The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-18

' . mace prohibiting the sale of fruits from wagons. stands, booths. etc. on the streets of Montgomery, was read, and later was the source of much discus
 4,rhe 0mcial aGomthptece."
 When the question of adopting the ordinance over the mayors veto was brought up Mir. Sullivan caused much lsqIgater ey re1eTrins sstciol wnas nonth he piece" He waved a copy of an after noon newspaper at its representative at the press table and then read an Mayor was going 10 dc tc chicken coops and other offending members on the sidewalks.
 That's what the official mouthpieee says" stated Mir, Sullivan. We have given His Honor the law and what has he done with it7 He says 1t is too drastic Is it inconsistency in the off, cial nsouthpiece or the MayorT
 Mayors veto was sustained by an al- most unanimous vote.
 The Mayor called attention to the fact that the city was powerless to col in the city licenses for the sale of ole margarine and butterine. The packers Mayor Teague informed the Council disposed of the materials to restaura- tours who did not sell 1t and therefore were not liable to license. The mes sage was properly committed.
 The Snow-Tullis Hardware Company tersely but politely asked for a share of the city's trade or for a chance. to bid In competition for 1t. This was re- ferred to the Mayor.
 An Issuance of bonds of par value of S3,40S was authorized to pay for the laying of storm sewer and of curb ing on B4iinbridge Street.
 Bids for Street Paving.
 A report of the Street Committee or the paving of Caroline. MontgomerS and Wilson Streets, including bids fol the work caused d discussion protract- ed to an extent that seemed at times to fatigue even the Aldermen them selves. There had been a petition from certain property holders, real or alleg- edit was claimed taat some of the petitioners were not property owners on the steets that the contract for al least a part of the. work be given to the Memphis Asphalt and Paving Com pany, one of the competitors for the contract, and this drew. fire first from President Gunter, in whose place MT. Holloway was presidIng.
 This petition, he said, had been pre- nared and circulated by representa- tive of the Memphis company and MT Gunter began by saying that he s,ait die Council" He stated that he did moi like the Memphis company's methods of doing business, that if the Aldermen capable of finding out what to do. Ar attempt to influence property owners tc pray for such and such a paving re- sardless of price was, not good busf
 "what Alderman can explain" hc asked why we should give the con. tract to the Memphis people when they are not the lowest bidders?"
 Mr. Gunter reeounted that man came to him in search of a job which he said the Memphis Asphalt and Pay ing Company would give him if he could get the recommendation of some
 T gave him the recommendation be- cause I knew the man." Mr. Gunte: said. "but he got the job"
 He then asked what all, these peti, tions meant; was there slice offy he asked. He complimented the work of the Memphis company but said other companies would do as well if they use of bitulithic paving on at least Ohe street so that it might be thoroughly tried He extended his address into a ing materials which he evidently had
 Sullivan would Save People.
 There was then a spirited inter. Aldermen, including Messrs. Cox, Eos ter and Strauss, after which Mir Sulli- van spoke subjectively of pavings. He said he had had occasion to examine bltulithic and asphalt, too. They were alike to him. He was not a member of the vertigo committee" Mir, Cox was and what he had learned Mir. Sullivan did not know. The Council, according to Mir. Sullivan, wished to give the people what they wanted, but 1t must also sometimes save the people from themselves
 We saved them on Hui Street." he
 Brick for me-" said Mir. Sullivan. 'Tf you say 'bitulithic' on Piedmont street in Atlanta, you will get mob bed. Bitulithic Is Birmingham scheme They tell me it's made of slag; they had to teaE down the slag- pile to keep dead-heads from sitting on 1t to see the baseball games, so they just turned It Into paving"
 Mir. Cox, who had previously. when he was dlscoursing, declared that he would brook no interruption. asked to speak a word. MT. Sullivan granted the permission, saying he was not so discourteous as some persons he knew and after Mir. CGS had been talking several minutes, MT. Sullivan wittily asked if MT. Cox was asking a ques- ton of telling him Q story.
 Mr. Gunter Explains.
 Here Mir. Gunter asked to make a correction about his anecdote of the Unemployed Person, the Memphis As- pha1t and Paving Company. the Alder manic recommendation. and the unem- ployed persons ultimate success Mir. Gunter said the representative of the