The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-15
GETTING TOGETHER
STREET CAR SITUATION DECIDED
 LY HOPEFUL.
speciar Meeting of Council Called to Hear New Report of Joint Committee. on Franchises
 and Streets.

The matter of the connection of the, lines of the Montgomery Street RaIi- way and the Montgomery STraction Company will come up again before the City Council at a special meeting to be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
 A report on the matter will be sub mitted by the joint committee on Fran chises and Privileges and Streets and it Is expected that some agreement will be reached by which the lines Will be completed.
 { Members of the joint committee met st o'clock yesterday afternoon Tn the Council chamber with Ray Rushton, counsel for the railway, and the ques- ton was discussed for an hour. MT. Rushton addressed the meeting and when an adjournment was taken 1t was evident that the railway and the mem bers were closer together than ever before, although no definite agreement had been reached. The committee VIII hold an official meeting today at which report will be formulated which. 1t is expected. will be agreeable to both sides.
 The ordinance, originally adopted by the Council and vetoed by Mayor Teague. granted the connection Of the tracks with the proviso that the rail- way company pay the city So,ooV' | per cent. of it's gross receipts for. period of ten years and per cent. of its gross receipts thereafteer.
 R. D. Appereson and R. c. Miller, of the Traction Company, left for New Orleans yesterday morning. They will return to Montgomery this morning.
 The special meeting of the Council for tonight was called yesterday by President Gaston Gunter.
 h addition to receiving and. acting upon the report of the street railway ordinance, the meeting is called also for numerous other purposes. Com munication from Mayor Teague re- garding paving bonds will be received and acted upon and a resolution Will be introduced in reference thereto. It is also contemplated to introduce and take action on a resolution directing the Mayor to sell the Highland Park school lot to the highest bidder.
 The meeting is called. too, for the purpose of introducing an ordinance to ppropriate money to pay the mort gage on the schoolhouse lot at High land Park, and. for the purpose of ins troducing and having referred to ap- propriate committees the following or- dinances:
 An ordinance to pave. curb and oth- erwise improve Bell Street from the west side of Moultop Street to the east side of Dickerson Street. and to place eurbing and surface gutters from the bridge on said Bell Street to the city limits.
 .An ordinance to pave the sidewalks on both sides of Martha Street from the west side of Holt Street to the east side of Dickerson Street.
 An ordinance to pave the sidewalks on both sides of North Holt Street, from the north side of Clayton Street 10 the south side of Bell Street. r$ 0 4
 A report will be received and acted upon from the Military Committee on a resolution authorizing the change of location in the city building of the off, fee of the City Engineer and the rooms of the Montgomery Field Artillery. The matter was practically settled at the last meeting of the Council but no of- ficial steps were taken on an adoption of the resolution.
 The committee on water works will report upon matters before it. Among the matters which this committee now has in charge are petitions asking for an, extension of water mains on the Carter Hill Road and on Lowndes Street and petition from Alex Rice offering a proposition concerning water mains tn JrmadaIe.