The Pulaskian., 1918-02-08
WORK 10 BEGIN
 MONDAY MORNING
-o71t EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR 1918 WILL AMOUNT TO APPROXIMATELY $4o0,ooo,
 SAYS PRES. CAMPBELL.

An announcement of surpasslng l1l-. torosf to the residents of Pulaski uoiqhts is that the Pulaski Heights street railway line is to be double ,racked at once, the work to begin noxt Monday. When completed the aonhle track will extend to the con ,ent hut work will he concentrated in tbe beginning on completing the dou- ble tracking from the present begin ming of the single track at the end of inc brick pavement beyond Stifft's station. to the second switch at Ash street. This will, it is said, give bet ter headway by aDolishing switches and the consequent delays thereon. The company also will install new turbine at a cost, including transpor- tation and installation, of $200,000. These announcements were made yes terday by D. H. Cantrell, president of the company, together with general statement of the company's condition, which follows:
 President cantreIps Statement.
 q returned last Saturday afternoon from New Orleans, where I concluded the sale of company gold notes, on which negotiations I have been en- gagged for three months. The company has maturing S400. .000 on the 31st of December, which it was unable to pay. The local banks came to our assist ance and carried the debt for us until We could conclude our negotiations for new loan. The company also had to make financial provision for the extension of the Pulaski Heights line from the end of the present dou- be track to St. Mary's convent, and for the extension of the East Ninth street line from Ninth street north on Thomas street to Sixth street, and thence east to the Well packing plant; and also for the purchase oi new 5,O00 k w. turbine to be installed in our power plant as quickly as possi- ble, which will cost, when installed, approximately aS200,OO0. Our power house load has been increased 10S per cent by the cantonment and the Improvement of business generally oecasioned it's establishment The re- suit is that we are now running at the Very maximum our machinery will carry.
 New s2oe 900 Turbine To Be Installed.
 In order to help locate the can tonment at Little Rock it was neces- sary that we should agree to furnish the electrical current which would be used there, and to do this we were put to an expense of about $70,000 in ex tending our electric lines to Camp Pike, and we shall have to expend the szo0,OOO mentioned for the new unit. u has been almost impossible to ne sotiate securities, as every banker ana business man knows, since the united Seates entered the war; and sn expense of such negotiations has peen almost more than we could bear. however, we have finally succeeded ana our arrangements are now con- ciuded. We will carry out, in good talln our contract made with the city Ill November, 1916. The new turbine, @nich IS absolutely necessary, has oeen ordered several months, and as 0ooh as It can be built by the Gen. eiai Electric Company, which we ex- pece Will be July 1, it will be delivered to us.
 VIII Double Track p. H. Line.
 instructions have been given to be- eln immediately upon the extension ol 'he Pulaski Heights line from the eno Of the double track to Ash street,