Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-08
Council Asked to Authorize District No. 36 in South
 west Part of City.
GAS REGULATIONS
 HELD IN ABEYANCE
Pending Action on Proposed .imend- ment, Council Orders Original Ordi- nance SuSpended-COm
 Fifth Avenue District Report.

The city council, in session last night received and ordered filed the final reporJ of the commissioners Of street improvement district Nc. 2S. the West Fifth avsnue paving district, the report being accompanied by re- celpied and cancelled bonds, interest coupons and other vouchers of the commission
 The final report of the commits sioners, which Twas signed by the chairman, c. M. Philpot, and the treasurer, M. F. Bloom, showed az. gregate receipts Of $17,S33 A, total disbursements of $17S14.S2, and cash balance on hand of $1S.62.
 The council did not get started un- til after o'clock, although the rule is to open the Sessions at 73O dur ing the winter season, which starts with September. When bushes was taxEn up, however the aldermen wasted no time, there being little talking, and business being handled with dispatch.
 Important Street Petition.
 There came before the council inc first petition of property holders for the privilege of organizing street im- provement district No. 36, in the southwestern portion of the city, and which district, if organized will pave certain streets that will give the city a good road to connect with the n;oG . ern Sulphur Springs road.
 The streets to be paved are listaa in the petition as follows:
 Poplar street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth avsnues; Sixteenth ave- nue between Poplar and Hickory streets; Hickory street between Six teen.h avenue and Harding avenue; Harding avenue between Hickory street and the right of way of the Cotton Belt railroad; thence in a sou -hwesterly direction along the east side of the right of way to Sev- enteenth avenue; thence in westerly direction to the city limits; Fifteenth avenue from Cherry street to Cedar street; and Cedar streets from Fifteenth avenue to Sixteenth avenue.
 The petition asks for a streec eighteen feet wide, with ten inches of gravel top surface, and it was ex- plained to the council that while no material had been definitely decided upon by the proponents of the dls- trict. they have been figuring on Benton gravel.
 Attorney Creed Caldwell spoke on he proposition. telling the council that the property owners in the ter ritory embraced in the district so far as he could ascertain, are i'll favor or the having of the streets named m the district, but they have just com pletsl putting in sewers and now are nu.ing in water service, so that this additional street Improvement tax will be almost too heavy burden at this time.
 MT. Caldwell expressed the opinion that the people in the county, especl- ally those living and owning prop erty south and southwest to bayou Bartholomew, will share in the Dehe- fits and should pay part of the heavs cost of the paving proposed, ana n. recommended that an improvement district be formed, under the Alexan- der law. to le composed of property in the city as well as of property Ill aha county, thus making the pufoen light on everybody. . . Mir. Caldwell stressed the lmpot. tance of the proposed pavement, as !, will make a connection by good roaa with the city and ;he Sulphur sprlnss road. which can now be reacned ohly @ by passing through poorly-paveo I streets and roads. ,,,d
 The council, under the law, coulo take hut one action, which was ao l grant the permission for the lofMao tion of the district, and to adop. .ne ne cessary ordinance. Mayor oIA1 nf Bloom explained that opponem,s ,a nnnor- r- the district will have ample oppor- tunitv in the future to state their op- position; if any they have. tho
 IT is admitted that much or the nronertv in the proposed district IS not improved, and that the pavemenss as will mean a heavy burden to many ;t ;t 1 inc smaller property owners. .,, 1It ,ond 7, was hinted that the county VIII iena a unusually strong assistance ~ ', w;II project, principally because W., *ha give the farmers good road rom .;4m ;n1 Sulnhur Springs road into tne ed ci.y' cd amd aph thns is something badly neeaea bv the farmers of tnlcK'y-'e''''N' po'''T% Wood For Dumping Ground:
 Alderman J. M. Simpson, cnalrman s of the sanitary committee, called .ne aat a atant;on M of the council to the neces-