The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-21
Many Matters Before
 City Council, MEASURES PASSED BY SCORE Street and Sidewalk Paving Re
 ceives Attention, street Car Line on seirer.on Davi. Avenue considered--Eleetric Butt tons on Cars Required-Anso- fists Regulated and Little
 Debate.

The City Council of Montgomery put in busy session last night. Acting with accord and energy, wasting small time in argument. the city fathers got together and transacted business They had come to transact, and transact was the motto of the meeting. Ordinance, resolution, committee reports favorable and unfavorable, motions, it was all the same. One after another of the many measures before the body were considered.
 The Aldermen had their coats off, and they rushed through the different meas- ures before them one after another, until, after two hours and forty minutes of hard endeavor. they had succeeded in reaching the last of the pile Of pa pers lying on the table before Clerk J. ]. Farley, and putting on their hats and coats. they adjourned.
 There have been other meetings re- gently, when the men of the Council performed wonders of unusual note. Rut in none of them have they turned out the work so rapidly as they did last night When, at last, the motion 4o adjourn was put. there was not one of the body who did not heave sigh of relief.
 Messages From Mayor.
 The meeting started off mildly enough with a few communications
 
 ferred to proposition submitted to the .itvi by Julius Sternfeld. relating to a proposed right-of-way for a sanitary sewer through an alley, twenty feet in width, running east from Decatur street. For this right-of-way the owner ,f the property proposed to charge the dty $500. The owner on the side of the alley opposite Mir. sternfeld's prop erty had offered to let the city lay the sewer free of cost. The Mayor stated that in his opinion the price asked by MT. Sternfeld was altogether unreason- able and excessive. The matter was re- ferred to the Committee on Sanitation.
 Another matter referred to by the Mayor was the extension of the gas mains of the Montgomery Light and Power Company into Highland Park. According to the ordinance granting the franchise to the gas company, the cor poration is required to lay mains in streets or alleys from time to time as required by the Council. The resi- dents of Highland Park. the Mayor stated, were desirous to secure service from the company. The chief execu- tive said he had taken the matter up with Superintendent R. J. Chambers of the gas company in May, but that the work of laying the mains had not been 'sken up. He urged the Council to
 we the matter it's attention, and the communication was referred to a com mittee.
 A petition from J. L. Wheeler. through his attorneys, claiming reward of S100 offered by Acting Mayor c. F. Me Intyre for causing the arrest of ref unea during the yellow fever epidemic iast wear, was referred to commit tee.
 FoIlowing the communications of the Mayor, tpe report of the Chief of Po- lice for the month of July was read According to the report. the receipts from the department Tor the month sno,nted to $1,45S.75.
 ~',lv 1ynnr the recommendation of the Fiji
 .ops Committee, the Council granted
 e.-.Ission to A number of saloonkeep- prs to transfer their licenses.
 ConcernIng City Hospital.
 Tha new hospital for the city of Nxortpomery was foreshadowed Tn the renoyt of the Finance Committee on .ss,,s r,,,nication from Mrs. M. c. Scott. S1anisnnt of the Montgomery Infirm- ary. 4A ..att.u.,o, 4.
 iattA,. to the Council had enclosed
 noher of bids for the repainting of 4ha irfirmary The committee, how ever reported unfavorably, stating, in doinx SO, that 1t was It's intention to sstrod,,ca in the near future an ordt- .a.os rroviding for an issue of bonds for fhe purpose of building a new hnsnital The postscript attached to inc renort adverse to Mrs. Scotta re nuest was as follows: .sThe Committee will introduce an ordinance providing for an issue of Sa.,ds to build a new hospital, and therefore thinks the expenditure of money to repaint the present infirm- ary is useless.
 The report of the committee was ac- cordinElv adopted, and the request of Mrs. Scott was denied.
 Later when letter wasS read from Mrs. Scott calling attention to the | Fnancial offer of the present infirmary | for inc erection of new hospital, the | matter was referred to the Committee | on Finance and Hospitals
 Upon the recommendation of the | on Public Works the Coun- | oil refused to grant a petition from | Genie Duncan to complete the erec- lion of a frame building at Montgom- | cry and wilkinson Streets, begun some | time ago. This building Is within the | district included in the extension of | the fire limits at a recent meeting, the | extension having been made with the | express purpose of putting a halt to a number of buildings which were about to be erected by the petitioner