The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-17
COMMITTEE NAMED TO GET 15o CITIZENS TO HELP FOR
 THREE MONTHS.
Are Asked to Give $5 Per Month For Three Months and This Will Guar. antee That Highway Will Be Opened.

 fund to open properly the Hot Springs4Gittle Rock highway so u may be advantageous to Hot Springs, was accepted last night by citizens assembled at the Business Mems League rooms, and a committee named to get the 15O members.
 The committee has 22 members to start with, they being Dave Burgaur. CT, Dr. J. P. Randolph, Robert Mooney, Jeff Freeman, Gus Strauss. Dr. c. T. Drennen, George A. Calla- han, Charles H. Davis. Dr. Ellsworth, NJ. c. Tombler. E. L. Hewlett. M X. Eisele, Jesse B. Murphy, o. H. Sump- ter, pr. Trihble, Judge Gotham, Dr. A. U. Williams, s. E. Dillon, Cleveland Smith. Simon Cooper and George R. Bedding
 A committee composed of M c. Tombler, D. Burgaurer, Walter Ebel and Douglas Hotchkiss were request ed to have prepared for the commit. tee today in printed form note or obligation by which the subscription is to be made, so the bank may make the $5 collections each month for the next three months The collections will be due on May 15, June Is and July 15, and Judge Mooney states positively by that time the work will be done.
 At the outset Judge Mooney stated that he had during the afternoon been over the new highway All the road from Hot Springs to the end of the new highway is in good shape, but there is a space of about five miles between Ten4Mile Hill and Lonsdale that will require work before the highway will return any material benefits to Hot Springs He said that Commissioner billiard had done excellent work in other parts of the county, and that now he was willing the road force should be put on the new highway and have that road opened up properly, but there was no money to meet the expense. He pro- posed that 15O citizens form a club to meet this expense. and he would turn over the county forces,
 M. C. Tombler said that while he doubted if 150 subscribers could be secured. still some might be willing to give more, and he would do so if il were necessary to guarantee a com pletiun of the wor
 Dave Burgaurer spoke of the splen. did work that had resulted on the new highway as far as the contract work extended and that any Sunday now more autos could he seen on this highway than on the city streets.
 G. billiard, road commissioner, was called on, and he expressed much eagerness to get on this work that ne might make q comparison between the results he could get for the county and that obtained by the con tract. He said he had just completed the work on the Wire Road, and that wherever he did work he tried to' complete 1t so that when he went away and left it the work would be good when he went back. He said he would do this work for less cost to the county than any that had been done here before. He has done the county road building in such a manner as to have the full and complete confidence of the people as to his zeal and his capabilities to make a good road.
 Birkett Williams suggested the note plan for raising the money and speaking of Commissioner Dillard's road building ideas, said that the drainage provided for in MT. Dillards work was guarantee that the road would be lasting.
 Mr. Hewlett said that he felt sure the club of 150 could be secured He said that the people here felt like they could get good results for the money they put in on the new part ot the road, and that when they knew they would get results, they would be willing to take further steps along this line
 MT. Eisele spoke of the trouble that had been encountered in getting the new part Of the highway done. That had cost much more than ant cipated by the public, but at the same time it was a good piece of work, necessary to the success of this resort, and the people felt that they were well repaid for what they had expended. He spoke of how when the work was little more than half fin ished the money was short, and Judge Mooney had to step in and carry a much larger expense on the county than had been anticipated The commissioners all knew there would be other work necessary, but they knew also that when the new part of the roadway was built, and done so well. the people would approve their work and take further steps to meet the remainder of the road work
 County Treasurer Jesse Murphy ex- pained that theS county had expended nearly S20000 how on the revenue of the coming ye3r 10 get this highway in the conditi4n it is now. and that the expen siye Apart Of the work is af done. The work of the future is not haavv huf X essential and ho Ina