The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-10
LAW FOR HUCKSTERS
WILL BE PASSED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL TODAY.
C0LLINSVILLE CONTRACT.
CAUSES A DIVISION IN STREETS AND
LANES COMMITTEE.

Tee 10 MOI want 10 REPORT FaVOr-
ably Upon the Plan to Pay OgIe-
thorpe Investment Company 3d.
900 for EncrOachments 1t Cannot
DeIiver-NO Action Looked for in
the Matter of Street Railway Fran
chises-Alderman Schroeder VIII
Bring Up Matter of Wooden Addi-
tiOn to House in Fire District
Again-Other Measures to BE Con-
sidered.
The huckster ordinance introduced by
Alderman CAVITY viii be brought before
Council at lbs meeting this afternoon for
its second reading. The ordinance will
be passed. Several of the aldermen have
been asked and each has said that he
does not think there is any doubt as to
the passage of the ordinance. Hucksters
will be no less pleased than housekeepers
by the passage of the ordinance, for while
il will mean the restoration of the privi-
lege of the former to sell their wares on
the streets, regardless of market hours,
provided only that they pay license of
$3.50 quarterly. it will also mean that
the latter viii have the convenience that
has been denied them for several weeks.
1t is expected that the butchers and
green grocers will be represented before
the caucus by either Col. George t. Cam
or Hon. ]. Ferris Cam. The butchers and
green grocers desire the law restricting
the hours of street sales of the hucksters
and requiring license of $40 from them
retained.
1t is thought there will be report by
the Streets and Lanes Committee upon the
matter of the Collinsville entertainments
This was referred to the committee at
recent meeting by the Committee of
the Whole, to which body the Streets and
Lanes Committee will report 1t is said
that there will be a division upon the re-
port of the Streets and Lanes Committee
as some of the members are in favor of
paying the Oglethorpe Investment Com
pany the 5000 agreed upon, while others
are seemingly unalterably opposed. It
was the agreement, aldermen assert, that
the city should pay the company 5000
| upon the condition that the company
would remove all encroachments upon the
| streets and lanes of CollinsvilIe. When
the time came for the removal of the en-
croachments, however, President j. S.
Collins said that some of the encroach-
ments were not and had never been owned
by the company, and that it could not
therefore, remove them.
1t Is said that the only encroachment
that is owned, with any question of title
by the company, is an extended one on
Anderson street Some of the members
of the Committee on Streets and Lanes
do not want to give 5000 for this en-
croa chment, as they believe they would
be doing wrong and it is possible that a
very pretty contest may arise in caucus
over the matter.
Tt is improbable that there will be a
| report made upon the applications for
| street railway franchises that have been
made to Council by five different par
| ties. 1t was only recently that streets
| regarded as available for street railway
purposes were reported on by the Streets
and Lanes Committee, and experience
| has dem onstrated that Council does not
move fast enough in street railway fran
chiSe matters to give rise to the hope
| that that step will be followed speedily
| by another. There is great interest among
| the people generally in Councils final
| action in this matter.
| Alderman Schroeder win continue his
efforts to have Mrs. Fowler granted
permission by ordinance to make a
| wooden addition to her brick house with
| in the fire district. At the last meeting
| of Council the ordinance was taken from
| the table, but was sent back there, as
such strong opposition to wooden build
ings in the fire district was displayed
by members of the board. Alderman
| Schroeder will move this afternoon that
the ordinance be brought up again.
| An ordinance for the burial by the city
| OF deceased members of the fire depart
| ment and for the relief of their depend
| ent Families will be introduced by AL
| derman Schroeder. The ordinance will
provide that the city pay the burial ex-
penses, not exceeding $50, of each fireman
| who may die from natural causes while
| in the employ of the city and that his
salary be paid to his family for three
months. 1t will provide further that
| discharge of duty will be buried by the
| city, not to exceed the same cost, and
that his salary for six months be paid
| to his family.
| Alderman Jones' ordinance to permit
the sale Of firearms taken by the police
within sixty days will be put upon Its
| second reading. as will his ordinance tC
| permit bicyclists to ride on the NORTH
| side OF Bay street and of the Strand, be.
tween jefferson and East Broad streets
and on the north side of Harris street
west of West Broad street.
The quarterly report of the Clerk Of
| Council, showing expenditures under eacf
department of the city government, will
be submitted.