The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-07
IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOT GIVEN PRIVILEGE tF IT MAKES GUAR.
 ANTEE OF PROMISES.
LEDWIDGE IS GIVEN TIME
Echo of the Plumbing Strike Is Be fore the Council-Commissio Named to Form the Improvement District for Paving Quapaw Avenue.

Hot Springs will have a new Iron Mountain depot to take the place of the one burned in the big fire last September. providing the railroad is acting in good faith with the people After the long delays attendant on this improvement. and in the latter part of which the railroad attempted to shift the negligence to the people of this city, the city council last night at it's adjourned meeting grant ed an ordinance which closes Olive and Creek streets to meet the re, quirement of the Iron Mountains new proposed $G5, 000,depot-but the coun- cil put in provisc.
 Just before the final roll call on the ordinance, Alderman Borman had representative of the railroad called in, and the agent of the road promised that a road sufficient for two wagons to pass, would be opened on the east side of the Valley street tracks, connecting Olive and Creek streets. Other promises have been made by the railroad.
 Now l will vote for this ordinance with the understanding that before the mayor signs it, the promises shall be put in writing" said Alderman borman
 Mayor McClendon stated that he would exact satisfactory guarantee that the promises of the railroad would be abided before he signed the ordinance, therefore it is now ID to the Iron Mountain railroad to start the work on this already long defer red improvement, or in lieu of that being done forthwith, to be forced 10 give some satisfactory reason to the state railroad commission why it is not done.
 The position in the council of Al derman Chris Ledwidge, who has since his election as a councilman from the fifth ward, removed back into the fourth ward temporarily. was ieit doubtful, after some controversy over the subject. Mir. Ledwidge made the statement to the council that he had expected to reside in the firth ward, but had removed across the street temporarily, which put him in the fourth ward, but that he now held an option on a home which he in tended to buy which would replace him as a resident of the fifth ward and that he expected to be back in that ward within a short time,
 The city attorney held that resi- dence was a matter of intention and that if Mir. Ledwidge claimed the | liith ward as his residence that would 1 be sufficient, though some of the al- | dermen expressed views from other | attorneys differing from the stand of the city attorney on this question. Mr. Mclaughlin stated he had looked l up the matter and spoke with the au- thority of the supreme court de- cisions.
 Alderman Ledwidge told the coun- ell that he would leave the matter With them for decision, though he really believed that a temporary res idence outside the ward would not disqualify him.
 On motion of Alderman William son the matter was deferred to the next regular monthly meeting that 1t might be further inquired into. There was an echo of the recent plumbers strike in the council when Van Fowler. of the examining board, presented a request for an investiga- ton of his removal from the board. Mayor McClendon stated he had not technically removed Fowler, though alter matters had been reported to him of examinations, he had informed Plumbing Inspector Scherick that change probably had better be made, and some suitable man given the place.
 Alderman Borman explained the situation by stating that MT. Fowler had as member of the examining board made 1t difficult for plumb CTS to pass the examinations who We're not union men, and that all the master plumbers wanted was fair examination. He said that he belseS- ed the board should consist of two union men, two who were not union men, and the plumbing inspector with ms impartiality to decide, and that