The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-08
Committee Appointed to Assist
 the Board of Aldermen
MUST NOT LOSE ANY TIME
Only Nine Cities In the United States of Over 100000 Inhabitants Do Not Own Their Waterworks-stand-
 Ing Committee Appointed.

water works again. At the meeting yes terday afternoon a committee of three was appointed to assist the mayor and board of aldermen in making plans to erect a water works plant to be owned by the city.
 The committee consists Of J. D. Collins, G. Rotholz and sibley King. The com mittee was appointed on motion by MT. Collins, who stated that the matter should be brought up again and pushed as the Greater Birmingham committee was pushing it work. John O'Neill stated that any action taken would have to be taken at once as there would have to be local bill introduced at the meeting of the legislature and that there would not be a session after next September for four years
 Must Not Lose Time.
 He urged that the committee take the matter up at once, and the members of the aldermanic board who were present at the meeting promised that they would bring it up at the next meeting.
 On this subject B. H. Cooper read an article from the Baltimore News in which 1t was stated as a fact that out of the thirty-nine cities In the county with over one hundred thousand inhabitants only nine do not own their water works, and that out of the ninety-eight with popu- lation of over thirty thousand that seventy-four owned and operated their own water works. The article went on to state that municipal ownership of public utilities is growing rapidly and the move ment is gaining strength every day.
 Greater Birmingham.
 John W. ONeill reported on the pro- gress being made by the Greater Birming- ham committee which is composed from the Board of Trade the Commercial Club and the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. He reported that the boundary lines of the greater city have been selected and that a committee has been named to pre- pare the bill to be introduced at the next meeting of the legislature President J. H. McCary, of the Board of Trade is a member of the committee.
 MT. ONeill also reported on the trad ing stamp question. He stated that ~he committee from the Board of Trade had succeeded in having an ordinance passed through the city council which placed a tax of 5000 on any trading stamps company and also a tax of s2OO on any merchant using trading stamps
 In this connection President McCary said he had received a letter from the Alabama Commercial and Industrial asso- citation asking that the Board of Trade unite with them in making a systematic war on the trading stamps companies. The letter stated that bill will be introduced at the next session of the legislature mak- ing it unlawful for trading stamps com pany to operate in Alabama No action was taken on the letter further than to refer it to the legislative committee.
 The letter brought up the question of the boards being a member of the Ala bama Commercial and Industrial associa- tion Secretary Mccullough was instruct ed to inform the secretary of the associa- ton that the board did not desire to be a member of the association.
 Secretary Mccullough was instructed to l investigate what had become of the ordi, nance introduced some time ago into the city council providing for meter inspec- tor.
 A resolution to make another effort to get a decrease in insurance rates was re- ferred to the Insurance committee with instructions to report as soon as possible.
 Standing Committee Announced. The standing committees for the year were announced yesterday afternoon by President J. H. McCary at the regular meeting of the Board of Trade. There are twelve of these committees and on them appear the names of a number of the new members of the board, and also of men who have not been taking a very active part, but who have signified their intention of again getting in harness The committees are as follows:
 Miscellaneous and Grievances-B. H. Cooper, chairman; Eugene Jacobs, E. Wall, J. T. Yeatman, L. N. Archer, J.. F. Friedman, E. Solomon.
 Street Railroads-J. M. Dewberry, chairman; Coman Blach, E. Lesser, J.. M. Webb R. s. England, S. P. Fowllkes, J. A. Coker and J. T. Doster. Entertainment-J. w. ONeill chair man; w. c. Fellows, w. R. Gum, w. H. Kettig. J E. Levy. bgkqj Kettig, J. E. Levy, Fred Wehage. George Bowers. E. J. Gower. Ed Warren. Jr Jake Benswinger
 Finance-C. c. Heidt, chairman: Si- mon Klotz, R. E. Collins. Richard Ran dolph, E. Wilkinson, E. D. Brown, Adolph Hirsch, Moses Levy and R. w. Ewing.
 Auditing-J. H. Roll, chairman; Oliver Chalifoux, A. J. Krebs, Ben F. Barbour, D. M Drennen. V. Glib and R. A. Wheeler.
 Committee on Railroads-W. D. Wood. chairman; S. P. King. Robert McLester. F. II. Lathrop, R. W. Ewing and J. F. Rushton.
 l Legislative-T. V. Boardman W. S.. Brown, Simon Klotz. S. W. Lee. John l.. Parker. J. E. Shelby and J. B. Mcvay.
 Insurance-G. Rotholz chairman; Oli- yer Cahlifoux, L. Pizitz, Sam Earle. Isaac Feder. w. T. Cox and J. Friedman.
 Taxation-Colman Blach, chairman; M. V. Joseph. J. c. Marks. Ferd Marx. J. F. Rushton. George Mccrery, Charles Veitch and Louis Saks.
 City and County Matters-simon Klotz. chairman, Ira l.. Armstrong, Jake Bur- ger, Alex Mcleod. R. B. Jones. c. J. Herbert