The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-31
LAST AFTERNOON
SESSION TO-DAY
CITY COUNCILS SUMMER
WILL CLOSE WITH THE LAST
MEETING IN AUGUST.

Number of Important Matters Are 10
BE Taken Up-POIe Inspection Or
dinance Will Be Introduced and
Ordinance Repeating Ordina nee
Allowing Barber Shops Open on
Sundays Will Be Read for Second
Time and Passed-SeveraI Build
inSs Have Been Put Up without
Permits.
The last of the afternoon sessions of
City Council for this year will be held
to-day and the prospects are for a very
busy meeting. Beginning with Septem-
Der the aldermen will meet at s
o'clock at night, which hour will be
adhered to until next summer.
The ordinance providing for the in
spection of the poles throughout the
city by members of the fire department
will be introduced and read for the
first time. There is no doubt of the
passage of this ordinance though some
of the firemen are very much opposed
to it, as it puts extra work, without
extra compensation, upon them. AL
NNliiACli ClANti' tllC 1lidII IlldI VI liz
Fire Committee. however thinks the
ordinance the only solution whereby
the city can get the poles inspected
without mourning considerable cost.
Practically all of the aldermen agree
that the inspection of the poles is a
very desirable thing and most of them
think the plan to have the fire depart
ment do the work is about the best
that can be devised.
The Fire Drills.
The ordinance requiring fire drills in
schools will prOba bly, not be taken up
this afternoon, as Supt. Mcguire of
the fire department, has requested AL
derman Oliver to hold the matter up
until after the fire chiefs convention
in September. The matter is to be dis
cussed at the convention and Supt.
Mcguire thinks he will be able to get
some valuable suggestions, which
should be embodied in the ordinance.
There are a number of minor petit
tions to be reported upon by commit
tees. Most of them are asking for the
refunding of paving bills or taxes.
Several charitable institutions have
such petitions before Council and they
will, most of them, be acted upon at
the meeting.
BARRIERS Ordinance.
The ordinance, providing for the re-
peal of Section 1414, of MacDonell's
Code, which allows barber shops to
keep open on Sunday mornings until
II o'clock, will be read for the second
time and passed. The passage of the
ordinance will probably end the fight
that has been going on among the bar
bers for several weeks, some of them
favoring closing on Sundays and some
favoring keeping open. A long petit
ton from a number of the BARRIERS,
those running shops them
selves, asking that the ordinance al
lowing the shops open be repealed, won
Council over, although several of the
officials personally favor the open Sun
day shops.
Several wooden houses have been
erected within the fire limits recently
without permits from the city. Per-
mits We're applied for at the time the
building ordinance was being consid-
cred and while the city officials held up
the permits the property owners went
ahead and built their houses. The APP
plications were switched backward and
forward between the Committee on
Ere and the building inspector without
ever being acted on by any one. The
applications were all turned over to
Acting Mayor Dixon yesterday, and he
will probably present the matter to
Council in caucus.