Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-09-06
MUST BUILD
 SIDEWALKS City Council holds Short but Busy Session-Matters of Minor Importance. :,
BLANKET ORDINANCE
Gooa Report From Chief of Police Board of Public Affairs Will Buy
 New Road Machine.

The City Council met last night in regular session with Mayor Toney presiding and Aldermen Chesnutt. Fox, Hut, Meyer and Shepherd pres ent.
 The council was in session only one and one-half hours, but during that time a large amount of business was attended to, most of it being reg ular routine work.
 A number of accounts were read and allowed and ordered paid. the largest among them being that of the Citizens Light and Transit Co.,. for lights furnished the city and the sal aries of the city officers.
 IA resolution was passed raising the taxation of all real and personal property within the city limits to five mills on the dollar, to be collect- ed as heretofore
 Reports from all of the committees were made and received by the coun- Gil, and several resolutions were adopted, most of them of minor im- portance.
 Mayor Toney produced a letter from the Glide Road Machine Com pany of Minneapolis, offering to sell the city road machine which it is claimed will do more work with one man and one team than the large machines now in use by the city, and which the company offers to lay down here for $6900 The offer, as well as the machine seemed to meet With favor from all of the aldermen and the mayor was instructed to purchase one of the machines, as they are sold on trial under a guar antee to do the work claimed for them.
 Several bad places in the streets were reported by aldermen, but it was shown that some of them were out of the city limits.
 Sanitary Officer Parnell reported the old smokestack at the abandoned waterworks plant in bad condition. being cracked from bottom to top. and on motion it was declared nuisance and ordered torn down.
 The report of the Chief of Police and Police Judge for the past month showed a total of $1,4930O, divided as follows: Cash fines, $9775O; con- mitted $3625O; appealed, $153.OO. Be- sides this the Chief of Police collect ed from the city pound the sum of $67.5O, which brings the grand total collected by him up to $1,56o.5O.
 No bills were received from the Pine Bluff Corporation for water ser vice, which was a surprise to every member of the council
 Perhaps the most interesting item in last nights work was the passage of a Blanket Sidewalk Ordinance, which requires property owners in al- most the entire southern portion of the city to lay concrete sidewalks within three months. The ordinance also includes several streets running north and south from 'Barraque to Twentieth street. The ordinance was passed by an almost unanimous vote, Alderman Shepherd voting against it. This ordinance has been pending for two or three months and was only awaiting it's third and last reading to make it effective.
 An ordinance appropriating money to pay off the city employees was in- troduced, and under suspension of the rules was read the second and third time and passed.
 Mayor Toney asked for a leave of absence for ten or fifteen days, and on motion he was granted same for fifteen days.
 At 9:30 the council adjourned.