The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-08
EFFORT TO REDUCE WATER
 " RATELDST IN CITY COUNCIL
Committee Also Declined to Grant Reduction to LargcCo Consumers To Repair City Hall-Bids for
 Furnishing Electric Lights Received.

be done and if the committee had been authorized to advertise for bids Alderman May replied that the lowest bid was ss45 and the committee had added $i5e for incidentals.
 | Alderman Roeder a member of the Committee, explained that realizing the l importance of rushing the work the Com nittee had taken the liberty of directing the City Engineer to ask for bids on the work. The Council had been asked to
 meet yesterday morning so that the or dinasce might be introduced and get the
 work under way as speedily as possible. Specificat tions for the work were sent to the Clerks desk and were read for the benefit of Alderman kohn. They pro- vide for repapering and kalsumintng the Council Chamber, the Mayors ofice the Clerks ofice. the corridors and other parts of tho building.
 Alderman Kohn said he would like to strike out the repairs to the Council Chamber. He said he thought the cham
 Der would compare favcrably with that
 Alderman Rushton declared that 1t was economy to fix up the building. Unless 1t was done. he said, some one would soon be clamoring for new city hall. When this Council gets the artistic fever" said Alderman Mcintyre, -it cuts some queer capers. Some zeaious gentle man caused the fountain on Court Square to. be painted black when understand 1t was originally intended to be . bronze statute. What the City Hall needs more than anything else is good sweeping. This is misguided zeal. When our visi- tors come here we can make up in cordi- aiity what we lack in purse." The ordinance appropriating $500 to re- pair the City Hall was then passed AL derman Mcintyre casting the single vote against it.
 An ordinance appropriating s25 for eIev- en days pay of the late Patrolman Griffin was reported favcrably by the Police Committed, and on motion of Alderman Kohn the rules were suspended and 1t was unanimously adopted.
 An ordinance fixing the license for ex- press companies at. $500 year was passed An ordinance prohibiting the specuia- ton on theatre tickets unless the nrice of admission Is printed on the ticket was
 unanimously passed.
 An ordinance amending the license re- iating to fruit vendors was read and or | dered to lie on the table until the next
 meeting. It q. reduces the license of wagon
 Resolutions were introduced and acted upon as follows:
 By Alderman Notwithstanding the
 repairing the city market. and that each bid shall be accompanied by a certified
 check for 500, successful bidder to make
 q l.ooo bond for faithful performance of
 the work. He explained that J. N. Gal
 laspy. to whom the contract had hereto 1 fore been awarded, had failed to qualify. | Alderman Toole moved to amend the l resolution by fixing the amount of the
 bond ts. to be made by the successful bidder
 The amendment was lost by the follow l ing vote:
 Ayes-Messrs. Cheney, Hartley. Hay
 good, Kohn. Mcintyre and Tooie-6. .
 Nays-Messrs. Fleming. Anderson. Far
 ley. Gunter. Hudson. May Roeder and | Rushton--S.
 The original resolution vas then adopt
 ed Alderman Mcintyre voting against 1t. | By Alderman Rceder-That the Street l Monroe Street from Union to Jackson i Streets and Madison Avenue from Bain-
 bridge to Jackson Streets and the side- walk on the same streets and report al I the next regular meeting what work that | will be necessary to be done to put thess
 streets in proper passabie condition l Adopted. By Alderman Hartlcy-That the city Engineer be instructed 10 replace that
 part of the sewer leading from the corn l CT of Ripley and King Streets to the
 storm sever said sewer to be not less
 than fifteen inches Tn diameter. Adopted. | By Alderman Cheney-Directing tha
 the Central of Georgia Railroad be re- lduired to protect the cemetery from its | tracks by fence and also to protect the cemetery from water that falls upon it's | tracks. Adopted.
 By Alderman May--Awarding the con- tract for improving the City Hall to the
 lowest bidder Messrs. Heitz 6 Burdett. l for $S45. Adopted.
 Ordinances were introduced as follows: By Alderman Cheney-Appropriatin $1.000 for improving Oakwood Cemetery.
 Contemplates the building Of a pavilion in the new cemetery and other improve ments.
 By Alderman Rushton--Directing the City Treasurer in future to collect no H.
 censes for entertainments at the Audito-
 rum.
 Bids for furnishing the city with eiec-
 trio lights were then opened and on mo-
 tion of Alderman Toole they were refer-
 red to a joint committee consisting Of
 the members of the standing committees
 on Lights and Electric Patrol
 Three bids were received respectively
 from C. G. Abercrombie. Bernard Frank
 and the Montgomery Light and Power
 Company.
 Under a resolution of the Council the
 bids were based on one year contracts t0
 ten year contracts The figures ran all
 the way from $69 per light for one year
 contract to s5l a light for a ten year
 contract. The bid of the Montgomery
 Light and Power Company averages about s10 light under their competitors.