The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-06

Many New Ordinances and Resolutions
 Were Presented, Among Them
 Being One to Locate Street
 Hack stands.
 The Regular meeting of the City
 Council of Montgomery. held last night in the City Council Chamber. was marked with spirited debate and much work.
 It was a regular old-time Council meeting. where Aldermen called Alder men names and reflected on their per- sonal pulchritude. In that respect aione. was an old-time meeting, for the City Council did much work
 Routine business was transacted in large lots and the Council succeeded in adjourning before the clock marked the hour of 10:30.
 A noteworthy feature of the Council meeting was the absence of discussion of the proposed Court Square oflce- building, or the location of the ice plant of D. P. West. MT. West and several ardent advocates and oppo- nents of the office building were seated in the lobby. but the subjects were not broached.
 During the meeting. Alderman Roe- mer introduced an ordinance fixing the location of hack stands. This is an- lother matter which has been before the Council for many months, and the ordinance, coming as 1t does from the chairman of the Streets Committee. gives promise that this question will in the near future be decided. l The Council was called to order at Ia: :30 o'clock by President Mcintyre. The following were present: Aldermen lGunter, Ruth. Strauss. Jackson, Teague, lLobman. Forbes, Kohn, Roemer. Grif- fifth, Maddox. Holloway, Thompson and Sullivan.
 To Buy Reservoir Property
 A communication from Mayor Carr was read. calling the attention of the lCouncil to a proposal by Richard Tillis Ito purchase the old reservoir property flor $3.500. Mayor Carr suggested that this sum was too small The matter Twas referred to the Water Commit ltee.
 A communication from the engineer ling department condemning the side walk adjacent to IS South Court Street. lwas read and referred to the Commit Itee on Streets.
 The Finance Committee, through AL lderman Kohn, reported adversely on the petition of Peter Toole of 60l Washington Street to have q license Issued him for the months of October, November and December, instead of for lthe entire year. The petitioner set out lthat his property had been condemned by the Probate Judge for Capitol inn Iprovement, and when this work was begun he would have to vacate the property.
 On query from Alderman Teague, Al Herman Koin admitted that hardship was being worked on MT. Toole, but he lsaw no way out of the matter. rho report was adopted.
 The Finance Committee reported that
 Greil Bros. were the lowest bidders for
 the monthly grocery contract. rms
 report was adopted.
 The petition of Martin Graves Fur
 niture Go. to have a flight of stairs
 erected on the east side of North Perry
 Street to the Alabama Hotel. was, on ! favorable report of the Street Commit
 tee. granted.
 Alderman Forbes for the Committee on Water Works. asked for further time. On question of Alderman Kohp { Alderman Forbes said. that the Com mittee had under consideration the res- olution to use electrical power in the water works plant.
 >I Alderman Kohn asked that if the \ Committee intended to kill the resolu- ton to report on 1t unfavorably and be sustained by the Souncil. but ho didn't want it strangled In the Com mittee room.
 A Alderman Forbes answered that the A Committee had given up the Idea of { using electricity entirely, but had un- ' der consideration using 1t for several { purposes.
 Alderman Kohn said that the reso- A lution contemplated saving $5,o0O year { ly for the city and 1t certainly de- { manded considerate attention. Mayor Carr, In his message, had said that 1 Montgomery's water supply was its A most valuable asset. He called atten- A tion to the decrease of s per cent in ! receipts as reported.
 Alderman Kohn read the annual re- { port of the water department at length \ to show the increase in expenditures. 1 He argued at length that the city was losing money on the water works where 1t should be making money and he asked that the Committee look into > the matters.
 Alderman Forbes said that the Com- mittee would soon report on all the 1 recommendations of Alderman Kohn. ? The Committee on Judiciary reported } adversely on the petition of Abercrom- A bic for personal damages and the pe- { tition of Warren 8. Reese for damages to a horse The reports were adopted Petition as to Ice Plant. The Council next heard a petition A from property owners in the neighbor- 1 hood of Moulton and Bibb Streets } where 1t Is petitioned to erect an ice . and laundry plant. This petition was
 intended to answer a counter petition > said to have been re-circulated by the - proposed promoters of the plant. The l property owners insisted that the noise 3 and irregular business hours of the ! plant would reduce the value of theiI
 property. The petition was referred
 to joint Fire and Streets Committee. A petition of Patrolman J. Watson 2 to get an allowance for time lost in thirteen days of illness was read. The
 petition was referred to the Police
 Committee.
 The Forbes ordinance to appropriate $1, 200 for the purchase of six horses 7 for the fire department was adopted unanimously.
 The Kohn ordinance fixing the li- cense on wholesale fireworks dealers at $10 and on wholesale and retail dealers at $15 was adopted. This or-
 dinance exempts retail dealers from
 the former $5 license.
 The ordinance providing for a $2,o0o
 baby bond issue for paving Sayrs
 Street was adopted unanimously.