Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-03
May BLOCK BLUFF
CITY'S new PLANT
Opposition at Council Meeting Last Night May Inter
fere With Re Establishment of Big Lumber Mill in
This city-Transt Company Will Double Track on
West Sixth Avenue, Given Permission BY Council
Routine Business Sign Ordinance Is
Amended

Vas the request Of the Citizens
Light and Transit Company, asking
that it be given permission to dou-
bic track West Sixth avenue from
Main street to Cherry street. The
object vas to give the public better
car service and to maintain quick
er schedule on the Forest Park line
this summer. The request was tin
ally granted by the Council and the
work will begin at once.
Alderman Nichol at first opposed
the petition, declaring that the
Council should go slow in the mat
ter. When the City Engineer stated
that the street was wide enough
for double tracks and most of the
aldermen expressed themselves as
favoring the proposed Improvement,
adding that it would be of great
benefit to the city, the company and
the people generally in the way OF
improved car service, Alderman
Nichol voted aye" with the others.
The motion OF Alderman Fox
granting the request of the transit
company, provided it put down the
girder rail and a concrete roadbed.
carried
Routine Business.
Mayor Toney and all OF the alder
men excepting Alderman Gabe
Meyer, who is i'll, were present. The
minutes Of the previous meeting
were read and approved the month
y accounts allowed and warrants
ordered drawn for them The re-
ports OF the various city officials
were also received and filed.
Several matters in the way OF i'm
proving streets We're recommended
to the Council by Alderman Nichol
and Alderman Huntington. Alder
man Nichol recommended a culvert
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and Fourth avenues; a culvert on
the Iron Mountain property on
State street, between Third and
Fourth avenues, and a motion, de-
claring the ditch there nuisance,
was adopted. The report on the
condition OF a ditch at the Bellwood
cemetery gate, was referred to the
Board Of Public Affairs. Alderman
Huntington reported that immedi-
ate work should be done on the
Cherry street ditch, near Sixth ave
nue., and Alderman Jordan report
ed that the water pressure during
the past month was satisfactory.
The Council, at his request, ordered
an arc light placed in front of the
new Carr Memorial church, at Sixth
avenue and Dakota street Deti
ton being presented by that congre
cation, asking for it.
The residents on Olive street re.
quested the Council to build a storm
sewer to drain the streets there AID
they agreed to pay SIS Of the $125
expense to be incurred by the city
in its construction. 1t was ordered
constructed.
An ordinance creating an I'm
provement district for the building
OF sidewalks on Poplar street, be-
tween Sixth and Twentieth avenues,
was passed. And an ordinance. fix
ing the grade of certain streets in
the city, was also adopted.
The ordinance regulating electric
slgnn, their size and hangings, was
amended with an ordinance present.
ed by Alderman Fred Fox. The
sale OF the new radium signs to va
rious merchants, who are anxious to
use them, prompted the amendment.
The new ordinance only gives the
merchants the privilege to use q
sign not heretofore provided for in
the city ordinance, governing them.
An ordinance, restraining the
running at large in the city linits of
certain stock and giving stock own
ers certain privileges, was read
first time but was not acted upon.
The Council adjourned before 4 mo-
ton to read a second time prevail
ed.