The age-herald., 1902-03-20
Many Improvement Assess
 mentS Are Made Final.
WAL TON NIGHT WARDEN
Brother of Policeman Who Was Shot. Permit Granted Evangelical Lu- therans to Build Frame Church.
 Mayors Report Read.

l
 ly to routine matters. Several improve
 ment ordinances were passed. some
 amendm ents were made in the license
 schedule and George w. Walton brother
 of w. P. Walton the officer who was
 shot Tuesday night. was elected night
 warden at the city jail
 The meeting was called to order by
 Mayor ". M. Drennen at o'clock All
 the members of the board were present
 except Alderman Greener, McNally and
 the two Copelands. Mayor Drennen an-
 nounced that he had signed the contract
 with the Birmingham Realty Company
 for the new park at Five Points and that
 he had also made arrangements with w.
 D. Colby for strip of land at Eleventh
 avenue and Charles street. His annual
 message was then read by the clerk.
 MT. Kerr of the finance committee of-
 fered a resolution which was adopted
 making final for 1902 the assessment of
 merchants stocks of merchandise as
 made by Tom Baine.
 Improvement Ordinances. I Assessm ents were made final and the
 following improvement ordinances adopt | ed.
 No. 10 providing for the curbing of the sidewalks on South Fourteenth street
 at a cost of s4477.
 | No. S1 providing for the grading, curb ing and paving with brick gutters on
 Sixteenth street between Tenth and Ware
 avenues; Allen street between Ware and Fourteenth avenues; Joy street between
 Alta and Ware avenues; Ware avenue | between Joy and Allen street; Alta ave-
 nue between Thirteenth and Sixteenth
 streets and Thirteenth street between
 Alta and Ware avenues. Total cost ST.
 S9061.
 No. S2 providing for grading macadam-
 izing and curbing Sixteenth street be-
 tween Eighth and Tenth avenues at 1 cost of $3665. 40.
 No. SS providing for sanitary sewers on l Alleys G, and E at a cost of S3636
 The confirmation of ordinance No. 114
 was continued until the next meeting.
 Ordinance 115 was confirmed, providing for the grading, macadamizing and pav- ing of sidewalks on Twenty-second street.
 between avenue H and Magnolia avenue; | Sycamore street, from Magnolia to High
 land avenue. and Palmetto avenue, be-
 tween Twenty-frst and Twenty-seoond streets
 Assessments under ordinance No. S3
 were made final, which provides for sani- tary sewers on Tenth avenue, Tenth al- l ley, Eleventh alley, Twenty-third street and Twelfth alley.
 License Schedule Amendments.
 Chairman Thach of the Judiciary com mittee reported favorably several amend ments to the license schedule, which were adopted.
 Section 215 was amended to fix the wholesale liquor license at $40O when beer 1 is not sold.
 | Section IS was amended to provide that license for bank other than a national bank, or dealer in exchange should be s15o when the capital, surplus and undi- vided profits were over 900 but under l s5OoOo
 Section 2s05s was adopted, fixing at $5 the license for a retail dealer in powder when the license is not taken out under section 2SO.
 Section 2621a was adopted, fixing the li- cense at s25 for dealers in paints glass. l doors and mantels when they are the principal stock in trade. 1 This committee asked further time to report on the petition of W. H. Morris l and others for the right to lay pipes in | the streets to furnish cold air. The com mittee stated that they wished to see the form of contract which MT. Morris want ed the city to sign. On motion of Alder man Gray this petition went over to Monday night. when special meeting will be held to consider this matter only. The rights of the Birmingham Steam Heating Company under the ordinance Of January 25, 1901, were continued for l2 months.
 Alderman Graham, chairman Of the street committee, reported resolution which was adopted authorizing the Mayor to sign a contract with Burkhalter & Co. to grade and macadamize Twelfth street, south, between Avenues B and K. The city engineer was instructed to ad- vertise for bids for putting brick gut ters on South Thirt Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
 To Require Arc Lights. Alderman Thach, chairman of the ju- dietary committee, introduced an ordin- ance to require persons using parts of the streets for building purposes to give bond to protect the city; also an ordinance to require railroads to keep arc lights over street crossings on the corner of Ninth avenue and Twenty-eighth street. Tenth avenue and Nineteenth street, Tenth av- enue and Twenty-seventh streeth, Fifth avenue and Thirteenth street. and Fifth avenue and Twenty-seventh street. These | ordinances were referred to the judiciary committee.
 An ordinance was referred to this com- mittee allowing the Postal Telegraph and l Cable Company to erect poles on certain | avenues between Eighteenth street and | Twenty y-fourth street. Improvement ordinance Mo- 1A was in- | troduced to provide for paving with ar tificial stone the following sidewalks: East side of Twenty-eighth street, between Thirtieth alley and Thirty-first street. | west side of Thirty-first street, between | Twelfth avenue and Eleventh alley, both
 sides of Sixteenth street, between Eighth | and Ninth avenues. | On motion of Alderman Graham the l city engineer was instructed to advertise | for bids for paving 10000 square yards
 either with asphalt or vitrffied brick. l Improvement ordinance No. 1O1 was
 passed indefinitely. Az ordinance of Alderman Graham pro-