The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22
CITY COUNCIL HAS
 4 BUSY SESSION The Illinois Central Franchise
 Ordinance Passes NEW FIRE CHIEF ELECTED Chief A. V. Bennett Takes Charge To- day-Positlon of Assistant Chief created-Many Ordinances
 and Resolutions.
NEW FIRE CHIEF ELECTED


 sion of the City Council was held last night. Several matters of marked inter- est were discussed and some were set tied definitely. Everybody tried to rush things through. so that aldermen might reach the Press club banquet on time, and there was an air of suppressed ex- citement everywhere. Some of the alder men wore the white shirt front denoting their intention of attending the banquet in good form.
 Some ludierous incidents came up. It was tacitly admitted that no time was to be lost. Alderman Jones hardly al- lowed the Mayor to learn If 8 quorum was present before he moved that the reading of the minutes of the last meet as with one voice before the question was even put
 The report of the finance committee was then read by Alderman Jones. and was adopted without debate.
 The Illinois Central Matter.
 The ordinance granting to the Alabama Western railroad-the legal title of the Illinois Central in this state-certain franchises, came up on It's third reading in the report from the judiciary com mittee The ordinance was adopted. It gives the Illinois Central the right to lay tracks and operate trains as follows
 Entering the city on the tracks of the Frisco system on Ninth street, on Ninth using the Frisco rails to Twlefth street; new tracks to be placed on Twelfth street south to the railroad right of way; a curve track to be laid on Twelfth street short distance from Second avenue, and running along Second avenue 156 feet into the property of the company. The com pany will lay tracks on Second avenue from Seventh street to a point near Thir- teenth street, and 1t Is stated that the company Is not to lay more than two tracks on Second avenue or in Twelfth street.
 The conditions imposed are that the company will pay into the city treasury the sum of 5000 for each block or part of block along the lines mentioned that the company will not park any cars on Second avenue or allow them to stand there any length of time, and that flag men or gates be supplied to flag all trains from the point at which the tracks enter Second avenue to the point where they leave it.
 The ordinances granting the Southern Railway company and the Birmingham Terminal company certain technical rights were also adopted.
 Inoprevement Ordinances.
 The council passed the following im- provement ordinances:
 No. 3l4, providing for paving with bi- luminous macadam Avenue A from Twen- tieth to Twenty-fourth streets.
 No. 315, providing for paving with bitu- minous macadam Twenty-fourth street from the south line of Avenue A to the south line of Avenue B.
 No. 3l6 providing for paving with bi- luminous macadam Avenue B from the east line of Twentieth street to the west line of Twenty-fourth street.
 No. BY, providing for paving with bi- luminous macadam and curbing of Twen- ty-third street from Avenue A to Ave nue B..
 No. SIS, providing for the paving with vitrifed brick Alley A, between Twen- tieth and Twenty fourth streets
 No 319 providing for the paving with bltuminous macadam of Twenty-second street from the south line of Avenue A to the north line of Avenue B.
 No. 32O, providing for the paving with bitumnous macadam of Twenty-hrst street from south line of Avenue A to the north line of Avenue B.
 No. 321, providing for the paving with bituminous macadam Powell avenue from the east line of Eighteenth street to the west line of Twentieth street
 artificial stone sidewalk paving on the south side of Ave nue A between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets; south side of Avenue A, between Twenty second and Twenty-fourth streets; both sides of Twenty-fourth street, be- tween Powell and Avenue A; west side of Twenty-fourth street, between Ave nues A and B; both sides of Twenty fourth street, between Twenty-second and Twenty fourth streets both sides of Ave nue c, between Twenty-tirst and Twenty second streets; both sides of Avenue D, between Twenty and Twenty-second streets; south side of Avenue J, between Twentieth and Twentyfirst streets; south side of Avenue H, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets.
 No 323 providing for sidewalk paving of the west side of Twenty-fourth street, between Avenues B. and D; east side of Twenty fourth street between Alley B and Avenue D; both sides of Twenty-thlrd street, between Avenues B and F.
 Several New Resolutions.
 A number of resolutions were introduced and were referred. Alderman Forney in- troduced these two:
 Resolved, That the chief of police use due diligence to prevent the violation of the law prohibiting the sale of liquors to minors"
 Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Birmingham, That the street committee be instructed to inves- tigate the advisability of requiring the street car company to sprinkle its right of way In the city of Birmingham"
 Alderman O'Neill introduced a reso- lution instructing the Mayor and city clerk to give quit claim deeds to St. Vincent's hospital and the Hlllman hos pital, which properties were sold for Improvement taxes due, and also remit ting the taxes due by those institutions.
 Cigarettes to Minors.
 Alderman O'Neill also introduced res. olution reading as follows:
 Any person who sells. barters. ex- changes or gives to any minor any cigar cites, cigarette tobacco or cigarette pa- per- or any substitute for any of them must, on conviction be punished as pro- vided in section S06 of the city code of Birmingham"
 Mir. Cooper introduced a resolution in-