The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-05
BOND ISSUE CALLED FOR Ordinance Passed Council \ Last Night. ELECTION ON MAY 9ih
 School Building Plans Have Been Changed.
 Brick Buildings Will be Erected Sanitary and Water Works sys- tenn Will Be Extended Into Suburbs.

The citizens of Greater Montgomery w.l on May say by their votes. wheth- CT the municipal government shall issue bonds for slo0.0oo for school purposes, Of S20o 900 for the extension Of the water works system and of s60.oo0 for the ex- tension of the sanitary sewers or the city.
 The ordinance declaring for the issue and providing for an election on May ? was passed by the Council at it's meet ing last night. Mayor Carr will sign the ordinance as soon as 1t comes to him.
 The new school buildings will be sub stantial and safe. The way in which they will be erected will not lay them open to the charge that they are fire traps. The walls will not be of stud, but will be of brick. The. school build ings in the suburbs will be as good and as substantial as those of any part of the city. This was decided by the Council.
 The contracts which called for the erection of school buildings of brick ven- ger have been recalled. New contracts were reported last night by Alderman Gunter, chairman of the School Commit tee for the school buildings at Highland Park and South Montgomery. The walls of these buildings are to be of solid brick and there is to be nothing shoddy about them. The OTlAltAt CUbtIuCSoto AofC been promised extra pay for the increase of expenses in the additional specified tiens and they have accepted the changes. No report was made upon the West End school building as there ap- pears to be some d..-erence between the committee and the contractors.
 In reporting the changes made In the specifications, Alderman Gunte- said that the committee had done so because 1t was plainly the sentiment of the cfti- zens of Montgomery that they were wil- ling to undergo the necessary expenses of the changes in spetNf Pltions. The committee was of the opinion that the original plans called for the erection of buildings which were safe and substan- tial and in no sense fire traps, but as the people of Montgomery evidently wanted the other class of buildings, the commit tee was quite willing that they should be erected.
 The issue of bonds for school, water works and sanitary purposes were pro- vided for in an ordinance favorable re- ported to the Council by a special com. mittee composed of the Finance, School. and Water Committee. The report was handed in by Alderman kohn. The conn mittee report upon the school bond prop osition was as follows:
 To the City Council:
 Your Joint Committee on Finance and Schools has carefully considered the rec concentrations of the Mayor as to an elec- ton authorizing the issue of s1oo.Ooo of bonds for school purposes.
 This Committee, the whole Council and the people are heartily in favor of pro- viding for the new territory the most sub stantial and the most thoroughly equipped school houses which will give complete aaki~fa0ffoy1 ta thafP and their neighhorhoods on good footing with the most favored sections of the city. Your Committee finds that although the last Council was seriously hampered by the amount of the bond issue asked for, namely, $5O,000, yet the amount involved in the proposed contracts would be $6S,- 00o. The School Committee and the Pub lie Works Committee have unanimously determined to recommend to the Council changes in the plans of the new school houses which will increase the amount required to $S0,00O As provisions will have to be made later for North Mont gomery and for other needs mentioned by the Mayor, and we hope later for manual training 1t will be readily seen that the work to be undertaken means a great deal to the people and large funds must be raised either by the taxation or by bonds. The Joint Committee therc- fore recommends that the ordinance sug- gested by the Mayor be adopted and au- thority from the people for an issue of $100, 900 of school bonds. In agreeing to the immediate construction of the school houses under the new plans the Commit tee Is trusting to the people to supply the funds.
 Tho report upon the proposition to is- sue bonds for the extension of the water works and sanitary system contained sim liar arguments. It was pointed out that the issuance Of bonds was the only way in which the Improvements could be made.
 The reports of the Committee wss adopted and later in the meeting the nec- essary ordinance was passed.
 Tn the passage of the ordinance 1t de- veloped that there was no way in which the residents of the suburbs could vote under the terms of the ordinance. They have not yet been set apart into wards and under the ordinance the voters will have to cast their votes at certain places. Alderman Sullivan objected to voting for the ordinance until this defeet had been repaired. Alderman Strauss introduced a resolution directing the Re6istricting Committee to bring In a plan for rem- edying the defect at the next regular or special meeting of the Council and the resolution was adopted.