The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-22

sidewalks along a portion of Third ave
nue. from twenty to Twenty-second
street.
No 212 which provided for the paving
| of sidewalks along the both sides of
Fourteenth avenue south, from Twen-
| tieth to Ash streets.
No. 26s which provided for paving First
alley from Twenty-seeond to Twenty
third streets.
No. 26I which provided for grading,
macada MIXING, curbing and otherwise i'm
proving Avenue C from Twenty-fifth to
Twenty-eighth streets.
No. 2s5 which provided for the paving of
a portion of the sidewalks along Eff
tenth street from Avenues L to X.
No. 2sS which provided for the paving
of a portion of the sidewalks along
Twenty-fourth street from Avenues A to
B and Twenty-seventh street from Ave-
nue. to Pine street.
No. 29s which provided for the extern
sion of certain sidewalks at street inter-
sections along Fifth avenue from Nine
teenth to Twenty-sixth streets.
Alderman Fulgham introduced an ordi-
nance to provide further regulations for
electric wiring in the city of Birming-
ham which was referred at his request to
the judiciary committee for considera-
| ton. IS
Vulcan Matter Considered,
1t was at this juncture that the vulcan
matter came up for consideration. Al
derman Cooper, the chairman of the park
committee of the City Council, who had
been opposed to granting permission to
the Commercial club to allow the Iron
| Man to be erected in Capitol park moved
that the regular order of business be
suspended for the purpose of hearing from
the delegation from the Commercial club,
which was composed of President 7. III.
Motion. Secretary Joseph b. Babb, Cul-
pepper Exum and NJ. p. MessSr.
Mr.. Motion was the first to address the
council. He said that the money of the
| people of Birmingham and the district
created Vulcan for the purpose of adver-
| Using this, section at the st. Louis ex-
position. He said that the statue repre-
| scented an investment of something like
| $50 900 and that If the council did not
| grant permission for the Iron Man to be
! set up in Capitol park that he would be
| in favor of selling 1t for scrap iron and
dividing the proceeds among those who
had contributed to the fund. Mr.. Motion
declared that the statue in the park would
be one of the sights to attract the eyes
of all visitors. He declared majority
of the citizens of, Birmingham wanted it
there.
1--WE cannot get location for the statue
] on Red mountain it SEEMS continued Mr..
Motion. I'm making lease recently for
little plot of ground on Red mountain
to be used for pasturlng purposes the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad COM
pany or at least one of it's officers, stip-
| ulated in the lease that the plot was not
to be used as a site for Vulcan. Thus
you can see what problem is before the
Commercial club
Secretary Babb Applauded.
Secretary Rabb, made short address
urging the council to grant the request
of the Gommerclal club, which brought
forth round of applause. He thought
that the matter should be disposed of
at the meeting last night, saying that
the spirit of progress is evident on all
sides In the Birmingham district and
there should be no tagging in any move
nent of ptfsic interest. He called the at
tention of the council to the. fact that