Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-19
FIGHT OVER WAFER RATES ISN'T ENDED City Fathers May Appeal From Decision of Judge
 Trieber.
WANTS MOVE ON' LAW
Alderman Simpson Thinks LOiterers Should Be Kept Off Main Street, Entire City Incorporated in
 Improvement District.

That the city fathers are not sat isfied with the decision rendered Fri day by Judge Jacob Trieber at Lit tie Rock in the Pine Bluff water rate case was apparent from the discus sion at the meeting of the city council last night when Alderman Veil made motion that City Attorney Earl s. Wood with Attorney w. E. Alexander determine the cost neces- Sary to- carry the case to the United States court of appeals.
 Alderman Sorrels, who arose to second the motion, said that he was heartily in favor of carrying the case to the higher court. He said that the decision handed down by Judge Trieber is i1 direct contrast to other decisions in similar cases and with all due respects to Judge Trieber, 1 believe that I can read the law books about as good as he can and I find the laws just opposite the way he does in this case" said the alderman. He argued further that corporations would not do any thing until the law forced them and closed by saying, eff we do not ac- complish anything else, we will show them we are fighting roosters."
 Mayor Condemns Contest.
 Mayor Bloom told the members of the council that the Best theatre was operating voting contest that he thought is in violation of law and he asked that a motion be made to instruct the chief of police and city attorney to investigate. He called at tention 10 the fact that Judge Grace recently imposed fines ca merchants handling .'raffle cards" and said that the scheme" that is being put on by a stranger at the Best was worse than the raffle board. A motion was made by Alderman Sorrells to in struct the chief of police and city attorney with the mayor to investi- gate the contest at once, and if 1t is in violation of the law to have it closed.
 A. Smith, representing the Ameri- can LaFrance Auto company, appear ed before the council and explained the mechanism and durability of the fire truck which the board of public affairs Nave been Investigating with a view to purchasing.
 The truck which the board has in view costs $5,5O0, and as the council only appropriated 5000, this was not enough to purchase the car. AL derman Hut moved that the appro- priation be increased to $6,000, which was done As 120 days is required to manufacture the combined chem ical and truck it will in all probabil- ity be five months before Pine Bluff will have this modern, up-to-date fire fighting apparatus.
 Brewster Will Advance $5,OOO.
 Alderman Veil told the council that he had conferred with County Judge Philpot ia regard to getting money to meet the outstanding war rants of the city, and getting no re- lief from him, he went to Sheriff Brewster, who promised that he would within the next few days ad- vance the city $5,000. After this amount has been turned over to the city, there will still be $5,O00 worth of outstanding warrants. Alderman Well said that he would make an effort to secure the other $5.O0O next week.
 The gas ordinance, fixing gas rates, was read the third time, but not passed. Alderman Sorrells said that he had conferred with c. B. Bair of the Pine Huff Natural Gas com pany, and that MT. Bair had sed to him that it would be impossible for head of the gas company, MT. Daly to be in the city tonight to ap- pear before the council and asked that the matter be left over until the next meeting. This request was agranted by the council with the statement that if the officials did not appear before the council at the next meeting, the ordinance would be passed without further delay.
 An ordinance was passed assessing the cost of paving in sidewalk DIS trict No. s which takes in the terrl- tory on Fifteenth avenue, east on Cherry street to east on Cedar street.
 Alderman Frank Fraaey registered a complaint about the unsanitary condition of the city pound, and said that he had received numerous com plaints from residents in the vlcln- ity of the pound. declaring that the condition of the place was very un-
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