Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-08-07
PAVING PROGRESS.

The WOril Along second Avenues
The First FILLING Put inca Kick
| smother ed Cautions.
| Atkinson & Oloff are pushing the Sec
ond avenue paving project in a manner
that is highly gratifying to all progressive
citizens. This morning thirty men were
put on and the excavation as far west as
| Nineteenth street, of the Car tracks was
rapidly completed. Supt. Schnitger inns
mediately put force of his own at work
raising the track to grade and was not
long in completing that part of the work,
and the first of the filling preparatory to
laying brick between the rails, was put
in this afternoon by Atkinson & Oloff.
The first car of Bardolph brick for the
use Of the Holmes street car company ar
rived this morning. and the first block
of the car tracks will be paved before the
people have any idea it will.
| 1t was rumored this morning that one
or two of the property holders in the
| paving district had attempted to assem-
BILE meeting of the other property hold.
ers last night for the purpose of obtain
ing sentime ut relative to putting an in-
| junction OF the paving contractors, but
there was 50 small turnout that the in
stigators were discouraged. Any one
Il W would
to be discouraged and sat down on 4.
The majority of the taxpayers on Sec
Ond avenue never felt better than they
do now, for while the improvement is TO
cost them all something. they have the
sense to see the immediate benefits
ahead, not only to them, but to the entire
city, and man who is talking Injunction
is among the wrong class of people; he
had better move to Davenport or Moline.
A number of leading lawyers were spoken
to on the subject this morn
ing, and all ridiculed the idea of injunc,
ton. One of them spoke truthful senti.
ments when he said: Il doubt if law
| yer conld be found in Rock Island who
would undertake to stop this work to
please anybody. In the first place there
are no apps -ent reasons for such action.
The attorneys, as profession, have done
as much to promote Rock Islands growth
as any class of business men, aud l don't
believe one of the number in the city
would exercise his professional talents to
deter 1t now. 1t would certainly be one
who is exceedingly hard up for a fee who
would do such thing. We are on the
move here this year, and a man who lsgs
or revolts kills himself forever in the eye
of the conn unity by so doing"
Second avenue presents a gorgeous sp-
pearance these nights with its almost in
Vulnerable red danger signals. People
are for the most part needing the injunc.
ton of the council to put in needed water
and gas pipes, sewer connections, etc. =,
before the paving reaches them. This is
a very necessary precaution and will save
much future trouble both to the city and
| property holders. The following from
! the local columns of the Omaha Bee is
apropos of this very subject:
/ The paving around the motor switches
| at the corner of Broadway and Thir-
tenth streets was removed yesterday to
level up the track, which was badly out
+; OF shape, on account of the settling of the
| ground and paving over the sewer. There
are numerous similar places on Broadway
at various points between the Northwest
ern depot and the waterwOrks settling
basin, where there are decided depres-
sions in the paving. owing both to the re-
laying of the blocks and the settling of
the grade. 1t will be noticed in almost
any part of the city where the paving has
| been removed and relaid. to make repairs
to sewers. water pipes or gas pipes. or for
the purpose of making ho1se connec-
tons, that the relald section of paving
almost invari ably settles below the sur
rounding paving in few weeks. and
| there remains. Aside from making an
| uneven surface in the street, which in
jures the appearance of the thorough
fare. these depressions are filled with
water in every rain, which settles dow n
between the blocks, and tends to hasten
the decay of the material. Lower Broad
| way, which was one of the finest ap
peariDg drives in the country when COM
pleted last summer, is becoming filled
with these depressions, and some of
them are decidedly lower than they
| should be. 1t will result in spelling the
| street for fasr driving unless stop is put
to it. The city engineer is supposed to
have the matter under his personal OBJ
| servstion. but it is impossible for him to
always to be on hand, and an exami ma
| ton when the work is completed does
| not show that the dirt was improperly
tamped, and it is accepted.
Mayor McConochie has given notice to
the telegraph, telephone and electric
light companies to move all poles inside
the curbing before the paving is pat in
This is proper move. as it will give the
street a much better appearance.