The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-31
PAVING LAWS
 ARE PASSED . City Council Does Much
 Work Quickly. |HEfD A SPECIAL SESSION Authorized Expenditures of s27,-
 764,55 for Sidewalks. Terasurer to Advertise for Bid. on rm- proving clayton street--so Ne- gro Hou.es on Montsom-
 cry Street

The Montgomery City Council last night made a afrecord. In a special ses- sion lasting only forty five minutes the
 body Of scity fathers transacted per hups more real business than in any session during tho last three months. In three-quarters' of an hour the AL isrnfea provided for the expenditure of
 more than $si,ooo. introduced ordi-
 nances which will cost thousands of dollars more, provided for the improve ments Of various streets. and finally adjourned without having turned a hair.
 It was a busy session Committee report after committee report, resokl- ton after resolution. were disposed of. There was no hesitation and small de- bate. The Council was out for. busi-+
 ness. the night was warm. and the man. ner in which the Aldermen hustled was something to make the usual attend ants upon the sessions of the city's leg islative body open their eyes in aston ishment In all. fwenty-nine yea and nay votes were taken. and when the session was over Clerk John Farley mopped his forehead and heaved sign of relief.
 Much sidewalk Paving. Alderman Roemer, the lappel of his coat decorated with beautiful yellow rose was the man of the night In less than twenty minutes, he. IS chair man Of the Baby Bonds and Sidewalk Paving Committee, tntroduced severn teen ordinances awarding contracts to- dieffrent parties for the paving of side walks in various parts of the city The total amounts involved In the work in- cluded exactly $27.T6s.55. Each ordi- nance brought forward was for the second reading, and each was passed by Unanimous vote. The contracts for the streets were let as follows:
 +tfAnt x4xK4~z zl. M4.s Grr. Decatur street to Union street. to the Columbus Concrete Company fors2.-' 36S.70.
 Columbus Concrete Company for $w West side of Perry street, from Jef- ferson to Pollard street. to the Crockett
 Paving Compang for e sl:oSS.fS, fSo,n Ter. ferson street to Columbus street TOT
 Both 10th esides of Columbus street from Mcp2nougn street s to Deeasna c5nany S'rseS for
 s1;5ovis North side of Midred street. from Amanda street to Mobile street. to
 Byron souders and Company for sl.-
 VssISu south side of Mildred street, from l Amanda street to Cleveland avenue. to the, Crockett Paving Company. for
 sSskfih Ncrth srsde Clayton Park street from | Mobile street to Clayton street. to the | Crockett Paving Company. for $l 24S,
 ssh ss. sas o Hammer raas street ro | th Crockett Paving Company, for $S2s west side of Holt street from Rob inson street to Nash street 70 the
 Nbrth side of Martha street from Holf street to Short street. to the
 Crockett Paving Company. for si,4is 50. l Both sides of catoma street, from Bibb street to Bell street. to Byron soudeFs and Company for SLABS Both aides of South street. from I Lawrence street to Hull street to the Crockett Paving Company. for s2.-
 oii;oti Both sides or Jereraon Davis avenue
 from Armanda street to Cleveland
 avenue: to the Crockett Paying Com
 pasy south a'r siae s 0os' of East 5enerson Davis | Avenue from Court street 10 Perry
 to the Crockett Paving Company. for
 Both sides of Noble Avenue. from Per ry street to McDonough street. to the I Crockett Paving Company, for SS.OS5S0. Both sides of Forest Avenue. from l Highland Avenue to, Lake street. t2 l John Hannon. for SA4s3.
 walks At school Houses.
 Tn addition to these Expenditures pro- vided for, the Council also passed an ordinance to pay s1,so0 for hose pur- | chased for the Montgomery City Fire | Department, and four ordinances ap- propriating sums aggregatinR $1.6lO to different contractors for paving walks
 around various school houses. These | ordinances were as followsi
 l 10 the Crockett Paving Company. s260 for paving walks around the Cap I itol Hill school house: to J. s. ConniD and Company. $500 for paving side l walks around the West End school house: 10 J. g C'ouift and Company. $52s for paving sidewalks around the South | Montsomery school house and to John l Hannon, s525 for paving sidewalks around Highland Park school house Exactly, nine members of the Coun-- oii baro quorum, were present when | Alderman Ruth. acting as president. | called the meeting to order
 | Immediately upon the reading of the | call. a resolution was presented by AL | dern1an Lobman, to accept bond Of S10. .000 offered by City Clerk John ]. l Farley recently elected to succeed c. P Hathaway. resigned. The resolutioH | was pissed
 mITtecl on Finance. the award for sup piyinglthe city provisions for the month 1 of August, was made to w. M. Hud-
 son and Company
 l Alderman Sullivan, as chairman or the Fire Committed. presented a report | of the committee. recommending the acceptance by the Council of the new fire enkine "W M. Teague" The engine. he said had been tested under the su- pervision of the Mayor Fire Chiet l isrowder and members of the Depart | rlent, and had been found eminently l satisfactory The recommendation was
 adopted introduced an ordinance, aimed to pre- | vent A negro property holder from erecting a number of small wooden houses. for the occupation of negroes, In the section between the present ire limits and Wilkinson Street, along Montyomerv street. White residents in | this section, he said, had protested vig- | orouslv aeainst the introduction of the l obtectionable element into their neigh horhood According to the ordinance | thAs f,ra iipoits in that portion of the | citv will include all territory lying 1 ,yifh,n a line drawn from the Alabama l River along MouIton street to a point | 26O feet north of Montgomery Street, thence due west 10 Wtikinson &Street. thence to Montgomery street. and | thence to Moulton Street
 To Pave Clayton Street. 7
 ii was at this stage that the atten- lion of inc Council was directed to Inc ouestion of paving. Street paving lordfnancea were passed on second read 1 Ing authorizinR the paving of Clayton I street from Holcombe street to Cold thwaite Street, the material to be of vitrifed brick, bitulithic, asphalt ere osofed wood block, gravel or bitumin- oos nacadam. The City Treasurer was