The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-02
FIREMEN THREATEN
 ID G0 ON STRIKE
PUT IT UP TO CITY COMMISSION FRS TO MEET INCREASE IN
 PAY AT EARLY DATE.
Commissioners Issue Order to the City Manager to Close the Houses Of Immortality Which Goes into Ef- feet At Once.

Verify the way of the commission CTS of city with a short treasury are ways of many vicissitudes.
 At the meeting of the city commis- sioners last night the firemen of the city presented a signed statement that they must have an increase of s15 each on their salaries, in order to buffet the high cost of living in these war times, else they would quit the service. Eighteen of .he firemen the whole of the departments of the city. signed the statemnt, or ultimatum pr whatever 1t might te called.
 The commissioners all agreed that the firemen did not receive enough pay, that their living conditions were not what they should be, that they did not have even the little things about the departments kept up as they should be maintained-but how to meet the demand was the question.
 It was explained that the increase demanded, even though but $l5 per month to- a fireman, meant $27O per month to the city or $3,140 per year, and no jack" in the treasury. The commissioners referred the matter 10 themselves, and will see what sort of arrangement can be made. Chief Tate said that though the demand was for immediate rec ognition of the demands, the boys would not be unreasonable, and would give the city until the 18th of August to kick in.
 Then came an arbitrary order from the government that unless the houses of immortality of the city were closed the government would issue some sort of edict against soldiers spending their week ends here. The commis- sioners have their own idea about whether it is better to have regulated houses where women of this type can be kept under supervision, or whether it Is best the houses he closed and the
 women put out to mix and mingle with others-but the order from the gov
 ernment bore an arbitrary hurry-up emphasis, and the commissioners or dered the houses all closed forth
 with In the meanwhile the women ol 1 these houses only yesterday morn
 ing went through their usual proceed
 ure of paying fines" to the city. and 1 the city strong box will miss the i usual fines"
 The question of city lighting also ! ia fhaf ha fcc cfnn have to deal with soon The govern
 ment informed Mayor .McClendon that Hot Springs would be expected. like other cities, to do without street | lights, or with reduced street lights,
 at least two nights each week. There is ten days given to comply with this order of the fuel administration or 1 take the consequences. The city will i hold a conference with Superintendent, ] Dillon of the public utilities this after noon and see what can be done about cutting out lights and saving fuel. If ] t were TIC tfor certain contracts the matter could be arranged by the city
 in a jiffy, but these have to be con sidered.
 City Attorney Sumpter reported that an officer from Camp Pike sent him two ordinances which the officer said should be passed forthwith by the city council here regulating flirting and other things. The city attorney doubted the validity of such ordinanc es, and referred them to the attorney general, informing the officer at Camp 1 Pike that if the ordinances were prop CT, he would present them, but that he wanted the opinion of the man who construes the state laws before they were passed.
 Then came up something there was no trouble about The property own CTS of Helfrich street wanted the name of that street changed to Liberty street Perhaps Helfrich sounded a little too foreign. Anyhow. Liberty sounds good and wholesome, so the commissioners granted the request of the petitioners, and mail addressed to Liberty street will be delivered wherein before Helfrich street was the rule