Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-09
TIE WHOLESALERS l FILE COMPLAIN 1o Want City Officials to Re pair Streets Inside the
 City Limits.
H U RTS BUSINESS
Write Letters tO Chamber of Commerce Asking e-Operation of
 That R0dy.

 Of Commerce to get the surburban atreet5 worked and put in good COL G4,son so that county wagons may come into town after reaching the c',y limits. For weeks, it is Gtated the city officials have been promising to have the streets repaired, bWs the work has not ben done. Some ol the delay r.es been occasionel by the cad weather, of which theie has been 10 'let up" fer many weeks and un- til he weather conditions permit, il is hardly probable that there will bs any effective work done.
 But the Chamber of Commerce t.ustses, who received letters yes t1rday om the Riley Commission Company, The Hammets Grocery Company anh the Westbrook Grain tlis,. that body take the matter up With the proper city officials, are going to act immedia. ely and the Rive and Rail Committee, of which J. F. McInty.e is chairman, will call and request him to have the city teams get to work to remedy con- ditions in the Wes- ern part of the city.
 One lattar received yesterday from t',e Hammett Grocer Company says:
 we wish to call your attention Q the impossible conditions of the streets leading to the Sulphur Springs and Warren roads. We thought perhaps that you could per- 2aDs that you could take this matter ID with our worthy mayor and ely council and get these streets in con- dition sc that wagons from the country can get into the city. The that we have is that the roads after they leave the city linn i s are in fairly good condition, but that the g,+reess leading up to them are simply impossible. If you can do anything to relieve this. situation it will be very much appreciated.
 Letter No. ?
 s. B. Russell, manager of the Southern Grocery Company, writes;
 "A good many of our customers who haul their goods by wagon in 10 the cour;y, are complaining to IS of the condition of the streets in our city, especially in the suburbs. They state that the country roads are even better than the city streets pulling a load in the city limits than hey do in the country.
 There is lots of this kind of bus mess that comes 70 Pine Bluff and we enjoy our share, and it is our purpose and desire to assist our customers in matters of this kind, as much as possible. In view of the fact that your organization (of which we are members is making q very stre1upus campaign for the be+terment of this city and country at large, we take this matter up With you, feeling that it will get proper It is useless for us, as individuals, to call on the city officials for relief, as they will do now, as in +he paSi., make promises.
 'This is quite an item to the city of Pine Bluff, especially to the ra- tail merchants, as the smaller towns . ar us get the benefit of good deal of this trade, on account of poor condition of the roads in the near Pine Bluff.
 Trusting that you will give this matter your best attention at your earliest convenience, we are.'
 Letter No. 3
 "The WesttTook Grain & Commis- sion Company complains in the fol- lowing manner:
 "We desire to call your attention to the very, very poor condition of the streets and roads on the edge of town. We have occasion many times day to send our wagons to all parts of the city and we must say that in such weather as this, due to the poor condition of the roads, our deliveries are far from satisfactory.
 "We desire especially to call your a.ten.ion to the road leading out to Sulphur Springs, the stretch of it from about 18th and Hickory to where the gravel road starts, is very bad and also the road leading from off the end of Olive gsreet out towards Forest Park. Of course the street of the cemetery is also in bad shape but this matter cannot be re- medied right TOW bue will be in the near fWNMe.
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