Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-31
TALK NOTHING FL ST
Good Streets Now Chief Tonic of
Conversation in Pine RIuff

ing. ere is but one eXpret c..
~ an endorsement Of
III ...e contention for impl ..;
streets. If thirty blocks a yes !
not be put down witt 't.o. rss res.sss ~
which the city will have for street IN,
provement, the people want as much
as it will put down, if not more than
one block year, but they are not
going to be satisfied with anything
less than an expenditure of all the
revenues possible for good streets, and
they want good streets before any
other contemplated improvements are
made
Old citizens have said that they
never saw the streets of Pine Bluff in
as bad condition as they are at pres
| ent. Every day teams and wagons
mire in the mud. The wagons sink to
the axles. and the teams can't pull
out. The jobbers and commission
men are compelled to employ extra
teams and wagons, and they say that
their business is being put to much
heavier expense because of the mud.
Everybody is declaring in favor of
changed and they all want improved
streets. The following is another
batch of interviews with citizens on the
subject of the Graphic's fight for inn
proved streets:
Senator Creed Cadwell-"I heartily
approve the Graphic's position in its
efforts to secure improved streets,
and I regret that l am not in an Of
fetal position where l could be Of
great service in pushing it to a sue
cess"
Sennett Seabrook-'.I endorse the
Graphic's fight for good streets. We
need improved streets worse than
we need anything else
Rev j. NJ. Hawley-"Improved
streets are in line with the progress
of Pine Bluff in other ways and to
keep up with the city's progress other
wise we can not afford to neglect the
permanent Improvement of our
treets
f. Boyce, candidate for reelection
| Nhe city councl-"I am in favor of
Impending all the surplus revenues OF
the city, after providing for such fix
ed charges as water. light and salaries
in the different departments, in perma-
nent public improvements. | have
always advocated an economical ad-
ministration of the expenses of the
city, in order that greater sum might
be. available for public improvements"
meyer Solmson, city editor Com
mercial-"Certainly l am in favor of
gooS streets for Pine Bluff. The bad
ting 1ghfares of our progressive city
| is sc.4c of its greatest drawbacks. Pine
Bluff, comparative speaking, is the
best town in the country, and with
up-to-date streets it will surpass in
progressiveness and importance any
Of the larger cities of the north. Good
streets are essential to health and
prosperity"
n an interview with Mr. E. A. Peck,
OF the Cotton Belt railway, he said:
am certainly in favor of the per-
manent improvements Of the streets.
am just preparing to make Third
avenue credit to Pine Bluff, instead
of the muddy street it has been. I'm
going to rock it solid and find bottom.
know | can do it with rock. If the
% undertakes permanent i'm
br0Stnents, you can rest assured that
4 will ldp all can to help. I am now
putting a few cars of cinders on the
rack for temporary relief, and as soon
it is poscsible l will have rock here
ID that before long. The most need
public work is street work.,
W. Clary-T have long since
nd out that what you do is worth
g we'll. BY all means spend the
money in permanan. improve
ts.''