The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-17
REPLACEBURNEDB00KS
ALDERMAN KoHN WANTS CITY
 TO PAY THE BILL.
Introduced Resolution to Restore . Cottage Hill Pupils the Text books Destroyed in the
 Recent Fire.

"shall the city of Montgomery. pay thS nhiIdren who attended the Cottage klln school for the books that were desGOys1 when the building was burned two "se~S
 This Is a question which vexsd tne
 members of the City Council last night
 and called for A lengthy ana az u.ass u1sss being refrred to the School Committee eh the Council for investigation. Tne coa- mittee ie instructed to report 10 the neAt regular meeting of the Council. -n,,,,
 ell by Alderman KOhn. chairman of the Finance Committee, In the shape 0k q resolution authorizing the Mayor 70 nus . new books for the children wnH soss them in the Cottage Hill schoolhouse fire. When the ordinance was read Az Herman Kohn said that he undsrstooo that the books would probably cost the IIacrnnan Rushton opposed the resolu- tion. He said the loss of the books waS not such a great hardship on tns scnool nSsI children as 1t would be on the city: Tns building would have to be replaced ana ss the building was not adequately ln- aIired the los would be heavier than was expected. Any way, Alderman hushtUn h.ys said. such a sweeping resoiution wou.u a.s leave room for the practice of fraud upon the city by children who might not nave had books at the school when IL was burned -, l., ..oa -4t,,
 AIderman Rushton. The resolution let down the bars and invited fraud He declared he would vote against the reso- lution. .~- &.ot,. .e these school children" said Alderman Hartley, but this resolution leaves tne matter open to any one to get oooks whether they had any in the burned 0y AIdermSn Haygood got the floor long enough 10 declare that the fire occurred at an hour when the books should moi have heen ln the ssAse! :Ss:;s, ES 1 pills should have had them at hems studying, he declared ,s Al,
 Then Alderman May championed the cause of the pupils of the cottage nI
 school. He ardently supported the resc' iution, saying that his children had pat ronized the Montgomery schools and ne l knew something about them. The teaeh | CTS would not let some of the books go out of the school building ne dSG,isrsS' S,Iarsn | He said he could not see how any aideE- | man could fall to support the resoIuuon, | particularly when 1t sought to relmpuFss | fine children of a school, the patrons oi which were among the poor people or the
 Alderman Hudson supported the reso- Iutiop He spoke of a poor famt,iy amy "Hiiu fIIil school. He sad he was informed tha these children would be compelled to qni' | school altogether unless the city proNI0s'
 them with books to take the PIaSs s,s ?
 ever. that he was not in favor of goinl l it blindly. He rather preferred to inyss ttgate into the cost of these books. HIi
 Information, he said was that the teach CTS required certain of the books to re, main in the school room over nlght iIS anS
 that 1t was not the fault of the pnph
 that the books were destroyed
 The author of the resolution. Aldermai
 Kohn, said the city was in sense th
 custodian of the books or the snilar
 and he hoped the resolution would
 finally adopted He concluded by movin
 that the resolution be referred to tn
 school Committee of the Council for Alderman Rushton again addressed th
 Council. He declared that the resotutio