Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-08-23
THAT LOOKS BETTER.
Does the North side Of the second
Avenue Pavement Intersection..-
The work Further improvements.

Does the North Side of the Second
Avenue Pavement Intersection
The work Further improvements.
That the north side of the pavement at
the intersection of Second avenue and
Nineteenth street is completed. an oppor-
tunity is afforded to compare the surface
with that on the south side. where the
sloping gutter and elevated crossing was
tried as an experiment. The plain sur
face. with little perceptible variation
from the general surface of the street. is
vastly preferable in appearance. and will
from every indication be practically so,
also. 1t will be adopted at the other
street functions in the district to be
paved. This furnishes the first block Of
pavement, though the space to the
east line of Twentieth street re-
mains to be done. The work of cons
pleting the second block bounded by
Nineteenth and Eighteenth street has
been fairly entered upon, aud the pave
ment work to the alley will be completed
solid by tonight.
| Atkinson & Oloff have experienced a
little difficulty in getting suitable brick
for the first course. They used all they
had on hand, and pending the manufac-
ture of more of the same quality other
local dealers took advantage of the
circumstances and raised the price of that
grade of brick, so that the firm was oh,
liged TO go out of town for brick. AS
has been stated, large quantity was
secured in Moline and also in Gable, bat
decidedly the best lot yet received from
outside sources has been contracted for
with Cambridge firm. There
are to be 100000 in the shipment
and they are of much the same appear
snce as the Galesburg-hsrd and more
evenly finished. but probably not so well
burned.
The firm of Larkin & Stephens to whom
the putting in of the curbing has been
suble. by Atkinson & Oloff, are doing
the work as rapidly as the material ar
rives. The rounding corner stones at the
street intersections are very neat and will
tend to give the street fine appearance
wherever they are used.
The work of putting down new side
walks on second avenue is progressing
nicely. This morning Capt. Robinson,
who disputed the grade on the Eighteenth
street side of his bank building
and who stopped work yesterday,
gave instructions to Larkin &
Stephens, the contractors, to resume
work this morning according to the pro-
per grade. and there will probably be nc
further objection to established uniform
grades, as those who are disconnected
the most thereby have raised the least
objection so far, but are altering theil
buildings to suit the grade as fast as
possible. Some of these property hold
ers are, as the ARGUS has said before, in
favor of securing the services of an ex
pert from Chicago to raise their entire
buildings.
Mr.. L. A. Marshall, of Chicago. presi
dent and manager of the Minnehshs
Granite company. is in the city today
having been attracted by the reports Of
Rock Islands and Davenport's booms
Il IN IN n g.,
fronts to business blocks. and will prob,
ably arrange to substitute some of his
plans for one or more of the long exist
ing Second avenue eye-sores, and which
look more look out of place than evel
now.