Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-28
BEAUTIFUL CITY
 SAYS CALDWELL Secretary of the Pine Bluff Board of Trade Urges River Front Improve ments.
CONFERS WITH GOULD
Levying Court Will Be Urged to Make ApprOpriation-Small Park for Court Square--".Pine Bluff is FOrg- ing to the Front" Says Caldwell.

Doctor J. L. Caldwell, secretary of the Board of Trade, has been con- ferring with County Judge James Gould about the possibility of hav- ing the bank of the Arkansas river
 back of the Jefferson County Court House in this city, graded, cleaned, terraced and planted ill Bermuda grass. At the present timey Doctor Caldwell states, the bank of the river at that point is in a most un- sanitary condition, and is used as a dump by some of the people near by. He says that with very small
 amount of labor and cost, beauti- full river park, similar to the ones
 in numberof large cities, could be
 built, which would not alone inn
 prove greatly the looks of the court
 house yard, but it would afford some
 nice cool places, where the people
 of the city could go on the warm
 summer nights. The park would of
 necessity be a little narrow, but it
 could be made long, and would an- swer the purpose admirably. e
 Whn Judge Gould was as|approached by Doctor Caldwell on this subject, he showed himself to be in sympa- thy with the movement of improv- ing the liver bank, but was unde- cided what action could be taken on the question of making a river park there Doctor Caldwell is of the opinion that the County Levying Court last October appropriated $10O for the improvement of the Court House yard, and while this amount would make no material difference in the work of improving the river bank, it shows that they are in sympathy with the movement and Doctor Caldwell thinks that if properly approached on the subject and the matter laid before them in a proper light, there will be no doubt that they will take some fav- orable action on this important question
 Doctor Caldwell says that boulvard running along the river bank, properly graded and terraced would make very desirable drive- way for afternoon and evening drives, and that it would leave much better impression of this city to passengers on the boats than they possibly form of our city under the present. conditions.
 The Arkansas River Packet Com- pany has arranged to start a boat service from Little Rock to Mem. phis, and as the large Mississippi river boats wll soop include this city in their route it seems highly that some steps similar to this be taken so as to show the boat passengers fair sample ot this city. It has always been drawback to this city that neither the passengers passing through on either the boats or the railroads, saw the part of the city which would show it off to the best advantage.
 "The negro shanties and other small frame buildings could be easily torn away" Doctor Caldwell continued, and it would greatly improve the looks as we'll as the health of the city to have it cleaned up, and fix some improvements simi- lar to the above. Pine Bluff will be forced to use the river as a means of transporting freight and passen- gers in the future more than ever before. The Federal Government ss now improving the rivers through. out the entire southwest and Pine Bluff will get her share, if she win only do her part. We must do our