Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-01

Following Il meeting oI the prop
 holdings en the river tr0nr bntWcc.
 State and Chestnut streets, where the
 bank is caylng rapidly, and 1hic' "as
 held at tine county court room ill tht
 court house Saturday morning q. lo
 o'clock. County Judge Gould annGa'l-
 ced that ha would advance Sl.00U u
 the S2,500 appropriated recently foH
 river work by the County IlevinG
 Court, that immediate work might ye
 done to pre:ent further damage to
 property, adjacent to the business
 section. It vas also announced by
 the eOmFiss toners of Improvements
 District No 25, which was recently formed for the purpose of fepairira
 the river bank from Beech to Ten
 nessee streets, that $1,0Q0 would .,,.
 added to the temporary Improvement fund.
 A cou!!ni.tee, composed oi W. N. Trulock, D. NJ nlt!tfenthai, l.. Boyce, D. C.. Beli and r. G. smart,
 was named to carry out the plans outlined, which includes the ifline- diate repair or strengthening Of tl.2 river bank here The committee vent to work Immediately and let seyega! contracts for hauling brush and otht. material for rcyettnen4 work, to Iii : river front. Two ot the contracts were let 10 C. E. PIiiluot and C. IL. Winfrey and Mayor Toney oEuervd ali the city teams into service t0 assist in the work. Within all hour after the contracts were let, wagon load of brush and other material ~e.c tlr. loaded at the foot Q! Chestnut, Pine and West Coart streets and immediate work of strengthening the crumbin5 bank was begun The work is beilf superintended by William Parkin, "h4 has charge of the government office at Little Rock, and who, realizing tie gravity of the situation here, came here to aid i'll the work. He believes that the business section of the city north of Barraquc street. is ila m mediate danger, including the massni. ficent Jefferson county court house and the $l50.O0 Hotel Jefferson, ole of the largest and best hostelries IT Southeast Arkansas. Tn addition 10 these the stores Of the R. M. Knox Company, s. Bluthcnthal and Con- pany, Knox Walker Furniture Con pany, the Pine Bluff Bottlin2 Works and other smaller places are threat ened by the cavinS riyer Ill fact. d large warehouse belonging to Cen eral K. M Knox, slld into the river early Friday morning. It was valued at $1,500 Several thousand dollars worth of hides belonging to A. r. Dreyfus were removed from the build ing before the bank gave way.
 At the meeting held Saturday morning ". II. Lausford and Captain John s. Bell offered to donate brua:l from their plantations and their offers were accepted The work will be done on the river front night and day to stop the cavings at least until the river. which continues to rise 1 here, recedes to it's former low stage. Then the improvement of the rive. front here, planned by the property owners and the government. will be- gin.
 At a meeting hurredly called Fri 1 day night committee was appoint- i, ed to visit the north bank of the Ar kansas river and ascertain what might be done there to relieve the local sit i uation. This committee reported Sat l urday morning that it would be i'm { and an almost impossl- | was thought that this would throw tile | southwest point of the north bank. i: was though that this would hrow the | current oi the river several miles be- ! |ow Pine Bluff, which would in all . have resulted. But prop srty owners along the south bank Of .kc river. below this city. objected to that procedure and tome even went so far as to threat n Injunction proceedings, 1T the ex- ,avation work was attempted. And