Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-03
ROTARIANS DISCUSS
LUMBER, INSURANCE.;
SOLDIERS GUESTS
10 Per Cent Reduction in Fire
Risk Rate in Pine
Bluff.

An address by Pinchback Taylor
on fire insurance and one by E. H.
Elsberry on lumber and mill work
featured the session of the Rotary
Club at the Hotel Pines yesterday
at noon. Miss Dorothy Pyle of Con-
way, visiting in Pine Bluff as the
guest of Mrs. Arthur Triplett, divided
honor guest distinction at the Rotary
luncheon with Capt. John P. Harvis
Of the marine corps, Capt. Chas. D..
Higinbotham of the medical corps,
and Lieut.. John H. Tucker of the
American forces in Russian. Other
guests at the meeting were: Ted. Nor
ton Of the Norton Wheeler Stave COM
pany, which recently removed head
quarters to Pine Bluff; S. l.. Charlins
of St. Louis, and Hinton Ferguson
and Harvey Gillespie, both of Pine
Bluff.
Mr.. Taylor, in his talk on insur-
ance, explained that ten per cent
came effective on September /, but
this applies to new policies only, as
the insurance companies have been
compelled to pay the tax on prem
iums in effect previous to September
II. Mr.. Taylor also discussed mutual
fire insurance associations.
. Soldiers Guests.
Mr.. Elsberry gave reasons for short
age of lumber, and for the prices,
showing that labor and all other costs
have mounted. "And, YETI he said
"the increase in lumber prices has not
been as great as the increase in
prices of some other building mate
rails, such, for instance, as glass and
hardware. Because of the export
demand, and the building boom in
the United States, Mr.. Elsberry does
not anticipate an early decline in the
demand for lumber Chas. w. Holmes
president of the club, supplemented
Mr. Elsberry's remarks by pointing
out that all mills situated on rail-
roads had been forced to shut down
for some period during the last year,
greatly curtailing production. Mills
on rivers and other navigable streams
did not suffer in this way, Mr.. Holmes
said
The three army officers present are
all Pine Bluff boys who event out
and made good" Captain Harvis,
who at one time worked as a printer
in Pine Bluff, is man who went up
from the ranks in the mar...e corps.
He quit the printing trade because a
physician feared he was in danger of
developing tuberculosis. After roam
ing around a bit, young Harvis en-
City. That was something like IA
years ago. Since then he has seen a
great part of the world -Four years
ago, when he visited Pine Bluff, he
was a sergeant. He had made the
most of his opportunities, however,
and when called, he was ready. A
|captaincy, and citation for bravery
were among his rewards.
Captain Higinbotham, who resides
at Streator, Ills, is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. H. G. Higinbotham of Pine
Bluff. He spent a year cover there"
and is very modest concerning his
work. "My one regret" he said, "is
that I did not get a chance to go to
the front, and help there"
Delay Park Report.
Lieutenant Tucker was studying
law at Baton Rouge, when the guard
was sent to the border. He went along.
His rise was rapid, as related in yes
terday's issue of The Graphic. Mr..
Tucker was secretary of the Young
Mems Progressive league of Pine
Bluff before he removed to the Louis
lana capital.
Judge w. T. Woodbridge, chairman
of the Rotary Clubs park committee
called to St. Louis on business, adj
vised the club that his committee will
report next Tuesday on the three
pieces of property being considered
as site for the memorial park the
Rotary Club has undertaken to pro-
vide for Pine Bluff. The property
under consideration is Is acres Of the
Clark and Holderness tract on South
Cherry, the Talbot tract on South
Main, and the Geisreiter block, on
Main, between Fourteenth and Fiji
tenth. The owners have been asked
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