Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-18
RfC1 GAR AND kA1fR RATES TO l 60 UP JULY 1 uncil Grant Pine Bluff Company Permission to
 inrease Charges. br0RMEN TO GET l INCREASE IN PAY k Per Cent of Estimatrd Addition
 Reyenue Will be Paid Employees Telephone Proposal for Higher Rental Tabled.

treet car fares and water rates
 be increased, and the pay of mo
 men on the street cars increased,
 the result of action ny the city
 ncil last night, when ordinances
 e passed permitting the Pine
 If company to charge 50 cents per
 DO gallons for the first five thou.
 bd gallons of water used by con
 pers each month, and six cents
 eet car fare. Both ordinances
 (e passed under suspension of the
 es by unanimous vote of the eight
 ermen. The present rate for wa
 is 40 cents per 1000 gallons for
 first 5000 gallons, so that no
 nge is effected except on the
 first 30.000 gallons, so that no
 ting the street car fare provides
 books containing coupons good
 50 fares shall be sold at the rate
 2.50 per book, and that these may
 used by any member of the pur-
 sers family. Both ordinances Pulate that the increased charges
 for the duration of the war and
 months thereafter.
 Telephone Ordinance Tabled.
 The ordinance intended to permit
 Southwestern Bell Telephone npany to increase it's rental rates
 tabled by unanimous vote. It
 not discussed, but it is under od that the aldermen objected to
 manner in which the ordinance
 drawn, holding first, that it Puld amend the section of Woods est instead of the original ordi- pce, and that there should be a use stipulating that the increased es should terminate six months or after peace is declared. A new eft will be introduced.
 Crdlnances proposing an increase |lne tax on telephone, telegraph and epnone poles, and of the privilege
 on moving picture shows also (fe tabled, Alderman Means of the (ance committee pointing out that increase the tax on the poles would inconsistent with the ordinance aatng the companies right to in- Fase their revenues, and that there (ulo be so little revenue derived by elty from the higher tax on nov picture shows, which already are uer great expense, that the finance !lmlttee deemed the increase inad- A < Resigns as Engineer.
 n ,. Madding's resignation as city s,neei was received and accepted. motion of Alderman McBryde, the ,s .syr was authorized to employ on a 'ulnly basis Thomas Dufour, rec .tmended ta by Mir. Madding, who has ,s; @aea the employ of the Parkes E company. MT. Dufour nad l5 years experience, and vsa s.A years was in the service of the s. ss'iment in the Philippines and VI m Vera Cruz, Mexico. u.., I,arbage Ordinance Killed
 H.en .'I only Alderman McGibbony ,n "as Tn opposition, the ordinance sposlng to establish regulations for . Solection- and disposal of garb- k, was tabled. The objection, voic- ,msa " Alderman Dalby, McBryde and .ment n, seemed to be against the m la.her than the purpose of the ,pvsea n~ ordinance, the declaration . as made that it would cause use- < se eaPense as to containers, and that .e : h; h;;lauses cannot be complied with. III 11igh cost of living was factor, v a.uermen holding that unneces- ,,,e y expense should not be caused the ,E'e 'ft at this time. Probably a new t;o,l ss wlll be presented with the ob- s,,v.aole s".ole features eliminated.
 f ttus.ng s. the discussion of the six Y V street car fare ordinance, Alder n n.a aMcGibbony suggested that a a's n E, oe inserted stipulating that cer- n increases be granted the motor ,,a ii; Mayor Bloom said such a clause ,mol m not be legalld inserted, and Al ' uen McGehee and McBryde stated Y assurance that tho xvowoc oe mo.