The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-27
Y X START THE NEW YEAR BY
 X GETTING THE INTERU RBAN.
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Editor Sentinel-Record:
 To start the new year on solid basis first give us the interurban from Hot Springs to Little Rock and we will grow as we have never grown before.
 This is an enterprise that viii help everybody. It will add to the value of every piece of real estate in this city. It is the beginning of new Hot Springs.
 Outside of Central avenue, where there is no room, no street in the city is too good or too valuable for this road under the proper res.ric- tions. It is not necessary. neither is any street or any property near it, but to the contrary it will add con siderable value.
 l cannot see for my life why any one would oppose an enterprise that will help our city as much as this Interurban will. A few citizens may have to make some concessions but what if they do? Is 1t any more than right for [ m to do so? Will you for your own selfish interest cause your neighbors and friends to lose?
 Suppose that twenty-five percent of the people on the street selected for the interburban are slightly dam aged (and that is hardly possible), and seventy-five per cent are great ly benefited, which there is no doubt they would be? What are you peo- pie going to do who represent the twenty-five per cent? Are you through your own selfish interests going to fight the interests of the other .seventy-five per cent? l hope not.
 do hope that self will be lost sight of in this deal and the majority in- terest rule, as it should.
 What will this road do for Hot Springs?
 It will instilI confidence in every business in the city.
 It will add confidence to non-resi- dents and bring foreign capital into our midst.
 It will add one million dollars to the taxes of Hot Springs and Garland county, the first year.
 It will De the means of forcing a railroad outlet west.
 It will make it possible for the dam to be built across the Ouachita river. It will have branch road to Noun Jain Valley Springs
 It will bring thousands of people to Hot Springs that would not come otherwise.
 It will virtually stop the importa- tion of cold storage, butter, eggs, fowls, and vegetables. and bring them to our doors fresh from the aarms. produaed-by our own people on their own farms. thereby keeping our money at home. We will live much better and at less expense.
 It will be the first and only inter urban railway in Arkansas, but not the last. We hope. The fifty Arkansas citizens who put half million dollars into this project may not make any money out | of it, but to a certainty the citizens of Hot Springs and Little Rock and | the intermediate country will profit l largely.
 It will make it possible to have out of town parks. picnic grounds, fishing, | hunting and many and varied amuse- ments fer our visitors, friends, and 1 citizens.
 1 It will bring wealthy people from the north and south, who will build their homes in this community where | there is no better climate. no better water, no more beautiful mountains, | better schools, better people nor a greater health resort. l I wish that every man in Hot Springs would make a solemn VOW before the end of this great and glor ious year that hereafter he will be more generous. more self-sacrificing
 more enterprising and live better and cleaner life--the only sane and sure way to live-and act whereby we can hope to make Hot Springs
 what God intended i'll His infinite
 wisdom what 1t shouid be THE l GREATEST AND MOST WONDER 1 FULL CITY IN ALL THE WORLD. ] HAMp WILLIAMS.