Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-04
NJ CHANG:
IN shACk ALIGNMENT EVER BE FORE ASKED BY THE IRON
 MOUNTAIN.
So Says Alderman Boyce, Who Has Seen Member of the Counci,
 Eleven Years.

Alderman Royce. in an interview given out to a reporter for tae Graph- ic Saturday afternoon, calls attention to some inaccuracies in the report of the special session of the city conn. cil published in Fridays paper
 T have been a member of the city council for eleven years, said Alder. man Boyce, and if the matter of changing the alignment of the Iron Mounta tracks ever came mp before that body during the time I have been connected with it, l have no recollec- ton of the fact. don't think the llon Mountain company has ever heretofore asked for perm ission to change it's track alignment on that street.
 Another error into which yolr re. porter fell, was in stating that the proposed change would carry the tracks further south He should have stated further north.
 The city engineers plans for the Improvement of Fourth avenue pro- vide for the center of the double tracks to be laid thereon shall be To- cated in the center of the present single tracks operated by the com pany. This would leave the present curve in the tracks several blocks above the site of the union station. Now the railroad company, as un- derstand 1t, simply want to be re- lieved of the necessity of tearing up and rebuilding it's present tracks from Alabama street to the site of this curve which is located about Chest nut street. It is proposed to use the present line of the real down about the depot as the south pat of the double tracks, and use the switch now extending from near Main east and running in front of the depot be tween the depot and the main line. as the north part of the double tracks This switch VII simply be extended tc the po'nt of the curve, where it will form a junction with inc main line. From thence on west the tracks will be so aligned as firally al a point near Oak street, 10 place the center of the double trac'1e at the center of the present main line T Y curve and will do no one harm. On the ether hand if will serve the DIT" poses of the city to better advantagc since the arran@ement will give us several feet more street on the south side at the depot. Ii should be borne in mind that tho north side of the street al the depot cannot be use1 at all, since it is covered by the depot itself Here we have only the south side of the street to nse and accord ing to the plans of the city engineer the double tracking here, which forces croaches upon several feet of the street. As the company has already laid switch between the main line and the depot, this switch can be uti- lized as the north part of the main line to admirable advantage in econo- mixing street room on the south.
 "The company will begin to throw it's tracks south somewhat at a point about where Pine street Is, and the only point at which the arrangement will pitch any is between Chestnut and Walnut streets. where, instead of having twenty-nine feet of street on either side of the tracks, we will have but twenty-seven on the north side, whereas, we will have thirty-one feet on the south side, but even this af- lords ample room. believe, at this point"