The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-17
MUCH WORK, LITTLE TALK
 MARKED COUNCILS SESSION

paving of Holcombe Street from Mild req Street to Jefferson Davis Avenue | The ordinance was passed by the Coun- ell.
 The report of City Engineer Ford I and Street Superintendent Jones con
 demning South Decatur Street near
 Dexter Avenue for curbing and storm water sewers was read and adopted. A similar report was made by Messrs. Jones and Ford as to curbing and ! storm water sewers on Grove Street be- tween Hull and Law ence Streets. The
 report was adopted.
 An ordinance was introduced by Al derman Ruth providing for the paving | of the sidewalks of Day and Mobile Streets under the baby bond act. The ordinance went to the Committee on Streets.
 An ordinance was introduced grant ing to Massey Wilson and his asso- cfates franchise for a street railway | from Union Street out Madison Avenue | to the city limits. The ordinance was I referred to the Committee on Fran
 chises and Privileges and of Finance. Accompanying a report made by the
 Public Works Committee as to im- provements at police headquarters, AL | derman Teague introduced a@ ordi- | nance appropriating $1.033 for putting
 in some new flooring and papeving and making new sanitary connections. | The ordinance went over until the next | meeting of the Council.
 l The Council was notified by Superin-
 tendent c. F. Floyd, as Clerk of the Board of Education, that the term of
 Judge A. D. Sayre as a member of the I Board had expired, and that it was cus-
 tomary for the Council to elect the mem
 bers at the meeting held in the middle of May.
 Alderman Kohn nominated Judge Sayre 1 for reelection. There were no other
 nominations and Judge Sayre was unan-
 imousiy chosen to succeed himself as a
 member of the Board of Education. Jackson's Gaming Ordinance. | Chairman Gunter of the Judiciary Com
 mittee, reported the Jackson ordinance | with substitute. The Jackson ordi-
 nance, it will be remembered. was to re-
 peal Section 1123 of the City Code in ref
 erence to the keeping of gambling rooms. The substitute reported by the Judi
 ciary Committee forbids the keeping of
 any room in a public place or in the use l of a room in a hotel or other public house where men might assemble for the
 purpose of participating in a game Of
 chance.
 l MT. Gunter arose to explain the sub- | stitute.
 | l asked Alderman Sullivan. If it is.' responded Alderman Gunter T am not the rider. The ordinance is. | however quite simple. It goes even fur | ther than the State law and provides a punishment for any man who counten-
 ances the keeping of a gaming room in | a public place of which he is the pro- prietor. While the ordinance does not
 authorize the police to enter the home | of a citizen where a game of chance may
 be going on 1t does authorize the police | to raid the place if the gaming is fre- | quent enough to become public and make
 tae room public place.
 The ordinance was passed. there being only four votes against it. These four votes were cast by Aldermen Maddox, Griffith. Roemer and Teague. Under a suspension of the rules an or diance appropriating $500 for the payment of Ausfeld & Chapman, architects, for
 work done on the plans and specifications
 of the new school houses. was passed by l the Council without opposition.
 By request of the Mayor and City At, torney, under a suspension of the rules. an ordinance to appropriate $S6,S5 for judgment secured against the city by Lou Prince was passed
 To Extend Water Works. A resolution by Alderman Kohn directs the Water Committee to prepare and sub init to the Council plans for the extension of the citys water works system in the new territory. It was passed by the Council.
 The ordinance of Alderman Kohn ap- propriating s5S,472 out of the general fund to make q payment to the con tractors of the new school buildings was then introduced. The ordinance, explained MT Kohn. was simply to au- thorize the Mayor to make a payment to the contractors some of whom were in urgent need of the money The money, explained MT. Kohn. would be replaced in the general fund upon the sale of the school bonds. After a lit tie discussion the rules were suspend ed and the ordinance was passed.
 resolution of Alderman Gunter di- recting the attention of the Mayor to the bad condition of several sidewalks In Ward 1 was passed.
 Another resolution of Alderman Gun ter passed by the Council directed the Mayor to either sell the "Wallypus Wallypus" or street roller, belonging to the city or have 1t repaired so that 1t might be used.
 Alderman Ruth's resolution direct ing the Mayor to have the yard of the sayre Street school terraced and a brick wall built around it, was refer red to the Schools Committee
 Frcnd of the Newspapers.
 Alderman Jackson presented a reso- lution directing the City Clerk, when he sent out a call for a special meet ing of the Council, to send a copy of the call to the City Editor of each newspaper in the city. MT. Jackson explained that this was done in order that the newspaper might make such notice of the proposed meeting as it saw fit. The call would contain, he said. the object of the meeting and any citizen who might feel interested in that particular subject would have an opportunity of attending the meeting of the Council. The resolution was adopted.
 Alderman Jackson introduced an or dinance to prevent the mutilation of electric light and telephone poles. The ordinance went to the Committee on Franchises.
 Alderman Sullivan introduced a res olution directing the Mayor and Streets Committee to investigate the railroad crossing on the lower Wetumpka road near the slaughter house and If neces- sary to abolish 1t.
 The bids for the furnishing of the city with provisions for the month of June were opened and referred to the Finance Committee.
 Although the hour of II had struck Alderman Maddox moved that the Council go into executive session. AL derman Maddox Is Chairman of the Committee on Sanitation and 1t is un- derstood that the question under dis cussion was the removal of the city