The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-17
CilV Council Elects Eli P. and
 James ]. PARKER AND STEINER OUT
Mack Rittenberry Reelected Warden of City Jail-Long List of Improve. ment Ordinances Passed-Do-
 nation to Christmas Dinner.

council last night Eli P. Smith and James J. Smith were elected members of the board of education to succeed, re- spectively John L. Parker and B. Steiner. Their term of office is two years.
 Mack Rittenberry was reelected warden of the city jail and Alex Rittenberry was elected assistant warden. The noise nuisance on Twenty-first street came before the council again in the form of an ordinance which was in troduced to prohibit vehicles or cars from going at faster rate than the slow walk of a horse on Twenty-first street between Third and Fourth avenues. The fine for violation of the ordinance is $l0 It was referred to the judiciary and street com mittees.
 This is the stretch of vitrified brick pavement in front of the court house, the noise from which has been so trouble some to the courts.
 Fifth Avenue.
 An ordinance was introduced providing for the pavement of Fifth avenue from Nineteenth to Twenty street with bituminous macadam.
 There were present at the meeting last night Mayor Drennen, Aldermen Barbour, D. R. Copeland, J. R. Copeland Gum, Jones, Moore, Forney, Cooper simms' Stockmar, Thatch, Greener, Wheeler. Gray and Ward
 Chairman Thatch of the judiciary com- mittee recommended that settlement be made with the estate of M. D. Oden upon the payment to the city of $500 on 1 improvement assessments. in return for which the estate was to relinquish all claim to property included in city ceme- tery.
 Improvement Ordinances.
 Chairman Thatch also introduced the were passed:
 Number 175, providing for grading and macadamizing Twenty-eghth street from Avenue B to Avenue G.
 Number 1S1, providing for sidewalks on Pine avenue
 Number s7. providing for grading and 1 macadamizing Avenue c from Twenty third to Twenty-ffth street; Twenty-ffth | street from c to D; Avenue D from Twen- ty-ffth to Twenty-seventh; Twenty-fifh l street from F to D.
 l Number 191, providing for, sidewalk on the southside of Third avenue between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets 1 Number 1S9, providing for grading, ma cadamizing, curbing and building side walks on Twenty-seventh street from l B to E.
 Number 1S5, providing for sidewalks on l Twenty-third street from First to Second 1 avenues,
 | Number 1S6 providing for sanitary sew CT on Kirkland avenue and Thirteenth l street westward.
 Number 184, providing for grading and macadamizing Twenty-third street from First to Seventh avenues and for side- walks from First to Second and Sixth to Seventh avenues
 l Number 1SS, providing for sidewalks on i the south side of Fourth avenue from Twenty-fifth to Twenty-sixth streets
 Number 1SS, providing for paving with bituminous macadam Nineteenth street | from Third to Fourth avenues
 Number 192, providing for sidewalks on Second avenue, 200 feet west of Egh-
 
 tieth street from Fourth to Sixth avenues
 Number 19o, providing for sewer begin ming at Twenty-fourth street and Thir- teenth avenue.
 l Number 1S2 providing for sewer on Thirtieth street from F to G, and on Ave i nue G from Thirtieth to Thirty-second l streets.
 Donation for Christmas Dinner.
 Upon recommendation of the finance committee, of which Alderman Cray is chairman, the sum of $25 was voted to the Salvation Army to assist in defraying the expenses of the army's Christmas dinner to the poor. l The assessments were made final under improvement ordinances 154, providing for sidewalks on First avenue betweeen Twelfth and Eighteenth streets and 166 providing for grading, macadamizing and curbing Avenue D from Eleventh to Four teenth street and Fifteenth to Eighteenth street and grading and macadamizing from Eighteenth to Nineteenth street. The street committee. through Chair man Moore, recommended that contract for Improvements on Ash street from Highland avenue to Fourteenth avenue be awarded to E. T. Moore & Co.,, this hid being $1677
 Elm Street Work. The street work on Elm street from Highland to Magnolia was awarded to Dunn & Lallande s3521, and the building sidewalks for same to Bryon Sanders. his bid being sI624.
 
 The city license collector was instructed to issue licenses for the sale of fireworks on the street, providing the salesmen keen them in show cases and get permission from the adjacent merchants The police department was instructed to enforce the ordinance against shooting fireworks within certain limits. The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company was instructed to remove the dead tracks on Cottonwood avenue. or to put them into use, and the company was also given ninety days in which to remove the dead tracks on Highland ave- nue, or put them in use
 A communication was read from Cb,ef Mullin of the fire department, in which complaint was made that fire plugs get badly stopped up with cinders and slap and cause them to leak. The cause was assigned to the fact that the Water Works company. in laying mains, allow ed the particles to get into them and from there they ara wasbad into +ho