The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-02
SANITATION IS
 A LIVE SUBJECT
MAYOR WATERS ENDORSES MOVE MENT TO SEND REPRESENTA-
 TIVE TO CONVENTION.
Wants Hot Springs Citizens Fully Ad- vised on all Questions of Muni-
 cipal Sanitation.

/, That Hot Springs as the World B Greatest Health Resort should have a direct representative at one of the most important conventions to be held in this country was the proposal pre- scented by Mayor Waters to the city council last night, and it received such sanction that the mayor is now authorized to name a man who will go to Washington on September 23- ! 2S to attend the Congress on Hygiene and Demography
 This is the first congress of this kind ever held in this country, and will be the last to be held in America for thirty years, and it's object is for the furtherance of municipal sanita- ton in all of the cities of the world. Representative from all parts of the world will be present.
 The purpose is to have Hot Springs represented by a man who will not alone make a good impression for Hot Springs in Washington, but who can come back and inform the people in an impressive manner on the needs and necessities for the proper sani-
 
 Springs.
 There were present at the city coun. Gil meeting Aldermen Shepherd, Nc Laughlin, Rigsbee. Petit, Burgauer, Gunther, Homer and Weaver.
 The police department report show ed 2SS cases tried, $2,095 in fines as sessed, and $1.329 in fines paid.
 9lhe report of Milk Inspector Moore showed that there had been 120 tests made, two were below standard and none showed traces of formaldhyde
 An application for a franchise for a track on Elm Street by the Scott Mayer Commission Company was ap- piled for in an ordinance presented by Alderman Burgauer,
 Under the endorsement of the property owners of Sewer District No 34, commissioners were named by the council as follows: Vince Brown, c. "A. Mcconnell, F. c. Boving.
 Mayor Waters was authorized to issue a proclamation for special election to fill the vacancy in the aldermanic body in the fifth ward. caused by the death of Alderman Weimar and a committee composed VI NS2oiS iIOA htlt T NNtil anu i<lSSDS6 were named to draft suitable resolu- tions. Mayor Waters will issue the proclamation within a few days, and the election will be held about August 20th
 Alderman Will Mclaughlin was elected member of the Malvern avenue paving district to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of his father the late J. H. Mclaughlin
 Through a resolution a light was ordered placed at Olive street and Parker avenue, where one had for merly been located but had been re- moved.
 pr. McClendon and a number of other property owners in the vicinity | of the Rock Island depot presented a resolution asking the council to de- clare the freight traffic as carried on at the passenger depot and around 1t nuisance as the first of series of movements to stop the freight | delivery mp in the city. The matter was referred to a committee composed | of Aldermen Shepherd Mclaughlin and Petit with the city attorney added.
 Ordinances providing for the screen | ing of all market places and store fronts where edibles are exposed to view, and for tine placing of all tele- phone and telegraph wires under | ground were read and held on the calendar for further consideration. 1