to be-the preliminsries should
be commenced. City Attorney Haas is
anxious that the proceedings he entered
at the November term of the coun-
ty court and the assessment made,
etc, as well as the contract let
this winter so that the work may com-
mence as soon as the frost leaves the
ground next spring, 1t is very wise
idea on the city attorneys part and if the
council is to heed it as it no doubt will,
IL ought to bestir itself in the matter
The present council can not have too
much OF this kind of public service to its
credit when it passes out of existence
next April. The present municipal body
has demonstrated its usefulness and good
judgment well so far Let 1t be kept up