The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20
CITY FATHERS !. WORKED LATE Council in Session Until @. Midnight. CROWDS OF SPECTATORS Many Matters of Routine
 Character Discussed. Alderman Kohn Presented Resolution Providing for an Assistant Chief
 of Fire Department-No Pay
 for Police U,iforms.

The Montgomery City Council, after doing business openly until II o'clock last night, went into an executive ses- sion that lasted we'll towards mid night.
 The executive session was first or- dered at the request of City Attorney Ray Rushton, who said that he had a report to make on certain legal matters in which the city was inter- ested and that he was of the opinion that 1t was best for the Council to re- ceive the report and discuss it in ex- ecutive session.
 Later in the meeting the discussion of the action of the waterworks Com mittee. in awarding the contract for the compressor for the pumping sta ton, was carried over to the executive session.
 Interest in the deliberations of the Council is evidently on the increase. I Although no matter of great public in- terest was scheduled to come up last night a large crowd of onlookers was | in the lobby of the Council Chamber. a crowd that filled every seat, while a number of people stood up during the long meeting.
 Rejected Oner of Mir. TilIis. The proposition of Richard T1llis to buy the old reservoir property on the extension of Madison Avenue for a site for a car barn for the Montgomery Street Railway Company was declined by the Council. Mfr. Tillis offered s35oo for the property. The Water | works Committee to whom was refer red the communication of MT. Tillii making the offer reported to the Council the dimensions of the proper ty and the streets that 1t touched up. on. It was the unanimous opinion oi the committee that the price offered was inadequate.
 The Council adopted the committed I report.
 ent: President Mcintyre, Sullivan Thompson, Roemer. Maddox, Teague GrifYith. Kohn, Forbes. Ruth, Strauss Holloway, Gunter and Lobman.
 No messages were received from tn Mayor, but City Attorney Ray Rushton sent in several communica tions. The first of these intimated t the Council that there were certain matters of pending litigation upon which he desired to confer with tn Council in executive session. His re quest went over to come up under tn head of unfinished business.
 A communication from the City At torney gave the Council his view upol Section 1775 of the City Code, in re
 sponse to a resolution from the Coun
 ell. This section provides a penalty fo
 property owners who have a surfac,
 water drain running from their prop erty over the city's sidewalks. It wa!
 the opinion of the City Attorney tha
 the city charter did not give the Coun ell the power to fine any property own CT for maintaining a surface wate drain over a sidewalk. City Attorne, Rushton pointed out. however. that | 1t was proved that such drain wa! a nuisance. the property owner migh
 be tried before the Recorder anc
 fined.
 The City Attorney further reported that a verdict of SIP had been rendered against the city in favor of Miss Mabe Ialse. who was injured by a fall on defective sidewalk last May. The Cit, Attorney recommended that the case b, appealed to the Supreme Court. say ing, however, that the appeal woult rest upon merely technical grounds. | The counsel voted to carry out tho recommendation of the City Attorney.
 City Engineer D. W. Ford was allow. ed further time in which he can make more tests of Portland cements. which were required of him by a resolution adopted at the last meeting.
 CiBders for Hull Street.
 Upon the recommendation of tho Street Committee. the resolution re- | ferred to 1t that twenty-five carload: | of cinders and like material be used ir the extension of South Hull Street, wa. adopted.
 The Street Committee reported favor. ably on paving South Hull Street from | the north side of Fielder Street nortt | to the street car line.
 | A petition to allow an electric sign to be placed over the sidewalk at 33 Com l merce Street was agreed to. A petition to put a stone crossing or Clayton Street at the foot of Caroline | Street, was allowed
 A protest from c. A. Thigpen and