The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-26


 building this tunnel, which acted as a sewer for these ground-rent proprie- tors, including the hotel, which was also leased at a nominal rent, and the lcompany making a mint of money all the time. That was the condition then. They wanted to extend this tun- mel down to the Ouachita river. That was the dream Of those people who, suppose, wrote the beautiful poem that my friend recited as a preoration to his speech. By the way, they had a tradition down there that in the ear lly days some immigrant in one of those prairie schooner wagons stopped with his family at Hot Springs one evening, and after he had put out the teams. and while tine family was preparing supper, he went to get a drink of wa ter from nearby spring. He dipped up dipperful of it in his tin dipper and came rushing back and said,
 Here. hitch mp quick and get out of here. Hell aint a mile off" Q4augh- ter.) l do not know whether that had anything to do with the improvement that the government has been build- ling thero at the solicitation of the in- habitants ever since or with the rule of the Jesse James gang in after years or not.
 Now, they wanted to build this inn mense culyert on from the lower end of it down to the Ouachita River, about or miles away. as l remem- Der it. They were also building an Army and Navy Hospital at the lower end of this tunnel In the course of a few years complaint was made that the sewage went into the tunnel. The Government had no sewage. The sewage came from the tenant houses of the Government and from the resi- dents way up the stream. Undoubted- ly that polluted this Hot Springs lCreek and they said that the fumes of the sewage were coming from the lower end of the tunnel, and th2t it was detrimental to the Army < q Navy people who were there for th curing of various disorders for which, the waters seems to be a specific. They said they must have that tunnel extended right off, to carry away the fumes. suggested to the House l then, why not let the people at Hot 1 Springs do a litte bit of the sewer and culvert construction. Of course, they had the burden of now and then a tramp who came and went into the mudhole, or the rial hole, as 1t was called where this free bath has been maintained ever since. They had to take care of some few poor people who came there; but they were able to take care of them, because the rich people came there and spent their money very freely, and every man in Hot Springs. including the at tendants at the bathhouses. was get ting a large income out of it when l was down there, and | have not 1 heard that any of them went into bankruptcy since then. It looked reasonable to me that they should build sewers if they did not want this sewage to go into this largo town. I suggested that they build a sewer oa each side of the culveri and pay for it. But they would not do that. The noisomeness of the smell was not so offensive as to in- duce them to put their hands into their pockets, because it did not hit the pooketbook nerve. They have kept on until they have gotten the Government to build an extension of this culvert down four blocks to Church Street, and now they want it built down to the Ouachita River 1 or , miles away, to carry the sewage into that stream and not offend the fastidious noses of the people who live in Hot Springs.
 MT. Taylor of Arkansas. Will the gentleman yield
 MT Payne. Certainly
 l Mir. Taylor of Arkansas. | just want to correct the gentleman. He is mistaken about the residential DOT ton of the city being above the res ervation The residential portion is not there. It is away to the south and the southwest.
 i MT. Payne Part of it is there anl part of it is below. It was when l was there do not know but they | have built down more below, because have not been there in 30 years. When I was there it was above and below.
 | Mir. Taylor of Arkansas Every l thing has changed since then | MT. Payne. Every once in a while we get an excuse for an appropria. ton for Hot Springs. When they build courthouse we have got to give them the land to build it on. Iil order that there may be room enough for the courthouse. we have to givr them a big slice of land Whether they are building on it or not I do not know. Application was made. The gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Taylor) shakes his head. I do not l know hut we succeeded in heating