The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-16
WHY ARE IMPROVEMENTS
 HELD UP?" ASK ALDERMEN

Innrmary Association was able to meet with the help of the city's appropriation.
 Alderman Kohn moved that the rules be suspended and that 50 a month to the Inhrmary be unanimously allowed. It was pointed out that an appropriation could only be made by an ordinance.
 A little later in the meeting Mir. Kohn presented the ordinance making the ap- propriation and 1t was adopted unani- unoiisly.
 An apparently Innocent resolution off, tered by Alderman Roeder sprung the liyeiisst debate of the session. Mr. Roed- CT presented a resolution asking the Roard of Education to enquire into the regulation of the city schools whereby the pupils in reaching the school build ing carly in the morning were compelled to stand outside the door until . certain time before the opening of the school.
 Roeder Wanted to Know.
 Mir. Roeder said that he had passed the Capitol Hill School several mornings and had seen crowds of children standing in the rain.. They were he said, forced to stand out in all sorts of weather until a Parents had complained to him and he knew that the regulation worked great hardship upon the children.
 Alderman Kohn said while he might sympathixs with the purport of the res olution he was not sure that the Council should take that action.
 Alderman Mcintyre was fiatiy opposed to the resolution.
 The Council" ne declared. lis about to meddie in other peoples affairs" He spoke at length against the ordinance. Alderman Rushton was equally as pos itive in his opposition to the resolution. The regulation, he said. was necessary. The children, if turned into the school buildings before the teachers came. would break up the furniture and deface the building. They were given. he said. margin of twenty minutes to arrive at the schools and that. he thought. was sufficient.
 Mir. Roeder found allies in Aldermen Gunter. Hudson and May. They took tho floor in support of his resolution.
 After some further parliamentary spar ring the resolution was adopted.
 More Information Desired.
 Alderman Gmter rose 10 Q point of in- formation. He wanted to know, hc said. why the Mayor Ind not done the parking at Goldthwaite and Bibb Streets as di- rected by the Council. The ordinance Mir. Gunter said. had been passed, not over the Mayors veto but over his pro- test. There had been delay in the work the Alderman said, and he wanted to know the cause of 1t.
 At his request Mayor Joseph appeared before the Council. In explanation of the delay the Mayor said the work had not been done because the condition of the city's finances would not permit of it at this time. The cost of the work, the Mayer said. had been estimated at sass. providing that the city's force of hands did it. He had not been able. he said. to get to that particular piece of work yet. but all would be done in time. And MT. Cheney, Too. Alderman Cheney was also after infor- nation. He wanted to know why the drinking fountains had not bean bought in accordance with the instructions of ! the City Council.
 City Engineer David Ford said that he had been in correspondence with firm in regard to the price of the fountain and the purchase might be made within . week.
 Alderman Cheney also offered q rsso- luton, whose object was to secure infor- nation about the cemetery fund. His resolution instructed Mayor Joseph te re- port at the next meeting the exact con- dition of the cemetery fund. The Council was in session until nearly Il o'clock.