The age-herald., 1900-01-23
Adjourned Session of City Coun-
 ciI Held Last Night.
1T WAS LONG AND TIRESOME
Street Railway Committee Not Ready to experimentation Providing for Deposit as Evidence
 of Good Faith


 ness of special importance. The question Of Colonel Ro5ert Chisolm's occupancy of city property took up considerable time of the session, Which WAS rather lengthy and til esome, and was finally referred to the city engineer for adjustment.
 The ordinances granbing street railway franchises to the Birmingham Railway and Electric company and 10 A. o. Lane and associates were not considered, the com 1 mittee to which they had been referred | not having prepared its report. resolution requiring a depoziG, of $1,ooO | as an evidence if good faith on eae part of applicants for street railway franchises hereafter to be granted was introduced | by Alderman Jones.
 ! The meeting was called to order at TAO by Mayor Drennen with the following all | dermen fpeserTt Lynagh, Wheeler, Ram bow, Camp, Mcknight, Kerr Altman, Gra- ham, Tlhatch, Heidt, Gray Jones, Harring- ton and Daly.
 | Chairman Kerr of the finance committee | recommended Ghat the city engineer be ati- | thorlzed to collect tho data requested by | Former Mayor VanFIoose regarding the headwaters of the proposed canal to ,ihe
 Warrior river. The recommendation was | adopsed.
 | Chairman Altman, of the judiciary com- | mittee, reported adversely on a petition | asking to place in water boxes along the streets, the boxes to be used for advertising purposes. The report was adopted. Judge J. J. Garrettson's proposition to sell triangular lot at the north end of i Oak Hill cemetery fronting 11O feet on
 Nineteenth street, and running back about 33O feet, was reported favorably by Chair man Harrington of the cemetery commit l tee. Judge Garrebtson offered to sell the | lot to the city for $1500. It can be cut up into seventeen lots 15x30 feet in dimension. | The proposition, together with the commit 1 tees report, was referred to the finance l committee
 The question of selling the cemetery resi- | dence was referred to the cemetry com mtbtee and the mayor, with power to act. | The committee had been offered $250 for the house and recommended its sale. The Chisholm Matter Chairman Graham, of the street commit- l tee recommended that Colonel Robert l Chisolm be required to move his yard fence back on to his own property. As published | in The Age Herald some time ago, the. | fence around Colonel Chisolm's residence at Five Points is on city property. A flew | weeks ago when plans for street improve | ment in that vicinity were drawn, Colonel 1 Chisom was instructed to draw his fence in off of the city property, whereupon the col | onel had a petition signed by all property | owners in his block requesting the city | fathers not to disturb him. The matter | was referred to the street committee, and | after an investigation report unfavorable | ito the colonel was made.
 On motion of Alderman Jones the entire
 matter was referred to the city engineer
 with instructions to place the curbing on
 the property line regardless of what decis- | ion he might arrive at concerning Colonel
 Chisolm's fence.
 1 Chairman Altman of the judiciary com
 mittee announced that his committee had | been in session all the afternoon consider l ing ordinances covering street railway | franchises sought after by the Birming- | ham Railway and Electric company and A.
 O. Lane and associates, but had been un- | able to make up its report He stated that
 the committee would meet again next Mon- l day afternoon to further consider the mat | ter.
 l On the recommendation of Chairman | Williams of the police and canitary com-
 mittee the city physician was placed in | charge of the sanitation of the city prison. A resolution was adopted authorizing the l police and sanitation committee, with the
 advice and consent of the mayor, to sell
 all property coming into the possession of 1 the city warden by reason of arrests or | convictions and which shal lnot be claimed
 within six months from the date of re-
 ceipt.
 | Chairman Altman of the judiciary com | mittee reported ordinances levying assess
 ments against abuting property for storm
 sewers recently put in along Fifth avenue
 and Twenty third street and other sections
 of the city. The ordinances were adopted
 and February 21 1900, fixed as the date on
 which the council will meet to hear com
 plainfs of property owners. if ang such
 may wish to register complaints. As a tiuarantee il
 Alderman Jones offered the following | resolution which was referred to the street | railway committeei
 Be it resolved by the mayor and aiderl
 men of Birmingham, That before any
 street railway franchise shall be hereafter
 granted to any party or parties authoizing | such party or parties to construct and op-
 crate within the city of Birmingham any
 street railway that the sum of $1,0O0 shall
 be by such party or parties deposited with
 the mayor of the city of Birmingham as
 guarantee that the work of constructing
 such street railway shall be commenced
 within certain prescribed time and that such work shall be completed and cars
 shall be put in operation thereon within
 such reasonable time as the mayor and al- | dermen shall determine.
 After disposing of the regular business | the board went into executive session. |