Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-29
BUSINESS MEN
 IN CIVIC WORK Chamber of Commerce Will Get Behind Mayor Simon Bloom and Help Him. THE TRUSTEES MEET City Engineer Will Re Called on to Give Improvement Districts
 Services Free.
THE TRUSTEES MEET

Chamber of Comerce was held yester- two hours the board discussed mat ters of great importance to the city and it's welfare. One of the most inn portant suggestions made one that will result in the Chamber of Com merce taking an active part in main- taining a good sanitary condition in Pine Bluff, was the discussion which
 resulted when Mayor-elect Simon Bloom asked the Chamber of Con- merce to get behind him and the city council and aid them in keeping the city clean. He asked them to endorse the street sprinkler and sweeper that he recently observed ill operation in Fort Worth, pictures and descriptions of which he brought back with him from Texas. Mayor-elect Bloom be- lieves that the machine will solve the mud and dust problem in this city and incidentally be responsible for better sanitary conditions here. Another matter discussed by the trustees was the aid that should be given improvement districts by the
 city engineer, it being taken up when w. N. Trulcck, one of the commiss- toner's of the new downtown4 re- paving districts, stated that City En- gineer Allen had informed the com missioners that it was not part of the city engineers duty to draw up plans and specifications for an inn provement district, unless paid by the district. This matter was thoro- ough discussed and it was the sense 1 of the trustees that the city should l compel city engineer to perform 1 special work of this kind without pay and not permit the property owners of the city to pay out large sum of money for such work, when it should be done by the city engi- neer. Statements that tend to show the value of city engineers CO., operation in improvement district work were made by William Nichol, J. E. Boyce, w. F. Coleman and P. P. 1 Byrd.
 MT. Coleman also complained about the unsanitary condition of some sections Of the city and he urged the 'hamber of Commerce to appoint sanitary or civic committee to handle 1 such matters and remedy them. He 1 said publicity was the best remedy
 and he criticised severely the city administration for failing to have debris removed from Pine street, at West Second avenue. w. D. Hearn also kicked" about a large amount 1 of derbis in Walnut street, at Third
 avenue. Mir. Boyce said there were plenty of ordinances governing such evils, but that the chief of police 1 was to blame and when he did not l enforce them the mayor was neli-
 gent in not making him do so
 Mayor-elect Bloom said that it should not be expected of the proper 1 ty owners that they should remove ierbris from streets when the city fails to comply with it's own laws The old trash on Walnut Street, he l said, tWas left there by the citys own
 employees, after some city work had been done there.
 A civic committee will be named by the Chamber of Commerce to look
 into and remedy such matters and to the executive committee of the Cham Der of Commerce was referred the matters and to. the executive com
 mittee of the Chamber of Commerce Aas referred the matter of sprinkling
 and sweeping the streets, under the
 new system advocated by Mayof-elect 1 Bloom
 One hundred dollars wa, offered by the Chamber of Commerce to the ! boy in Arkansas who raises the most corn on any one acre of ground, and it will be given to him in the nature of a trip to Washington next January through the Department of Agricul- ture. P. P. Byrd, of the Byrd Cotton Company, also offers $lo0 to the boy who produces the largest yield of 1
 Is inch cotton during the coming season.
 President Hearn was directed to
 appoint two delegates to the National
 Drainage Congress at St. Louis April
 10, II and 12. The purpose of the
 Congress were also endorsed by re-
 solution Charles H. Triplet was
 suggested by Mir. Byrd as one of the
 best representatives this city could
 send to the congress and he will be