Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-02

tllS convenient Olu SpIele LII oui D, breasting the waves of times ocean and bearing the race of man toward its ultimate destiny.
 Flashes the electric signal of the new years birth from station to sta ton. girding the earth. The bell Ill the church steeple clangs the midnight greeting and the c]amorous chorus or whistles and horns and human voices swells over the housetops and dies away. Here in the quiet room the clock on the wall goes on with US rhvmtic "tick-tack." tick-tack,' tick tack" not louder nor slower nor fast or than before. This complaceht, cheerful. self-sufficient little human contrivance of springs and wheels performs without emotion it's duty or measuring the seconds that shall gro" with the hours and days of the year now begun and of all time to come'
 History never halts. But what we call the mind has the wonderful pow e1. from instant to lnstahe' to introspect itself, and retro snect it's own and the races historical environment. Llfe1s lnnn- ite loom spins ceaselessly the vast fabric of civilization of which the least of us human creatures is factor. In and under and over and through flies the great shuttle of history, while we perform the psychological marvel of being at once actor and spectator by pausing on the threshold of the new year to take a quick, sweep ing glance backward at the new strands which the Great Spinner has added to the sum total of world ex- perience since a year ago.
 To discover the compara i've import ance of the events in the past brings certain preparedness for the great crises of the future, which is of the utmost value.
 In the beginning. it might be most appropriate to turn the readers at tention toward the progress that year has brought to this city. Living in the midst of the varied Improve ments that have served to make for the towns upbuilding in the course of the past twelvemonth, we are ren- aered scarcely competent to judge of our growth Accustomed as we are to witnessing so many new enterprises innaucurated, so vast progress and the multitudinous changes for the better il. our municipal growth we are ln- ure with them by personal contact, and few of us really appreciate the number and the strength of the strands that old Time has added toI our own growth as a municipal cor noration. It is therefore meet that we should recount the deeds of our selves in our efforts to contribute toI inc universal progress of the world.
 Slowly. steadily, but surely, the city of Pine Bluff has emerged from the swaddling clothes of the village ln- to the full raiment of city. From the Quapaw settlement on the banks or the Arkansas, in the heart of the flch- est community and the garden spot of inc great state of Arkansas. has been transformed by the Great All chemist into a thriving and prosperous city of 25,OO0 inhabitants in the course .nf a half century So modestly has 4his metamorphosis been brought hout that the world has been attract ,xo us only during the past year, ond tAday Pine Bluff has emerged from her outsrown shell into the full bloom of metropolitan life as city m re- a1ity. Her growth is unexceiled Ill tho history of Arkansas cities. Her nrogress and her enterprise are com manding the attention of the uhl'eu States. Already second in commercial ;n,nortance in the list of Arkansas GU ies she bids fair to outstrlp her rlN"'s and forge to the very front rank or the states municipal corporations, ana +bat at an early date There is no exaggeration in the statement that the city of Pine Bluff today offers oppor- tunities unsurpassed anywhere.
 accounting of the Improvements here during the past year reads hke a fairy tale, but it is story paekeo bv he actual facts and figures. Here with the Graph'c presents the statls- ties. In presenting this list now oror # must not by any manner of means be taken to include all Una, bas been accomplished in the way CT progress during the year just closea' seq Naturally. there are hundreds aye 4,ands of minor improvements