The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-02

what the other council referred to- by MT. Kohn had said about 1t
 l Alderman Kohn d;d not know. Mir. Sullivan Was Eloquent.
 Alderman Sullivan said he thought he I was better posted on the condition of the building than most any one of his l colleagues. He felt grateful to Alder man Kohn for bringing it up. He. Mir Sullivan. had felt for 8 long time that he ought to do so, and was sorry now
 that he had not The Alderman was right. It was a menace to life. 1t
 was a crying shame, Little children
 walked and played around 1t every day and no one knew when the collapse
 might come and take away their lit-
 tie lives. Its removal would be the
 pest thing for the city that coudd be done. The Alderman from the Sixth
 grew pathetic in his interest in the
 little children who might be killed
 After the speech of Mr. Sullivan, Alderman Jackson made feeble ef- fort to get in his plea that 1t was a dangerous thing to interfere with a mans property. but the reference to the little children had done the work. and the Council agreed to MT. Kohn's resolution and the building must go
 Mir. Gunter then introduced the fol- lowing resolution on the vagrancy question:
 l .sWhereas there is much complaint | about the scarcity of labor within the city of Montgomery; and whereas 1t is l made to appear that there are large numbers of persons who have no visi- | ble means of support and who retuse | work when offered
 | Therefore be it resolved by the City l Council of Montgomery that the judi ciary committee be and is hereby authorized and directed to investi- l gate these reports and to present to | the Council such aditionai laws or | amendments to laws as VIII alleviate | such condition"
 Alderman Sullivan was again glad that thing had been done that he thought ought to, have been done be- fore. He said it was a shame the way negroes and other loafers laid around the town and refused to work. He told of the trials he had encountered to get a couple of cars of beer unload ed. He had found plenty of idle negroes. but few of them wanted 10 l work, and those he did get, they had to be paid unreasonable wages. He said there were plenty of dives within | a stones throw of the city prison where negroes and others were allowed to loaf II and foster crime The lowest down
 scums of the earth were protected
 there He said one man had as tough
 a place asIwas ever known within a
 short distance of the First Baptist
 Church, where the tough negro loafers,
 "burrheads," he called them. were allowed to congregate. He was pass ing there day or two ago and heard a negro woman rip out terrible oaths and talk indecentiy within the hearing of
 the streets and the ladies passing along.
 He though the vagrants were being let
 too much alone by the police and he
 wanted to see some plan adopted
 whereby the nuisance could be reached. The resolution was adopted. ,l To Pave Adams Street. Alderman Roemer asked and was given permission to offer the following l resolution:
 Resolved by the City Council of Montgomery as follows, That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and requested to pave with graSel Adams Street from Court Street to Smythe Street. the work to be done as soon as possible"
 On motion of Alderman Roemer, the
 City Electrician was instructed to see that all electric signs were made safe and to report any found to be other wise. The Domestic Drug Company asked that the Council allow the medicine show that has been exhibiting near
 Vests Drug Store to move to in front
 of It's place on Commerce Street. Alder { man Teague objected and the proposi- tion went over to later meeting. E. Wolff was allowed to erect an electric sign at the Imperial Hotel on Commerce Street.
 Compliment to Mir. sheehan. After paying a high tribute to Will . liam T. Sheehan, who has been report ha nf ...t1 r for The Advertiser for many years, and : wno has been recently assigned to oth- CT duty with the paper, Alderman } Jackson offered a resolution voicing the appreciation of the Council of his work
 In his remarks on the subject, MT.
 Jackson said that MT. sheehan had been
 a hard worker and was marvelously
 correct in his reports. giving the read CTS of his paper accurate reports every
 morning after a meeting of everything
 that had been done the night before. The resolution was as follows: Be 1t resolved by the City Council of Montgomery, That inasmuch as MT.
 w. T. Sheehan, who for the last sev- eral years has reported the proceedings of this body for publication in The Ad- vertiser. has been assigned to other duties, we hereby express our appreci- ation of the faithful, impartial and ef-
 
 the people of the transactions of their business. and wish him equal success
 in his new field"
 Alderman Maddox asked for and was . given consent to introduce a ,resolu- ton to provide temporary accommo- , dations for smallpox patients. He said that the preparation for the new , pest house had left the city without a
 place to care for patients in the mean
 time. He wanted the Council to make
 such repairs at the old hospital site as would bridge the matter over until
 the new places are ready. He thought the cost would not be over $40. Alderman Sullivan objected strenu- ously. He was opposed to negroes be- ing brought here from all the lower counties of Alabama to be cared for by
 the city.
 Alderman Teague thought the emer- , gency could be met by instructing the Committee on Sanitation to report to
 the City Physician all cases needing immediate attention.
 Alderman Kohn said the Sanitation
 Committee had as much as 1t wanted
 to do now, without going after small
 pox cases.
 Finally all objection was withdrawn and Alderman Maddox's resolution was adopted.
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