The age-herald., 1900-10-10
WOODLAWN WATER
 TO BE SUPPLIED By the Birmingham WaterworkS
 Under Contract. AND THE BELL TELEPHONE Town Council Grants Privileges to Water Company and Telephone Company, and Water to be
 Turned On Soon
AND THE BELL TELEPHONE

phone exchange. A contract for the former was made with the Birmingham Water Works Company. and for the latter with the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company.
 The first business al last nights meeting was to read an ordinance authorizing the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company to use the streets and public ways of Woodlawn for the purpose of erecting their poles and wires and neces- sary apparatus for the construction of a telephone exchange. The telephone com pany was to furnish one telephone free for the use of the town and to complete the exchange within sixty days from the pass age of the ordinance.
 MT. Jordan, one of the aldermen, object ed to the ordinance because it did not name a maximum price which the company was to be allowed to charge for the use of it's phones
 MT. Ingram, representing the telephone company, stated that his company had everything in the way of material neces- sary to build the exchange, at the depot, and if the ordinance was passed they would start work not later than Monday next. AS to the question of rates being named in the ordinance, he could not agree to any fixed rate for long period. telephone company selling it's service was like re- tail merchant selling it's goods; he could not guarantee that an article would aI- ways remain at the same price.
 At the sugges ton of Mayor Burriss the ordinance granting S. P. Claypole and his associates the right to build telephone exchange in Woodlawn was here read, in order that the terms and conditions might be compared with those of the ordinance granting the right to the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. In the Claypole ordinance maximum charge for telephones was fixed and agreed to by his company.
 Mayor Burruss here told of the experi- ence of Columbus, Miss, with the Bell Telephone Company. He stated that the company had charged $4 per month for the telephones, but after doing business there a while it had quit the town. The city then built it's own telephone exchange at d cost to subscribers of $l month. He spoke advocating the new telephone com pany, referring to the good work done by it in Birmingham as evidence of its capi- tai and ability to carry out its contracts, and suggested giving the Southern Bell
  same rights and terms, especially with ref erence to having a maximum rate named.
 MT. Gibson took the position that it was not fafr to force any man to sell his goods at less price than he could afford to sell, and thought that the Bell Company should be given chance to erect its exchange, and if the people did not want to use its phones they were not obliged to-
 ---r. Jordan insisted that maximum price ought to be put in the ordinance, but on a vote the ordinance as read passed by vote of to 2.
 The Waterworks Question
 The ordinance giving the Birmingham Water Works Company the right to lay pipes in Woodlawn was then read.
 Mayor Burruss stated that they had all ready granted an ordinance to Mir Tur- pins company to lay water mains that this company proposed to furnish the town with freestone water. and if they now granted a franchise to the Birmingham Water Works Company 1t might result in the other company not building, and that 1t might be best to defer action for the present.
 MT. A. M. Lynn of the Birmingham Wa ter Works Company then said that it would cost MT. Turpin's company s75. 900 to supply water to Woodlawn and that the revenue would not exceed 5000: that If his company had to supply one extra main to furnish Woodlawn with water there would be no profit in it; that this offer was more liberal than Mr. Turpin's. It gave free fire protection for three years, and the water was to be sold at lower rates than is now furnished to the people of Birmingham and at the same rates as those recently of- fered by his company to the city of Bir- mingham.
 His company was willing to give a bond of $10,0O0 or more that they would build the water works, and he thought before being denied this right it would be fair to ask MT. Turpin's company to give a simi- lar bond.
 After some discussion the ordinance was then read and passed authorizing A. NJ Lynn and associates to supply Woodlawn with water works, to acquire all property necessary to carry out said enterprise, and conditioned that the works should be com pleted by March l. 1901
 The principal conditions of the ordinance are that supply main of F inches di- ameter shall be run from Avondale to Eff ty-fifth street and a 10-inch main from thence to Fdfty-eighth street and an S-inch main to Sixty-second street. The Water Works Company is to supply five double opening fire hydrants free for three years. Five days after the completion of the wa ter works test is to be made, and the town of Woodlawn is to have the right to test the system as to water pressure at any time thereafter, after giving sufficient notice to the company, so IL can nave an official present when the test is made.
 The company agrees to extend the mains from time to time as the town agrees to take fire hydrants at a cost of S47.50 each per annum, payable monthly. It also agrees to furnish free 5000 gallons of wa ter a month to the city hall and jail, and 10000 gallons month to the white school It's pipes are to be laid at least 20 inches below the grade of the streets as estab- liShed by the town council. The council IS to protect the property of the Water Works Company by suitable ordinances.
 The company further agrees to make rates hereafter the same as the rates giv- en Birmingham. This includes charges for fire hydrants and meter charges.
 The Mayor was authorized to require a S5000 bond from the Water Works Con- pany conditioned to complete the works by March 1. 1901.
 Agreement Has Been Reached
 Berlin, October 9.-The Post says that ar