Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
PAVING DISTRICT
 IS GIVEN S2.5OO City Council Votes to Aid Ploperty Owners on West
 Fifth Avenue.
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lle city council last night elected .Noefhl'h Fred Fox, of the First ward, mayor pro lem to serve in he ''0aeifs' of Mayor Jordan, who will
 ieitVe shortly for d two weeks vaco- ton. Mayor Jordan was granisd q TWO weeks leave 10 absence by tsat eooS, The Council also appropriated 5000 to a.d the Fifth ayenue ravins alstAct, voted to purchase a motor- cycle for the police department in oFoeF to keep up" with sDsedino automobilis and transacted much ethef business of importance.
 ne commissioners of the Fifth avenue paving district, Judge C. M.
 P1llpot, NJ. E Bloom and Fred Sen yard, who have been having about as much trouble since they accepted the hchofs confessed on them bv fhelf property owning neighbcrs as Colonel Roosevelt had at the regular republican convention at Chicago during the operat on of the steam
 roller, appeared before the aldermen and asked for financial assistance
 to thaole them to carry out their
 work of paving West Fifth avenue fas planned. Judge Philpot stated mat the county had donated S1S.GO to aud the property owners ill their efforts to improve and beautify their street and the property owners them selves Tad agreed to give $50 lot,
 but that C Cty Engineer Allen, in grad ing the street. removing gravel and ether work had incurred an addition al eXpsIse that had not been fig ured upon of about $4,50O This was the amount asked fer from the city, A motion to that effeci was offered by Alderman Wolff.
 Alderman Fcx, who proceeds care
 fully and slowly whenever appro- priations are talked of, did not take kindly to the request. He feared for the standing of. city scr D and finally, after Aldermen Wolff and Hut had spoken in favor of aiding the property owners and Mayor Jordan had told of the great help that had already been given the Fifth avenue resi- dents, he offered a substitute motion making the appropriation $2,500. AL derman Wolff argued that the Fifth avenue people had been liberal in the past in trying to beautify and inn prove their thoroughfare and he be- lived they ought to get some financial help from the city. Mir. Hut express sed the same views. City Engineer Allen declared that the grading and other preparatory work was a bigger undertak ng than he had anticipated. It developed that $1,500 additional expenses to that estimated in the contract for the work, had already been expended, and it was figured that the remainder of the work would cost about $3,O0O. MT. Bloom stated that some of the property owners had refused to pay more than the $50 a lot. originally agreed to. After AL @o refer the matter to the finance com mittee failed to get a second, the council voted an appropriation of $2,500 in adopting Alderman's Fox's motion.
 When Alderman Sheppard insisted that something be done at once to repair the sewer at the foot of Louis- iana street, Mayor Jordan made a startling statement in which he de- clared that the entire sewer system of this city was defective and In danger of causing much trouble and expense to the city in months to come. He suggested that compet- ent engineer be brought here by the city to inspect the sewer system and report to the Council as to the neces- sary repairs throufhout the city. One of the city sewers, he said, would soon be out of commission and he in- sisted that something ought to be done to repair them all immediately. "The sewer system of this city is of i vital interest because it involves the health of the city, he said. The city engineer was instructed to inspect the sewer at the foot of Louisiana | street and report as to the repairs |, that are necessary. It is claimed that the caving of the river bank has damaged the sewer them.
 City Attorney w. B. Alexander was instructed to advise the Pine Bluff Lo water nANnonfiNN