The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-05
Raphael CaraveIIo Gets Ob-
 streperouS at Meeting
CALLED DOWN BY MAYOR
Physicians and Druggists Protest Against Negro Doctors Maintain ing Hospital Because He Is
 Not Qualified Physician.

After the reading and adoption or the minutes of the previous session, the re- ports of the various committees were as follows:
 Reports of city departments, referred to finance committee.
 Sanitary inspectors report referred to sanitary committee with instructions to l investigate thoroughly. Report of finance committee received.
 On report of Miscellaneous committee, the short money lenders license was reduced from $50 to s125. fruit dealers from s1OO to sS0 and the peddlers' license was amended to read $50, and concurred in.
 l The physicians and druggists handed a petition in to the council asking that Dr. Gordon, a colored physician manu- featuring proprietary medicine, and also running a private hospital, be re- I fused a license on the grounds that he was not qualified physician. Gordon claims to have been doing business for about three years and was represented | by Colonel Carr.
 | The petition was referred to the mis- cellaneous committee for investigation. Application for permission to build a brick house on the corner of Avenue c and Eighteenth street. 50xSO feet, with the understanding that A. J. Odum, after April would occupy it as a saloon, was received from NJ. II. McDowell and granted.
 Lot Will Be Drained. Complaint was received from Mrs. R. A. Jones of Avenue H and Nineteenth street that the water on the Williams lot, adjoining her property, was proving a nuisance. Also from w. l.. Clark, regarding the lot on Avenue B and Twen- tieth street. City clerk was instructed to notify owners they must either fill or drain the lots Inside of ten days. or it would be done by the city at their ex- pense.
 l resolution was made to the effect that a committee be appointed to see to the needs of the widow of the late Policeman Bennett, who with her child ren, is reported destitute.
 City Attorney Boyd brought up the matter of fixing a price for the new city code. A price of s2.5O per copy was 1 agreed upon
 
 copies to the city attorney of Birming- ham,. John B. Weakley, and the cities of Bessemer, Pratt City and Vivian.
 Raphael Caravello, who kept a saloon on the corner of Avenue D and Sev- enteenth street, asked that the council reconsider his application for a license, l which was refused at the last session, with the result that the action of the body was sustained. It was claimed he kept a place of bad repute' habitually broke the laws and that the saloon was 1 obnoxious generally.
 caravello spoke in his own behalf and said he was being persecuted for the past eight months and became so unruly 1 that Mayor Scott was compelled to threaten him with contempt of court unless he subsided 1 D. B. Bird, Jr., complained that the water company, in direct violation of the | city ordinance, did not leave reading of 1 the water meters. He also complained against stores and fruit stands on Sev- enteenth street selling groceries on Sum | day. These matters were referred to 1 the chief of police with instructions to act.
 l Complaint was made by w l.. Clark on | behalf of the citizens of Ensley against the overcharging of the water rate. The l chief of police was empowered to ap- point one man to go with the waterworks | renresentatiye and examine each meter 1 for the purpose of getting statistics for 1 future reference.
 1 P. J. Rogers and Dr. W. T. Tendon were elected as members of the school board, vice. Pennington and Robbins, whose terms of office expired at this meeting.
 The matter of the raising of the freight passenger and electric light licenses Of | the Birmingham Railway. Light and 1 Power company from s75O to 5000 inclu- sive. was brought up for discussion. Nothing was done resembling the former | schedule.
 Financial Statement. The following moneys were spent and received during the month of December:
 Disbursements, s1454.1l; payroll $13So.oS. Receipts from all sources save school board. ss64 10; school board s5s.ss. Money | on hand in bank s371237. The following aldefhhau were present. Rogers, Brigman, Keenon. Settle, Don aldson, owen. Brierton, culpepper, Sher- man.
 Local and Personal. 1 The Junior order met tonight and trans acted much business Of importance. National Vice President T. l.. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America and several state officials will address meet ing of the miners of the district at the Ensley opera house Friday morning at 1 9 o'clock.
 A new Masonic lodge will be organized l in Fairview in the near future.
 The weekly meeting of the Masonic or der was held in its hall Thursday night.
 State Medical Inspector N. G. Clark is | i'll at his home on Avenue F.
 Mrs. C. T. Smith, after visit to her 1 parents. Mir and Mrs. c. w. Richter and 1 her sisters, Mrs E. F. North and Mrs. C. F. Davis, returned to her home in l Concord, Ga, Thursday.