Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-10
BOUND WITH BRICK,
The Twin.Cities Joined SOlidly
by Pavement.
Edwards Il walsh Complete ths o.
line Avenue sob, and Appropriate
~ Comment crate the Event.

~ Comment crate the Event.
shortly afte- O'Clock last night the
last brick was laid in the pavement which
unites the twin cities of Rock Island and
Moline. by Edwards s. Walsh. the con-
tractors having in charge the Moline ave.
nue. job. The operation not only binds
the two cities by means of brick pave
ment, but completes one of the largest
brick pavement contracts known. and
the longest stretch of brick pavement in
existence. The undertaking which
Edwards & Walsh have finished is
clearly three miles, or from
Twentieth street and Fourth avenue. east
via Fourth avenue, Twenty-third street
Moline avenue AID Brooks crossing to
Forty-sixth street. the division line.
This with the " ,rk on Third avenue in
Moline, which it joins, and that along
Twentieth to S ;ond and west to Ninth in
Rock Island. makes an uninterrupted
stretch of brick pavement six miles in
| length.
Edwards & Walsh, whose important
and pleasant task it has been TO supply
| the missing link in this great improves
ment, have shown their appreciation of the
usage that the good things of life come last,
| by making the last mile of their contract q
| model of thoroughness and excellency in
! brick pavement. They have made the
best job of any ever put in by them. have
taken partic ular pains with it and have
succeeded in sccomp fishing what they
should be proud of. Notwithstanding that
they have been obliged to overcome
many difficulties in the way of grading
and draining, and other hsrdships nat
urally to be encountered on so busy a
thoroughfare as Moline avenue with its
double street railway tracks and its great
volume OF wagon traffic to and from Mo
line. Through Brooks crossing
| the contractors were obliged
to construct considerable masonry in Or
der TO carry off the water, to sag nothing
of the work required to construct solid
bed on which the pavement could rest. as
the ground is fairly alive with bubbling
springs there, N aking cedar underplanking
necessary to prevent the pavement being
washed out by heavy rains.
This morning Edwards & Walsh set
men at work going over the entire line
| of the pavement and remedying all de-
fects, whether due to the hurry in push
| ing the work or to excavations made late
before the paving was done.
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not settle before the PAYERS were upon
| it. The entire work will be subjected to
complete examination by the contractors
and every depression properly attended
| to, so that the council will not be asked
to accept the pavement on the whole
| until it is put in as nearly perfect condi>
| ton as it is possible to make it, The
contractors are determined, in a word, to
! make the job q credit to themselves and
| to the city.
This morning Mr.. Edwards celebrated
the completion of the work by implant-
| ing in the pavement directly on the divi
sion line a small box containing q
copies of the Rock Island ARGUS and
Union, the contract of the firm with the
city and-a silver brick, Charles A. Han
son having ingeniously provided i, by
the application of tin foil to an ordinary
brick. There were also in the box other
papers of interest.
MIR. Edwards takes part of his force to
Davenport next week, where he has an
| important sewer contract involving S15,-
| coo, while Mr.. Walsh goes to Streator to
| look after a new 6-block paving contract
| lust awarded the firm in that CITY.