The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-17

alton. were marked by long and varied debate. comm,tss. cans the fspofs o ts. pp1ropostons p1 of American sureties Company. for the Greenwood Cemetery. ana or Juuee ;. c. Anderson, offering the worth prop. erty for sale the t msttss # ssd w been consid. cred often before. Mir. Tyson said the Greenwood Company offered l,ooo iots at S37.50 and vaults at sucn prices as exniained the contract the city was ex- nected by the Committee to enter into.
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 But Alderman Jonnson, nnsn,,ttee 1ssec1eu in favor the as ,5s 5sDoTs H1 sns prepostlou would afford a monopoly ana ne moved .ha. the question be referred again to committee Then followed ,, m9.iSn ash,a Mir. Johnson's motion. and a motion by Alderman Jones to lay the whole matter upon the table until the next regular meeting of the Council. bus MT. Thompson's motion was carried and d Xiydermar, Tyson spoke again: He said the report of the Cemeteries Coinmittee would afford no monopoly, ana that thS city. since 1t could at any any ehs time cancel and 1afn all. Mir. Kennedy asked about the size of the lots offered and Alder man Saul answered that each lot was large enough for eight graves, graves, ,u.. tion should be put. and when ne was said nay there was an open debate that lasted long. MT. Moritz spoke for an immediate decision. MT. suiiiySn Tsnrnnson mov, moved that MT. Sullivan's motion be tabled. then after Mir. Tyson had asked that the matter be at once disposed or the question went over. said and done. When MT. SeidIe.s or. dinance in regard to the stoppage or street cars-here the measure IS 1n- ings of the street. Alderman Tyson said that was an old joke. He said the Council had tried to control the street car companies and could not. ASK MT Ragsna if he he Ss % eoey shs
 Then MT. seidle. chaffing the cham pion of the charter, asked if the near side of the street, as named ID tne the city, and the Aldermen laughed The ordinance was adopted.
 The ordinance reported by Chairman Jones of the Conmittee on Franchises of cars on Perry Street crossings at Dexter Avenue made much mei riment. The ordinance as read. 1t was charged. placed the responsibility upon the cars employees of the street car company. being a trifie more animate and doubt less . great deal more intelligent, ought to be named in the law. imme. whether a car could cross a road or If 1t had not to be driven across. Final . ly, however, 1t was compromiseo tnat somebody ought to stop sometntng. stn page Of street cars on Dexter Avenue on each side of Perry Street was adopted. On the matter Aldermen Sei- dle, Johnson and Parrish, made ad-
 May Place Big Sign.
 Then again the petition Of the Com. mercial Club to place an illuminated advertisement of Montgomery at the foot of Commerce Street was argued out. The Club wished to make dis play Of electric lights that all who ran whether on street cars of the great big trains that charge 1-2 cents when they want to. could read that Mont gomery was looking forward to 1910 when 1t is believed that 1t would have t00. 900 citizens whether they were sor. ry of 1t or not. MT. Johnson feared the placing of the sign might cause trou. ble for the city. but MT. Kennedy and MT. Tyson spoke in favor of the grant. ing of the prayer of the petition and Il was granted.
 ordinances to appropriate $4s,750 tc nay notes made for the city, were adopted. The ordinance making the salary of the street car inspector $90( and the ordinance allowing the street ear company to adopt whatever fender 1t believed best adapted to the pur. poses intended, were adopted.
 The Council also adopted q report embodying a recommendation by Mayor Teague that the Chief of>Police rid the city of mendicants, who, he said, are becoming too numerous.
 Responses to the resolutions of the Council, advocating the improvement oi rivers and the continued contract plan of completing the Panama Canal, were received. and subsequently, filed. from the municipalities of Selma, Birming- ham, Mobile and Decatur; from the Mobile Commercial Club; from Senator Joseph F. Johnston. and Congressmer IT.. D. Clayton, 70. W. Underwood George W. Taylor, William Richardson J. Thomas Hefiin, A. A. Wiley, John L. Burnett, W. Bl Craig; and from James M. Cassidy, replying for the Congress sional Committees on Rivers and Har' bors.
 should be directed to have the Street Department place cinders on certain crossings there was the last and long, est debate. With many motions to ta' b1e. and even more to adjourn. it va; finally agreed that though Brassel, Street, for which Alderman Brassell made plea, South Jackson Street, fol which Alderman Thompson begged, and the entire city. for which Alderman Seidle was an advocate. might fol the moment be left out the street eros sings named. over which persons pass ed on their way to church, ought to be remedied.
 Those present list night were: Presi- dent Gunter, Aldermen Johnson. Bras sell, Jones, Kennedy, Moritz. Parrish Perry. Ruth. Saul. seidle. Sullivan. Tait Thompson, Toole. Tyson. Virgin.