The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-16
ALDERMEN DECLARE IT COULD
 NOT BE ENFORCED.
Believed It Would Work a Hardship on Street Car Companies-Win | Not Buy the Jost
 Property.

The ordinance introduced by Alderman w. M. Hudson. forbidding the ringing of street car gongs or bells of any sort, and the driving of horses fasten than walk within twenty-five yards of a church during religious worship. was defeated last night by the City Council.
 The ordinance was designed to further prevent the disturbance of religious wor- ship, but in the opinion of a majority of the Aldermen, 1t went too far. The Al dermen contended that the ordinance could not be enforced and that 1t would be a dead letter in the law books of the city.
 The ordinance came before the Council with the endorsement of the Judiciary Committee, to which it had been referred. Alderman Kohn said that he felt con- strained to vote against the ordinance. It could not, however, be enforced, he said. and would be a dead letter on the statute books. It would be impossible. he said, for the strSet car men to know when re- 1igious services were in progress in all f the churches of the city. On Dexter Avenue and on Lawrence Street, where there were two churches on each street, the motormen could not ring his bell, even to save human life. MT. Kohn thought he attended church perhaps more than any other Alderman, and ne thought that more services were held at, his church, the Catholic Church, than in any other church in the city, and, al- though there was street car line in
 
 turbed the services.
 l MT. Mcintyre said that as a member of the Judiciary Committee he did not nance whose wisdom he doubted. He ! was opposed to putting dead letter ordi- nances on the statute books as there was enough of that kind there now. The or dinance. he declared could not be en- forced. The ordinance, he said, would be . great hardship on the motormen.
 members of the Council had only had a street car line in front of their church for a short while and they did not realize Sunday. morning. Street car men, ica anS ptnrs he sad n to s church services. After six months Mir Rushton thought his. Catholic friends would be glad to join with him for re- i MT. ,Gunter supported the ordinance. A law, he said, that could do no harm might do some good, he .contended, and MT. Roeder contended that the law would put the street car companies at a disadvantage. In a damage suit the first question on asked Si. vas; Did the motor ] MT. Hudson said that one of the prin- a tSs st f9r tss RsDtr fmSyal of his noyance suffered from the street car gongs.
 
 introduced a resolution requiring com 1 panies operati ting street cars to have the cars equipped with side signs in the day time and colored lights at night to show | the destination of the cars. The ordi- nance. under the rules, went over until the next meeting of the Council. T1e joint Committee on Finance and Public Works ported adversely upon the resolution to purchase the Jost property on Montgomery Street. a resolution which was introduced by Alderman Gunter. The price of the property was fixed by its owner at 5000. The city contemplated enlarging Montgomery Street, and other wise Improving the street adjoining the property. The Montgomery Traction Company had agreed to widen the street when It's franchise as granted and in lieu of this agreement it proposed to pay the city 4,500 Other matters entered into the consideration of the project and final action upon 1t was postponed after the Council had resolved itself into the committee of the whole to consider it.
 In the Committee of the Whole MT. Gunter made a strong plea for the inn provements and showed that he had earn. estly worked for the project for several months. The matter was referred back to the committee to which Aldermen Far lev and Gunter, the representatives oi Ward 1. were added.
 Alderman McT1|vre. offered a resolution creating special committee to inveati- gate under what conditions saloon keep CTS i1 the outskirts of the city might