Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-21
MOTOR Street
CLEANER TO Be
BOUGHT BY CITY
Recommendation for Purchase
of $4,000 Machine Approved
By Council.
ELEVENTH STREET TO BE
OPENED, MAIN-TO-STATE
Refund on License to Circus Which
Was "Rained Out" Is Refused
Commissioners for Paving
District Named.

DlSLrlcC Named.
Pine Bluffs streets are to be clean
ed, and kept clean!
That is, this gratifying condition
will come to pass if recommends
ton made by Mayor M. C. Hollis,
approved by the council last night,
is followed. This recommendation
provides for the investment Of $4,000
in a motor propelled street cleaner,
which is. described as working on the
principle of the vacuum cleaner witch
which most housewives are familiar.
The council also approved recon-
mendations by the mayor that the city
purchase a machine to keep the sew
erS open, and a scarifier for use on
dirt streets. These machines will
cost $1,000 and $500, respectively.
The board of public affairs was in
structed to advertise for bids for the
machines, tho Alderman w. C. Nc
Bryde expressed doubt that the scarf
fier can be used advantageously on
Pine Bluffs dirt streets.
Accepts Land for Street.
F. O. McGehee's proposal to deed
0 for street purposes land through the
tabernacle property, providing the
city will fill it to grade, and pave it
with gravel and asphalt some time
within the next six years, was ac-
cepted. Alderman McBryde voted
aaginst the proposal, voicing the opin-
ion that the city could not afford to
put $2,1O0, the estimated cost Of
the improvement, into the street.
Alderman McGehee, like good
sportsman, refrained from voting GA
the proposition. The other six alder
men voted in the affirmative, after
talks pointing out that traffic will
be heavy in that section in a few
years, and that a way from Main
through to State will be needed, had
been made by Alderman Harvey
Means, J. w. Clements and E. r..
Miller. This street, when opened,
will take the name of Eleventh
avenue.
An ordinance was adopted appro-
priating $4,905 with which to pay
the American-LaFr company for
the combinatio nBrockway truck and
chemical wagon, motor-propelled
apparatus added. to the fire equip
ment. Warrants payable in one, two
and three years, were ordered issued.
Refuse Refund to Circus.
The Yankee Robinson circus will
not obtain a refund Of 500, paid as
license upon the occasion of it's re-
cent visit to Pine Bluff when rain
deluged hudreds of amusement seek
ers, at the same time preventing the
show folk from performing. The
petition for refund was turned
down by the council, Aldermen Nc
Gibbony and McBryde declaring that
the heavy circus wagons had caused
damage exceeding $500 to the streets.
curbing and walks in the vicinity of
the grounds.
Petitions from property owners in
paving district Nos. A6 and AZ, pray
ing that the contemplated improve
ments be authorized, were granted.
e. H. Triplett Jr., Ben B. We'll, aud
Leo M. Andrews were named as COM
missioners of district No. 46. Com
missioners for district No. AZ were
not named in the petition presented
Dy the property owners.
VIM. Puddephatt presented his
resignation as a member of the board
Of commissioners of Improvement dis
trict No. &c, and C. H. Triplett Jr.,
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Advertising Rates Higher.
The council allowed batch of
claims, approved by the finance COM
mittee, but held up for further in
vestigation one presented by the
Commercial Publishing company for
advertising. Alderman McBryde
pointed out disparity in the charges,
and said both the papers have adj
yanced their rates zone of these items
being "a $50 per cent advance over
prices charged last year."
A petition from property owners
on Texas street. between Thirteenth
and Fifteenth, that the council order
the gas company to lay gas mains to
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