The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-07
INSTALL MAYOR
AND ALDERMEN
Result of Late Election Declared
aad Officers Sworn In
MUCH BUSINESS is DONE
Petition of Peoples Home Telephone
company.to Be Allowed to Increase
Rates Is Not Allowed-Dr.
Handley Honored.

The newly elected mayor and nine new
members of the boas1 IF aldermen took
the oath of office last night at the regu-
lar monthly meeting q. the beprd. lhe
result of the election held Monday was
declared as follows:
Mayor-W. NJ. Drennen.
Aldermen-First ward, Thomas Wheel
er, Second ward, John w o'Neill; Third
ward, Ben r. Barbour; Fourth ward
Walter Moore; Fifth ward, B. H. Coop
er; Sixth ward, John c. Forrey; Seventh
ward, c. c. Heidi; Eighth ward, Harry
Jones. and Ninth ward Thomas H.
Simms.
The police commissioners were declared
to be Eugene Flies, Dan Donohoe, Thomas
L. Parker and George Phillips.
Mayor Sworn In.
AS soon as the result Of the election was
declared, Acting Mayor Gray swore w.
M. Drennen into office for his third term
The mayor made a short talk In which he
said that 1t was an honor to be elected
once as mayor, a greater honor to be
elected twice, and a still greater honor TO
be elected third time nuG that his cleo
ton would have been very doubtful had
he not had an honest and conservative
board of aldermen ut his back.
The nine new aldermen were then called
to the rostrum and sworn In Immediate
ly afterwards the mayor and board of al
dermen adjourned and accepted the invi-
tation of the Bricklayers union to attend
a smoker being given in the knights of
Columbus hail. There were two ses-
sions of the mayor and board OF
aldermen. The first was adjourned from
the last meeting to consider ordinance
142 which provides for grading and im-
proving Ash street from Fourteenth
! street to Highland avenue. The judi
ciary committee reported favorably and
the report was confirmed. The adjourn
ed meeting was then adjourned and the
regular meeting convened.
Pound Limits.
The most important matter acted on
by the board was the enlargement of
the pound bounds of the city. These were
changed from the present special limits
to the city limits at large, and In thir-
teen days the new ordinance will go into
effect 1t provides for the impounding
of any animals which are allowed to stray
around the streets of the city either dur
| ing the day or night.
The resolution to make the pound limits
co-extensive with the city limits was
made by Alderman Jones, who spoke in
behalf Of his resolution. He was earn
estly opposed by Alderman Altman of the
Sixth ward and when the question was
put to a vote only Aldermen Altman and
j. r. Copeland voted against It,
Telephone Rates.
The petition of the Peoples Home Tele-
phone company to be allowed to increase
its rates was not allowed. The judiciary
committee, of which Alderman Thach rs
chairman reported the matter unfavor-
ably and the report was adopted. There
was not a dissenting vote cast. This mat
ter was brought up at the last meeting of
the board and referred to the judiciary
committee with instructions to report
last night
Mayor Bremen was instructed to make
another effort to get Steiner Brothers to
accept $4,000 in bonds for which they
had contracted, and IL they did not desire
them to make an effort to dispose of them
to some one else.
A resolution was offered by Alderman
Jones relative to the retirement of four Of
the members of the board. 1t was adopt
ed and 1t is as follows:
BE 1t resolved, That 1t Is with regret
that we sever our official relations with
Messrs. Kerr, Linnehan, McAnally and
Harrington, who retire from the board OF
| aldermen after this meeting assuring
the gentlemen that they have our best
wishes for their future welfare and happi-
ness"
Tribute to Or. HandIey.
On motion Of Alderman Kerr the Rev.
l.. S. Handley, ID. D., pastor of the Cen
trail Presbyterian church, was made a
present of a lot In Oak Hill cemetery
mingham. and has been here for a num-
Der of years doing the city a great serv-
ice in times of need therefore he thought
that it would be a token of esteem to
ask him to select any lot he desired I'm
the cemetery. The motion was carried
The report of the committee on finance,
Of which Alderman Kerr was chairman,
reported on the salary list for the past
month, and recommended that the strip
of land ten feet wide on Alton street be
accepted for 500 and used as park. 1t
was adopted.
The committee also reported that the
bonds for $4,000 for street improvements,
as provided in fourteen ordinances, had
been sold and that the matter be re-
ferred to the judiciary committee This