Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-28
Pine Bluff Folk Can Cook Breakfast Today, and Per
 haps Prepare Dinner.
RED IS STILL RISING
Nothing Can Be Done to Repair Break Until Water Recedes-COttOn Belt Railway Still Five Feet Above
 Flood Waters.

Pine Bluff can today cat another breakfast cooked on the gas stove, and if luck-and the gas-holds up, even luncheon can be so prepared So far as dinner is concerned this evening, however, that. as MT. Potash would say, is something else again. Three meals yesterday were prepar- ed with gas as the fuel, and Manager c. F. Bair of the gas company stated last night that he expected two meals could be thus prepared today-most certainly breakfast can be cooked With gas, at the very worst.
 There is almost no doubt, however, that by tonight, the available supply of gas in the mains will be consumed, and gasoline, electricity, wood and coal once more will come into general use here as fuel. Everybody is ready to make the-change, however. so It. tie inconvenience or annoyance IS anticipated.
 River Is Still Rising.
 The Red river is still rising, al- though gradually and rather slowly | now. Wednesday the rise was official ly given as something less than one foot. Yesterday, the rise amounted to one afid one-half inches. At , p. m. yesterday the gauge showed the water at a stage of 21.o feet.
 As long as the water does not re- cede, it will be impossible for repairs to be made to the gas main. 1t Is expected by the officialsTo the gas company that five or six days must pass before the break can be closed, and that it may even be seven or eight days. It all depends upon the rapidity with which the river returns I to it's normal level, as men and mate 1 rial are on the scene, ready for the work of repairing the break to De started and rushed to completion.
 Railroad Not ill Danger.
 Because it will be necessary for the water to rise another five feet before the right of way and tracks of the Cotton Belt would be endangered, or kficials of the system do not anticipate any serious inconvenience as a .esul of the present floods in the Red river
 A big rise "Wednesday ill the Little Red river caused some concern fol while, but it is thought now this rise, though considerable in quantity will have lost much of it's strengtf and volume before it reaches thu neighborhood of Garland City ol Lewisville. The Little Red showed ; sudden rise of three feet Wednesday and the crest Of that rise is due a the break in the levee and mains some time today. Because other feeders O. the Red have maintained their formel level, however, no appreciable change in the Red itself is expected.
 HOuse!lVlders Fortunate.
 Householders in Pine Bluff an( elsewhere in the state played in bi of luck that mitigated the worst fea lures of the second break in the gas mains, according to information a hand here.
 When the first break ill the mains was closed, check valve was in stalled in the main. Whepthc secon( break occurred, resulting in six lengths of pipe being washed away this check valve prevented the loss of the gas already in the mains this side of the break. The gas then 1T the main was under pressure of about 200 pounds to the square inch. As T long as the gas is under pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure it will flow out of the mains, and as the check valve prevents it's escape at the break, it naturally flows into \ the service pipes and is consumed. I Manager Bair explained last night f that the pressure on the gas as il I leaves the reducing plant here tC enter the city mains and service pipes