The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-08
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Pave South I'VE ,tleth street..

The ordinance providing for the paving
of South Twentieth street from Avenue
r to Avenue II with bituminous macadam
was confirmed The cutters along the
street are to be paved with brick. As
sessments were confirmed on ordinances
Nos 2S5 and 236 Assessments were aseer-
tanned on ordinances Nos ITO, 21S and
241.
Upon motion of the finance committee,
a special committee consisting of Alder
men Jones, Heidi and Street Commissioner
McCartin, was appointed to purchase i'm
mediately three garbage wagons, one
street sweeper, ten mules and five sets of
harness, the same not TO cost more than
s2So0. Alderman Fulghum introduced an
ordinance regulating street cars operating
over the streets and avenues of the city
which was referred to the judiciary COM
mittee
The following Improvement ordinances
were introduced by the street committee
and referred to the judiciary committee:
No 277, to provide for curbing along
sections of South Nineteenth street.
No 276, to provide for improving Vir-
ginia avenue
NO 10, DIOAluilE III iAiBipNihS
rue between Twenty-fifth and Twenty
eighth streets.
No ga, to provide for improvements
along Avenue from Twenty-second to
Twenty-seventh streets.
No. 27S, to provide for improving Seventh
street in the vicinity of Fifteenth ave-
nue., south.
No. 272. to provide for improvements in
the vicinity of Nelson avenue and Nine
teenth street, south.
Alderman Cooper asked the chairman OF
the street committee when he thought
Eighteenth street at the railroads would
be open for traffic again. Alderman Stock
mar replied that the improvements are
being made as rapidly as possible.
Music In Saloons.
The ordinance against music of any
description in saloons was adopted, AL
derman Stockmar's motion to include
soda water fountains in the ordinance
being lost, it having received but two
votes petition from property owners
In the Seventh ward asking that the
name of Blackberry street be changed
to Maplewood avenue was referred to the
street committee.
Fire plugs will be installed at the fol-
lowing corners: Cypress and Thrtieth
streets, Iroquois and Mountain avenues.
Linden street and Highland avenue Ma
yuma street and Highland avenue, Iro-
auois avenue and Fairview circle.
Alderman Parker, chairman of the
street railway committee, asked for fur
Their time on the petitions presented ask
ing for franchises over certain streets
and avenues of Birmingham for street car
lines which was granted
A petition from the Birmingham Base
bali association asking that the Birming-
ham Railway, Light and Power company
be granted the right to lay its tracks
northward along Ninth street from First
avenue in order to reach the baseball
park was referred to the street railway
committee for consideration.
The communication Offering to donate
to the city of Birmingham without charge
except for public Improvements a triangle
located in Phelan's addition. on South
Fifteenth street, and containing four
tenths of an acre. providing that the same
be named Phelan's park, was received
and referred.
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Ordinances were adopted preventing pe-
destrians from using the walks and drive
ways in Oak Hill cemetery for public
thoroughfares. The new Sunday closing
laws. which are similar to the ones now
in effect except that they are more strin-
gent, were read and adopted The CITY
engineer was instructed to advertise for
bids for improvements under ordinances
Nos 267, III and POI. the bonds for the
same having been guaranteed.
Electric lights will be installed at rwen-