The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-03
Street Railway Company
 Granted Privileges.
Authorized to Build a Curve at Court Square-Deferred Action on Yelverton's Packing
 House Petition.

The consideration of claims against the city for damages and the passage and discussion of ordinances carrying fran chises for the Montgomery Street Rail- way occupied the time and attention of the Montgomery City Council at its reg ular meeting last night Altogether the Council had a busy time of 1t, remaining in session until nearly Il o'clock.
 Three claims for damages for which the claimants held the city responsible, were before the Aldermen. The Judiciary Committee recommended that Thomas J. Hall be paid $50 for injuries sustained by his child who was severely burned while playing around some apparatus left by the city hands in the repair of a water main. MT. Hall only asked from the city the amount of the doctors bill J. E. Searcy, one of the firemen on the ill-fated hose cart that was demolished in the collision with a Cloverdale car on Hull Street in May, 1901. asked that the city repay him $50. the cost of an opera ton necessitated by an injury that he received in the collision.
 James w. Freeman, resident of South Montgomery, petitioned the Council to pay him $1.00O for injuries received in a fall on the night of January on South McDonough Street. In the fall MT. Free man sustained a broken leg and other hurts
 Street Railway Ordinances.
 The Montgomery Street Railway Com pany was granted two ordinances de- signed to facilitate street car traffic on Dexter Avenue and to avoid congestion of travel. One of the ordinances gave the company the right to construct an additional curve at Court Square con 10 xxfh track on South Court Street. Another ordinance gave the company the right to build an additional track on Bainbridge Street to connect its north track on Dex- ter Avenue with its track on Washing ton Street.
 Both ordinances occasioned considerable debate and there was some opposition but they passed with votes to spare. President Fleming. Aldermen Toole Hartley, Kohn, Haygood, Anderson, Mo Intyre. Rushton, Cheney. May. Gunter, Johnson, Farley, Hudson and Roeder were present
 That Underpass Again.
 The Committee on Streets submitted a second report on the location of the joint street car tract around the underpass on 1 lower Commerce Street.
 The Committee at a previous meeting
  viding that the underpass should be circled by one track which was to be | used jointly both by the Montgomery | Street Railway and the Montgomery | Traction Company. At that time Alder man Mcintyre submitted a resolution ap- | proving of the location of the track pro- | vided the Montgomery Street Railway
 should run its Cloverdale cars to thS
 lower end of Commerce Street. The
 committee favorably reported the Mo
 Intyre resolution.
 The report was temporarily laid upor
 the table to be taken up later.
 The Judiciary Committee reported
 favorably a petition of T. J. Hall fol
 payment for injuries sustained by hi:
 child from apparatus of the Waterworks
 Company left in the street where a mair
 was being repaired. The child was severe
 Iy burned. MT. Hall asked that he bt
 paid $50 the amount of the doctors bill.
 Claims Against City. The committee reported on the petition
 Recommending the report was an ordi
 nance appropriating $50 for MT. Hall.
 A petition was read from James w
 Freeman asking that $1000 be paid hin
 for injuries received in fall on Soutf
 McDonough Street on the night of Janua
 rv 9th. Mir. Freeman in his petition sait
 that the sidewalk was torn up and 1T
 his fall he broke his left leg. sustaining also A sprained ankle He said that ht
 was willing to accept $l, GOO for his in juries.
 The petition was referred to the Com | mittee on Judiciary.
 J. k. Searcy. member or the hr' . | denartment who was one of the mer
 upon the hose wagon at the disastrous ' collision with a Cloverdale car on Hul Street in May, 1901, petidoned the coun , cil to pay him $50 which he had to pa! out for an operation. The operation, h. said, was made necessary by injuries that he had received in the collision. . This petition was also referred to tn Committee on Judiciary.
 Tax Ordinance Passed. . The tax ordinance which has beel pending for some time in the Council wa
 called up and passed. The ordinance
 declares that the city assessment oi
 property within the city shall be tn , isarne as State assessment, The ordi ) nance further provides that the assess ments shall be made between the frs } of April and the first of July. l An ordinance granting the Montgomer Street Railway the right to extend it 9 track on South Jackson Street to Hutch
 inson Street was called up. The ordl nance had been before the CounclI l the two previous meetings, but last nigh 7 it was passed without discussion.
 An ordinance authorizing the Mont
 gomery Street Railway to connect it : track on Dexter Avenue with its trac
 on South Court Street precipitated a de
 bate.
 On this proposition the Committee O
 Franchises divided. The majority of tn
 committee. Messrs. Fleming and Hart
 ley, endorsed the ordinance Alderma ! kohn submitted .nino 1ty report, whic O was opposed to the granting of tn s franchise
 y Kohn Opposes New Curve. n An additional cur 'a at Court Squar e would, he said, in supporting his report T result in. conjesting travel at the foo di of South Court St: cot He believed tha n there were enough curves and track a Y Court Square. A further increase h g though would helgAten the langer i l. that part of the city He said he dis "a liked to oppose the Street Railway Con h pany because it was certainly improvIr d its system and it deserved well at th l. lands ,f the Council and the people { d Montgomery
 '- Alderman Gunter favored the cury, l. As he understood il the curve Was f. Y, the brneht of the cars "t the JaJkS1 f Street and Bel, ines. IL was pio9os, l. by thls ordinance to relieve street (. l. congestion on Dexter Avenue I'll |, curve would not be near the corner. bl u would he beyond the present curve. i At his request General Manager Semm