Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-25

day afternoon, the outcome of which was the passage of several resolutions which tend to obviate the cause of the delay in the paving operations on Fourth avenue. The Pine Bluff Light and Water company will be forced by the resolutions to take inn mediate action upon the question of leaky water mains and also provide against leakage in the future It is expected that the work can go on to a speedy consummaton as soon as the company has compiled with the mandates of the council.
 The meeting was a special one. called by order of Mayor White. Five aldermen were present, Messres. Fox, Nichol, Well, Riley, and High tower, Alderman Boyce being on the sick list and Alderman Clement out of the city The object of the meet- ing was stated in a few words by Mayor White. who explained that the work of paving Fourth avenue was being delayed on account of the water mains being too near the sur face and having sprung leaks in sev- eral places, which have made the ground so soft that there was no use in the paving contractors proceeding with the work, as the macadam went to the bottom, and the mud was forced to the surface He also said fer the Pine Bluff Light and Water company to put their mains inside the curbing on the street, as it would destroy the trees and involve the company in suits to the extent of per haps SlQo, 900. For the same reason it would be impossible for the West ern Union Telegraph company to put the r poles, which are now on the south side of Fourth avenue, inside the curb, as they would also be in- volved in damage suits.
 Hon. M. A. Austin, legal represen. tative of the Iron Mountain Railroad company, addressed the council ex- blaming the position of the railroad company in the matter. As matters stand now, the railroad company might go ahead with the paving, and when they were through with it the street would be in worse shape than it is at the present time, as the con- tinuous leaking will make the foun- dation for the paving a bed of mud, and the macadam will work down through the mud, bringing the latter to the surface He said that he did not wish to have any m sunderstand- ing in the matter. and that he would not go ahead with the work and then when it was completed have it re- jected by the city. He said that the railroad company was willing to lay the pavement exactly in accordance With the specifications made by the cty engineer, but that they wished to have the assurance of the council and city engineer that the work would be accepted and completed.
 He said that in case they put down the macadam on the foundation that i, now there, when the ten-ton roller comes along and passes over it all the corporation-cocks on the water mains will be broken off, the water will flood the street, and the founda- ton will again be mud. even though they allow it to dry out before going further. He called upon E. H. Stein irger, the railroad contractor who has charge of the building operations on the new union depot, and Mir. Stein inger said that he considered ten ten roller too heavy for the sub-soil under the street. He suggested talk ing a five-ton roller and using it on one block of the work, and using the ten-tcn roller on another block, and comnaring the results. Austin fol- lowed him with a request to the city council to give him the street to work on, saying that work would have te he stopped if they could not get it.
 7'ho entire difficulty arises from the fact that the water mains of the Pne Bluff Light and Water com panv are too near the sur face of the ground and that manv of the connections from the mains to the houses have been broken