Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-01-21

spective places OF business at T.
o'clock, midnight, extending same 10
the hour OF /: 80 a. NJ
II is our sincere and earnest desire
% cooperate with your honorable body
, n doing everything in our power to
make and observe such laws as will
serve 20 our common interests and
perpetuate the good will and tolerance
Of he public at large.
| II is not our desire, as some seem
20 think. 70 break any OF the laws
prescribed 70 our business, nor to an
tagonize any OF the laws now in ef-
| feet, but on the contrary, to strive to
live up 10 and carry them out spceifi-
c1lly and 70 the letter
However, under the present ordi-
nance prohibiting us from keeping
open our places Of bushes after mid
night, We are restricted OF a char
acter OF revenue that is indeed hurt
hi 10 our interests, and especially I'M
der the i1eavy license demanded OF
us. inasmuch as the travelling public,
many OF whom reach our city on She
! ni4aJ trains and 10 not arrive here
until after midnight, are prevented
from gaining admission to our place
and satisfying thec wants.
i is on this ground mainly that We
appeal to You for an amendment of the
present law, which, Il granted, We
pledge our faithful adherence to and
viii oblisate ourselves 10 close
promptly at this hoaf=each and every
night.
The petition is signed by j. w.
Allen. Fred Senyard, John O'Connell,
7. f Back & Company, n. T. Jen-
kins. sam Tucker, Fred Minton, C. c..
Br0ckWay, Cry stall Bottling Manufact-
urins Company, !. Foti, The Brook
hill, j z. Cromwell, George Black
John Z. Wells lake Mosley and James
{! ZONES.
On 1'1o petition : end orstti the fol-
lowing which is signed by L. and e.
Weftheiner, NJ. Cans and Company,
Pine i If Bottling Company and The
i kansas and Texas Consolidated Ice
ana Coal Company, wholesale liquor
dealers:
I'VE, the undersigned Wholesale
liquor dealers Of Pine Bluff, heartily
! approve the the above, and further
more. we agree to use every effort to
have the laws of the city endorsed.
In view Of the fact that the petit
ton would carry an ordinance, amend
ing an ordinance Alderman Fox novel
that it be referred to the ordinance
committee, with instructions to bring
in an ordinance amending the midnight
closing ordinance. Then, he said, the
council could take action on it in the
usual way. He did not want to be un-
derstood as committing himself, re
said, for he was just as liable TO vote
against it as he was for it. Alder
man Jordan made similar statement
relative to his vote on the matter Of
reconsideying the action of the coun-
Gil The council will not meet again
unJil the first Monday in February and
Mayor Toney suggested that, if it was
the desire of the council to permit the
saloon men to keep open until 1870 a.
m. until the ordinance to amend the
prcsen: midnight closing ordinance is
v,,11 <lScnocn1
should commit themselves. 1t was
unanim Dusty agreed that the saloon
men should De permitted to keep open
Until 1880 a.. m. for the present,
pending a vote on the amended ordi-
nance Alderman Clement talked as
If ne favored the amendment, although
he did not commit himself last night.
Alderman Hudson, the author of the
midnight closing ordinance, expressed
himself as being opposed to changing
the present midnight hour. He ar
gued that the police would be given
more work if The hour was changed
to 1880 o'clock. The matter will be
finally disposed Of at the next meet
ing Of the council.
The board of public affairs was last
night authorized to advertise for bids
for the culvert, which is to be built
on East Second avenue, across the ra-
vine. The preparations that are now
being made for the paving OF that
street prompted this action of the
council last night.
The council accepted an offer OF
the Pine Bluff Bank Clerks Associa-
ton for a $4,000 note made by j. TT
Rutherford some months ago when he
purchased the Oh city hall property