The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-25
WOODLANDS NEW
 COUNCIL AT WORK Will Spend Several Thousand Dollars in improvements TO CHERI FIRST AVENUE City Hall Will Be Painted and Refur- nished-The Mayor Will Open
 Office In HaIl-committees
 Are Announced.

The new city council of Woodlawn held it's first regular session last night ana transacted quite a lot of business. The most important was the decision to pave First avenue from Fiftieth to Fifty-sixth street with chert and to put down stone curbing and cement sidewalks on both sides.
 The improvement will call for the ex- penditure of something like $GOOO and bids for the work will be advertised with in a few days.
 The newly elected mayor, W. D. Perry man, presided over the meeting of the council. which remained in session until after midnight considering various mat tels.
 All Present Except One.
 All the members of the new council were present except H. Abel, who Is out of the city.
 y The salaries of the night policemen or watchmen, as they are called, was nxed by the council at $50 per month and sl was allowed for every arrest made in addition to salary. Heretofore there has obly been one night watchman, but the territory being very large, 1t was thought necessary to have two men on duty at night.
 An ordinance was passed, providing for the completion of the paving and im- proyement of North Sixtieth street at once There remains about two blocks uf this work yet to be done.
 Central public school building is to be re-fm nshed with desks and some other necessary improvements. The Gibson school building will also receive some important improvements.
 The city hall is to be repainted, papered and fitted up with new furniture. The mayor will be provided with an office at the city hall and will keep 1t open for business permanently.
 Councilmen Gibson and Bowers were cilmen Miller and Couch were added to the finance committee.
 The session was a very busy one and demonstrated the fact that Woodlawn has set Of public officials who are de- termined to do something toward inn proving and beautifying the city. The council was very much gratified at the rcLort of the city tax collector to the effect that the collections for the pro- posed street improvements on First ave- nue were already coming in very rapidly The people seem anxious for the i'm provements and are responding heartily to the call of the officials
 Committees Are Announced.
 W. E. Perryman. the newly elected mayor, took the oath of office last Sat urday, and yesterday announced the fol- lowing committees:
 Finance and Accounts-W. E. Key holds, H. Abel and ]. B. Gibson. Judiciary-J. B. Gibson, H. k. Williams and A. l.. Miller.
 Street,. F. Couch. H. Abel and w. s. Reynolds.
 Railways and Public Buildings-H Abel ]. L. Burns and J. P. Couch. Police and Sanitation-A. L. Miller H. Abel and J. B. Gibson. Fire and Water--H. k. Williams. J. l.. Burns and A. l.. Miller. Miscellaneous Business-J. L. Burns, J. P. Couch and H. E. Williams. The first named Is chairman in each case
 Following is the full list of officers of Woodlawn:
 w E. Perryman. mayor; S. J. Beggs, clerk and city tax collector; 5. P. Gray. city marshal; J. s. Kennedy, city attor- ney: John T. Hood. city treasurer; Dr. J. A. Collins. city physician; w. L. Pool night watchman; J. M. Fowler. night watchman.
 The regular sessions of the council will be held on the second and fourth Mon- days in each month.