The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-08
COUNCIL HOLDS
 4 BUSY SESSION One of the improvement 0rdi-
 nances is Repealed
LARGE CLAIMS DISALLoWED
Many Petitions From Citizens are Heard.-Residenc of C. c. Dick ems Destroyed by Fire.-other
 News.

Bessemef, March -(Special) )-Consid- 1 efable business "r. ',onsaesa1 q the regular meeting of the Mayor and Alder men tonight. Improvement ordinance No. | Il, passed by the last meeting of the coun- ell was repealed on account of the peti-
 tions of large number of citizens ob-
 jecting to it's enactment The board dis
 allowed the claims of a number of citi- zens west of Bessemer for S5000 for all leged damages caused By the sanitary sewers of the city emptying on their prop
 erty.
 The petition of the barbers of the city,
 asking that all the barber shops be closed | on Sundays, was denied. A short time ago the barbers petitioned the board
 to permit the shops to be opened until Il
 request and tonight declined to rescind | It's former action.
 The members of the council present
 were: Mayor Huey, Aldermen Randall, , Simmons, Dennis, Norwood, Hurd, Nun
 des and Gilham.
 The reports of the city officials for the
 past month were read and referred to
 the various committees. The finance com
 mittee recommended that the sundry bills
 for the past month be paid, which was 1 carried.
 Under head of petitions and complaints number of citizens appeared before the board asking that the improvement or dinance, providing for laying concrete walks, be repealed. They claimed that as number of walks had recently been laid with chert that 1t would be an | injustice to force them to have the walks dug up and cement laid in their place. The council passed an ordinance repeal | ing ordinance No. Il.
 | The petition of Henry George, who | has only one leg. to be allowed to sell | fruit without license, was granted. Mont | gomery & Smith, attorneys, submitted
 to the council in behalf of a number of citizens of South Bessemer, claims
 for 5000, alleging that their property
 had been damaged to that extent by | the city sanitary sewe emptying into it. | The claims were disallowed.
 The Mayor and the fire committee re-
 ported that one new horse and two new
 mules had been purchased for the fire department and that one horse and<one mule had been sold
 The city engineer was instructed to | purchase 800 feet O. sewer rods and
 brushes to clean out the sewers. The
 chief of the fire department was instruct ] ed to buy two new noszles. | A petition was read from the Besse-
 merl Waterworks company asking that
 the city install q meter to measure the water which is used for sprinkling the
 streets, which was granted.
 House Burns Down, l This evening at 7:3O o'clock the resi- dence of c. c. Dickens. on Carolina ave- nue, between Twenty second and Twenty third streets caught fire and was almost totally destroyed before the fire depart ment reached the scene. The losses will amount to about $200O which were par tially covered by insurance. | The fire had gototen under good head way before the alarm was turned in and | as the department had a long run the house was almost burned up before it | reached the scene. It was the first op- portunlty to test the new water pressure, which proved very satisfactory and the | firemen were easily able to prevent the
 fire from spreading to thr adjoining houses MT. Dickens is visiting in Mo- | bile.
 Sam Parsons Goes with Vicksburg. | Sam Parsons a well-known local base | ball player, has signed with the Vicks- burg team in the Cotton States league, | and will pitcth for that team during the | coming season.
 | MT. Parsons is son of J. H. Parson of | Bessemer and was formerly with the Tri- | State League He did some excellent | work in the box last year and was a favorite with the Bessemer fans. He has many friends in this state who wish him success