The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-17
COWS AND HORSES
MUST NOT RUN At
LARGE At NIGHT
Board of Aldermen Puts the
CurfeW Law on
Stock.
TO PROTECT THE STREETS
Persons Tearing Up Thoroughfares for
Any Purpose Must Give Bond.
Permit Issued for Hill
man Hospital.
TO PROTECT THE STREETS

FCTmit tSSuCu TOT 1lIl-
man Hospital.
The Board of Aldermen met last night
and passed an ordinance prohibiting
cows, horses and such animals from run
ming at large at night within the citys
limits. 1t also passed an ordinance re-
curing persons, using the streets for
building purposes to give bond to hold
the city harmless from damages The
usual number of assessment ordinances
were also passed and persons behind in
assessments were warned to pay up
Present at the meeting were Alderman
r. II. Kerr, who presided in the absence
of Mayor Drennen; Aldermen Wheeler,
Greener, Gum. Linnehan, Ward, Cope
land d. r., Copeland ]. r., Altman, Ora
ham, Heidi. Stoelmar, Thach and Gray.
A letter was read from the Elks thank
ing the city for courteses shown them
during their recent fair
One hundred and ninety-three old bonds
which could not be used by the city on
account of a mistake In the engraving
were ordered destroyed.
Assessments were ascertained under
Improvement ordinance No. Il providing
for grading and matchmaking Four
teenth street from the railroad to ave-
nue. K.
Assessments Made Final.
Assessments were made final in the fol-
lowing ordinances:
No. 10, providing for curbing Four
tenth street from the railroad to ave-
nue. K.
No. 81, providing for grading, curbing
and laying brick cutters on Sixteenth
street from Tenth to Ware avenue; Al
len streets from Ware to Fourteenth
avenue; Joy street from Alta to Ware;
Ware avenue from Joy to Allen street
Alta avenue from Thirteenth to Six
teenth street; Thirteenth street from Alta
to Ware
matchmaking and curbing Of Sixteenth
street from Eighth to Tenth avenue.
No. SS. providing for sanitary sewers
on alleys C. d and E from Twenty fifth
to Thirty-second street
A petition for a license to open a saloon
on Nineteenth street and Third alley was
disallowed, objection being made by
Messrs. T. H. Motion and w. H. Graves.
A petition from Mr.. James L. Tanner
and associates asking for franchise for
an electric lighting plant was referred to
the judiciary and light committees.
An ordinance was adopted requiring
persons obtaining permission from the
city to use any portion of the streets for
building purposes to give a bond to In
demnify the city against any loss by
reason of injuries to pedestrians or 9TH
ers.
An ordinance was adopted to construct
a sanitary sewer on St. Charles avenue
and Florida and Georgia streets.
Ordinance Against Stock.
An ordinance prohibiting the running
at large of cattle during the night with
In the city limits was adopted. This was
ordered published in the Age-Herald and
the afternoon papers.
Section 80 of the license schedule was
amended so as to fix the license for a
book store whose stock was under $4,000
at $25, and II over $4,000 at $50. Section
1854 was amended to fix the license of
haberdashers at $50 If stock was under
$4,000, and at SIS IL over $4,000
ordinances were pdSSeu pTOVlOlIB lOr
the sale of improvement bonds aggregat-
ing $l4,500.
Improvement ordinance No. ia provid-
ing for work on Thirty eighth street was
cancelled.
The city attorney was instructed on
motion of Alderman Graham to take
such steps as were necessary to open
alley between Nineteenth and Twen-
tieth streets.
dry and Machine Company to have their
assessment reduced was referred to the
Mayor and city attorney with power to
act.
M. Jaffe, a jeweler, was allowed to
erect post on Second avenue on which
to place a watch.
Five hundred copies of the new building
laws were ordered printed to be sold at
not exceeding twenty-five cents
HlIlman Hospital Permit.
The building laws were suspended and
building permit was directed to issue
to the Hillman Hospital whose plans
were not quite in accord with the build
ing laws but which were satisfactory
in every way.
The fire department was authorized to
lend an old reel to Ensley-
An ordinance OF Alderman Ward to
amend the license schedule in reference
to retail grocers so as to fix the license
at S25 IL stock was under $4,000 and $50 II
over, was referred to the judiciary COM
mittee.
The city attorney was Instructed ON
motion OF Alderman Ward, to draw an
ordinance regulating the switching Of
trains at grade crossings.
A petition of the Southern Railway to
cross Twenty-fourth street with two spur
tracks was granted. A petition of the
Birmingham Belt Railroad Company to
put In a connecting line on Avenue b was
post poned until the next meeting.
An ordinance to regulate the sale OF
morphine and similar drugs was referred
to the judiciary committee.
A resolution Of Alderman Gray's recit-
ing that there was due the city on i'm
proyement ordinances l to 81, $4,000, ana
directing that If the same were not paid
within thirty days that executions be
levied for the amount was adopted.
Five thousand dollars was appropriated
to the board of education for salaries of
teachers.
Alderman Gray's resolution In reference
to altering the city's water was adopted
and the board then adjourned to meet
next Wednesday night.
Many so-called "bitters" are not medi-
cines, but simply liquids disguised so as