The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-18
A NEW OFFER FOR FOUNTAIN That Circular Office Build
 ing is Revived.
 -s SCHEME IS NOT DEAD Mass of Business at City
 Council Meeting. Mayor Carr and Heads of All Depart ments of City Government Make
 Reports for Fiscal ;

The proposition to build a circular. omce building In the space now occu- pied by the fountain on Court sauare Is not dead. It was only sleeping when everybody thought 1t was dead. and last night at the annual meetinr of the City Council 1t was galvanized into life again. II wore a little different form from the one In which 1t first appeared The proposition was submitted to the council last night as 1t was before. by the Modern once Building Commit. tee of the Commercial and Industrial Association. The language of the of- fer was exactly as before. except for the addition of q couple af paragraphs to the communication. Tn addition to the old offer 1t was proposed to pay the city $lo,o00 for the fountain space and pay thousand dollars a year rental and to maintain the officebuiId. ing in first-class shape until the ex- piration of the lease.
 The proposition was not knocked out tuumediatelx as 1t was in its first ap- pearance. Then 1t never got to a committee. Last night 1t was sent to the Finance Committee of the Council.
 Very Important Meeting.
 The meeting last night was the most important business meeting of the year. The Mayors annual message and the annual message of all the heads of departments of the city gov ernment were handed into the Alder men. The Aldermen in a measure took stock of the city's affairs.
 mass of routine business was at- tended to and but little time was spent in talking. The Aldermen were kept at work until the clock struck 12, mid night.
 Alderman Holloway from Ward ' of- fored an ordinance of special interest to suburbanites. It fixes the rate for hack hire in the city. The ordinance provides that a passenger must be car ried anywhere in the city for the sum of 25 cents until after 10 o'clock at night when double that amount may be charged, except at the union pas senger station. The ordinance pro- vides that at all hours one7 25 cents may be charged a passenger from the depot to any point in the city. The ordinance went to the Fisance Com. mittee.
 Mir. Holloway presented several res- olutions looking to the improvement of the streets in the southern suburbs of the city.
 Those present at the meeting were. ftice-President A. e, Forbes, Aldermen Ryan, Sullivan. Maddox. Holloway. Griffiths, Roemer, Kohn, Jackson, Strauss, Ruth and Gunter.
 The aldermen were slow in assemb- ling. It was feared that quorum would not be present for the annual meeting and it was well after o'clock before nine members had come and the Council could get to- business.
 The annual message of the Mayor was taken up and read at length.
 ''rhe very encouraging report of the Mayor" as it was termed was received and filed. The reading of the reports of the other city officials at length was dispensed with. On motion of Alder man Strauss the clerk was instructed the city officials printed and distributed at the earliest possible time.
 . Sold Whiskey on Sunday.
 Recorder A. H. Arlington in accord ance with subdivision 129 of section of the code reported to the Council the names of defendants who were con- victed of selling whiskey on Sunday. There were four names. J. T. Sheehan, A. strahl. c. Hopkins and L. J. Wright.
 The Finance Committee reported un- favorably upon the petition of Mrs. Ef1ie O'Connel1. asking a reduction of the taxes on her brick yard property and upon the petition of Mrs. Carrie c. Beale for reduction of taxes on city property. Both reports were adopted by the Council.
 The Police Committee recommended that the Hannon Buggy Company be allowed until November 17th to com. plete the patrol wagon they are now building for the city. The Committees report was adopted.
 The Public Works Committee recom-