Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-29


ance. the city fathers discounted
Lord Baltimore in the same proper
ton that royal flush discounts pair
of duces. at the city hall Monday
night. The audience was small, but
enthusiastic, and appreciative to a re-
markable degree. Gen. H. King White
held the center of interest. as usual,
from the very,rise of the curtain I'M
til the drop thereof and was chief
~ctor in the comedy sketch that was
enacted during the three and a half
hours in which he entertained the
crowd. True, there was little by
play that had fer its object his discom-
fort, perhaps. but he came out ace
high in the end. and stands before the
public today in the role of a bright
and shining light in the art of hoodoo-
ism. Gen. White had no occasion to
hang out his S. r. o. sign. but then
the public misjudged the merits of
the two plays going on in town that
evening Unheralded and even un-
announced. the actors in the little
sketch of Monday nights performance
at the city hail inscribed their names
on the scroll of local fame, and thoy
deserve all that they are going to get
at the hands of the Daily Graphic.
But more for the actors anon
1t was precisely 8 o'clock to the
second when Mayor White raped his
gavel and called the ad-
journed session of the city council to
order. Aldermen We'll, Clement. Fox,
Riley, Jordan, Hightower and Nichol
answered to the roll call. For the
once. the honorable gentlemen did not
permit their activities to end with
this tedious duty, but large bunch
of business stands to their credit. In
other words. and in plain, everyday
slang of the streets, there was "some-
thing doing" at the city council ses-
sion Monday night. One spectator of
. the proceedings even became so satyr-
cal as to suggest that the councilmen
/ would make better headway if they
would banquet themselves at the reg
4 ular sessions of the council and hold
II one "adjOurned' session every month
Il for the transaction of business. But
& doubtless he was influenced by some
\. sordid motive in such an assumption.
# Among other things that should
n stand out in bas-relief as an everlast-
Ing monument to the enterprise and
ygoodsense of the city fathers at this
SSsession of the council is the import
ant fact that they passed the electri-
zeal inspector ordinance. This ordin
s5Ance is extremely voluminous, and
will appear in subsequent issue of
The Graphic. 1t required City Clerk
Dan Taylor just fourteen minutes, by
3ctual count, to read it during it's sec
ond reading-and Mr.. Taylor has ac
CURED some fame as a rapid-fire read
er. 1t provides, in substance, for the
election by the city council of an in
spector CT electric wires and poles
and confers upon him the general
duty of seeing that all electrical wir-
ing in the city is properly done. He
isto be placed on a regular salary of
500 per month, instead of commits
sion as was first suggested.
Other important matters were dis.
posed of-matters that have been
hanging fire for the past year. The
cNu0cil. in fact, broke the record for
transacting business, and as a result
It's sitting there were more new
ordinances passed, perhaps, than were
! ever passed at any one single session
Of the city council that the people Of
Pine Bluff have ever been called up
on q tolerate in the past. The coun-
ell earned their salaries. if the pass
Ing 0f new laws is to be taken as a
criterion for what they are worth
which not all people are willing to ad-
mitshOwever. It must not be inferred
from this. though, that any such ac.
tion vas premeditated on the part of
the ccuncil. No one would openly ac-
cuse them Of this. But this is another
4 tale. Il is where the comedy arises,
and belongs to the end of the story.
The ingram Awning.
Alderman Riley, for the public