The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-02
THE COUNCIL MEETING
CONTRACTS WITH INfTh1fARY z. UNTIL OCTOBER.
Fire Chief Browder Submits Report of Accident on Hull Street.
 Other Routine Business of the City.

Tie City Council met in regular ses- sion last night. it being the first meet
 ing in July.
 The Mayor transmitted to the Coun- cil communication from Chief of Po- lice Gerald informing the Council of
 his acceptance of the resignations of Policeman J. c. Harrison and R. L. Boroughs. which were concurred in.
 The Mayor also informed the Council that he had received an invitation from
 the city of Jamestown. N. r., to attend
 the fifth annual convention of the League of American Municipalities, to be held in that city on August 21st to 24th. It was received and filed. The
 Mayor advised the Council of a bid
 from F, NJ .Kohn & Son Of H.s5o for
 the property on Lee Street, known as the Engine House property. He recom- mended it's acceptance.
 The bid was rejected by the Council on motion of Alderman May.
 The. communA ation was received from the School Board informing the Council
 that the salaries of teachers and jani-
  year varying from $1,200 to $6o, aggre- gating s31, ,102. The Board also recom-
 mended certain repairs on school build- tnss. which were received and concur red in.
 The special committee. consisting of Alderman Roman, Kohn and Ruth, having under consideration the propo- sition from a committee appointed by
 the Board of Managers of the Mont
 gomery Infirmary. made report, viz: Said proposition was first, that the city should appropriate $50 per month
 to said Inffrmary, and the Council has already passed an ordinapce making
 said appropriation until October ist
 next
 Second-That the city should make a contract with said Infirmary for the care of city patients. and we now rec onnmend that the Mayor be instructed to enter into a contract with the Mont gomery Infirmary for the care of the city's patients until October list, next, at the same rate at which the patients
 have been cared for by the Plant Sys- tenn Hospital.
 An opinion accompanied the report from the City Attorney that the city had the right to make such contract, which was received and concurred in.
 
 ow of the fireman killed in the accident a few days ago on Hull Street. the sal ary of the dead fireman for June, was adopted.
 The ordinance to grant the right-of- way over certain streets of the city to Oscar Cole. John W. Watts and asso- ciates for the construction and opera tion of passenger and freight railway. | was lest.
 The motion by which the ordinance
 was defeated was reconsidered and 1t | was reaommitted tn the Committee on 1 Franchises and Privileges. Alderman Roman offered a resolution that an alarm gong be placed on the power house furnishing electricity to | the street railway giving said power house notice of any fire and the com-
 mittee tc whom the resolution shall be l referred is requested to report an ordi- l nance providing that when ever an | alarm $ sounded by said alarm gong | the power furnished to said street rail- road be shut of for three minutes, thus stopping all street care flor such | length of time. Referred to Committee l on ,Electrical Control.
 Alderman Roman also offered resp lution that the Water Committee be in- structed tc formulate proper water rates to commence october l, 1901, and l that in making such rates they shall | take in consideration that the rates for | consumers outside of the city should be proportionately higher than those of | the taxpayers of this city and that the committee report such rates to this Council in proper ordinance, which was | referred to Committee on Water Works.
 Alderman Wiley introduced a resp iution that the Montgomery Mounted Rifles be granted the privilege of rop- ing off a space 200 feet square in Oak Park such space to be selected by the City Engineer and Park Committee and said Montgomery Mounted Rifles be permitted to erect stage within the space above referred to and use the same for one night for theatrical rer formance where admission may be charged, but said stage and other structures erected thereon to be re- moved next day after the said per- formance by the said Mount ad Rifles.
 The resolution was adopted. Alderman Ruth introduced . resolu- | tioa requiring the MontG )mery and Eufaula Railroad to build brick cuI- vedt' in Oak Hill Cemetery to protect l tn chill therein and prevent 1t slough | ing off, which was adopted | Fifty dollars was appropriated to pay | for the strip along the west side of l Jackson Street recently purcnased by | the city.
 Alderman Ruth moved that the Bhed over the lower basin be removal and | the hydrant placed on the corner of 1 Commerce and Bibb Streets. which was referred to the Committe on Public l Works.
 Alderman Roman offered a resolution | to levy taxes for the city of Mont gonery which was adopted. A tax ht 50 cents on the $10o for general expenses of 62 l-2 hun5redths of one per centum to pay interest on bonds. A communication was received from the Mayor transitting the report of Chief Browder of the accident to the
 Fire Department in which one man
 was killed and four other more or less seriously injured and the destruction
 of horse carriage. He asked the Council to investigate with a view of requiring the Railway Company to compensate the city for the loss sus- tsined and to prevent such accidents in future. The communication was re- ferred to the Judiciary Committee. AIdernoau Rushton introduced A res